Example sentences of "[vb pp] that [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many a time I had wished that Frank and Salome were not so upwardly mobile and were back slumming it in Stuart Street . |
| 2 | She was still distressed and could have wished that Mr. Crowther had waited a little longer before telling her about her inheritance , when the sadness and regret she felt about Aunt Alicia 's death was not so overpowering . |
| 3 | Subsequent reports disclosed that EC ministers had been divided , with a minority , led by the United Kingdom and Germany , pressing for acceptance of the Dunkel draft as " the basis for an agreement " , and the rest claiming with the French Agriculture and Forestry Minister , Louis Mermaz , that it " would be the ruin of European agriculture " . |
| 4 | Yesterday it was also disclosed that Thorn EMI had failed to sell its defence business after trying for five months . |
| 5 | Regarding the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe ( CFE ) [ see p. 37838 ] , a Soviet Foreign Ministry statement on Dec. 21 disclosed that Baker and Shevardnadze had discussed the dispute surrounding " the accuracy of data on the number of weapons and military equipment " supplied by the Soviet Union . |
| 6 | A report in Le Monde of Sept. 20 disclosed that India faced the loss of workers ' remittances from Iraq and Kuwait totalling $400 million , and would lose exports to Iraq and Kuwait worth around $185 million , while an oil price increase of $3.00 per barrel would add $1,700 million to its oil import bill . |
| 7 | On Feb. 8 the official news agency Tass had disclosed that Georgia 's Prime Minister Tengiz Sigua had written to the director of an armaments factory in the Russian city of Tula offering to barter Georgian food products for guns and ammunition . |
| 8 | The Guardian of May 4 disclosed that Kurt Klebeck , the wartime deputy commander of a labour camp in the Channel Island of Alderney , was alive and living in Hamburg , contrary to earlier British intelligence claims that he had not survived the war . |
| 9 | A lawsuit in 1625 disclosed that Richard Warner , a soap-boiler of Bristol , had a mill in Caerleon , Monmouthshire , and by offering double wages , had secured some of Webb 's workers to build it . |
| 10 | THE first split in the Government 's ranks over the ambulance workers dispute appeared last night when it was disclosed that Mr David Trippier , the Environment Minister , had written to the Health Secretary saying he could see the logic in the ambulance workers ' case . |
| 11 | Club officials disclosed that Mr Souness had kept news of the operation secret from the players so they could concentrate on the match against Portsmouth . |
| 12 | In a sensational interview , Susan Barrantes also disclosed that Fergie has told her : |
| 13 | The briefing disclosed that Lolani Koko , who was named in the New Zealand squad for the Hong Kong Sevens , has apparently decided to stay loyal to Western Samoa . |
| 14 | It may be supposed that Cole 's comments refer only to the production of goods for retail in the Consumers , Movement 's own stores , and are not to be read as relating to the more general development of the industrial co-operative sector . |
| 15 | And the way that the text is translated I 've always supposed that Jesus must have thought that mustard seeds had a lot of faith . |
| 16 | For four decades it was supposed that Hicks 's model contained all of the basic ingredients of the General Theory approach to the theory of employment . |
| 17 | I had supposed that Aunt Louise would be in bed , but she met me at the door ; opened it , in fact , and held it ready for me to come in , because there was something she was bursting to tell me : ‘ I 'm not staying in this cold place a day longer . ’ |
| 18 | At the same time , it was not to be supposed that William Joyce had put himself entirely on the wrong side of the law . |
| 19 | I simply wish to point out that if it is supposed that Karen Parsons and I embarked that afternoon with the intention of drowning her husband , why did we wait till we had reached a point where our criminal acts were overlooked by at least fifteen witnesses ? |
| 20 | Let it be supposed that Mrs. Steed was a lady of sufficient general understanding and capability to be a suitable donee of the power of appointment . |
| 21 | Modern scholars , conscious of the large issues involved in this struggle , have generally found this intrusion of the local and material interests of the church of Canterbury at a critical moment incomprehensible , and having their eyes fixed on the historically more important matters of investiture and homage , they have supposed that Anselm 's eyes must also have been similarly directed . |
| 22 | He must surely have supposed that Alpheus was shown in the southern gable-corner , Cladeus in the north ; and if the designer intended these figures for the rivers he would naturally have set them so . |
| 23 | Roffman and Purdy have quite rightly stressed that Vidor 's traditional populism gave him sympathy for the underdog , but prevented him from moving towards any collectivist political situation . |
| 24 | At the outset it should be stressed that Mosley 's mode of reasoning owed far more to continental than to British tradition , to a synthesis of ideas rather than empiricism . |
| 25 | The US representative to the UN , Thomas Pickering , has stressed that Onuca should deal with the FMLN as well as the US-supported Contras . |
| 26 | Detectives also stressed that Lisa could contact them in confidence , without her whereabouts being passed on , if she wished . |
| 27 | It was stressed that Colonel Stirling would not take part in these raids owing to the information he possessed . |
| 28 | It was stressed that Q.T. 's with class members on the Training Course had an important part to play , both in encouragement and giving recreational back-up to the specialised training received as trainee teachers . |
| 29 | And all Mr Clinton 's supporters look nervous when reminded that California 's Proposition 166 , which tried to make firms pay for health-insurance for all their employees , was shot down in flames last November on the grounds that it would destroy jobs . |
| 30 | The morning looked grey and gloomy too , as if matching her mood , and Kate was reminded that January was hardly the most romantic month for a honeymoon in the English countryside . |