Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [that] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meantime all those due to appear in the FA Cup third round in the New Year have received a letter from Lancaster Gate reminding them that the FA has the power to throw them out of the competition if their players become involved in mass brawls . |
| 2 | I have now , through your lordship 's favour , the satisfaction of seeing them cultivated in my neighbourhood , by the skilful hand of my friend , Mr. Miller , and shall take the first opportunity of describing and engraving them that the public may see how much they are indebted to your lordship . |
| 3 | Prefaced by an ‘ urgent remonstrance ’ to the gentlemen of England , warning them that the young Queen Victoria 's announcement of her intention to marry Prince Albert may lead to great numbers of her female subjects taking a similar nuptial initiative owing to Leap Year of 1840 ( traditionally a woman could make a proposal of marriage only in a leap year ) . |
| 4 | The catalogue of a small library should not encourage its users to be too persistent without warning them that the library may hold nothing relevant . |
| 5 | And he ended by warning her that the stories being published were doing untold damage to the Royal Family — and she should be aware that she was to blame . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ And he ended by warning her that the stories being published were doing untold damage to the Royal Family — and she should be aware that she was to blame . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Going somewhere ? ’ he asked politely ; the quiet voice held hidden traps , warning her that the answer had better be in the negative . |
| 8 | We will write to you approximately one month before then , reminding you that the money will be available shortly , and offering you the opportunity to re-invest in a further Bond . |
| 9 | Well , ter cut a long story short 'e ends up tellin' me that the last bloke was put off fer losin' too much time an' I might be a bad time-keeper as well , what wiv me injuries . |
| 10 | Look at the implications looking back over it when when Fire and Public Protection had produced their report , but certainly the things are and it 's quite clear that we all know this case in my particular the river has been constricted by some thoroughly bad planning decisions and development control districts and they 're paying them that the owners are paying the penalty for that erm reducing the ditches and er building over them and okay we 've got problems erm so er there are structure plan implications erm which I do n't I think we should miss and if we say that really building on a is a principle well then we should try it right into the structure plan or looking at local plans for approval that we actually look at this a little bit more carefully . |
| 11 | Few would dispute that travel broadens the mind , but with basic school fees at the top independent boarding schools at around £10,000 a year and some of these trips costing as much as £2,000 , many hard-pressed parents admit they have come to dread the arrival of the letter informing them that the cricket 1st XI is to visit Zimbabwe . |
| 12 | At a meeting with the ASEAN Foreign Ministers in Indonesia on July 27 Baker attempted to allay their fears , informing them that the US goals in Cambodia remained the same and that " our approach towards achieving them differs only very slightly " . |
| 13 | A sharp note has come home informing me that the costume must be made by the child . |
| 14 | My attention was recently caught by a note informing me that the Earl of Kimberley and the Earl of Cork and Orerry , officers of the All-Party Defence Committee , had arranged for a presentation by Contraves , the Swiss multinational company . |
| 15 | He brushed up my biochemistry , informing me that the long chain fences of fat molecules are antipodean in scale set beside the dry stone walls of mere proteins , and that he himself had it as an ambition to contrive that his entire body should be sheathed in one enormous fat molecule . |
| 16 | Your letter of 27 Feb. , informing me that the current account was overdrawn and charging the Club to rectify this , was the last straw . |
| 17 | I did n't get a reply before election day , so I voted Green ; it arrived two days after the election , reassuring me that the Labour Party was committed to improving gay rights . |
| 18 | Thank you for your letter of the 6th of May reassuring me that the partnership of local sponsoring bodies , the Welsh Office and the European Commission which manages the programme , takes into account environmental considerations when selecting and approving projects . |
| 19 | On the second morning , Miss Honey received by registered post a letter from a firm of local solicitors informing her that the last will and testament of her late father , Dr Honey , had suddenly and mysteriously turned up . |
| 20 | A government spokesman said Professor Guido de Marco , Foreign Minister , had received a letter from his Libyan counterpart informing him that the two bomb suspects had asked to be tried in Malta , and asking Malta to accede to this request . |
| 21 | John Strachey , a leading Left Book Club and Communist intellectual , wrote to his schoolfriend Robert Boothby — now a left-wing Tory MP — reassuring him that the left would support a pact with the Tory dissidents , even if the Communist Party was excluded ( which it was bound to be ) . |
| 22 | Holmes replies that such a tag functions not to undermine the speaker but to engage the hearer , reassuring her that the speaker cares about her opinions too . |
| 23 | Every Christmas we get a card from the Reverend , informing us that the weather is temperate . |
| 24 | It was from another officious Vadinamian Warden , informing us that the Recovery — which would release the Fraxillian package — would occur at exactly the mid-hour of the following bio-day . |
| 25 | We toasted our success , de Macon informing us that the market was a prosperous one . |
| 26 | He destroyed my dreams in his first sentence by assuring me that the current wrought iron well cover only dated to the beginning of this century . |
| 27 | Mr Milken offered a stamp of approval to both sides : investors trusted that he offered only good deals , not bad ones ; takeover bidders and bank lenders to the bids got a ‘ comfort letter ’ from Mr Milken assuring them that the finance would be there if the takeover went ahead . |
| 28 | The Fabians have now written to all the contenders assuring them that the decision was made on a purely commercial basis . |
| 29 | The Vice Mayor of Beijing came to address them and appealed for calm , assuring them that the ‘ murder ’ would be dealt with speedily and according to proper legal procedures . |
| 30 | Over and above all this , John tells us of the internal testimony of the Holy Spirit with the spirit of the believer , assuring him that God 's testimony to his Son is reliable , assuring him that the Christian experience is real . |