Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] that [pron] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Minister has said that what happened with the NBC is nothing to do with him but is for the Secretary of State for Transport to consider . |
| 2 | What is more , careful examination of its proportions has revealed that it belonged to precisely the same species of cat that was later domesticated in Egypt . |
| 3 | D. B. MacDonald has speculated on the difficult question of the origin of this view in Islam and has suggested that it arose from a Muslim heresy ‘ in that dark but intense period of theological and intellectual development which stretched from the death of Muhammad for at least two and a half centuries ’ . |
| 4 | By spring of eighty-nine , when the project had started , we 'd gone quite a long way down the road , we 'd decided that we wanted to be looking at what was feasible in general practice . |
| 5 | I used to take them home on quite a number of occasions if I 'd known that they lived in the immediate vicinity . |
| 6 | Two or three hours on the journey , but on , having said that you got in time for the train fare , the and the |
| 7 | I mean , if I 'd thought there was something really wrong , I 'd have seen that you stayed at home — this makes me feel I 've been driving a sick horse or something " |
| 8 | You would have thought that what happened at Tottenham had never happened on a football pitch before . |
| 9 | There was n't a wide enough field of vision to make much out , beyond the slime-laden walls of the pit , but , just for an instant , the Doctor could have sworn that something moved in the reflexive way of an uncomfortable sleeper . |
| 10 | I I could have sworn that they came off my skin . |
| 11 | We may not have known that they lay beneath the surface of our lives . |
| 12 | and John one in verse twelve it says but as many have received him , to them he gave the right , the authority , the , the power , to become children of God , even to those who believe on his name and this of course is what making our commitment to Christ is , it 's receiving him for ourselves , it 's plugging in , it 's saying yes I have n't got that power myself , I am not able to do it I need you to come and do it for me , I accept that you have that power , you have that authority , you have dealt with my sin and I receive it for me , we trust Christ to save us from sin and commit ourselves to his kingly ruling our lives , we are as the bible says then , born again , new creations , we are made alive in Christ , I give you one verse in Colossians and in chapter three , verse four it says when Christ who is our life is revelled , then you also no sorry verse , verse three , verse three , sorry for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God but you say that 's all very well that , that brings me into the place of becoming a follower of Jesus yes I 've accepted him , but what about all this pressures here , Christ I , I 'm willing to receive them and to make the centre of my life , I 've received that he died for me , but what about all those things that 's twisting and marring and distorting my life , that 's rubbing me , my life can be more , God wants it to be , well that 's the great thing when Jesus comes , he does n't just come and sit down and that 's all there is to it , but he comes in by the holy spirit and as Christ is the centre of our life so he , as we submit to him and to his authority as we become obedient to his word , doing what he tells us , what he says for us , then the power of his spirit in our life starts operating , God the holy spirit , cos that 's how we become Christians , we are born again of God spirit and God Christ was in us , not the man who walked here on Galilee , he is a man in glory , but he comes into your life and into my life by the holy spirit and he gives us new spiritual resources which help us to overcome those influences of evil that are pressing in on us and trying to , to , to , to distort our lives and depress it into its mould , those things that have spoiled our lives , he gives us spiritual power and spiritual resources over them . |
| 13 | At first interview they had said that they worried about Mrs White , especially when they could not get over to see her , and that it was a bit of a strain on them both because neither of them was ‘ in perfect health ’ . |
| 14 | Rose , for her part , thought that McAllister talked funny , and when Sally-Anne had told her that she came from the United States of America she had stared at her as though she had said that she came from the moon . |
| 15 | ‘ How does it follow from what you 've said that you came to be — ’ He paused and his lips compressed in a cruelly thin line before he seemed to deliberately force away the tension , saying simply , ‘ To be with my brother ? ’ |
| 16 | But this was Comrade Andrew , and she had decided that what came from him was , had to be , different . |
| 17 | ‘ It is n't very gallant of me to say so , ’ he added , softly kissing her fingertips , ‘ but the fact is , Marissa had decided that she wanted to be the second Mrs Wyndham — while I , my darling , was only interested in the first . ’ |
| 18 | Opponents of the bill had argued that it amounted to " retroactive justice " by declaring illegal acts committed in another country and allowing the prosecution of people for offences committed before they became British citizens or residents . |
| 19 | Then we had to ski down to the next lot of lifts which went even higher and when we had mastered that we got on a chairlift which took us right to the top . |
| 20 | Yeah , but that 's all she thought , she , she still did n't realise that after Gavin had gone that I got in me car , come home and seen you , did n't she know ? |
| 21 | Mr. A. Harman , confidential clerk at the brewery , wrote to Whitbread saying that the Attorney-General ( Spencer Perceval ) had stated that he knew of no security having been given for the sum of money in Mr. Whitbread 's will . |
| 22 | At one time Carrie thought she heard Anna crying , but she could not be certain and Melody had insisted that she wanted to be alone with Anna for a while . |
| 23 | She said Thresher was aware of the receipt for £18.37 and had established that it belonged to another customer . |
| 24 | The way in which he asked suggested that he did in fact think that Fiver was likely to know better than himself , and it was clear from Fiver 's reply that this was accepted between them . |