Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [to-vb] that it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no such state of affairs exists in our culture , and it is self-delusory and damaging to pretend that it does . |
| 2 | Asked to explain why he had burst into the bedroom of his landlady 's attractive teenage daughter , Tom away the towel with which she was drying herself and started a close fingertip search of her backside , Berkas explained that he had left a valuable foreign stamp soaking in the bath and returned to find that it had disappeared . |
| 3 | She felt even sorrier for him with that stammer when he went up to read the first lesson , and had to announce that it came from the eighth chapter of Deuteronomy , a word which took him four goes . |
| 4 | In fact , the long range future of our hobby demands that we recognise this compatibility and work to prove that it exists . ’ |
| 5 | Berthon was livid at one of his cars being butchered but had to acknowledge that it handled better . |