Example sentences of "[v-ing] [that] [pron] [verb] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The locals are praying that he wants to stay in Santa Barbara forever . |
| 2 | Mars-Jones J in Palacath Ltd v Flanagan [ 1985 ] 2 All ER 161 decided that a surveyor was not immune without specifically denying that he had acted as a quasi-arbitrator . |
| 3 | He might as well have descended on the Palace , announcing that he had come for a stay . |
| 4 | I was explaining that we had fallen in need of a housekeeper and an under-butler at one and the same time and Miss Kenton had arrived — with unusually good references , I recall — to take up the former post . |
| 5 | Two days earlier the Home Secretary had sent a minute to the Prime Minister explaining that he proposed to answer on these lines . |
| 6 | I leant back and looked at the seat of my trousers , checking that I had brushed off the mud ; I wanted to make the transition from somebody who had just slept rough to somebody who looked as though he was out for an early walk . |
| 7 | The anthropologist 's appetite for information and his curiosity are boundless , and he is naturally particularly attracted by those avenues of inquiry where the answers come hard , suggesting that he has touched on a sensitive and hence significant vein . |
| 8 | ‘ Are you suggesting that I 've come to — ? ’ |
| 9 | According to the conventional wisdom , fusion required great heat and hence could only have happened when the Earth was being formed ; however , if the Earth is five billion years old , all the helium would by now have risen away , yet it was there in amounts suggesting that it had appeared in the atmosphere only recently . |
| 10 | ‘ Can I get it for you ? ’ he said , seeing that she had settled into a chair . |
| 11 | ‘ In the same way as some people might go to church and seek absolution , accepting that I have confessed to these sins makes me feel better . |
| 12 | Two men talked their way into the home of two elderly sisters , pretending that they had come on behalf of neighbours to cut down trees in the garden . |
| 13 | To my utter surprise , Arune went home after one evenings viewing and produced the V-neck sweater with patterning that she had seen on the Video ! |
| 14 | Indeed , some families will want to talk about the present , believing that what has occurred in the past is of little or no consequence . |
| 15 | She kept remembering that he had walked in this room , sat in the chairs , eaten at the table . |
| 16 | An army spokesman pointed out to journalists that the men were being held under anti-terrorist legislation and added that they had already been interrogated and had been ‘ singing like birds ’ , a phrase from the criminal underworld implying that they had confessed to crimes . |
| 17 | It was in the course of that initial watching and listening that she had come across Amy . |
| 18 | At least he 'd made someone happy , he thought drily , regretting that he 'd snarled at the lad in front of him . |
| 19 | He did so in this case ( deciding that it did amount to a material change of use ) . |
| 20 | England 's players had a lazy rest day today , many of them reporting that they felt drained by playing in the heat and humidity of the first three days . |
| 21 | If it 's the non-taxpayer owns the account in that case , then she can pay the whole of that thousand pounds into a joint account for them both , and they can both use the income , the revenue are n't going to b bother about where the money 's gone , providing that it 's received by the person who owns the investment . |
| 22 | The others have been very positive about the programme , stating that they preferred to know about their sons ' condition from an early stage . |
| 23 | When she arrived at the theatre that night she saw a note pinned up at the stage door stating that it had come to the management 's notice that a Girl had been flying , which was forbidden ! |
| 24 | ‘ That probably sounds simple-minded to you , considering that you live surrounded by such things , but — ’ |
| 25 | " He could have given me a ticking off , considering that he 'd gone to the trouble of telling me that you were coming . |
| 26 | Three hearty hurrahs , therefore , for the inventors of the GuitaRest , the kind of ultra-neat idea that keeps you awake at night wishing that you 'd thought of it . |
| 27 | At the moment he 's probably wishing that he 'd stuck to music . |
| 28 | There was nearly a mile of dense woodland at this point before the swampy ground began and it was over an hour before Crane returned saying that no-one had passed on that side . |
| 29 | To suppose that we have to choose between mentalism and behaviourism is like saying that we have to choose between saying that the words ‘ trump ’ and ‘ revoke ’ designate feelings of triumph and embarrassment , and saying that they designate triumphant and embarrassed behaviour . |
| 30 | We can also recognise , as we did , at an , on an earlier paper that it is national government policy and increasingly so , to encourage the development of capital schemes , borrowing , we noted that in relation to transport and the availability of S C A's I think it 's also right to say that the government does set down the level of borrowing which can be entered into in in any one year , that is the credit approvals are controlled by the government and they do make them available to the County Council and to district Councils , so in a sense , the government is both saying that we expect borrowing to be a feature of a budget and also that we want to control , and restrict the amount of money that can be borrowed through the amount of credit approvals . |