Example sentences of "[verb] that [pron] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't know that I approve of quite so much black silk leg on view , but otherwise you look wonderful . ’ |
| 2 | Of course , you are likely to get some people who say that they thought of it first . |
| 3 | Miss Groundwater — he found that he thought of her in this way again , as a fillip to rage — was seated at her mirror , already in her nightgown , brushing out her hair . |
| 4 | Assembling our find on deck we found that it consisted of a case of 10,000 cigarettes and several cases of spirits . |
| 5 | When he tried to swallow the lump in his throat he found that it tasted of beck-water . |
| 6 | Qaddafi 's offers of union with Tunisia , Egypt , Syria and Morocco seem to indicate that he thinks of the Arab nation . |
| 7 | They reported that they knew of no matter involving her in any way and asked for a description of the white identification cards . |
| 8 | Drafts that you made of the report and later improved or discarded should also be retained . |
| 9 | He had treated her exactly as he 'd said he would , and not even for an instant had Kate had even a bat 's twinkling that he thought of her as an attractive woman . |
| 10 | Erdle kept hinting that he knew of something unsavoury about him — or possibly his family — and the angrier Gebrec became , the more Erdle taunted him . ’ |
| 11 | Cameron , impressed but evidently rather baffled , minuted that he approved of the proposals and found them ‘ entirely in accord with what we wanted and what I thought was being practised ’ . |
| 12 | He argued that they consisted of a material substance , the ‘ germ plasm ’ , which transmitted characters from parents to offspring via the nucleus of the egg and sperm cells . |
| 13 | It is no improvement merely to add a label , saying — taking an example at random — that left for Scotland yesterday morning is a verb phrase if by that we simply mean that it consists of a certain sequence of word classes recognized as frequently occurring . |
| 14 | Referring to her disgraced son-in-law as ‘ Mr Mellor ’ , she added that she knew of his decision to resign ‘ some time ago ’ . |
| 15 | She says that everyone dreams of winning a medal , but at the moment she is just hoping to get there . |
| 16 | She says that he thinks of her as Mum . |
| 17 | Furthermore , and even more important , various writers clearly show that they thought of England as a nation . |
| 18 | And there will be opportunities to apply for support from the British Film Institute and elsewhere erm in order that we can expand er what we 're doing in that area and I , I just wanted to let the board know about that and to say that erm er this is the route that I 'm currently taking and erm I will be reporting to them when there are specific developments and that I hope that you approve of er me attempting to expand our provision in this area . |
| 19 | ‘ Nothing happened that I know of . |
| 20 | Mr Barnes was delighted to hear from him , which made Peter suspect that he knew of Coleby 's interest in 29 Champney Road . |
| 21 | This argument , however , is countered by drawing attention to the passage in Emendatio Vitae ( c.11 ) describing singular love : which shows that he conceived of an unlimited and thus , literally , unfulfilled desire for God . |
| 22 | Lt Cot Hocevar stated that he knew of these plans , but that he considered that Carinthia was not part of Austria . |
| 23 | For example , a county GRIST coordinator ( formerly a mathematics teacher ) who claimed that he knew of the Report but had not read it , made the following eloquent and not untypical statement : |
| 24 | Charles Lambe claimed that he knew of some Dissenters who " will not touch either Food or Raiment , that was not bought in the Shop of a Fanatick . |
| 25 | ‘ You were probably told that she died of a heart attack — but she did n't . |
| 26 | The highest requires that we think of the international system as a set of norms or purposes which shape the process of history . |
| 27 | I sensed that they approved of him whole-heartedly , and that by comparison I was no longer the blue-eyed boy of the family : I did not come up to scratch . |
| 28 | I divined that they spoke of the woman who was on trial for her life in Geneva on the morrow . |
| 29 | I will not list Frances ’ numerous qualities but content myself with saying that I know of no one who could fill her position as well as she … ’ |
| 30 | Prof Wilkinson points out that the international community might not decry unilateralist intervention provided that it approves of the outcome . |