Example sentences of "[verb] [that] [pron] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His financial transactions extended throughout the eastern counties , and although the bulk of his fortune almost certainly came from moneylending , his six houses in King 's Lynn and the quay attached to his own stone house in Norwich suggest that he also had interests in trade . |
| 2 | Instead , she let him know that she never took guys home on a first date . |
| 3 | Do we even know that he ever reached Turkey ? |
| 4 | Do you know that I once beat Ulrike Meyfarth ! ’ |
| 5 | He is all the better as a witness , since one can not doubt that he genuinely sought instruction . |
| 6 | The working party has claimed that it routinely alters MRLs for food . |
| 7 | Dugan has claimed that she never had sex with clients . |
| 8 | CHATTING to former England all-rounder Trevor Bailey during the Old Trafford Test , I was intrigued to discover that he once played football against Manchester United in front of 57,000 spectators . |
| 9 | Police say that one well known UFF figure is regularly driving through nationalist parts of North and West Belfast despite the real risk to his own life . |
| 10 | I once visited a pensioner in my village and mentioned that I occasionally like jam but never make it myself because I do not eat it often enough . |
| 11 | Montag is astonished to find that they too burn books , however they destroy only the cases which contain the words , the ideas can never be destroyed while they live on inside the people , to be written out once more to give joy after the ‘ Dark Age ’ has passed . |
| 12 | And never forget that he also means trouble , so watch your tongue when you 're in his presence . |
| 13 | He realized that she already had fans , but the others were almost certainly complete wankers . |
| 14 | When she looked up the mountainside , as if searching for help there , I realized that she still had fear of me , little knowing the true state of affairs , and felt herself like an animal in a trap . |
| 15 | And do you honestly think that I normally allow females to wallop me across the face ? |
| 16 | He also agreed that he once claimed surfing was better than sex , and had said he could not be gay because he went surfing , which he considered a largely heterosexual sport . |
| 17 | He also agreed that he once claimed surfing was better than sex , and had said he could not be gay because he went surfing , which he considered a largely heterosexual sport . |
| 18 | Margaret was pleased to see that she now had Reg 's full attention . |
| 19 | Colin is the first to acknowledge that he really needs Mister C. It might sound a little ridiculous , but you could almost see them developing the same kind of double act as Flavor Flav and Chuck D. The prof and the prat . |
| 20 | In this film Leonard recorded eight poems from his recent book ( ‘ For Wilf And His House ’ , ‘ Beside The Shepherd ’ , ‘ Poem ’ , ‘ Lovers ’ , ‘ The Sparrows ’ , ‘ Warning ’ , ‘ Les Vieux ’ and ‘ Elegy ’ ) ; the sleeve was careful to emphasise that he also wrote songs for a local group called The Stormy Clovers , by no means his first such work . |
| 21 | However , on May 23 US President Bush announced that he strongly supported Baker 's statement . |
| 22 | She felt guilty , but she could say with a clear conscience that her business was so demanding that she hardly had time to think of Northumberland although , in truth , as her successes and problems in Italy had increased , there seemed less and less reason to return to Nora . |
| 23 | For weeks it threatened to be a cesspit of scandal , and not to be outdone the controversial English striker Stan Bowles , whose behaviour over the years made him seem like a surrogate Scot , admitted that he frequently took drugs . |
| 24 | He revealed that he never watches TV highlights of games he has umpired . |
| 25 | The age-old tradition of having one colour per make helps , but the variety of uses to which tractors are put should ensure that they never become facsimiles of each other . |
| 26 | He had felt the need , though , to take into account the super-sensitive relations between these two teams , and if the biggest surprise was that he had addressed gentle caution to the English management as well , they having been innocent , faraway onlookers during the shenanigans , it was because he recognised that they too nursed feelings of exasperation and he imagined that they might soon have burst uncontrollably into flames . |
| 27 | Ramesh K says that he had not met Mr Uppal before , and his brother , Kewal K , says that he briefly met Mr Uppal some years ago . |
| 28 | Instead , he became a professor of immunology but says that he still enjoys cooking . |
| 29 | He says that he only takes pike because eels have become inedible due to pollution . |
| 30 | Bourke says that he then drove Blake to new accommodation that he had rented a few days earlier at Highlever Road in north Kensington . |