Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [v-ing] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last time I wrote for Contact I finished by saying that we hoped to go and see Miss Saigon . |
| 2 | I started by postulating that there was a grain of truth in all folklore and legend . |
| 3 | And that illustrates what I meant by saying that you need quite complex systems . |
| 4 | I refrained from saying that it would never occur to me to make such a remark . |
| 5 | She felt like screaming that she never used to be like that . |
| 6 | Once again , she refrained from mentioning that she had asked them to keep the baby in the nursery as his presence in the room was upsetting her . |
| 7 | However , we conclude as we began by repeating that there are no ‘ golden rules ’ for producing good ideas . |
| 8 | David did n't like it because he was on there and so we went through saying that I have only the most important |
| 9 | ‘ He mentioned in passing that you had a lot of female visitors , that 's all . |
| 10 | He opened by stating that he felt ‘ that a complete separation of crime from sin would not be good for the moral law and might be disastrous for the criminal ’ . |
| 11 | We elected Peter as Chairman and he began by saying that we needed national appeals to raise money in all the richest countries . |
| 12 | He began by admitting that there was a crisis of power , but he denied that his administration was without a programme to overcome it . |
| 13 | He was driven into something ‘ like Berkleyanism ’ ; and he took to feeling that there was no harm in positing the existence of some form of Absolute Spirit , so long as this was firmly distinguished from the God ‘ of popular religion ’ . |
| 14 | It went without saying that he did n't want to be seen , but it was worth the extra discomfort of hanging around for the extra information that he might pick up . |
| 15 | He looked behind confirming that his body had joined him from the ground . |
| 16 | On May 25th he resigned after admitting that he had speculated in the shares of companies associated with Daimler-Benz while sitting on its supervisory board . |
| 17 | He departed after announcing that he would return for his answer with a larger squadron the following spring . |
| 18 | Deliberately , he refrained from remarking that she had called him by his Christian name for the first time . |
| 19 | He concluded by stating that he had been ‘ compelled to trench on political questions as well as economic — because I feel we are approaching a situation that is so grave that it compares with the War , when we were compelled to act together in self-defence ’ . |