Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] [v-ing] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They usually disappointed everyone by recalling that he was remarkable for his unremarkableness , just another kid on the block ; not a hero , not a superstar at sports , not especially remembered for outstanding feats of school bravado nor had he made any particular impression on the girls . |
| 2 | Just in time she stopped herself from confiding that she 'd almost forgotten how to dance . |
| 3 | I believe that he committed himself to assuring that he would never be party to such a thing again if he could prevent it . |
| 4 | Cortot , who suffered painfully from a sense of his own imperfections , would have been gratified to know that future as well as contemporary admirers joined him in realizing that there are , perhaps , higher things in art than mere discretion . |
| 5 | Lewis contented himself with saying that it was the race that would decide who was the best . |
| 6 | He comforted himself by assuming that she was just a mother-figure to the young man and there could n't possibly be any sex in it . |
| 7 | A visiting seyh , seeing his sad plight , comforted him by saying that he would achieve high rank and that his brothers would stand in his presence among the servants and slaves . |
| 8 | I once shocked him by admitting that I sometimes took it in my tea . |
| 9 | He excused himself by saying that his remarks had been made spontaneously . |
| 10 | The court astonished everybody by deciding that it could not rule on the legality or otherwise of something that had not happened yet . |
| 11 | Thus I deceived her into thinking that she had scared me , and that I would take the necessary steps to ward off fatality . |
| 12 | She knew she was violating Wakelate 's code of practice in the worst possible way , but absolved herself by remembering that her need was great . |