Example sentences of "[to-vb] that [pron] [noun] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Natal — home of the current Currie Cup champions — rugby followers are desperate for the game 's authorities to accept that their game has slipped behind the times . |
| 2 | And to know that their time had come . |
| 3 | It was wonderful to be back in this little room , to know that her father had walked past this door and even been in here . |
| 4 | After he had hit , Silva chased up the hill to establish that his ball had stuck fast to the putting surface . |
| 5 | Most , but not all , of the islanders retreated to the mainland , returning five months later to discover that their island had grown by over a square mile and that nearly half the town had been destroyed . |
| 6 | I mention this , as I am planning to visit you next week , to continue our discussion on euthanasia ( although I hope you will not be disappointed to discover that my views have altered ) . |
| 7 | The Gospel of John tells of the royal officer who returns home to discover that his son has recovered : ‘ The father noted [ knew ] that this was the exact time when Jesus had said to him , ‘ Your son will live ’ , and he and all his household became believers . ’ |
| 8 | It is unnerving to want to smile at the interviewer only to discover that your face has set and feels too stiff to move . |
| 9 | I asked him from which part of that county he came and when he said Preston , I told him of my own connections and was amazed to find that his parents had kept the shop in St. Paul 's Road where I had gone to buy sweets in 1920 . |
| 10 | The young paratrooper turned to look at me , his eyes alarmed , as if he expected somehow to see that his buddies had caught him in a moment of vulnerability . |
| 11 | I stuffed the sack down out of sight , and straightened , to see that my search had brought me above a cleft in the moorland through which a glimpse of the western machair could be seen . |
| 12 | Now , you , you 're , that 's a subjective feeling , you do n't actually know that there are neurones in your blood sugar level , but you , you certainly know when you need something to eat and it , it 's a kind of subjective feeling and it 's not farfetched in the least to claim that our genes have rigged our brain in that way to do that because obviously we 'd like to have more reproductive success if you know when you 're hungry than when you do n't and it may be that a lot of , in a lot of other ways genes affect our , our behaviour through similar erm effects , that is subjective feelings we have , often of an emotional nature to make us want to do certain things and an an and dislike doing others , and it may be that we , we 're really kind of lumbered with that . |
| 13 | He looked backwards expecting to see the rear gunner running up the fuselage to report that his gun had jammed . |
| 14 | And yet , says Renate Olins surprising positives may emerge : one initially devastated client in counselling began to reflect that her husband had started to play around because it made him feel a bigger man . |
| 15 | Though he had never seen their cottage he seemed to remember that his aunt had told him that it lay about two miles to the south . |
| 16 | We did not stop , and when I got home to Banbury it was to hear that my mother had died that day in Cardiff . |
| 17 | You ca n't go back and it 's natural to assume that your relationship has changed invariably for the worse . |
| 18 | The teacher 's widow continued to deny that her husband had had sex with his killer 's 15-year-old daughter , and the dead man 's brother spoke of the ‘ fantasies ’ of the teenage schoolgirl . |
| 19 | In checking to ensure that your employers have striven to strike a fair balance , it could be worth asking whether they have considered drawing up some form of ‘ points table ’ or other grading system , by which the relevant matters can be assessed . |
| 20 | It 's your responsibility to ensure that your passengers have got their safety belt on . |
| 21 | The more she thought about it , the more her confidence ebbed away until she was ready to believe that her efforts had turned up nothing of positive help . |
| 22 | At first , Henry had not been able to believe that her therapist had got it so right . |
| 23 | The Government should be honest enough to recognise that their actions have prejudiced the consumer . |
| 24 | His behaviour may be such as to demonstrate that his reversion has taken him right back to the use of the ruthlessness which preceded civilisation . |
| 25 | Florian broke off , looking astonished , and Maria knew him well enough to realise that his attention had made a rare leap outward . |
| 26 | Ray Colegate of the CAA continued to argue that his authority had moved to block British Airways on the principle of ‘ infant firm protection ’ . |
| 27 | Vienna Dear Fräulein Arandt , I am very sorry to learn that my book has had such a distressing effect on you . |
| 28 | Julius was about to learn that his wife had developed a mind and a will of her own . |
| 29 | PIERRE MAUROY , a former Socialist prime minister , used to complain that his government had nationalised France 's banks , but not its bankers . |
| 30 | He seemed not to notice that his comment had met with no response . |