Example sentences of "and [that] [pron] [vb past] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The National Consumer Council had the impression that consumers wanting to borrow money felt agencies automatically regarded them as ‘ guilty ’ and that they had to prove their innocence . |
| 2 | It is not far-fetched to say , as Charles Moskos of Northwestern University argues , that campaigners for gays in the ranks wanted to use the armed forces as a social-engineering experiment ; and that they wanted to impose their values on a supposedly irredentist segment of American society . |
| 3 | No matter that it had been police business , and that someone had to do it , he had personally selected Phyllis Henley yesterday . |
| 4 | I knew it did me good to be reminded of how much I loathed the suburbs , and that I had to continue my journey into London and a new life , ensuring I got away from people and streets like this . |
| 5 | I had a thought for no-one 's but your ears , That you were beautiful and that I strove To love you in the old high way of love , That it had all seemed happy … |
| 6 | It is clear at that stage the London committee envisaged funding its proposed activities by subscriptions , and that it intended to concern itself with the diseases of cows and sheep as well as horses . |
| 7 | Thus , for example , when meeting the TUC General Council in January 1942 he warned that he could not put money towards the elderly ‘ at the cost of the children ’ and that he had to give them ‘ fair treatment without ruining the country ’ . |
| 8 | I felt that George was tired of Lennie 's stupidness but he knew that Lennie could n't help it and that he had to withstand it . |
| 9 | He said it contained his own private cargo and that he wanted to unload it himself . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , it is uncertain whether he was writing during Emma 's marriage to Cnut or that to Æthelred , but these tales hint that one or both suggested to Richard II that a claim to England was worth recording , and that he wanted to keep his options open . |
| 11 | He told her that he was unmarried , and that he wanted to make her his wife . |
| 12 | A MAN told police that a block of cannabis found in his mother 's freezer was his and that he intended to supply it to others , Darlington magistrates heard yesterday . |
| 13 | He discovered soon after his return to the city that she had refused two offers of marriage — one from a wealthy suitor — on the strength of the promise made to him at Bath , and that she continued to love him ‘ with an affection to the ardor of which my Deserts bear no proportion ’ . |
| 14 | I prayed that she would intercede for us , and show us her grace , and it came to me that she heard me , and that she willed to do us good . |
| 15 | Both that she should know ( had he told her ? ) and that she wanted to discuss it . |