Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm simply pointing out that there were better ways to have made this trip today . ’ |
| 2 | Er I 'm only basing on that there are one or two empty shops |
| 3 | I was merely pointing out that she is not a waif ; she must belong to someone . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I was merely pointing out that this is a very specialized machine and requires skilful control . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ All right , but I was merely pointing out that I would hardly liken you to an animal or bird from New Zealand when I 'm Australian . ’ |
| 6 | He was simply pointing out that palaeontology , as a science , depends on the interpretation of fossil relics of bones , not flesh ; no palaeontologist has any clue as to what a living dinosaur actually looked like . |
| 7 | He was constantly pointing out that theories could be , and had been , revised , changed and discarded as a result of empirical observations . |