Example sentences of "and [verb] that [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In July 1986 the Amir dissolved the country 's legislature , the National Assembly , after it had repeatedly criticized the government , and announced that henceforth he would rule by decree . |
| 2 | Of course , evacuation was only a part of the enormous social disruption brought about by the war ; but subsequent recollections by evacuees , such as those collected by B. S. Johnson , pay eloquent testimony to the lasting effects — both negative and positive — it had on those who endured it , and suggest that qualitatively it was an experience that stood apart from the wider social confusion of wartime . |
| 3 | And while British filmmakers began to believe in the ‘ decline of Hollywood ’ as their guarantee that the increased popularity of their pictures would be permanent , they were n't disposed to tap the Americans on the shoulder and suggest that perhaps they should start thinking about film schools , new talents programmes , script competitions or anything of that sort . |
| 4 | I was only going to agree with you actually , and I was just going to back-up what Michael said , and say that obviously we 've got people like Amnesty International , and I know it 's a very hard-working local branch , but obviously , the money it 's raised is going to benefit people overseas . |
| 5 | He restated the government 's view that township violence stemmed from confrontations between ANC and Inkatha supporters and proposed that therefore he , Mandela and Inkatha leader Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi should meet urgently to consider establishing " an active full-time monitoring mechanism " on the efficacy of existing measures to combat violence " . |
| 6 | One day I was called back from my duties of covering the coroner 's and juvenile courts and told that henceforth I was to be the paper 's " walking reporter " tramping the Dales and picking up whatever stories I could find . |
| 7 | KILTED Prince Charles got the wind up yesterday — and showed that underneath he 's a true blue . |
| 8 | All the time he slept she lay there longing acutely for him to go , and when he did she felt the most immense relief and vowed that now she had escaped his presence she would never never put herself in that position again . |
| 9 | stated that it was nice to hear from the USA , and emphasised that there it took four years to qualify as an embalmer and wondered what students would think of that . |
| 10 | It was one of those brilliantly simple ideas people always wish they had had themselves , and believe that somehow they could have had ; no need to incur any extra expense or make any more sizes than anybody else , or necessarily to distinguish one 's product in other way , yet just by the idea one has a potential market of half the jeans-buying public , or at least that proportion of it which has always felt that they are somehow perpetually between the usual sizes . |
| 11 | ‘ We are looking for a new partnership with the LAS and believe that together it is possible to ensure this vital lifeline goes from being the worst in the UK to being the model service . ’ |
| 12 | If they choose to ignore the historical background of the child and feel that thus they will be better able to identify with him or her , then in times of crisis the child will have no solid racial and cultural identity and the family may not have the information to help the child in these crucial times . |
| 13 | Uh ? thought Alex , and decided that maybe it was a maybe . |
| 14 | But I felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and decided that maybe I 'd better not say too much in front of the stranger . |
| 15 | But he refused to compare the projected newspaper to anything on the present market , and insisted that only he could shape it . |
| 16 | ‘ Ven ! ’ she cried his name joyously aloud , and knew that soon he would make her his . |
| 17 | He cried with happiness , and knew that now he was safe . |
| 18 | For a moment that might have lasted hours she seemed to see herself , old and weak , and knew that now she could be free and the burden of life leave her wings for ever . |
| 19 | She turned to the door , almost shivering with nerves as she heard the rapid flow of French from the hall and knew that now she was about to meet the woman she had unconsciously hated for the whole of her life . |
| 20 | Rachel wanted to move to London , and thought that perhaps they could share a house . |
| 21 | Sometimes she remembered Thomas 's parting words to her and thought that perhaps she was indeed something of an innocent . |
| 22 | Tite introduced the delegation to Palmerston and said that neither he nor Coningham , who was also present , had organized the delegation which represented 200 of the 230 competitors . |
| 23 | Dr Carson described it as a ‘ very rare ’ cause of death and said that neither he nor his colleagues had ever seen cases with such severity of infection of the umbilical cord . |
| 24 | She was frustrated by the narrow range of vegetables available in the country and said that tomorrow she would go foraging in the fields for different types of mushrooms and wild herbs . |
| 25 | I apologised for being curt with the lecherous one and said that maybe we 'd meet for a drink . |
| 26 | He claimed that he was struck on the left leg and was knocked off-balance and said that afterwards he had difficulty moving . |
| 27 | Mr Urbanec , who is to hold further talks with Mr Havel today — this time in front of television cameras — conceded that the party realised it was held in deep mistrust by the public , and accepted that henceforth it could only be part of the political spectrum . |
| 28 | The union fears that the Government intends to link merit pay and promotion to an appraisal scheme , and believes that instead it should be used to improve professional skills . |
| 29 | Rather timidly , and feeling that somehow she had let her uncle down , Erika touched Karl 's arm . |
| 30 | Alison Assiter extends the notion of autonomy into the private realm where the tradition cautiously refrains from setting foot , and suggests that how we treat and are treated by other people in private has a direct bearing on our autonomy in the public sphere . |