Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [v-ing] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought it a touch of inspiration on my part insisting that he remove all his clothing , ‘ in the interests of hygiene ’ . |
| 2 | It was a considerable struggle but with my co-author agreeing that he liked the work , I was able to deliver the typescript to my publisher three weeks before the delivery date . |
| 3 | At gym lessons I needed to organise my changing routine so that I could take off my outdoor shoes , slip my feet immediately into my gym shoes and , even before I tied my gym-shoe laces , put my outdoor shoes into my satchel hoping that they would stay there throughout the lesson . |
| 4 | ‘ But my father remarking that your mother had n't changed implies they had known each other in the past , and the painting seems to confirm that . |
| 5 | Handed in letter from my father stating that he had no other relatives in the area and because of his blindness and disability he would benefit from them moving into the area . |
| 6 | ‘ But my aunt produced a piece of paper supposedly written by my father saying that he leaves the house to his sister-in-law in return for her kindness in looking after me . |
| 7 | I 'll spend the rest of my life knowing that I was willingly used by a man who did n't love me . |
| 8 | I have spent many hours of my life arguing that it is not necessary to have been in prison to write convincingly about prison conditions , not to be poor to declaim on the evils of poverty , nor black to describe racial discrimination . |
| 9 | With these unrealistic expectations I 'm not sure who stands to lose the most — my daughter believing that you need a man , wealth and preferably a title to be happy , or my son who believes that women are beautiful and passive or wicked and powerful but , either way , he 'd better be handsome . |
| 10 | Many people wander into my delicatessen thinking that it is an up-market health-food shop . |
| 11 | My grandfather saying that everything was going downhill , my grandmother talking of progress , but neither expecting it for that year or the next , they did n't dream of real change , not in their lifetime nor their children 's . |
| 12 | Then followed a speech in her presence hinting that it was time Australia went it alone . |
| 13 | Sir Gregory had a painful discussion with his wife over how they should react to Pascoe 's snub , in which Lady Roscarrock gave vent to her outrage saying that they had every right to keep both Tristram and Jennifer in custody indefinitely ; but Sir Gregory wanted the whole business settled and finished with , so after a lengthy wrangle he swallowed the family pride and went over to Hill House . |
| 14 | The POU domain of this protein is unusually divergent in its sequence suggesting that it belongs to a novel class of POU family proteins . |
| 15 | Now I 'm disappointed to see here before us a motion of group which report saying that he should receive the report . |
| 16 | But she could not lose her anxiety and , finding a guilty conscience the very devil to live with , she returned to her hotel hoping that she would never again be called upon to impersonate her sister . |
| 17 | ‘ Where is he ? ’ she snapped , her tone suggesting that she was prepared to track him down . |
| 18 | She was clearly terrified of her family discovering that she had written to me . |
| 19 | The Board declined to reveal their source claiming that it would be contrary to the public interest . |
| 20 | She knew it must hurt her mother thinking that her only daughter was living with a man , a man , moreover , that she did n't like . |
| 21 | Theodora leant back in her chair and stretched , the confines of her office dictating that she extended up and not backwards . |
| 22 | Ten days later he wrote to his sister saying that he had been asked to write an essay about Baldwin , but that he had refused , for he wished neither to lie nor to publish the truth , which he then proceeded to outline : |
| 23 | undermine your opponent 's credibility by : questioning his experience suggesting that he is losing control negotiating to the point of his mental exhaustion |
| 24 | While staying at The Vyne in Hampshire at the end of the last century , Lord Charles Beresford made a spectacular conquest which led to the object of his desire suggesting that they furthered their acquaintance in her room after the rest of the party had retired . |
| 25 | Lindsey 's Corsair remains to this day one of the most reliable and regular performers on the UK and European airshow circuit gaining many admirers , including an ex- Aeronavale pilot who proudly showed Lindsey his logbook proving that he flew 133722 off the French carrier La Fayette during the Indo-China campaign of 1957 . |
| 26 | Clarence had sexual intercourse with his wife knowing that he was suffering from venereal disease and without disclosing this fact to her . |
| 27 | For example , a male prisoner may receive a letter from his wife saying that she wo n't bring their children to see him anymore . |
| 28 | A killed his baby thinking that it was a rabbit . |
| 29 | He then retuned to France , his father insisting that he should reside abroad for two years . |
| 30 | If the proxy was signed by the proxyholder himself , he can not vote in favour of any remuneration being paid to himself unless he produced written authorisation from his principal showing that he was entitled to sign the proxy . |