Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] that [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's no consolation to those involved in Monday 's canoeing tragedy , but British school trips have an impressive safety record and schools are keen to assure parents that they do everything in their power to ensure the wellbeing of pupils in their care . |
| 2 | Just at that moment when everyone was crossing their fingers on her behalf , so she looked up and told Jim that she felt she would do better to play out at an angle . |
| 3 | He told Stirling that he needed his best men himself and he was not going to allow them to join the SAS after the ‘ failure at Benghazi ’ . |
| 4 | Nigel told Eleanor that he despised her for making a pass at him . |
| 5 | As I was applying to art school I needed a reference so I told Vivienne that I thought I 'd ask Malcolm , since he was my employer . |
| 6 | David and I did have conversations about it and I told David that I thought he should get an accountant , or that he should ask for an account from Tony if he had questions about where money was going . |
| 7 | I also told David that I think there is a substantial difference between my vision of the Library and that of some other staff , and that this factor is the cause of much of the perceived difficulty between myself and others . |
| 8 | With the guilt swept from her mind , Ana seemed to have improved almost overnight and the pleasure on Felipe 's face told Maggie that he saw it too . |
| 9 | Asked how personal development had been affected , responses reveal improvements in self-confidence , social skills and aspirations : ‘ it has given me extra confidence to speak at meetings , e.g. community council , community association meetings ’ ; ‘ it has brought out skills I never new I had ’ ; ‘ I have learned to work closer with people since I joined , which is a new experience for me , and become more tolerant of people 's attitudes and ways ’ ; ‘ I am more aware of my own attitude towards my group ’ ; ‘ it has given me more confidence in my own ability to learn new skills ’ ; ‘ made me do things that I thought I was not capable of doing ’ . |
| 10 | It was only on re-reading Szasz that I realised I had been touched on a sensitive spot — the struggle for individual identity — and that that spot was central to the problem of anorexia nervosa . |
| 11 | Something in her mother 's voice told Lizzy that she meant it . |
| 12 | It 's looking good but it 's down to us They 've convinced dealers that they have something worth selling … even in a recession . |
| 13 | She had told Robert that she hated him , told him to go away , to move to another area , and he had taken that literally . |
| 14 | And she had told Wynne-Jones that he had nothing to fear . |
| 15 | Political and economic considerations regarding England seem to be an important part of Amanda 's critique , but surely our heritage , culture and lifestyle should give every English person cause for some degree of contentment , and to praise God that we have what we have . |
| 16 | Have you got proof that you swear it that ? |
| 17 | What they 're actually asking for is that whether we would be able to help them by arranging for a loan on their behalf , they would service the debt at this time , so I might suggest chairman that we revert it to the finance committee for |
| 18 | We think it against nature if someone so lacks prudence that they involve themselves in great foreseen evil for the sake of satisfying some fairly trifling present impulse . |
| 19 | Thrift apologizes , whingeing , for the poisoned sausage , reminding Alix that she ate it twenty years ago , when she had no money and needed the sausage . |
| 20 | The second quarter promised to show a further profit on both Charlie 's enterprises , and he warned Becky that he had his eye on the butcher 's shop , since the owner 's only boy had lost his life at Passchendaele . |
| 21 | And — ’ She turned her daughter 's face fully to her and cupped her cheek as she said , ‘ You must tell Daddy that you want me to bath you . |
| 22 | It 's part of the school 's job to convince parents that they want what the school wants and values . |
| 23 | Even if Madeleine were able to convince Aubrey that she loved him and was willing to wait for him , had he the moral right to ask her to do so ? |
| 24 | And you 'll get things that you know you 'll get an equation just in X then . |
| 25 | They would allow people that they thought they could trust to accumulate a lot of debt on it . |
| 26 | Her pen shot across the page , making symbols that she hoped she could decipher later on . |
| 27 | They 're just pure-intellect machines , as well all know , but I swear that it 's not out of humanizing sentiment that we give them female names and pronouns . |
| 28 | ‘ But I thank God that He spared me for this ! ’ |
| 29 | But he denied claims that he harassed his 25-year-old secretary . |
| 30 | It was n't until I underwent hypnosis that I realised I was still a Catholic . |