Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [v-ing] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other rabbits were making their way along the run and Strawberry spoke to several of them , more than once remarking that he would enjoy taking their new friends across the field . |
| 2 | as if abruptly realising that she was seeing too much , Julius 's eyes went blank again , deliberately shutting her out . |
| 3 | That is , people tend to forget either in a motivated way , or accidentally , people will tend to minimise or trivialise the abuse to which they 've been subject in some cases because maybe saying that you 've been sexually abused as a child and that is why you 're so screwed up at the moment um that 's not necessarily a very self-benefiting thing to say . |
| 4 | Such a response seems understandable given that it allows McFaul to explain why he is at odds with the Party while still maintaining that he is loyal to its principles and to its founder , but it can not stand as a general proposition . |
| 5 | Wimsatt and Brooks , on the other hand , approached the question of meaning from a more mentalistic point of view , and for this reason were able to argue that poetry related to knowledge rather than emotions , while still accepting that its function was not , like that of ordinary discourse , to point directly to things . |
| 6 | Within all the social services , but especially within education , it is often necessary to argue for increased access to the material resource of the service while simultaneously suggesting that there are aspects of the service , particularly the ideology transmitted by it , which one deplores ( see Sections I and IV ) . |
| 7 | While emphatically denying that he had acted improperly — Richardson claimed that his resignation was motivated by the desire to avoid damaging the ALP 's prospects in the next federal elections , due by mid-1993 — he admitted meeting Symons in his Senate office , writing a reference for him , and telephoning Amata Kabua , President of the Marshall Islands , after Symons was arrested . |
| 8 | While again emphasizing that he was not an engineer , McDonald described the Raybestos factory as ‘ the most modern I have seen . |
| 9 | When you come to retirement age , whilst not suggesting that you are past it , you are planning ahead for the time where you may not be quite as capable as were . |
| 10 | If the tension is sufficient it will contain some part of the problem , whilst also ensuring that it will balloon out somewhere else . |
| 11 | Back at the hotel , after finally conceding that there was no way out of her financial dilemma other than to go to work for G.W. Fashions , Lisa had demanded , as Vass had sat there drinking coffee , oblivious of the callous blow he had inflicted , ‘ So , how long is this arrangement supposed to last ? |
| 12 | A BRITON was behind bars in Florida yesterday after allegedly admitting that he preyed on women estate agents in a trail of crime across the USA . |
| 13 | A naval officer , discharged in 1991 after publicly admitting that he was homosexual , was reinstated in mid-November . |
| 14 | A nine year old child bought petrol from the defendants after falsely stating that his mother needed it for her car . |
| 15 | The train-shed arched over the adjacent pavement and a long colonnade carried pedestrians along the side of the station as though rather hoping that they would become passengers . |
| 16 | Many regarded his words as perhaps signalling that his feud with Alain Prost — fuelled to boiling point after their collision at Suzuka last October — may be cooling slightly . |
| 17 | It is interesting to note how even euphemisms , symbolizing but not presenting marked terms , can be the more amusing for the conspiracy between scriptwriter , actors and audience in recognizing the term signified at the same time as superficially recognizing that its use is a taboo not to be broken . |
| 18 | At one point he describes his two colleagues as cheerfully admitting that they could not write very well . |