Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] that [pron] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 It was Jo who first got me to see that I had done my best .
2 But the shaming should not be of a ‘ stigmatizing ’ nature which will tend to exclude them from being accepted members of the community ; it should be of a kind which serves to reintegrate them within it , by getting them to accept that they have done wrong while encouraging others to readmit them to society .
3 ‘ Am I to understand that you 've heard from Doreen — and that she 'll be here at the weekend ? ’
4 He wants you to know that you 've got those and you 've got a fair idea of how much you 're leaving .
5 I 'm asking you to accept that I 've got reasons , and not to ask me what they are .
6 ‘ Well , ’ Angelica said , ‘ I want you to remember that you 've got friends here .
7 Certainly , but I should hate you to forget that he has scored more runs in Test cricket than any other Englishman .
8 ‘ It might interest you to learn that I 've changed my opinion on that matter , ’ he admitted drily .
9 But he would not want you to think that he had forgotten you .
10 The onus is upon you to show that you have suffered loss and , if you have suffered no loss because your job would have ended in any event , there will be a nil award .
11 And that 's what I want you to feel like Mandy I do n't want you to feel that you 've got ta do things for me .
12 Did you have to sign for something to say that you 've had it ?
13 He was exceptionally demanding and my fairly long conversation was that he almost lead me to believe that he had got the job because when he started making comments about putting his grandfather clocks in the church er thirty of them .
14 You 're asking me to believe that I 've fallen in love with a nothing . ’
15 ‘ You had deliberately led me to believe that you 'd picked up a stranger in Bruges , and naturally I had assumed him to be a Belgian . ’
16 In fact 31 of us turned up to support our annual ‘ big day out ’ and enabled me to realise that I had done the correct thing in cancelling the previously booked 20 seater coach .
17 ‘ But really I just want him to know that he 's got to do a bit of work , that he can walk , that he can get around . ’
18 ‘ Or someone like her , ’ Belinda stressed , not wanting him to guess that she had noticed the brunette 's special interest in him .
19 He finds that although the globular bodies of the histone molecules no longer contact the DNA of heavily transcribed genes , their charged tails still do , leading him to suggest that they remain tethered by their tails while the polymerase passes so that they can rapidly ‘ snap back ’ into their former structure .
20 I thought , I 'd like him to think that I 'd improved a little bit .
21 ‘ But , in the end , it was more useful to me to get her to think that you 'd done it … .
22 Jenny understands him to say that he has had trouble on his travels ‘ with the Reds ’ .
23 I only want him to say that I 've done well in finding somewhere for us to be ! "
24 He was so candid that , for a moment , Kelly expected him to reveal that they had had dinner together , but with the slightest hint of a cautionary glance in her direction , he merely referred to ‘ a follow-up meeting away from the office ’ .
25 The Court of Appeal rejected the Council 's defence on the ground , not that the ticket changed hands too late , but that it was not a contractual document ; for no reasonable person would expect to find contractual terms in a document which was no more than a receipt for him to prove that he had paid and which in many instances ( i.e. in the absence of the attendant ) would not change hands until long after the contract was made .
26 It does n't need me to say that we 've got a long way to go .
27 Keep flashing me to say that I 've got my headlights on so I , when I , I give them flash back to say no I have n't .
28 Kunstavisen reports in its March/April number that not only did many artists protest because they were not on the list but one contacted them to say that he had lost the possibility of a big exhibition because he had not been included .
29 That there should be a presumption of negligence and for them to show that they 've done nothing wrong .
30 ‘ Did he ever say anything to suggest that he felt threatened , or that his life was in danger ? ’ she asked .
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