Example sentences of "and [verb] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The priest made us sit next to him on footstools ; he bent his red face towards us and whispered that we should become the angels of our homes and his . |
| 2 | I was about to go back to the hotel when a pool attendant gestured to me and whispered that he urgently needed to change Iraqi dinars into dollars . |
| 3 | It was the usual lamp , burning away to remind celebrants and sightseers that He is always here that perturbed me . |
| 4 | ‘ When we met her she was getting very distressed and confused and frightened that she was not with her mother , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Now at this st this stage usually the do-gooders who do n't know any better and put and insist that something should go in the mouth and it should n't , you never ever put anything in anybody 's mouth at all . |
| 6 | The Council guidelines on bioethics in health care cover considerations such as confidentiality and data protection and insist that no-one should be compelled to undergo testing for social benefits , employment or education . |
| 7 | By securing the support of the head teacher and staff of a different mainstream school she was able to place her opposition to a recommendation for residential schooling on a firm footing and insist that her understanding of Tom 's needs be tested in practice . |
| 8 | Our lawyers and judges will never turn off this mad process which , for them , is a fountain of dollars and a source of power : it is up to the Press to publicise civilised European libel procedures and insist that we get them too . |
| 9 | Mystics are aware that their experience can never be explained in rational terms and insist that it is unhelpful and can even be dangerous to attempt to define the ultimate reality in terms of reason and logic . |
| 10 | It required LEAs ( in Section 34 ) to ascertain the needs of children in their area for special educational treatment , and recommended that they be educated in ordinary schools wherever possible . |
| 11 | He recognized that the manyattas were ‘ an indigenous school ’ , an integral part of the process whereby a Masai became distinctively a Masai , and recommended that their character-building qualities be respected and adapted . |
| 12 | The judge gave Vernage five life sentences and recommended that he serve at least 25 years . |
| 13 | Paul Gross , a chemistry professor at Wake-Forest , recognised Pons ' ability and recommended that he go to graduate school . |
| 14 | Psychiatric reports were eventually obtained and recommended that he should be detained in hospital for treatment , not in prison . |
| 15 | The specialist diagnosed an ‘ inflamed pubic bone ’ and recommended that I wear an athletic support for sport . |
| 16 | He sent it to several publishers and recommended that I accept an offer from Norton , a fairly up-market American book firm . |
| 17 | I refer to our meeting on Thursday 15 July 1993 and your subsequent letter dated 27 July 1993 and repeat that your reqest for back dating of your regrading will require to be discussed with the Department of Management and Information Services and , if agreed , must then be approved by the Personnel Committee . |
| 18 | I am employing the kind of argument that has been used to resist demands that God prove Himself by miraculous interventions of some form — demands that in Christian tradition Christ himself refused to satisfy when he turned down the Pharisees ' request for a ‘ sign ’ and asked that they have faith instead . |
| 19 | Whereas John 's will had been full of retribution , Jennie in one sentence thanked the thirteen people she considered important in her life and asked that they should simply ‘ share and share alike ’ . |
| 20 | Mr Bowles refused to go as his wife was ill and asked that someone else be sent to Scotland . |
| 21 | The Governors considered the job description too vague and asked that it be made precise . |
| 22 | Its former owner , the late Audrey Barrie-Brown left it to the Roman Research Trust and asked that it be turned into an educational centre . |
| 23 | ‘ Bess Halidon , your mother , gave me proof of it when she came here on the day prior to her death and asked that you be found employment . ’ |
| 24 | The GP visited again 10 days after his first call and asked that I continue to review the wound regularly and alter the dressings as necessary . |
| 25 | The executives agreed and asked that I act as the facilitator . |
| 26 | As an example , take someone who tries to give up smoking and thinks that they have lost the fight completely when they want their first cigarette . |
| 27 | Like many other colleges and educational establishments , Gateshead college is worried about that trend and thinks that it will increase in the future , particularly if nothing is done . |
| 28 | Often the instructor or pilot knows the correct recovery and thinks that he is using it , but because of the unusual forces on the controls , he is failing to apply the full recovery action . |
| 29 | The story begins at Limehouse Reach where Gaffer Hexam , pursuing his trade of recovering dead bodies from the river , finds the drowned man supposed to be young Harmon ; it is upstream near Henley that Bradley Headstone attacks and thinks that he has killed Eugene Wrayburn , his hated rival for the love of Lizzie Hexam . |
| 30 | ‘ Very well , Miss Adams , I 'll give you the benefit of the doubt and concede that you do n't know why my sister needs her husband 's support so badly . ’ |