Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [that] [pron] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ronald Duncan offered a perhaps apocryphal account of how lunch had been cancelled when Eliot sent a telegram explaining that he had to " bury a woman " . |
| 2 | Later , in exile , she defended the festival saying that it brought to Iran purist , traditional art form all over the world . |
| 3 | Ullman therefore suggests ( contra empiricists and Piaget ) that a baby — or , one might add , a kingfisher — can see that two appearances are views of one and the same object even if it has never seen that sort of object before , and even if it has no tactile or manipulative evidence suggesting that they pertain to one and the same thing . |
| 4 | The POU domain of this protein is unusually divergent in its sequence suggesting that it belongs to a novel class of POU family proteins . |
| 5 | He rubs it absently , accosting strangers in the street , seeking out a friend and within minutes exclaiming that he wants to be by himself , watching children wistfully , accusing wellwishers of persecuting him with their kindness ; until at last he explodes on the brink of confession in a terrible universal cry : ‘ Oh , if only I were alone and nobody loved me , and if only I had never loved anyone ! ’ |
| 6 | Just before his release from this five-year sentence , he sent a threatening letter to Terry saying that he intended to ‘ get him ’ . |