Example sentences of "[v-ing] that [pron] was [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trippy was not really interested in my financial situation ; he was just checking that I was paying for dinner . |
| 2 | Instead , there were rustlings , faint and unintelligible mutterings suggesting that she was looking for something , more footsteps going downstairs , a sharp sound like the slamming of a door and then complete silence . |
| 3 | I remember excusing this by saying that I was waiting for the police and that nothing should be touched until they had come . |
| 4 | Of the country 's three nuclear reactors in Yongbyon , one 50-100 megawatt plant was not connected to the national grid , thereby indicating that it was intended for weapons production . |
| 5 | She was sad in advance , and yet at the same time all the happier , doubly happy , for knowing that she recognized her happiness , that it was not slipping by her unheeded , for knowing that she was creating for herself a past . |
| 6 | I make this point after returning from a day 's walking near Ullswater when I was approached by a party of walkers who had followed me for some distance thinking that I was headed for the same destination . |
| 7 | For the last hour his progressively alcoholised brain had reminded him of the consequences of justice ( small ‘ j ’ ) : of bringing a criminal before the courts , ensuring that he was convicted for his sins ( or was it his crimes ? ) , and then getting him locked up for the rest of his life , perhaps , in a prison where he would never again go to the WC without someone observing such an embarrassingly private function , someone smelling him , someone humiliating him . |