Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [that] [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walking is cheaper , ’ she said , a little irritated that he had n't got the message . |
| 2 | Police need little reminding that they have to find a very brutal and sick man fast . |
| 3 | Paul had laughingly explained that they had taken one small pull only at the bamboo rod , purely out of courtesy to the Moi chief , but it had gone straight to Joseph 's head . |
| 4 | The Saturday Review bitterly commented that they had ‘ framed for themselves a rule which we must characterize as both illogical and unfair — namely , of distributing their patronage so that no competitor should net more than one premium ’ . |
| 5 | If she walked out , then he would be unable to follow her unless he 'd brought back-up with him , and somehow she rather doubted that he had . |
| 6 | The television was switched on , Omi started a new piece of crochet-work , Herr Nordern abandoned his statistics , Frau Nordern her reports , and Paul , boldly and half-truthfully announcing that he had finished his homework , joined Erika on the sofa to watch a good thriller on West German television . |
| 7 | Although it had been widely reported that he had made a full confession during pre-trial questioning , in court Watanabe maintained that " there is no truth " in the reports that he had paid politicians . |
| 8 | He told the details to an incredulous audience , although tactfully leaving out the part about Steinmark 's base habits , merely suggesting that he had probably been taking a short cut across the line . |
| 9 | I had n't even noticed the pickets and I can only presume that they had parted before me as I walked towards them as they still do today . |
| 10 | All over the country hurt and disillusioned journalists and would-be journalists wondering why they had never received a reply could only presume that they had been rejected . |
| 11 | He had suddenly realised that he had n't had any lunch . |
| 12 | At that stage the airman suddenly realised that he had left the carving and " Jane 's " pants in the caravan . |
| 13 | At this moment , as he was still wondering what to say to them , he suddenly realized that something had lightened his spirits . |
| 14 | She entered her room , but , as reality started to creep in , she suddenly realised that she had n't said anything more to him about that interview . |
| 15 | Reason alone insists that there has to exist a non-physical formative cause to provide an appropriate hypothesis , and in view of this realisation by visionaries in the domain of physics , bio-chemistry , biology , neuro science , etc. , a bridge between ancient wisdom and modern insight is now being built . |
| 16 | And does the fact that one in four people in Britain now lives alone mean that we have finally achieved the highest aspirations of humanity , or that we are victims of an ideology of individualism that has distorted even our deepest relationships ? |
| 17 | This is not to reject the approach out of hand ; but merely to acknowledge that it has weaknesses . |
| 18 | Right , so say that we have thirty , three observations , right we 've got three parameters in this particular model , right , therefore degrees of freedom will be thirty , right , and we 've jusk the critical values run across the rows alright . |
| 19 | It had n't taken her long to discover that they had nothing whatsoever in common . |
| 20 | She had fully expected Penry to dismiss them as nonsense , and felt so shattered that he had n't that it took her longer than usual to clear away and leave the kitchen immaculate . |
| 21 | It was as warm as summer , the temperature an amazing 15.5° C. So warm that we had earlier seen a comma butterfly on the wing . |
| 22 | Some football hooligans , the article goes on , are now so organised that they have the audacity to leave professionally printed calling cards in the pockets of their battered victims . |
| 23 | The seaman — Gustave continued as if this were the best story he had heard for many years — apparently claimed that he had no notion of how the section of mast had reached the position in which it was found . |
| 24 | ‘ And , for your information , I 've long wished that I 'd never heard of you — or your wretched grandmother . |
| 25 | The darkness was almost complete now ; she could only see the faintest outline of his features , enough to know that they 'd taken on a hard , determined cast . |
| 26 | She was flying , just within the still pocket of air , but enough to know that she had the power . |
| 27 | Pinkie could still think quite clearly enough to know that he had very little prospect of a new commission . |
| 28 | Gorbad Ironclaw was one of the most successful Orc leaders of all time : his campaign of destruction raged across the Empire and left the region of Solland so devastated that it has never fully recovered . |
| 29 | Bainbridge has a lovely village green which was the setting for nothing more remarkable than the fact that I arrived there one day to walk over from Bainbridge to Cam Houses with Tony and Eddie , the landlord from my local pub , only to discover that I 'd left my walking boots back at home in Dentdale and had to do the entire walk in a pair of fur-lined cowboy boots , which earned me the nickname of Roy Rogers for the rest of the week . |
| 30 | Arriving at the edge of the quay , Fitzroy Maclean attempted to inflate it , only to discover that it had a puncture . |