Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [that] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 2 ) The buyer may attempt to induce shareholders to accept the tender offer ( and not " wait and see " ) by expressly stating or implying that he does not intend to make a full bid . |
| 2 | He received a letter the next day apologizing and accepting that he had not been in possession of a stolen car . |
| 3 | The Prester was believed to have written to the Byzantine Emperor Manuel Comnenus , enumerating the wonders of his kingdom , and affirming that he ruled over the three Indies and over seventy kings , and that twenty bishops , twelve archbishops and a patriarch acknowledged his authority . |
| 4 | In it the pope said nothing about homage , and argued temperately against lay investitures , minimizing their importance , and denying that he sought for himself any increase of authority or any diminution of the king 's due power . |
| 5 | Then Richard returned to Poitiers and from there , on 2 February , he sent envoys to his father reporting his success and announcing that he had pacified all parts of Aquitaine . |
| 6 | Michael , indicating the stairs and implying that he had to go straight on , then directed him to the left , upon which he said quietly , if a trifle reproachfully : ‘ You said straight on ’ . |
| 7 | However as late as 1668 another Roman , Mario Savioni ( c. 1608–1685 ) brought out a book of five-part Madrigali morali e spirituali , explaining that they were to be sung each at the end of one of his previously published Concerti morali and adding that he had ‘ taken care to unite together the aria and the madrigal so as to conform with the character of the concertos ’ . |
| 8 | In either case , an unauthorised practitioner will have committed a criminal offence under the Financial Services Act , and pleading that he did it only once or that it happened by accident is not going to impress anyone . |
| 9 | Paul wrote to Dr Heatherton as he had intended , thanking him for his trouble and saying that he had called in the hope of meeting him . |
| 10 | The Mukhabarat demanded he sign an affidavit accusing his brother of all sorts of other crimes and saying that he had always been a traitor at heart . |
| 11 | Ronald Duncan , whom I came to know about this time ( our first meeting took place when I made a bicycle tour of Cornwall in the summer of 1947 ) , spoke of having received a telegram from Eliot cancelling an engagement and saying that he had to ‘ bury a woman ’ . |
| 12 | He thinks that he can lure me into making a statement that will have him attempting to give a poor man 's reading of ’ Erskine May ’ and saying that he wants me to lay the document before the House . |
| 13 | But Travis was shaking his head , and insisting that he had not been as enthusiastic as he might have been on Saturday . |
| 14 | Worse , she preferred the pain of being with him and knowing that he did n't return her feelings to the pain of not being with him at all . |
| 15 | Noticing that her hands are shaking and knowing that he has noticed she forces herself to act cool , not daring for the moment to analyse her disquiet lest she is incapable of handling the reason . |
| 16 | UP leaders immediately demanded the resignation of the Interior Minister Carlos Lemos Simmons , accusing him of ultimate responsibility for the crime and claiming that he had encouraged right-wing death squads to murder UP leaders . |
| 17 | He kept leaping into the darkroom , created for the Photographic Society on the first floor , and claiming that he had heard the sound of munching . |
| 18 | But Hector , with his booming laugh , was so large and overpowering that he made it worse . |
| 19 | He told me how , when he had first moved there , the local MP had written to him congratulating him on his climbing and mentioning that he had had a one-legged uncle who climbed . |
| 20 | He saw himself , ten years on , a querulous old man complaining in self-pity : What company have my children ever been to me ? — and forgetting that he had sent them so lightly away from him , Blanche across the sea to Heidelberg , to a husband she had never seen ; Philippa , possibly , to remote Denmark ; Thomas , only this Spring , to be titular governor and keep his court in Ireland , and try to make good the wrack and ruin of castles and garrisons there . |
| 21 | Wants you to be — ’ Nutty paused , not quite sure what he wanted them to be , but knowing that he wanted them to be something other than they were . |
| 22 | All three denied the allegations , although Viehweger resigned on Sept. 28 , maintaining that this did not imply his guilt but admitting that he had had contact with the Stasi . |