Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [that] [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Letters are now being sent to their families in the United States , warning them that they face arrest upon return home . |
| 2 | A headmaster friend told me recently that he had burst into a classroom mistakenly thinking some pupils were up to no good , only to discover it was drama ; and I recall one of my own students , in playing the role of a prisoner-of-war camp commandant berating the ‘ prisoners ’ and warning them that he had ways of finding out where the missing prisoner was if he did n't own up , was somewhat taken aback to hear the voice of the school caretaker call from the other end of the drama hall , ‘ There 's a boy here , Mr. Ainscough , skulking by this radiator ’ ! |
| 3 | Nancy was telling me that he had loads of |
| 4 | And then he got , he got on the bus , it was a Midland Red and it was going to erm , er where , it was going out of town , anyway , and he shook hands with the driver , because I could n't help but , you know , notice what he was doing , and when I got when I was in the shop and getting the bread , the girls in there were telling me that he shook hands with them , because he had just got out of prison , and he was a born again Christian . |
| 5 | ‘ Are you telling me that you think Edward Pitt killed his family ? ’ |
| 6 | A union would have to issue written warnings to all those members it had learned were threatening an unofficial stoppage telling them that they risked dismissal without compensation if the strike continued . |
| 7 | IT 'S not just because we 're serialising it that I recommend Jack Ashley 's autobiography . |