Need example that uses the word "that" as a subordinating conjunction

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Hi. Can you give me an example in which the word "that" is used as a subordinating conjunction rather than as a relative pronoun that introduces a subordinate clause?

Also, what is the function of the word "that" here? I can't remember the sentence I saw but it had a structure like one below with the word "that" coming after a comma. Since I can't remember the sentence, I made up a sentence of my own.

He has a dog, that has a fuzzy fur.

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That is a relative pronoun in your sentence. The comma must be omitted: He has a dog that has a fuzzy fur. The relative clause tells us something about the dog; it tells us that the dog has a fuzzy fur. That's why that is a relative pronoun and a dog is the antecedent of the relative pronoun. In other words, that refers to a dog in the sentence. He has a dog is the main clause and that has a fuzzy fur is a subordinate clause, a relative clause, to be more exact.
Examples of that as a conjunction:
I know that he is poor. | He said that I was wrong. | Nobody knew that the train was still in London.
In these sentences the entire that clause is the object of the verb used in the main clause: What did he say? That I was wrong.
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