Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun pl] that [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a means of doing this since she was at the time in danger of being disbarred after allegations that she had defrauded a Catholic charity active in Africa . |
| 2 | Instinctively the two men were looking for faces that they knew — Mary McCulloch and her friends , big Mary as tall as a man , red-haired Flora . |
| 3 | And yet it was when he went on to talk of systems that one felt that he was offering something innovative and new to modern day tennis thinking . |
| 4 | There is no indication that there was any direct connection between the twelve ( of whom it is said in Acts that they stayed in Jerusalem ) and the advent of ministry in the churches in the gentile world . |
| 5 | He 'd been making some records but they were n't successful and for the first few weeks after I 'd met him and decided to work with him , I was listening to songs that he 'd written , and was in the process of writing , and came to the conclusion that he was not essentially a singles artist . |
| 6 | His announcement came amidst reports that he had warned Soviet Foreign Minister Alexsandr Bessmertnykh , during a private meeting in Washington on Feb. 1 , that the US administration would be unlikely to submit a Strategic Arms Reduction ( START ) treaty to Congress for ratification if the Soviet Union failed to respond to US complaints about Soviet violations of the CFE treaty . |
| 7 | And with your remarkable gifts , you may be drawn into situations that you had never dreamed possible . |
| 8 | When his body was taken to Mangochi Hospital , staff were only told by police that he died in the night . |
| 9 | But their achievement was marred by suggestions that they had benefited from " protest voters " motivated primarily by disillusionment with the main parties . |
| 10 | So it 's not his his fault but a lot of the training that we have to deliver is to do with procedures that he had n't dealt with whereas a lot of the procedures are things that I 'm familiar with there 's only some the job centre stuff |
| 11 | In retrospect , we can see Charles as a man of immense energy ; we know from chronicles that he slept lightly and that he commenced state work very early in the morning , judging litigants in his private chamber . |
| 12 | However , on his return to Hong Kong on April 8 he indicated to reporters that he had been unsuccessful in his attempt to win Chinese approval for the project . |
| 13 | ‘ We created a virtuous circle , ’ said Lockett , ‘ since the act of instituting the questionnaire in itself demonstrated to clients that we cared about them and their requirements . ’ |
| 14 | Several East German politicians were affected by accusations that they had acted as Stasi informants , including most notably de Maizière [ see pp. 37905 ; pp. 38109-10 ; 37718 ; 38446-47 ] . |
| 15 | It would be difficult for us to object to Government amendments Nos. 26 and 27 since , as I recall , they arose from amendments that we tabled in Committee . |
| 16 | Alright , fair enough , you accepted what we 've been saying for ages that we had to go to voluntary competitive tendering right . |
| 17 | It was bitterly resentful , her hatred burning high as she remembered the months running into years that it had taken for her to convince herself that the guilt she had felt after her own father 's death was a self-destructive trap and just one more wrong done to her by Luke Scott . |
| 18 | Party colleagues , notably Mr Singh , deserted him , and his own reputation was tarnished by allegations that he had taken bribes from Bofors , a Swedish arms company . |
| 19 | Liz 's illness led to rumours that she had collapsed and died at 5am yesterday . |
| 20 | America 's close association with Israel led to expectations that it enjoyed indirect control over the behaviour of the latter . |
| 21 | It was only when his drunken behaviour led to blows that he started to reform . |
| 22 | He announced to cheers that he had written to Presidents Gorbachev and Bush seeking support for what has been called Prague 's polite revolution . |
| 23 | He announced to cheers that he had written to Presidents Gorbachev and Bush seeking support for what has been called Prague 's polite revolution . |
| 24 | Dahmer admitted to police that he had killed 17 people since 1978 ; however , his defence lawyer intended to enter an insanity plea if he was convicted , in a trial scheduled to begin in January 1992 . |
| 25 | Potter admitted to police that he had intended selling the drug . |
| 26 | In September 1989 in Austin , Texas , Glen Mauldin , an assistant to former senator Chic Hecht ( Republican , Nevada ) was indicted on charges that he used his office to help secure approval of thrift deals in return for payments . |
| 27 | No I said erm I had a conversation with Gillian about reading , about little bits of reading and , I made the point that we 'd said last night about him barking at print , reading through words that he did n't know and not asking what they were and she said she 'd noticed that . |
| 28 | The longest and costliest criminal trial in US history ended on Jan. 18 when Raymond Buckey and his mother , Peggy McMartin Buckey , were acquitted of charges that they had sexually molested children at their family-owned kindergarten in Los Angeles , California . |
| 29 | Without actually giving her the details — and still keeping back the crucial fact of Christine 's death , which would have changed the tone of their conversations completely — Lucy had been able to give Josie some idea of her home situation and of the problems that she 'd caused with actions that she 'd felt to be right . |
| 30 | After his victory at Auberoche , prisoners were taken whose ransoms were said to be worth over £50,000 , and in 1346 , according to Froissart , Lancaster 's army returned from a raid into Poitou so laden with riches that they had difficulty in transporting all their gains . |