Example sentences of "[verb] [that] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you suggest that he has done anything for a base motive such as money , he replies , ‘ That does not do justice to you , or to me . ’ |
| 2 | I do not know that she has done anything wrong . |
| 3 | ie a ‘ flag ’ is set by the software , which means next time you speak or meet a character he will know that you have done something . |
| 4 | to know that we 've got something tied up |
| 5 | If we say that they do have something in common with other things that look white we must remember that their having something in common simply is their looking white . |
| 6 | Erm , now what that means is , if you ca n't answer the question and you 've only got a few lines down then sort of trying t w blur it a little bit and make it waffly so that there 's something we can point to and say that you 've written something , right ? |
| 7 | ‘ You say that you have heard nothing from him — as regards the future marriage , that is ? |
| 8 | But I realized that I had to do something pretty dramatic to avoid too serious an accident . |
| 9 | He paused for a moment and she realized that she had said something wrong . |
| 10 | no they 'll think that you 've nicked one from the Co-Op wo n't they ? |
| 11 | But it is a lawyers ' word , and those not used to legal language might naturally think that it meant changing something or exchanging property for other property . |
| 12 | In fact , I do n't think that I 've mentioned anything since March , but I am not sure that I did anything really productive during April . |
| 13 | For example , research has shown that performance on these tests is unrelated to intelligence , at least above a certain minimum level of IQ , suggesting that they do tap something different . |
| 14 | They realised that they had to tighten everything up , an approach which was helped immeasurably by the mid-second half arrival of Dean Richards . |
| 15 | It was late in the afternoon when he realised that he had eaten nothing since breakfast , and he was about to go out into the town in search of a restaurant when the telephone rang . |
| 16 | When one day I tidied up and cleared out this cupboard , I realised that I had ignored everything in it for over a year . |
| 17 | Not unless B S I we to were to exs , expect to see that we have audited everything before they came . |
| 18 | Therefore it is nonsense for the Opposition to claim that we have done nothing at all about the problems of retraining . |
| 19 | ‘ You mean that you do know something that may help them ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ But the day I wrote this song I honestly believed that I did love everyone ! ’ insists Paul , chirpily . |
| 21 | Everything David had shown her of himself had made her love him and yet she believed that he had done something unspeakable . |
| 22 | Even now he could n't stop himself from making a comic routine out of it : looking at his fingers , his face screwed up in disgust , pretending that he 'd found something unspeakably revolting in the depths of his pocket . |
| 23 | She was transferring her anxieties to him and now that she recognised that she wanted to do something about it . |
| 24 | Gary again started to pray about YWAM as he recognised that he had lost something — perhaps his original vision was wrong . |
| 25 | The union says that we have to accept everything that they say . |
| 26 | The dodgy S & M imagery of ‘ Raping A Slave ’ ( actually a meditation on power and work ) and other included tracks form the ‘ Young God ’ EP and the still-withering power of ‘ Cop ’ ( ‘ Nobody burns your skin off like a cop ’ ) amidst the all-powerful monotony show that we 've lost something along the way . |
| 27 | THE Tory politicians have talked about the need for action on the drift-netting problem but achieved nothing for , as is par for Westminster course , when they say something they delude themselves into believing that they have done something . |
| 28 | One constable had the temerity to state that we had had nothing to eat since 9.30 a.m . |
| 29 | Whatever they do , it ca n't be the placebo effect : she 'd need to remember that she 'd taken something . |
| 30 | A a a member of staff may feel that they want to say something about a kid , and it does not necessarily have to agree with what the kid |