Example sentences of "[noun prp] by [v-ing] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one time City and England striker , now a millionaire businessman , put the pressure on chairman Peter Swales by revealing that he and two colleagues were prepared to put substantial funds into the club in return for a seat on the board . |
| 2 | STEVE COPPELL last night tried to stamp out speculation that he may quit Crystal Palace by vowing that he would see out the remaining 18 months of his contract . |
| 3 | Thus the Soviet physicists S. S. Gershtein and Y. B. Zeldovich in 1955 explained that Gv was equal to Gv by assuming that there was a similar conserved current between the particles in beta decay and muon decay . |
| 4 | The court admitted that it was giving an unusual meaning to the word , for a historian who described the end of Rizzio by saying that he met with a fatal accident in Holyrood Palace would fairly be charged with a misleading statement of fact . |
| 5 | He sought to save the lives of More and Fisher by suggesting that they be required to subscribe only to an oath to respect the succession , and not to repudiate the authority of Rome . |
| 6 | He has surprised Becker by announcing that he will forgo the French Open next June in order to prepare for Wimbledon , the one major championship to have eluded him . |
| 7 | Prime Minister John Compton defended Fostin by saying that he had been subjected to unjustified attacks in the press over the poor state of the country 's roads . |
| 8 | But now BR chefs are winning friends in Europe by proving that our cuisine does travel well . |
| 9 | Furthermore , William of Jumièges was probably writing in the 1050s , after Edward the Confessor had promised the English throne to Robert 's son William , and it was fairly clearly this which led him to repeat Dudo of St Quentin 's story of the English king who entered into a pact with the Normans and later received Rollo 's assistance against rebels , to include accounts of Anglo-Norman relations in the days of Æthelred and Cnut , and to end his description of Cnut 's conquest of England and marriage to Emma by stating that he had wished to explain King Edward 's origins to those who were ignorant of them . |
| 10 | Clara had actually heard one constant church attender , caught out donating a small charitable sum to the Vicar , defend herself to Mrs Maugham by saying that she had n't really meant to give it , and that she never would have given it if it had n't been that her little boy had just given up Sunday school . |
| 11 | For example , we can specify the constraints on /a/ before velars in inner-city Belfast by stating that it can be realized as a mid-front , low mid-front , or low-front vowel , but not as a low-back vowel . |