Example sentences of "[vb past] [coord] [verb] that the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this point , one of Garsinde 's noble followers , unwilling to accept the verdict , arose and demanded that the decision be made not by arbitration but by battle . |
| 2 | He turned and saw that the window ledge was about three feet above him . |
| 3 | Helen turned and saw that the Colonel was putting on white clothes on top of his army uniform . |
| 4 | We could not accept a treaty that contained either a commitment at the beginning to a federal vocation or a review clause at the end — this is the question I have just answered — which implied or stated that the result of the review must be a movement towards federalism . |
| 5 | On 18 December , Stephen H. Greene , assistant administrator of the operations division of the DEA , described at some length how a ‘ controlled delivery ’ worked and agreed that the DEA often used the technique . |
| 6 | ‘ Venables laughed and said that the deal was worth over £4m to Lineker but no one could be expected to believe Tottenham would get more than £1m . |
| 7 | I think that I must assume the existence of some person in the defendants ' employment who accepted and appropriated the money with a full knowledge of all the facts , particularly the discussion which had preceded the institution of the action , and the pending of the action itself , who knew and realised that the right of the defendants to receive the money was at the moment sub judice , and indeed on the point of coming before this court for decision . |
| 8 | Do you also remember another New Testament scholar at Manchester who flipped and declared that the word ‘ Jesus ’ was really a code for a sacred mushroom and the Bible was a do-it-yourself manual for getting as high as the stars without leaving your body ? |
| 9 | Miliutin either said or implied that the time had passed for half-measures like the Law on Free Agriculturalists of 1803 , the Baltic emancipation of 1816 – 19 and the Law on Obligated Peasants of 1842 . |
| 10 | Blanche coughed and responded that the police were talking to everyone who had been at the farewell party on the sixth floor , including Parkin and Pargeter . |
| 11 | Seventy-one per cent of respondents wrote and said that the change they would most like to see was ‘ equality of opportunity ’ . |
| 12 | Then one lady wrote and said that the ladies of the local church should do it for us . |
| 13 | He clearly hoped and expected that the consensus around his foreign policy would rub off on the presidency , reinforcing perceptions of its national and non-partisan function . |
| 14 | I hoped and prayed that the lights would come on so I could fly down those steps . |