Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] that [pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So good ways of checking that you got it right , and then you can go on comfortably with , let's have a look at erm this time you 're buying a block of gold , er |
| 2 | To think of it another way , if you were asked to mend a broken chair you would not use every tool you had just for the sake of showing that you had them . |
| 3 | Beneath the heaven of feeling that he needed her were the remnants of pain caused by the memory of how he had looked at her the morning after they had made love . |
| 4 | It was all there , the passion and the glory and inflamed rush of feeling that she knew she would always have for him . |
| 5 | Every motion sent her senses reeling , deeper and deeper into the furnace they had entered together , until at last , as she soared to a height of such intensity of feeling that she thought she must burst , something exploded in her brain , and she was awash with the dizzying sensation of all-consuming love . |
| 6 | Er and the proposal that I shall report is the and in particular those matter our certainty of responsibility between various agencies needs to be addressed erm it arose obviously are much more widespread than in the past week , but er I was granted in fact to give consideration to this result of the parish meeting , conventional routine parish meeting at Barnham er on the fourth of January erm which led to the largest parish meetings I think they 've had in many years erm when because people were incensed with the suffering and the hardship that they had as a result of the flooding on the night of Thursday the thirtieth of December erm should let me say first of all that erm I would congratulate all those who were involved er in dealing with the present emergency operations erm it 's quite superb , it 's erm it seemed to be erm a remarkable reflection on the capacity er that to deal with certain circumstances reflects very well on this authority and in saying that I mean it 's not just the opposites to the men and women who are involved , but also whereas I 'm sure many members are here that members amongst our numbers have putting on very long hours in dealing with the present circumstances and I congratulate on the activities . |
| 7 | There seems no point in saying that I love you in spite of everything because that only seems to irritate you for reasons best known to yourself and which you choose neither to explain nor comment on . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's the skill you 've got that really counts — the ability not to know things , or to know them without knowing that you know them . |
| 9 | Can he pick up a tin of beans without feeling that it hates him ? |
| 10 | He astounded his American masters by demanding that they give him a more worthwhile job or he would be on his way home . |
| 11 | He puts himself in good light by adding that he gripped me tightly round the shoulders in reassurance , that he gave me brandy , that we talked long after the starlings had ceased their chatter , that we walked down into the street and discussed in jogging stride what guilt or shame or desire could do to the human soul . |
| 12 | With regard to the foundation on which his advocacy of the primacy was based , it can be summed up by saying that he thought it was an integral part of the rights of the church committed to his care , testified to by the living members of the community and the tradition which they inherited . |
| 13 | When someone spoke at length he imposed unstated opinions or principles on his audience by assuming that they shared them . |
| 14 | We have made our policies absolutely clear , not just by asserting that we have it in mind to take action , but by stating what we have planned and by making announcements for new equipment and new forces . |