Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [that] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After somewhat flippantly suggesting that he head a couple of hundred miles south to the banks of the River Thames , I pointed him in the direction of a purple clad stand just two along from our own . |
| 2 | ‘ Important to whom — to Master Peachey ? ’ demanded Anne , thereby suggesting that she held the opinions of their tutor in contempt . |
| 3 | I am only suggesting that you take a little time off , shall we say , until you are quite well again ? " |
| 4 | For there is no doubt that our prevailing intuitions about ourselves as agents , and a number of associated philosophical arguments about the concepts of choice , action and responsibility , have tended to make the case of individualism seem not merely strong , but so compelling that we have no option but to accept it . |
| 5 | I feel , rather than see , Moira suddenly remembering that she has an awful lot of things to do somewhere else . |
| 6 | So while I 'm not suggesting that you buy every gauge ( though that would be many a machine knitter 's idea of heaven , I guess ! ) , when working out what machine(s) you want for the yarns you want to knit most , look at the optimum yarn for each gauge . |
| 7 | The letter announcing my visit lay unopened on the mat when she opened the door , and an hour later I came away believing that I admired a woman who could , under these circumstances and in some pain , treat me as if I had just stepped round the corner for a packet of tea ten minutes before , and talk to me about this and that , and nothing at all . |
| 8 | I am just saying that we have no other alternative . |
| 9 | Certainly , so far as we can see , he took no steps to promote the interests of his younger son , apart from not insisting that he take the cross . |
| 10 | " Old Man River , " they sang , " he must know something … " they processed , always singing , not knowing that they sang a dirge . |
| 11 | By the sixteenth century , no longer assuming that it had a right to positions of leadership in the armies , the aristocracy began to attend military academies where it learned the art of making war . |
| 12 | It 's no use just thinking that you have a wood frame at home — take it with you to the framer 's so you can match the actual colour of the wood . |
| 13 | It is a measure of Quisling 's obstinacy that he was back as ‘ premier ’ — albeit the puppet of Reichskommissar Josef Terboven — within two years , thus ensuring that he shared the guilt for the occupation war-crimes for which he was duly shot in 1945 . |
| 14 | Kiku was always pretending that she hated the stares of men , but in reality she was the vainest person alive . |
| 15 | If one could select those areas where there appears to be the largest proportion of sites which seem to have been affected , they are in Hampshire , Hertfordshire and north Kent , possibly indicating that they suffered the greatest disturbance . |
| 16 | I remember , he was always insisting that I conduct the Prokofiev Fifth . |
| 17 | Being a fair-minded person and still hoping that I had a chance to get a cultural stew going , I listened carefully to the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent , Central ( Mr. Fisher ) , but he did not give me a chance either . |
| 18 | She grew up believing that she had no right to be alive , let alone deserved any happiness . |
| 19 | As he spoke , he continued to caress her swollen breast , clearly sensing that she had no desire for him to stop . |
| 20 | The need for arousal thought well should I be absolutely calm when I 'm giving a presentation but I never am so is it right and now understanding that you need a certain level of arousal to be able to perform at all is is satisfying for me because at least I understand the situation now and able to work with it rather than against it . |
| 21 | It is even possible that now and again an extra long detour may have caused us to walk below the windows of Braemar Mansions ( ‘ not mansions , ’ wrote Ivy , ‘ but converted out of houses ’ ) , little knowing that there sat the sibyl who would completely have understood all our troubles . |
| 22 | So it 's equally unsurprising that he receives a steady stream of unsolicited portfolios from eager aspirants searching for their break . |
| 23 | In his Autobiography Nkrumah adroitly sidesteps the question , ack-nowledging that he admired some of the British Communist Party leaders and rather unconvincingly declaring that he had a blank party card among his possessions . |
| 24 | He came to spend the night , by agreement , twice a week and she saw him every day but there was no denying that he seemed a visitor and never a member of her household . |
| 25 | A doctor jilted by a nurse took revenge by falsely diagnosing that she had the Aids virus . |