Example sentences of "[vb past] that [pron] be [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you remember at the announcement of last year 's results we erm we mentioned that we were concentrating on four themes one 's cost reduction er driving for cash erm , improving our market share and investing for the future . |
| 2 | As soon as he looked out of the window on the morning after he arrived ( he tells them ) and saw what the place was like , he realized that it was based on the tutorial system . |
| 3 | She licked her lips nervously , and realised that she was sitting on the edge of the sofa , staring at him as though her life depended on it . |
| 4 | The journey was not in vain , for I quickly realised that I was walking on man-made terraces . |
| 5 | Alison Halford has dropped her sex discrimination case against Merseyside Police and announced that she is to retire on medical grounds with a lump sum payment and pension . |
| 6 | William Barr obliged and , on Oct. 10 , the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) , William Sessions , announced that he was embarking on an inquiry into possible misconduct at the Justice Department ( of which the FBI was institutionally a part ) with regard to the handling of CIA reports . |
| 7 | In an interview with France ( Inter ) radio on Oct. 11 Aoun admitted that he was surrounded on all sides , but claimed to be ready for " the last battle " . |
| 8 | Her mother had had a fit when Carolyn admitted that she was living on social security . |
| 9 | They , they asked that it be done on a Friday and a Saturday and that they appeared on Thursday with it , erm , I 'm getting on with it . |
| 10 | Although ten full minutes passed after leaving his party swigging juice happily and pointing at the loch , a casual glance backwards revealed that they were gaining on us quickly . |
| 11 | At two o'clock he was called , and told that he was wanted on the telephone . |
| 12 | It happened that she was propped on her elbow and could see that he had his fingers crossed . |
| 13 | ‘ Mr Mallon stated that I was embarked on sweeping the RUC very clean and inferred for that reason that some senior people within the force did not wish that approach to continue . |
| 14 | Rejecting this accusation , China claimed that it was drilling on the Chinese side of a north-south boundary line in the Gulf of Tonkin agreed in 1887 by China and France , Vietnam 's then colonial ruler . |
| 15 | He claimed that he was struck on the left leg and was knocked off-balance and said that afterwards he had difficulty moving . |
| 16 | Theodore claimed that he was acting on the instructions of Childebert 's magnates . |
| 17 | ‘ I began to lose consciousness and felt that I was standing on the world 's edge aside of a high , dark space looking across it , thinking that I was about to enter into it . |
| 18 | Blake felt that he was standing on something . |
| 19 | Martha felt that she was walking on air and when she entered the kitchen , Annie looked up . |
| 20 | By the middle of January 1918 the Labour leaders knew that they were sitting on a potential volcano . |
| 21 | I knew that she was operating on a matter of some principle , something basic and territorial , something she had been taught , perhaps . |
| 22 | It no longer occurred to Folly to doubt that Luke was telling the truth — and she knew that she was concentrating on his explanation simply as a shield against the other questions that hovered only a breath away . |
| 23 | She treated coldly all attempts to dab the scent on her own sleeve , rejected any suggestion that it could suitably be tried out on Owen and Mahmoud , and insisted that it be tested on a woman , an assistant , perhaps , or , preferably , the shopkeeper 's wife , a suggestion which , with its hint of superiority , would have had shopkeepers in the more Westernized parts of the city grovelling but was treated simply commercially in the bazaar . |
| 24 | He gave France stronger armed forces , insisted that she be respected on the world stage and believed that she must rely on her own resources for survival . |
| 25 | ‘ I said that something was set on fire today . ’ |
| 26 | He wrote that he was lying on a concrete floor ; he mentioned acute rheumatism , chronic bronchitis ; ‘ My ribs are tight , I have a lot of fever , I cough all the time . |
| 27 | He took out his map , which indeed suggested that he was riding on the main Brussels highway , but maps were notoriously inaccurate . |
| 28 | The firm set of Niall Grant 's mouth suggested that she was treading on dangerous ground . |