Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [v-ing] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1904 he wrote to the poet and critic Arthur Symons : ‘ I have , however , of late years , lapsed so deeply into my early weakness for verse , & have found the condensed expression that it affords so much more consonant to my natural way of thinking & feeling that I have almost forgotten the prose effusions for the time . ’ |
| 2 | His mind filled with primitive lore and with a sense of awkwardness at the numerous exhausting social roles he had to play in addition to that of the London banker , Eliot wrote to Mary Hutchinson in 1920 worrying about his inherited characteristics and suggesting that he might be a savage himself . |
| 3 | He examines why certain individuals can not easily accept the ways of thinking and behaving that their social milieu thrusts upon them . |
| 4 | Anxious to get news of this latest development back to their own offices and realising that there was unlikely to be any more to be gleaned from this unpleasant vigil , the remaining newspeople departed as the small convoy of police traffic vanished into the maw of the blizzard . |
| 5 | There seems to be no doubt that an increasing number of people are using homoeopathic remedies to treat their animals and finding that they produce good result . |
| 6 | She 's always nervously brushing the hair out of her eyes and saying that she ca n't come out with Howard because she has to go and see a client . |
| 7 | England came away from Australia shaking their heads and saying that it was impossible to defend against those moves . |
| 8 | She had been so busy with her dress house in Rome , coping with her designer , planning for the future and ensuring that everyone in the business was kept happy — each of which seemed a full-time job in itself — that she had hardly had time to spare for her three children , let alone her mother . |
| 9 | While the national coach sat upstairs in a Glasgow hotel fretting over the pressure that media attention can bring on young players , Ferguson 's agent , Denis Roache , sat downstairs in the foyer no doubt planning the next stage of his client 's future and acknowledging that there is , given the the player 's performance against Germany , no such thing as bad publicity . |
| 10 | The apothecary 's rose grows at Provins in France and has the property that it keeps its perfume even when the petals have been dried and powdered , thus making it of great use to add to medicinal compounds and ensuring that they are pleasant and soothing . |
| 11 | The other two had evidently been in hospital longer than I had , and they were like children let out of school , peering through the unblacked-out part of the window at the bright lights in the shops and rejoicing that they would be home for Christmas . |
| 12 | The government issued statements , before and after the April arrests , criticizing the activities of DP members in northern Uganda and suggesting that they were helping to perpetuate the insurgency , although no evidence of this was presented . |
| 13 | ‘ When we were waiting to be questioned by the police , Doug Wilson was saying that Rodney had been making a play for Angy and hinting that he might have got somewhere . ’ |
| 14 | UP leaders immediately demanded the resignation of the Interior Minister Carlos Lemos Simmons , accusing him of ultimate responsibility for the crime and claiming that he had encouraged right-wing death squads to murder UP leaders . |
| 15 | People were cursing the Greenhouse Effect and swearing that it had put paid to surf in Hawaii for all time . |
| 16 | Squaring her shoulders and remembering that what lay ahead was , after all , a job interview , she followed Dr Russell up the long flight of steps at the front of the house and through a wooden latticework door on to a cool veranda where outdoor furniture splashed with warm tropical colours was invitingly arranged . |
| 17 | It 's increasingly difficult for the voluntary sector to make provision of this kind , to offer those opportunities without proper partnership with the state , so I do n't actually accept if you 're posing an alternative and saying that it 's either or , I do n't think that 's correct . |
| 18 | The tough slaughterman viewing the small , unimpressive figure and deciding that he was n't going to be put out of his routine by some ragged farm man . |
| 19 | The new , independent Her Majesty 's inspectorate will have the duty of giving a little lion stamp to those inspectors and ensuring that they are up to the mark . |
| 20 | On Dec. 18 the UN Security Council unanimously approved Resolution 799 condemning the Israeli action and demanding that it be rescinded , but the Israeli Cabinet , meeting on Dec. 20 , reaffirmed its decision . |
| 21 | Ronald Duncan , whom I came to know about this time ( our first meeting took place when I made a bicycle tour of Cornwall in the summer of 1947 ) , spoke of having received a telegram from Eliot cancelling an engagement and saying that he had to ‘ bury a woman ’ . |
| 22 | The chairman will contact the youth leader to support his action but requesting that he be kept informed on such matters . |
| 23 | No more scrabbling for notepads or realising that you 've left your diary on your secretary 's desk . |
| 24 | It 's worth stepping back a little and considering your own personality before drawing up a birth plan or vowing that you will never have an epidural whatever the circumstances . |
| 25 | In fact , I would argue that not only does it do this , but that it goes much further , indicting all men in complicity for rape and insisting that they share the guilt . |
| 26 | It so happened that the very train that ended Mr Cubbage 's life was carrying the delayed mail and in one of the mail bags was a letter from Coleen agreeing to Mr Cubbage 's proposal of marriage and saying that she was coming home to her lover . |
| 27 | Something — he was n't sure just what — which had caused the entire north to rise like yeast in sudden and furious ferment , the whole of industrial Lancashire and Yorkshire seething with militant men and women — highly militant , those women — on the march , carrying banners and loaves of bread on the end of sticks , singing hymns and psalms and chanting that it was no longer a matter of wages . |
| 28 | ‘ Fenella and I would set out a day later , ’ he said , looking at Fenella and thinking that she was rather a nice sort of companion to be having on a journey . |
| 29 | It taught me a lesson about drinking and driving that I 'll never forget . ’ |
| 30 | As we walked to the restaurant I felt miserable , foreseeing argument and dissent and wishing that I possessed the charm and the experienced polish to ease the tension between these people . |