Example sentences of "and [v-ing] that [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | which I asked if they would stay , but they altogether refused , and seeing that they refused I did not hinder them to go , for I will press no man . |
| 2 | The shriek that went up as she sank back on to a wicker sofa drumming her heels on the ground and yelling and shouting that she wished he were dead , and that she 'd been dishonoured , made him quite alarmed . |
| 3 | In the end , my knitting was getting so chewed with all the knitting and unravelling that I took it off on waste yarn . |
| 4 | In either case , an unauthorised practitioner will have committed a criminal offence under the Financial Services Act , and pleading that he did it only once or that it happened by accident is not going to impress anyone . |
| 5 | When the girl 's mother and aunt came round to his house to take her back he became so violent and threatening that they decided they might be endangering the girl 's life by staying and arguing . |
| 6 | But Hector , with his booming laugh , was so large and overpowering that he made it worse . |