Example sentences of "[verb] that [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I thought well now she looks familiar as well , I still have n't twigged that its the same Meg Ryan riding her bike and then Meg Ryan comes up |
| 2 | Sleeping tablets are not recommended , partly because the kind of sleep that they induce is not thought to include the dream sleep that our bodies and minds urgently need . |
| 3 | It transpired that her family had moved to Tala-Tala and she could n't face the daily ten miles on foot . |
| 4 | Now she was praying that her idea was wrong , that she would find herself looking at someone totally unfamiliar . |
| 5 | That night she dreamt that they were all , Larry and Philippa and John and Conrad and Demian and herself , dancing the hornpipe on the deck of a warship that was ploughing through a storm , but Demian 's leg was tragically maimed and would not keep in step and Conrad was shouting at him like a great actor-manager , and the tears were streaming down Demian 's face , or so she thought , until she realized that it was she who was crying , crying for the sick one , praying that her tears would heal his wound . |
| 6 | They were drawing closer to the barrier now and Donna began looking for Julie , praying that her sister was waiting , hardly daring to contemplate what she would do if she was n't . |
| 7 | But we must be sure that , however shaped in our imagination that goal is , it must be inspired by our lord 's own will for his church praying that his disciples would be one as he and the father are one . |
| 8 | Realizing that my opponent and I were safely separated , I struggled violently , hurling threats and abuse at the poor boy , while praying that my large saviour would n't let go of me . |
| 9 | I used to lock myself in my bedroom sobbing and praying that my real mother would come back to comfort me . |
| 10 | To worry that your brother might make an unfortunate marriage when at any moment he might be killed was something she found difficult to understand . |
| 11 | When she told him calmly about the baby , he had genuinely wished that his wife would divorce him . |
| 12 | Twitchings claimed that Moorgate Mercantile were estopped from denying that their hire purchase customer was the owner of the car . |
| 13 | She was awfully fond of her husband , of course , but there was no denying that their own lovemaking had become just a little predictable . |
| 14 | Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles denying that his wife is intimately involved with Prince Charles . |
| 15 | There was no denying that his penetration of my mind , using my eidetic memory to distort the relation between representation and that which was represented , was strident , aggressive even . |
| 16 | His created paradise is still only temporal and whilst denying that his perfection can be reached in the presence of the temptation of women , he accepts the fact they are here to stay . |
| 17 | David McNeil , who is retiring on Friday as senior depute director of education , admitted to ‘ loose and inappropriate ’ remarks after The Scotsman disclosed that his department is being investigated by the Commission for Racial Equality . |
| 18 | It might be supposed that their strength had something to do with the crystals being wet . |
| 19 | It is also sometimes supposed that their existence shows that the strong fact/value distinction made by attitudinists and intuitionists is misconceived and that in our language , as it stands , factual premisses can logically imply evaluative conclusions . |
| 20 | She came from a large family , and it must be supposed that her mother or one of her sisters helped to care for the children while she was at work . |
| 21 | For it is often supposed that his attitude towards women stands in stark contrast to that of the surrounding society . |
| 22 | As the afternoon wore on he began to look unhappy , muttered to Dr Neil that he might have supposed that his cousin James would forget to come — he lived a busy life , after all . |
| 23 | For example , in India , graduate schools of social work are a major training resource for the social welfare services but some observers suggest that their educational approach might not be congruent with local needs and might not be making their best contribution to the nation 's social welfare and social development goals . |
| 24 | Perhaps for this reason Judaism and Islam , particularly when they refer to the creative power of the god whom they follow , suggest that their deity is in fact the only god who exists and not simply the only god who is to be worshipped : |
| 25 | To our knowledge , these findings provide the first direct evidence that mesenchymal as well as epithelial cells are involved in T-cell development , and suggest that their involvement is stage-specific and likely to be dependent on short-range or contact-mediated interactions . |
| 26 | Brown and Levinson ( 1978 ) , who have studied politeness phenomena in widely diverse languages and cultures , suggest that their origin is the same in all societies . |
| 27 | The excavation of Upper Palaeolithic burials has shown that they were already being sewn onto clothing in positions which suggest that their role was symbolic as well as decorative . |
| 28 | They also suggest that their choice of index was incorrect but justify it by pointing out that it included both industrial and financial sectors and so could not have any undue bias . |
| 29 | The survey was conducted before base rates rose to 15 per cent , and Dun and Bradstreet suggest that its findings might have been even bleaker had the poll been taken after the move . |
| 30 | The results suggest that its intelligence lies somewhere between that of a chimpanzee and a dog . |