Example sentences of "[v-ing] that [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few minutes later he 's explaining that he recently left his agent at the powerful Creative Artists Agency so that , unlike almost everyone else in Hollywood , he would n't have to hand over ten per cent of everything he earned . |
| 2 | ‘ That was before the shrimp dish reached the dining-room ’ , said Milsom , revealing that he already knew a great deal about the evening . |
| 3 | ‘ There 'll be a bit off for luck ? ’ he asked , proving that he still retained some of the guile he had picked up as a practising country lawyer . |
| 4 | Although clay crystals theoretically could store the same prodigious quantities of information as DNA or laser discs can , nobody is suggesting that they ever did . |
| 5 | She felt guilty , but she could say with a clear conscience that her business was so demanding that she hardly had time to think of Northumberland although , in truth , as her successes and problems in Italy had increased , there seemed less and less reason to return to Nora . |
| 6 | ‘ What are you waiting for ? ’ hissed Cardiff , tearing the tie loose from his collar , realising that he still had the automatic in his other hand but had been unable to use it again . |
| 7 | The extension of the offence to include obtaining possession or control will have the result that if Kilham , although pretending that he only wanted to borrow the horse , had in fact intended to deprive the owner permanently , he would be guilty under the clause , because he obtained possession of the horse . |
| 8 | Would Mr Lawson then have resisted the temptation to trundle round his Cabinet colleagues , showing off his muscles and boasting that he alone had faced up to the Iron Lady and won ? |
| 9 | He turned my face to his and kissed them away — overpowering me with such a potent mixture of excitement and tenderness and yearning that I almost swooned . |
| 10 | Are you regretting that you ever brought me back to life , Pygmalion ? |
| 11 | Fretting that he still had not written to Liza , he proved to be a difficult patient in more ways than one . |
| 12 | The Attorney General , Sir Hartley Shawcross , agreed with the Lord Chancellor that the grading of murders would be unworkable , adding that he still remained in favour of providing for the abolition of capital punishment in the Bill . |
| 13 | He did attempt to reassure me ( perhaps of his sanity ) by adding that he only had a ‘ basic marine system ’ in mind — not a miniature reef system or a 600 gallon show tank job . |
| 14 | Physically and erm emotionally writing can be very isolating and so , for example a few years ago , I was writing a huge piece on Africa about Africa and I found emotions growing that I actually did n't have names for , erm and it made it impossible to finish the piece I was working on , and then I , I went to see an Afro Asian exhibition of art and I saw portraying some of these paintings the same emotions and it , it did n't give me a name for the emotions but it , it made me feel an awful lot less isolated seeing that erm other people have also , have also felt this . |
| 15 | On deciding that we definitely had all our food supplies , warm clothes , and most importantly , all the parts of our tent , we set off . |
| 16 | Her heart steadied and , deciding that she quite liked being teased by him , she smiled . |
| 17 | DNs demonstrated an awareness of the need for compression bandaging by reporting that they regularly applied compression to 198 ( 73 per cent ) of affected limbs and ‘ sometimes ’ to a further 12 ( 4 per cent ) . |
| 18 | The percentage reporting that they always felt lonely showed little change with age . |
| 19 | The percentage reporting that they sometimes felt lonely increased from 10 per cent of males and 16 per cent of females aged 70 — 74 to 18 per cent and 27 per cent respectively of those aged 85 + ( Victor 1987 ) . |
| 20 | His face was an arrangement of harsh lines so discouraging that she almost lost her nerve and backed out . |
| 21 | Told me Moira F. had written to him , anxious for news about the glass , complaining that I never answered the phone , never replied to her letters , what should he tell her ? |
| 22 | By stating that he rarely went to the theatre , and needed to be forcibly taken there if he went at all , he managed to lay bare the inadequacies of modern drama and defined the conditions of a new sort of drama altogether . |
| 23 | Suchinda resigned as Prime Minister on May 24 , stating that he strongly regretted the events which had occurred during his brief premiership . |
| 24 | On March 17 he had apologised publicly to the " victims of deplorable and regrettable incidents " under his regime , stating that he now had " a profound , sincere and irreversible " commitment to reform . |
| 25 | They say it 's too soon considering that they just started work with Bull on them , as we ourselves noted . |
| 26 | ‘ The nurses panicked and made me and the other mother sign forms saying that we definitely had our own babies . ’ |
| 27 | The International Herald Tribune of Jan. 22 quoted US administration officials as saying that they strongly suspected that Israel had supplied cluster bombs to the Ethiopian Air Force . |
| 28 | Nigel was saying that they only had a couple , you know , cos they like you |
| 29 | Specialix also admits the move to Unix System Labs ' Unix SVR4 has n't gone smoothly as planned , saying that it unexpectedly had to rewrite several device drivers for OEM versions . |
| 30 | Nelson Mandela 's wife , Winnie angered the government by saying that it merely meant contemporary end to armed action and that the A N C reserved the right to reactivate its armed guerrillas at any time . |