Example sentences of "and [verb] that [pron] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Validation of the suffering individual , treating him or her with kindness , professional respect and dignity , being open and honest , separating the awareness of the disease from the understanding of the suffering human being , following the distorted reasoning and disturbed actions and accepting that they appeared to the sufferer to be most appropriate at the time they were committed . |
| 2 | And there was scarcely a shirt to be found that did not have the high necks and ruffles that she favoured in the early days . |
| 3 | Zen gulped down the rest of his coffee and announced that he had to be going . |
| 4 | She sought his mouth again , wrapping her arms around his neck , offering and receiving a kiss so fierce , impatient and demanding that she clung to him and she lost her balance , fell against him , felt him gather her up against the inflammatory hardness of his body and lift her on to the bed . |
| 5 | The Prester was believed to have written to the Byzantine Emperor Manuel Comnenus , enumerating the wonders of his kingdom , and affirming that he ruled over the three Indies and over seventy kings , and that twenty bishops , twelve archbishops and a patriarch acknowledged his authority . |
| 6 | In it the pope said nothing about homage , and argued temperately against lay investitures , minimizing their importance , and denying that he sought for himself any increase of authority or any diminution of the king 's due power . |
| 7 | She took a path across the land at the side of the house and found that it led to a small wood which girdled the top of the hill on which the house was built . |
| 8 | He was a very successful , very good-looking professional in his mid-thirties — just as Tom Russell was , although that was irrelevant , of course — and to find that he seemed to be interested in her was satisfying somehow . |
| 9 | He talks of my ‘ reticence and charm ’ and says that I looked like an ‘ office-worker ’ ! |
| 10 | The Methodists were nonetheless going from strength to strength , and noting that they listened to ‘ hearty , racy , cutting and unctuous speeches which surely would never be forgotten . ’ |
| 11 | The Headmaster expressed his concurrence with the suggestion as the Technical School could supply subjects of instruction not dealt with at a Grammar School , and stated that he had under consideration a scheme as to classes and fees having this object in view . " |
| 12 | After the election the new government in November 1990 again expressed its support for the ban and confirmed that it remained in place . |
| 13 | After a week , Val came back , tearful and shaky , and declared that she meant at least to earn her living , and would take a course in shorthand-typing . |
| 14 | Editor , — Zaid P Shehab and Ahmes L Patior describe the papillary lesion of the hard palate in the photograph on the Minerva page as a condyloma acuminatum and imply that it arose as a result of orogenital intercourse . |
| 15 | Controllers regained contact with the satellite after three anxious hours , and discovered that it appeared to be in full working order . |
| 16 | Ronald Duncan , whom I came to know about this time ( our first meeting took place when I made a bicycle tour of Cornwall in the summer of 1947 ) , spoke of having received a telegram from Eliot cancelling an engagement and saying that he had to ‘ bury a woman ’ . |
| 17 | This began with some flattering words about us both , and implied that he had for long been unable to make up his mind about the abdication . |
| 18 | They did try and imply that I went to the toilet for some sexual activity with the lead singer of Suede , which is a bit boring , and something that I 'd probably wish for more than think was nasty |
| 19 | I looked more closely at his cheeks , and saw that they looked as if they had been rubbed to get them red . |
| 20 | Circuiting the crowd that milled around with plates and dishes in search of sustenance , she walked towards it , and saw that it led into a pleasingly arranged conservatory . |
| 21 | Meredith followed her line of sight and saw that it rested on an oldish-looking photo . |
| 22 | He saw an arc of blood , and knew that it came from his own neck . |
| 23 | Fran had read all she could about Luke Calder before the interview and knew that he came from the poorest part of Glasgow and that he had got to where he was today by dint of sheer hard work and determination , but , looking at him now , she found it hard to imagine that he had come from anything but a moneyed background . |
| 24 | A woman in a provincial restaurant ate a steak and complained that it tasted of cardboard . |
| 25 | v. Lowthian the defendants knew of the existence of the contract between the plaintiffs and their co-contractors but they did not know its precise terms and said that they assumed from their experience in other cases that it could be terminated at short notice . |
| 26 | And he took two boards and fitted them to the body , one to the breast and the other to the shoulders ; these were so hollowed out and fitted that they met at the sides and under the arms , and the hind one came up to the pole , and the other up to the beard ; and these boards were fastened into the saddle , so that the body could not move . |
| 27 | For its part , the Phnom Penh government insisted that the " obstacle " of the former ruler must not be allowed to hold up the peace process , and denied that he had to be SNC chair under September 's Jakarta agreement on setting up the SNC . |
| 28 | To generalize and say that it stood for anything at all was self-delusion and deceit . |
| 29 | Russell estimated the population of England at just over 21 million in 1377 , and suggested that it rose by nearly a million between then and 1545 . |