Example sentences of "[v-ing] [that] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He came to spend the night , by agreement , twice a week and she saw him every day but there was no denying that he seemed a visitor and never a member of her household . |
| 2 | Indeed the next hours after my return were spent explaining that we had no plans to use either troops or tanks and justifying what a BBC interviewer referred to as my ‘ controversial ’ four-day summer holiday . |
| 3 | Harriet 's explaining that she gives a service , something about helping people realize their dreams . |
| 4 | From a letter to my mother dated 2 May , which has escaped destruction , it is clear that I had just written to Eliot explaining that I realized the undesirability of publication , unless indeed Rowse himself were prepared to give it his endorsement . |
| 5 | A doctor jilted by a nurse took revenge by falsely diagnosing that she had the Aids virus . |
| 6 | Whistling softly to himself , Richmann drew his Steyr automatic from its holster beneath his leather jacket , checking that it held a full magazine . |
| 7 | But Georgie then pulled a master-stroke by revealing that she had a talent for automatic writing . |
| 8 | It might be the opportunity of a world summit , or an earth summit , at which we can involve the public in Britain and throughout Europe in understanding that we have a common environment throughout the world . |
| 9 | The need for arousal thought well should I be absolutely calm when I 'm giving a presentation but I never am so is it right and now understanding that you need a certain level of arousal to be able to perform at all is is satisfying for me because at least I understand the situation now and able to work with it rather than against it . |
| 10 | With the minimum of props and the only gesture being a raised paw , he asked for the money for a cup of coffee , guv , sported a patch over one eye concealing a wound sustained in the service of his country , at the same time dragging a wooden leg fitted during the retreat from Moscow while maintaining that he had a bitch and five pups to support and did not know where his next meal was coming from . |
| 11 | Maintaining that it had the power to negotiate now that there was a common market for air transport , the Commission said it would be better if the EC negotiated key accords with major competitors such as the US and Asia . |
| 12 | Maintaining that it had the power to negotiate now that there was a common market for air transport , the Commission said it would be better if the EC negotiated key accords with major competitors such as the US and Asia . |
| 13 | It is true that judgment could be given in ipsam rem , but this is far from allowing that they had a ‘ real ’ effect . |
| 14 | Admission is obtained by written application , proving that you fulfil the set criteria . |
| 15 | But here was I , an African woman on the grants committee of a British aid agency , suggesting that we scrap a paragraph that dealt with ‘ gender implications ’ . |
| 16 | Are you suggesting that we exceed the Light Railway Order speed of 25 mph ? |
| 17 | Those conditions still stood , she told MPs , ‘ but no one is suggesting that we dot every ‘ i ’ and cross every ‘ t ’ before we look at it . ’ |
| 18 | The police handling of rape complaints was shown in a documentary on Thames television , with the approval of the police , suggesting that they saw no problem in this . |
| 19 | Readers may have received mail shots with the Barclaycard logo suggesting that they stand a good chance of winning a six figure sum of money and a car in a prize draw . |
| 20 | It is still a thoughtful , finely acted and daringly all-encompassing film , suggesting that no-one has a fixed nature . |
| 21 | I am only suggesting that you take a little time off , shall we say , until you are quite well again ? " |
| 22 | So while I 'm not suggesting that you buy every gauge ( though that would be many a machine knitter 's idea of heaven , I guess ! ) , when working out what machine(s) you want for the yarns you want to knit most , look at the optimum yarn for each gauge . |
| 23 | With an air of urgency , suggesting that he had a host of other people to see , Wilson handed over a four-page programme guide with a curt : ‘ It 's called Doctor Who . |
| 24 | He also dismissed speculation that he would resign as ALP leader , suggesting that he had every intention of leading the party into the next election , constitutionally due by 1993 . |
| 25 | He did n't smile as the Shermans approached but waited with his left hand resting on the hilt of his ceremonial sword , his aloof expression suggesting that he estimated the dignity of his person to be at least equal to that of the fabled hero of France looking down from the wall behind him . |
| 26 | The quote is : ‘ At the inaugural dinner for its first showing at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum in April 1991 , Rand Castile , the director , admitted to a personal call from Henry Kissinger suggesting that he drop the show , diplomatic relations with China being at stake ’ . |
| 27 | At the inaugural dinner for its first showing at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum in April 1991 , Rand Castile , the director , admitted to a personal call from Henry Kissinger suggesting that he drop the show , diplomatic relations with China being at stake . |
| 28 | After somewhat flippantly suggesting that he head a couple of hundred miles south to the banks of the River Thames , I pointed him in the direction of a purple clad stand just two along from our own . |
| 29 | They 're suggesting that I have a permanent security guard on duty , day and night , apart from an alarm system that would be more suitable to the Bundesbank than a private house ! |
| 30 | Thus it would seem that the ‘ dawn of civilisation ’ , so often quoted in a context suggesting that it represents a fairly finite occurrence taking a relatively short space of time , did , in all probability cover a very long time indeed , perhaps many thousands of years . |