Example sentences of "of [v-ing] that [pers pn] was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His advisers hit on the idea of announcing that he was going on a cruise up the Hudson river where , away from prying eyes , he was propped up in a chair against the mast and anaesthetised . |
| 2 | Finally Rose of Lima also had the great consolation of believing that she was doing a socially useful job — and there were not many of these available for women in the early seventeenth century . |
| 3 | When his book Early Conversation Pictures appeared , Evelyn took what Henry James would have called ‘ the rash and insensate step ’ of saying that he was enjoying it . |
| 4 | I had gone to Bletchley in excitement and trepidation , had been very content there , in congenial company , and with the satisfaction of knowing that I was employed on work essential to the war effort . |
| 5 | She had no way of knowing that he was thinking not so much of the next photo story she would submit to him as the necessary therapy it might provide . |
| 6 | These were small details now , swallowed up in the joy of knowing that she was loved by the man she had loved silently for so long . |
| 7 | She had had no experience of domestic affairs , but she managed well enough , and had the satisfaction of knowing that she was doing something for Susan , after all . |
| 8 | Her alarm , it was patently obvious to her now , stemmed from a basic instinct of knowing that she was going to end up hurting inside . |
| 9 | That 's the whole point of repackaging that I was trying to get across this morning . |