Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [verb] that [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 There was one man he used to come every week just to do see if there were any jobs that wanted doing and er he 'd spend , you know , a day there you know doing anything she wants doing that she could n't manage herself
2 But erm she said she has said that we could do this and she said that 's fine , she said .
3 Aches and pains of various kinds may occur , some of which may mimic the symptoms of her husband 's last illness , and her general health may deteriorate , because at first she will be so absorbed in grieving and a kind of mental ‘ searching ’ for what she has lost that she may tend to neglect her bodily needs .
4 But she has vowed that she will not take financial help from the church .
5 She has found that she can interest modern teenagers , and develop attitudes of stillness and attentiveness and reflectiveness , through detailed study of certain masterpieces .
6 But when the smallest ( some Apistogrammas and some Tanganyikan shelldwellers ) are barely 1″ when adult , and the largest ( Boulengerochromis microlepis ) 36″ , then it stands to reason that they wo n't mix .
7 ‘ But then you 'll want to come back , ’ said Calatin , ‘ because it stands to reason that you wo n't want to stay in the Future — well , no one would .
8 It stands to reason that you can not find the right person to do a job unless you know yourself exactly what that job is .
9 In the last five years since he set up his consultancy from his Bayswater home with a £20,000 overdraft and a stack of letterhead stationery , he has insisted that he will only work for causes in which he believes , and these causes are , by and large , left-wing .
10 And soon , when I 'm old enough — he has said that I may have his camera , and take pictures for myself .
11 He has announced that he will join patriotic singer Johnny Lydon , host of the popular British variety program The Johnny Lydon Band Show , in a rendition of the star 's biggest hit , ‘ God Save the Queen . ’
12 Taylor expects Arsenal captain Tony Adams to be able to battle through the two matches , although he has confirmed that he will miss the US Cup matches which follow , like team-mate David Seaman , to undergo a summer hernia operation .
13 We wish him the best of luck with this venture and he has promised that he wo n't forget us when he becomes famous !
14 He has promised that he will build an extension if given money .
15 He needs to know that he will be listened to and taken seriously .
16 Although Mexico was not an OPEC member in November 1984 it cut exports in line with OPEC reductions to help maintain prices and has generally taken care not to step out of line , though it has stated that it would act unilaterally to defend its market position .
17 And it is deeply revealing that recent scholarly research into what tribal art he could have encountered during the time of his first enthusiasm for it has demonstrated that he could not have seen most of the examples which art historians have previously compared and juxtaposed to his paintings.1
18 And now he intends to prove that he can flourish as a goalscorer among the highest company .
19 This circumstance encourages me to hope that you may , if you have any opening for such a youth , be willing to take George , who is exceedingly desirous of obtaining the situation — or indeed any situation which through industry and a desire of improvement may hereafter insure a creditable independence ; but , above all things he seems to wish that it may be possible for you to take him into a situation similar to that which was offered to his Brother .
20 He does say that he will be Octavius ' tent , and shall be waiting to hear how everything has turned out .
21 However , he does indicate that he would not approve of attempts to make ethical debate entirely a rational affair even to the extent that that is possible .
22 And I do plead with this Committee to erm , let this go forward because it does mean that we will get our community centre up and running erm , in the spring with the assistance of this Committee .
23 It does mean that they ca n't improve themselves by any small land therefore likely ! evolutionary step : none of their immediate neighbours in the local equivalent of ‘ biomorph space ’ would do any better .
24 and it does mean that they can relax you know about work and everything
25 That does n't mean to say they should n't achieve inside the home too , but it does mean that they should have the chance of doing both if they want it , and I think perhaps most do .
26 However , it does mean that you can take out big monsters with a direct hit from a Doom Diver , which makes them very useful indeed .
27 but it 's erm it does mean that you can , so to speak , design your teeth as a sort of decent engineering job and make them fit with one another and slide over one another and grind and so on .
28 It does mean that you will have to get either a converter , a lead with a socket of one type and a plug of the other type , or you will need a Y connector. , a socket connected to two plugs .
29 You can tilt it in any direction , and measure the genetic distance , and hence the minimum evolution time , between any point on the plane and any other ( annoyingly , that is not quite true on the page , because the computer 's printer distorts proportions , but this effect is too trivial to make a fuss about , although it does mean that you will get slightly the wrong answer if you simply count blips on the scale ) .
30 Even if you 've got a series of slides I recommend that you turn it off between each one so that you know the audience do n't see the things being put into position or moved about because that can be a bit distracting so er it does mean that you 'd obviously need to know where the on off switch is and and this is a nice one because it 's it 's right there .
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