Example sentences of "[verb] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect of interrupting sleep after two or three hours is to deny the subjects almost all REM sleep , while allowing them much of the deep slow wave sleep that they might be expected to have in a normal night . |
| 2 | Again there is marked variation from one person to another and from one week to another in the amount of dream sleep that we get . |
| 3 | Any sleep that you have will detract from night-time sleep and reduce the strength of the bed as the sole stimulus for sleep . |
| 4 | It also transpired that he had done virtually no mathematics . |
| 5 | Once he frogmarched a knocker out of a press conference , although it transpired that he could hardly wait to see what the victim wrote next . |
| 6 | It transpired that he had been sleeping rough for weeks and that his last known address was a Salvation Army hostel 100 miles away . |
| 7 | It transpired that he had been scouting at the Festival . |
| 8 | It transpired that he wanted to be able to comment on each question in more depth and indeed some staff did so on separate sheets . |
| 9 | It also proved to be a fall from grace , as it transpired that he 'd stolen millions of pounds from his workers ' pension funds , to pay off mounting business debts . |
| 10 | Afterwards in the Shoulder of Mutton ( Kneeton Park 1 Knayton 1 ) it transpired that he 's in what used to be known as Tin Pan Alley probably the only manager in the Hambleton Combination ( third division ) who 's also been a manager of the Bay City Rollers . |
| 11 | It transpired that it had been syphoned off into private businesses . |
| 12 | When we had become very curious about why none of the drains had fallen out , it transpired that she was diligently cutting an inch a day off the other end ! ’ |
| 13 | It transpired that she had also been one of a party at the Hall the same day . |
| 14 | I 'm just praying that we can avoid the type of injuries that we got last season . |
| 15 | I 'm just praying that we win it . |
| 16 | So she rode slowly through them , mostly holding her breath and praying that they would n't charge at her . |
| 17 | They were not taking the hero for granted , but missing him madly and praying that he would be fit to return for the Davis Cup . |
| 18 | There are thousands , not of his flock , who are praying that he will not . |
| 19 | There are thousands , not of his flock , who are praying that he will not . |
| 20 | I remember , at the close of the fifties , going to a hairdresser and praying that he would n't talk . |
| 21 | A lot of people , including many members of the press , thought that Allan was going to win , were almost praying that he was going to win . |
| 22 | ‘ It will , ’ said Bodie , praying that he was right . |
| 23 | The beam of the torch wavered as he did so , and she cringed , praying that he would not notice . |
| 24 | So far I 'd managed to avoid giving him the exact address , but now he asked for it with a determined note in his voice — " Just in case I 'm down that way " and I was forced to invent one , praying that he 'd never check up on it . |
| 25 | A fifteen-year-old in grey flannel wandering around London in school holidays with an adolescent 's apocalyptic vision , praying that he would lose his virginity before the bombs came and blasted him to oblivion . |
| 26 | She turned her back on him , praying that he would not touch her , her throat so tight now with tears that it seemed to be closing , her chest feeling as if frantic hands were hammering it from the inside , bursting it — in several raw , sore places — wide open . |
| 27 | With every atom of her being she was praying that he was . |
| 28 | We talk about London and Grand Isle , and all the while I am praying that he will ask us on his boat . |
| 29 | She felt like that fish caught by the curlew , one part of her praying that he would spit her out again , the other , perversely , longing for him to swallow her up . |
| 30 | ‘ The locals are praying that he wants to stay in Santa Barbara forever . |