Example sentences of "[coord] [that] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 's new is that the old defence , that a director did not ‘ knowingly or willingly ’ allow something to happen has been eroded and , Bell said , ‘ directors will have to show specifically and beyond a shadow of doubt they could not know what was happening or that they had minuted their protest ’ . |
| 2 | Or that they 'd sacked him . |
| 3 | But she pretended to herself that she had not seen it , or that she had misinterpreted it . |
| 4 | She was unable to believe that his tongue was unruly or that he 'd meant his earlier remarks to be at all humorous . |
| 5 | Nor that I wished to give myself in life |
| 6 | When he was satisfied that he was all right and that no-one had heard him , he picked up the brown bag and moved into the safety of the trees . |
| 7 | Our customers tend to be left out of these reports , but it must be said that they did part cheerfully with over 13,000 and that we enjoyed meeting them . |
| 8 | I 'd told them I had immigration problems and that they 'd stopped my benefit . |
| 9 | They wanted to ensure that people sufficient skill and training to run their own business and that they 'd done their homework . |
| 10 | The statement would simply say that an exchange had been arranged in conditions of total secrecy , as demanded by the kidnappers , an unspecified ransom had been paid , and that they had broken their word . |
| 11 | He said that the Government were out of touch with homelessness and with the hopelessness of large sections of society , and that they had forfeited their right to govern . |
| 12 | Germans and Hungarians would be eligible for restitution , under legislation to be worked out by the Czech and Slovak parliaments , provided that they had not been " transferred abroad " in 1945 and that they had proclaimed themselves Czechoslovak citizens . |
| 13 | According to second-hand reports of the conversation Krishchaty said that the body was lying on the ground at about 8,250m and that they had passed it two or three times . |
| 14 | The judge went on to say that they had notices of committal and that they had removed themselves from the jurisdiction . |
| 15 | The National Consumer Council had the impression that consumers wanting to borrow money felt agencies automatically regarded them as ‘ guilty ’ and that they had to prove their innocence . |
| 16 | Darci Alves confessed to sole responsibility , in what was seen as an attempt to get his father acquitted , but a key prosecution witness , Genesio Ferreira da Silva , 15 , a former employee and relative of the Alves family , stated that he had overheard both of them plotting the murder and that they had celebrated its successful execution with a barbecue . |
| 17 | It is not far-fetched to say , as Charles Moskos of Northwestern University argues , that campaigners for gays in the ranks wanted to use the armed forces as a social-engineering experiment ; and that they wanted to impose their values on a supposedly irredentist segment of American society . |
| 18 | No matter that it had been police business , and that someone had to do it , he had personally selected Phyllis Henley yesterday . |
| 19 | I told him that I 'd seen her in the company of a minder I did n't like the look of and that I 'd followed them to Woolwich . |
| 20 | I suddenly realised that there were all these great black players around in Louisiana , and that I 'd missed them completely ! |
| 21 | As soon as you deigned to tell me that the Svend you were looking for was a student , and that he 'd used my home as a hotel , I recalled that my nephew spent a night here shortly after I moved in so that he could attend a lecture at the city university , and that I 'd entrusted him with a spare key so he could come and go as he pleased . ’ |
| 22 | I told her who I was , and that I had met her father . |
| 23 | That she had lied to me , that my father had been betrayed by Mills and that I had avenged her husband 's memory . |
| 24 | I knew it did me good to be reminded of how much I loathed the suburbs , and that I had to continue my journey into London and a new life , ensuring I got away from people and streets like this . |
| 25 | The reader who has survived so far may recall that during my wartime service in the Navy I had nursed a great curiosity about the enemy we rarely saw , and that I had promised myself that at some time in the future I would find out more about them , the ships they had fought in and the sort of people they were . |
| 26 | I had a thought for no-one 's but your ears , That you were beautiful and that I strove To love you in the old high way of love , That it had all seemed happy … |
| 27 | Just been to a friend 's house and he 's given me a nice cup of tea and a little drop of brandy and that I did enjoy it |
| 28 | Kerr reported on the visit at the July meeting of the Council , drawing attention to ‘ the adverse criticisms contained in this report ’ , emphasizing that it had been a strong visiting party , and that it had reached its conclusions unanimously . |
| 29 | What was striking was that the women artists were reshaping an inherited iconographic language and that it had become theirs to stake out as their own : the language of the body . |
| 30 | It is clear at that stage the London committee envisaged funding its proposed activities by subscriptions , and that it intended to concern itself with the diseases of cows and sheep as well as horses . |