Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] that [pers pn] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found , after experimenting that I did not need any glycerine at all as I managed to get the colour to work well with just a smudge from the wet brush . |
| 2 | Lucker falls asleep after commenting that he does n't want to see how mini-cab drivers supplement their incomes . |
| 3 | She moved back a step , after discovering that she 'd unknowingly moved closer to him than was socially acceptable . |
| 4 | Indeed , in 1781 the philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote a monumental and very obscure work , The Critique of Pure Reason , in which he concluded that there were equally valid arguments both for believing that the universe had a beginning and for believing that it did not . |
| 5 | you get out of singing that you do n't get anywhere else . |
| 6 | This procedure , called reroughing ( or sometimes twicing ) takes further the idea of iterating that we met earlier in this chapter . |
| 7 | The photograph would , Rose believed , be a tactful way of hinting that she did n't intend being around so much . |
| 8 | It is a condition of booking that you take out travel insurance covering emergency repatriation and holiday cancellation . |
| 9 | This is an aspect of weaving that I had n't thought about until I read Audrey Palmer 's book ‘ Create with Knitweave ’ . |
| 10 | May we learn to face up to our problems and try to sort them out instead of pretending that they do n't exist or trying to run away from them . |
| 11 | There is of course no logical reason why things should be different this time , wrote Harsnet , why this too should not be an illusion , the illusion of imagining that I know not only what step to take first but also what step to take second and even what step to take third . |
| 12 | Who should I have always been guilty of believing that I had never done enough ? |
| 13 | As described by one character , this catch-all phrase is ‘ a short way of saying that they do n't claim to find either the ultimate cause or the ultimate cure , but they do know exactly how it functions , and can prescribe accordingly ’ ( 149/151 ) . |
| 14 | Some authorities made a point of saying that they did not have a training programme because they depended on courses that presented themselves , e.g. : ‘ We always hope to send staff on courses as they are advertised ’ . |
| 15 | When we squeeze the Devil out through the front door , we unwittingly let in all sorts of secular ideologies that masquerade as Christian ones ( which is just another way of saying that he comes in again through the back door ) . |
| 16 | there are ways of doing that they do n't do that , you know there 's a thing I |
| 17 | We have acquired the habit of assuming that they do n't know what they want , do n't want to decide anything about their own lives and have nothing to contribute . |
| 18 | Let us pay Lord Taylor the courtesy of assuming that he does not believe the social circle of the average judge to be a complete guide to right thinking . |
| 19 | What if the official welcomer had stuck to his preconceptions to the point of concluding that I had not arrived ? |
| 20 | perhaps a way should be found of ensuring that we experience both the ordinariness and the extraordinariness of the glass , he wrote . |
| 21 | ( b ) The admissibility of illegally obtained evidence As we discussed in Chapter 2 , one way of controlling the activities of the police and of ensuring that they do not act unlawfully is to prevent the admissibility of evidence which is obtained by illegal means . |
| 22 | The new product offers slimmers an easy way of ensuring that they do not exceed their daily calorie target . |
| 23 | Although detailed consideration of these lies beyond the scope of the present book , l it is worth noting that they raised more specifically social and economic grievances than the risings of the fifteenth century . |
| 24 | It 's true that guarantees are normally given by the manufacturer , but it 's also worth noting that he does n't have to give one . |
| 25 | Morally speaking , one of the worst aspects of the autonomy-centred Enlightenment attitude has been to denigrate the receptive virtues , to make us so obsessed with giving that we do not know how to receive . |
| 26 | Not content with claiming that I ended up in jail , many people have been led to believe that I murdered my wife , who , I can state categorically , is still living in Selly Oak , Birmingham . |
| 27 | The modern control room fools us into thinking that we have more accurate and basic control , while the basics of actual quantification of change have not altered , merely the presentation of inaccurate data in more sophisticated ways . |
| 28 | David did n't like it because he was on there and so we went through saying that I have only the most important |
| 29 | The two kinds of reason for saying that they do not matter need to be kept distinct . |
| 30 | That 's my reason for saying that I do n't think the western relief road gives very much environmental relief to the A sixty one . |