Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [that] [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police need little reminding that they have to find a very brutal and sick man fast . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Not out of Steve , anyway , who was saying nothing much , only affirming that he had bashed Charley to save his mother ; he had ‘ guessed ’ where she was . |
| 5 | For there is no doubt that our prevailing intuitions about ourselves as agents , and a number of associated philosophical arguments about the concepts of choice , action and responsibility , have tended to make the case of individualism seem not merely strong , but so compelling that we have no option but to accept it . |
| 6 | Dr Sasaki had not looked outside the hospital all day ; the scene inside was so terrible and so compelling that it had not occurred to him to ask any questions about what had happened beyond the windows and doors . |
| 7 | I feel , rather than see , Moira suddenly remembering that she has an awful lot of things to do somewhere else . |
| 8 | As he had passed her in the little hall this morning a tendril of her silky black hair had brushed his ruined cheek , and the smell of it had been so distracting that he had feared for his composure . |
| 9 | Helen asked no questions about Chris , only saying that it had been a lovely evening and Moira was still talking about the tinned peaches and jelly . |
| 10 | Gloucester opened negotiations with the dowager almost immediately , apparently claiming that he had been given custody of her and her land by the king , and by January 1473 the countess and her feoffees had agreed to make an estate to Gloucester in all the dower lands . |
| 11 | Gloucester opened negotiations with the dowager almost immediately , apparently claiming that he had been given custody of her and her land by the king , and by January 1473 the countess and her feoffees had agreed to make an estate to Gloucester in all the dower lands . |
| 12 | However , there were people there who were ‘ greatly desiring that she had been out of that country ’ , and she bustled off to York , where the Archbishop paid a man five shillings to lead her out of the town . |
| 13 | Their calls are also very intricate , and the sounds of some of them , the young , sexually mature humpback males , are so haunting that they have become a best-selling record . |
| 14 | The cut may be made with little or no apparent awareness , the patient suddenly discovering that she has cut herself and at the same time experiencing a sense of relief . |
| 15 | The owner of the copyright in the computer program , suddenly realizing that he has rights with respect to the output generated from using the program , might attempt to interfere with the subsequent use of that output in the hope that he will be able to negotiate a fee for his permission . |
| 16 | ‘ It looked all right , did it ? ’ she asked Morris again , perhaps forgetting that she had asked him once already . |
| 17 | One foggy night she lost her way and had to grope along the bank for some way finally realising that she had circled round and returned to the Halling side by mistake . |
| 18 | He was just checking that I had n't left for good , was glad that I had n't , and was that real coffee he could smell ? |
| 19 | Thing is I , I do n't know if I 'm just imagining that I have n't got any , this this does n't really work . |
| 20 | ‘ Why ? ’ she demanded , finally deciding that she 'd just been insulted . |
| 21 | I am just saying that we have no other alternative . |
| 22 | Most women grow up absolutely torn and still somehow knowing that they have to make some kind of choice . |
| 23 | By the sixteenth century , no longer assuming that it had a right to positions of leadership in the armies , the aristocracy began to attend military academies where it learned the art of making war . |
| 24 | I think he 's finally admitting that it 's all had an effect on him . |
| 25 | It 's no use just thinking that you have a wood frame at home — take it with you to the framer 's so you can match the actual colour of the wood . |
| 26 | ‘ No , ’ Stephen said , stabbed , just realizing that she had . |
| 27 | It is never a bad plan , particularly with such plants as artemisias , penstemons or santolinas , to take cuttings at least every second year , thus ensuring that you have plenty of replacement stock on the way . |
| 28 | Guiltily realizing that she had n't finished yet , Jezrael leaped just in time to rewind the cuber . |
| 29 | I had never before consciously thought about my kidney — or rather my kidneys — hardly realising that I had any . |
| 30 | Even after his first round of 69 , Woosnam was still maintaining that he had not been looking forward to playing , that it had not done much for his confidence and that he was still very nervous with the putter in his hand . |