Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MDU leader Dzorig told supporters at a rally that eliminating the MPRP 's monopoly of power from the Constitution was not enough and demanded that the Hural , of which 93.4 per cent of the deputies were MPRP members , be dissolved to make way for a democratically elected legislature . |
| 2 | It may be suggested that he may simply qualify somewhat and say that it is wrong for others to tell such lies and not for him , and that there is no purely logical inconsistency here . |
| 3 | It was a time before I began to understand her a little better and realise that a lot of this was actually a sort of ‘ attention-getting ’ — a bit of theatre just to see how people would react — to manipulate situations a little . |
| 4 | Without actually moving physically , I shook my head clear inside and decided that the big male would make a fine head for a Pole . |
| 5 | He glanced at the map of the Underground on the panel opposite and saw that they were approaching Embankment Station . |
| 6 | Madame Butterfly , he thought , for he had sneaked a glance at the soldier opposite and seen that he was now weeping , the letter crumpled in his fist , scrunching apple blossom . |
| 7 | They just walked in and saw that you had posters up and |
| 8 | At first the ideas appeared as rumours and reports : that , although it had not yet been announced , the US had already taken steps to halt the fighting ; that , in Washington , ambassador Bonnet had been called in and told that a settlement was imperative ; that if the matter was brought up in the UN the US would not necessarily support France ; that the US wished to ensure that no Lend-Lease weapons were being used ‘ to suppress Vietnam — although it was suspected they were ; and that the head of Southeast Asian Affairs at the State Department ( Mr A.L. |
| 9 | It 's time people gave some of our youngsters the credit for realising the state the country is in and knowing that they are the ones who are going to have to put it right — and are prepared to work hard to do so . |
| 10 | Half-way through one driver came in and said that the Minister for Human Resources had spent half an hour longer than he had agreed . ’ |
| 11 | Yeltsin had given a dramatic description of tanks closing in and said that he believed that he had not much time left . |
| 12 | It was a pointless ‘ command ’ , for Baldwin was on the edge of nervous collapse , irritable , complaining and , in the closer judgment of Jones , ’ entirely without resource The Downing Street secretaries circumvented the King by getting an haphazardly chosen doctor ( they had previously tried fourteen others , all of whom were away ) to come in and certify that the Prime Minister had to go . |
| 13 | Mrs Maginnis said : ‘ We do n't have patients running hospitals and we do n't have neighbours living in the vicinity going in and testing that intestines have been put back properly by the surgeon carrying out the operation . |
| 14 | Potter came in and concluded that his chief was absorbed in profound celebration ; he put the coffee on the table and crept out … |
| 15 | On the day following the night she had spent with the gentle sisters , her father had stormed in and demanded that she return home , and she had replied , ‘ What ! |
| 16 | So , the S.A.S. had been in and demonstrated that the Ministry police security was a load of rubbish … |
| 17 | I 'm only going in and saying that erm I 've got twenty thousand coming to me now I want to buy an house with it . |
| 18 | Lucy looked down and realised that she was still carrying the switchblade . |
| 19 | Bilal came down and said that Tom would be next , which was , of course , meaningless . |
| 20 | At giving the baby his last feed at ten and putting him down and hoping that he 'd stay asleep till well half past five to six the next morning . |
| 21 | First Man looked down and saw that he was naked , and hurried away to find fig leaves to cover himself … |
| 22 | You then bring your hands down and show that the birds have flown . |
| 23 | She jumped down and discovered that the post carriage , speeding along the dark road , had driven into her slow and unlighted waggon . |
| 24 | One can picture Hoskyns looking down from the skies and being grateful for his pupil ; and Bethune-Baker looking down and thinking that he always knew where Hoskyns might lead the Churches . |
| 25 | The cashier eventually broke down and confessed that he had accidentally killed Mr Dwerringhouse knowing that he would be carrying £70,000 . |
| 26 | I go down and say that it 's not good enough . |
| 27 | Martin Burns of the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers ' Union alleged that catering facilities were being run down and warned that jobs would be lost if the in-house contract was given to a private firm . |
| 28 | you do not mind my taking this method of answering your letter and I hope that you , I did not put you to too much trouble to locate a recorder to listen to the tape , I am just too lazy to write it all down and think that what I have to say I can put it better in words than what I can on paper , I 'll let you do that part . |
| 29 | They tiptoe down and see that he 's got it open , all right , but he 's lying there dead . |
| 30 | ‘ But one thing I do n't want to happen as time goes by is to sit down and say that I did n't do as well as I might have done in another tournament because I did n't put in enough effort . |