Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] that [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lieutenant recommended that we bring her to you , as she was carrying this . ’ |
| 2 | Newcomers to CAD say that it has its own jargon . |
| 3 | The disadvantages placed on the industry mean that it costs our farmers 5p a dozen more to produce eggs . |
| 4 | Our future requires that we focus our images on finding ways forward to a possible , tolerable and sharable society instead of wasting our time quarrelling with our allies and colleagues . |
| 5 | Dot knew that she had everything she used so much to long for . |
| 6 | So thickly was the snow falling that I knew they could only just have been made , probably within the past five minutes . |
| 7 | Great-gran knows that I bath her . ’ |
| 8 | So devastated were they when she announced that the term was due to end last week for a long Easter break that they begged her to let them continue . |
| 9 | Mum says that it took her hours to look up all the verses . |
| 10 | Workers at Dowty aerospace can at least take comfort in one thing — the firms management say that they hope their streamlining programme is now at an end and that no further major redundancies will be announced . |
| 11 | Never assume that the defendant had a particular state of mind unless the question states that he had it . |
| 12 | Traditionally , every spring , a campaign is launched , but this year we must hold a special campaign to ensure that everybody knows what the way ahead will be . |
| 13 | The proportion responding that they thought they could trust the United Sates " a great deal " was 62% ( up from 45% in 1975 ) , a figure not matched by any other country : the closest was Norway , which 37% thought they could trust to the same extent . |
| 14 | It 's no exaggeration to say that I owe my start in politics to the G M B because after having worked , as Dick said , for the G M B for a number of years it was the support of the G M B which helped me win the nomination for Chesterly Street and in the early eighties I can remember when er the Labour Party was going through a difficult period it was officials and members of the G M B who were a steadying influence in my constituency , as they have been ever since . |
| 15 | In this writer 's view , Franco 's response showed that he understood it well enough , but behaved as though he did not in order to avoid direct confrontation with the Germans and , at the same time , to slow the war down . |
| 16 | The sister claimed that he told her , shortly before his death , that he had a sexual relationship with the doctor . |
| 17 | I 've got one friend whose husband insists that she keep her stockings and push-up bra on during sex . |
| 18 | While staying at The Vyne in Hampshire at the end of the last century , Lord Charles Beresford made a spectacular conquest which led to the object of his desire suggesting that they furthered their acquaintance in her room after the rest of the party had retired . |
| 19 | ‘ They have a basic need to know that someone loves them , but some of these children are not secure about who they are and who loves them . |
| 20 | Two or three days after Miss Bedwelty 's visit the team found that nobody pressed them to practise anything , nothing was said about another riding lesson and life was refreshingly peaceful . |
| 21 | He was in a small home reserved for ‘ difficult ’ juveniles , where the matron in charge reported that he wet his bed on occasion and had bad dreams but showed no other signs of disturbance . |
| 22 | Goscelin says that he put his crown on the Winchester crucifix when he had supremacy over four kingdoms . |
| 23 | The group assumes that everyone knows what the objectives are . |
| 24 | Two-thirds of a random sample of 54 of those with tinnitus showed that they found it disturbing , 72 per cent experienced it continuously , 18.5 per cent frequently and only 9.25 per cent occasionally . |
| 25 | First , the Athenians who were dismissed from Ithome for ‘ subversive tendencies ’ were not the Athenians who were at that moment overturning the Areopagus but precisely Kimon and ‘ his ’ hoplites ( but we have no right to assume that he chose them personally ; four thousand are a lot of people to know by name ) . |
| 26 | One Sunday I was so fed up with living on Kit Kats that I called my mum . |
| 27 | He inhaled and stared at the ceiling ; smoking in bed was something his wife did n't like , it was only on business trips that he managed it , depending on the company . |
| 28 | It was on the morning when registration began that I had my fatal encounter . |
| 29 | Aplysia may be a special case because it is easy to study , but it would be straining credulity to believe that it organized its learning behaviour along fundamentally different principles from those of other invertebrates , or indeed vertebrates with reasonably sized nervous systems . |
| 30 | I should think probably Mrs. Thatcher would send a letter to the Three Hundred group saying that she supported your aims , did n't she ? |