Example sentences of "[that] the [noun sg] [vb past] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The victim said that the policeman had forced himself on her . |
| 2 | And the young man said that the tailor had offered him kindness , and should live with them both in the castle and be happy ever after . |
| 3 | What was needed was a dispassionate focus on the root of the problem , and this meant that the subject had to lose its normative character . |
| 4 | In two separate incidents this year , sent a letter to a member asking for membership and was very embarrassed to learn that the member had paid her teacher some long time earlier . |
| 5 | The NUM 's main trouble with the courts arose over actions brought by its own members on the grounds that the union had broken its own rules ( over a pre-strike ballot ) and for contempt . |
| 6 | The first was that the Queen had ordered her to go to Korea . |
| 7 | The official line was that The Queen had advised her sister against the union — the real truth was the Queen Mother had once again made her wishes known and her daughters had rushed to obey her . |
| 8 | Thirdly , the Jacobite Guinea should have convinced him that the thief intended to keep his side of the bargain . |
| 9 | The newly appointed managing partner , Alan Woods , told ACCOUNTANCY that the firm intended to promote itself as ‘ the largest independent and credible alternative to the Big Six ’ . |
| 10 | lord justice beldam made it clear in this case that the insurer had made it clear they would indemnify the defendant . |
| 11 | Summing up , we are concerned that the recession continued to prevent us from contributing to the funds of the RIBA at the same levels as in 1989 and 1990 and are far from complacent about this situation . |
| 12 | However he held that such evidence was inadmissible since the letter to Mr. Purkayastha unambiguously showed that the committee had misdirected itself . |
| 13 | Certainly suspect committee members had attempted to go abroad , but the real reason was probably that the committee had served its purpose by acting as a bait to attract foreign relief organizations ( the ARA drew up an agreement on 20 August ) . |
| 14 | By 1914 , Maurice Woods was able to announce that the committee had completed its immediate programme in every field but one and had therefore embarked on several secondary projects . |
| 15 | He also says that the committee had raised their concerns to the council about recruitment practice as far back as the late 1970s . |
| 16 | Sir John Wolfenden , the then vice-chancellor of Reading University , was chosen to be its Chairman , a job which he was to hold for the three years that the Committee took to produce its Report . |
| 17 | It happened when each thought that the other had locked it . |
| 18 | In practice this meant a marked toleration of a variety of extremist ideas provided that the individual had proved himself to be ‘ Jew wise , . |
| 19 | ‘ Rumour has it , ’ said the kadi , ‘ that the Parquet sought to arrest someone and were unsuccessful . ’ |
| 20 | I thought for two days that the machine had swallowed it and it was only on the monday morning on the way to the bank that I found that it had miraculousloy reappeared in my wallet again . |
| 21 | So , if the holder of a bill of exchange were suing the acceptor , and the acceptor were to complain that the holder had treated him hardly , or that the bill ought never to have been circulated , and the holder were to say , Now , if you will not make any more complaints , I will not sue you . |
| 22 | In order to incite her husband against her stepson , Sigistrix , she claimed that the prince intended to kill his father , to take over Burgundy and subsequently Italy . |
| 23 | Then , quite out of the blue at the end of 1983 , they had a letter from the Palace saying that the Princess had decided she would like to be their patron . |
| 24 | Mr McLevy said that the company had moved its position over the lay-offs and had agreed to the Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service 's being called in if negotiations could not be satisfactorily concluded . |
| 25 | Boesky claimed that he had put £40,000,000 into the Guinness share support scheme ; when Guinness shares subsequently slumped , he claimed that the company had compensated him by agreeing to invest $100,000,000 in his arbitrage investment fund . |
| 26 | The Northern Echo revealed on Saturday that the company had disconnected its phone and left no forwarding address . |
| 27 | Mr McTear , a former 60-a-day smoker , is suing Imperial Tobacco for damages , claiming that the company failed to warn him of health hazards when he took up smoking in the mid 1960s . |
| 28 | He also claimed it was the largest open system to be employed at a statistic office in Europe , and announced that the company planned to use it as a reference site for national accounting offices in both East and Western Europe . |
| 29 | He also claimed it was the largest open system to be employed at a statistic office in Europe , and announced that the company planned to use it as a reference site for national accounting offices in both East and Western Europe . |
| 30 | The disturbances on the borders of Brecon , whether officially encouraged or not , had grown to such proportions that the King had despatched his brother the Earl of Cornwall to the march in haste to try and suppress them , and was himself in the act of setting out from Windsor to join him there . |