Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] that [pers pn] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 's new is that the old defence , that a director did not ‘ knowingly or willingly ’ allow something to happen has been eroded and , Bell said , ‘ directors will have to show specifically and beyond a shadow of doubt they could not know what was happening or that they had minuted their protest ’ . |
| 2 | He gave the jury a list of Meehan 's past convictions , knowing that he was prevented by the rules of evidence from telling them that Waddell was at that moment serving a sentence in Barlinnie for wounding or that he had served a previous sentence for perjury at Meehan 's trial . |
| 3 | In those early months he had wanted her to know the magnitude of what he had done and that he had done it for her . |
| 4 | He tried to remember that Fiver was under-sized and that they had had an anxious time and were all weary . |
| 5 | My right hon. Friend will agree that those questions must be answered and that we have to get to the very heart of the scandal to ensure that it should not happen again , not only in Leicestershire but elsewhere , and those responsible for the cover-up are made to realise what they have done and the subsequent effect it has had on numerous children . |
| 6 | It rankles Couples , who had two three-week breaks last year , that many critics rate him an uninterested under-achiever and that he has failed to win more tournaments because he is so laid back . |
| 7 | It never occurred to him that the story was questionable , that Wainfleet had deliberately published something he did not totally believe and that he had done it in retaliation for being humiliated . |
| 8 | He hung on to the semicircular rail around the outer edge , where they were standing because the businessmen who had got in after them had jostled them there , and she saw that his eyes were closed and that he had gone gray with fear about the drop . |
| 9 | The defendant denied that any secret process existed or that he had taken and used any information . |
| 10 | I tell myself that I will let myself lie in bed for another five minutes though I stipulate that I am not allowed to go back to sleep and that I have to count out the five-minutes in my head . |
| 11 | Basinger had testified in the civil lawsuit that no contract existed and that she had chosen not to appear in the unreleased film because she would have been required to perform in gratuitous sex scenes . |
| 12 | Then she saw that Peter had been crying and that he had taken the trouble to wear a clean , white shirt . |
| 13 | I think he once did say to me that he was very disturbed at how much ‘ coke ’ David was doing and that it had got to the point where he did n't hide it from deFries , whereas he did for quite a while at first . |
| 14 | The writer remarked that he had ‘ never doubted but that he had succeeded in his place by a commission from the Treasury untill of late that I discovered that he only officiated by orders and an interim warrand from the Commissioners of Customs ’ . |
| 15 | She said she had not wanted to die but that she had taken the tablets to calm herself down in order to get some sleep . |
| 16 | ‘ I was imprisoned and held captive by the very forces I had so long sought to perfect and that I had honed and polished until they were stronger and more glittering than anything ever known at Tara . |
| 17 | from loyalist organisations and political groups met Whitelaw , the Northern Ireland Office would afterwards issue a press statement that such and such topics had been discussed and that he had emphasised the evils of violence and gangsterism . |
| 18 | Questioned , Barron had refused to talk to anyone junior to Wickham and even when Wickham went to his hotel he had little to say except that he had met MacQuillan on private business , that it had nothing to do with the murder and was of no interest to the police . |
| 19 | They still had more right than she did to own anything her father had left , but she desperately wanted something , something to be able to look at , something to let her know that he really had existed and that he had needed her after all . |
| 20 | On 27 December Babrak Karmal , who had been a member of the post-coup government but who had subsequently been exiled to the USSR , announced that the former president had been deposed and that he had taken power ; the following day it was announced that Hafizullah Amin had been executed for ‘ crimes against the noble people of Afghanistan ’ . |
| 21 | So she said I 've written , I should n't do she said but that she 'd written and complained about it . |
| 22 | I told him that we had but that we 'd talked about it with them and now things seemed all right . |
| 23 | Although she was astute enough to understand this on a logical basis , it took several sessions of counselling and therapy to convince Myra 's subconscious mind that she was in no way to blame and that she had behaved naturally and in total innocence . |