Example sentences of "[vb pp] that [pron] [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Orchis is Greek for testicle , which is what the roots look like , and Lydia had told the company so , because Mrs Molesworth , gazing fondly and favourably on her husband , had divulged that he had bought her orchids on the recent occasion of their wedding anniversary . |
| 2 | Forgotten that she had thought she had seen someone moving around in the darkness . |
| 3 | Such changes would not have been inhibited necessarily by the teacher action , but none of the teachers I interviewed claimed that they had changed their methods to any great extent . |
| 4 | The ‘ vehicle ’ is footsteered and some have claimed that it has helped their gybing tremendously . |
| 5 | Although while making those allegations and telling their bar room stories the Government have added that they propose to respect their obligations under United Nations conventions , they have always followed that with attempts to make the nation 's flesh creep with the thought of the foreign hordes from whom an heroic Home Secretary is now protecting us . |
| 6 | Dersingham had added that he 'd had his whisky at ten-thirty and gone up half an hour later . |
| 7 | She bit her lip , remembering that awful time when the news had come that he had lost his life in the fire that had demolished his holiday hotel — and how the tragedy , for her , had turned into a nightmare . |
| 8 | You may wonder why it is reported that He seemed to resent them , which may suggest that he was unable to express his own resentment , which may limit your range of potential interpretations of the expression He . |
| 9 | Unsubstantiated reports say Mr Najibullah , 45 , has gone into hiding , but newspapers in Pakistan have reported that he has joined his wife and children , who flew to New Delhi two weeks ago . |
| 10 | It has never been doubted by the Tanzanian public that his aims were genuine , nor been considered that he sought to enrich himself . |
| 11 | It is evident that the deputy head soon realised that he had set himself an enormous task , despite the fact that he decided to focus on the work of three ‘ target ’ pupils . |
| 12 | It is only after a long period of counselling that she has at last realised that she has to drop her charge against her father , and to forgive him for not being the person that she longed he should be . |
| 13 | And Prince Charles is starting to say things about that and whether that was misquoted in the press or whether he actually said it , the point was it was leaked that he had said it to a group of MP 's . |
| 14 | More than that , he felt insulted that they had hidden it from him . |
| 15 | The observant reader will have noticed that we have helped ourselves to the content of the features proposed by Hymes and the co-ordinates proposed by Lewis in a fairly arbitrary way . |
| 16 | You may have caught me doing this some of you may have have noticed that I try to force meself not to and it 's something to remember . |
| 17 | Without wasting time , she managed to close the door , having noticed that he 'd removed his foot the minute he 'd become a little uncomfortable . |
| 18 | The second half was n't that much better , the opposition apparently decided that they 'd had their cup final however , so they meekly attempted to defend their 1–1 scoreline and this was their undoing . |
| 19 | They 've spent years doing this sort of thing , now they 've decided that they want to do it for a living . |
| 20 | After a hurried consultation with his counsel it was decided that he wanted to alter his plea . |
| 21 | So let's say this client has got his thirty pounds a month Covermaster , er , and he 's decided that he wants to invest his Covermaster in a Japan fund . |
| 22 | ‘ As soon as you have decided that you want to complain you should put it in writing , setting out all the facts and saying what you want out of it , ’ says Keith Richards , a senior lawyer with the Consumer Association . |
| 23 | But I 'd already decided that I had to see you again , spend some time with you , and this was one way of doing it . ’ |
| 24 | It was so carefully written that I 've read it three times and I do n't think it says anything . |
| 25 | I 've accepted that she tried to stop me from becoming an artist . |
| 26 | After painting the peculiar burial place in Nuenen , he felt so moved that he had to express his intentions in words . |
| 27 | If I gave them an order to couple up a full line of maybe ten coaches , I would n't take it for granted that they 'd done it , I 'd walk up the coach , one walk up one side , down the other side and I would n't If there were a heating valve not open , if they forgot that you see , I would n't do it for them , I would go back and I 'd say , that S K third from the back end , the heating valve is not pulled down , you 've missed it , you 'd better When you 're up that way , just pull it down you see . |
| 28 | I would not like it to be said that I had had my mother put away . ’ |
| 29 | I WAS really only a bystander in the tragedy of young Mr and Mrs McLeod ; it was not really my business , although it could be said that I had known them both — had seen them about — for most of their lives . |
| 30 | Two-mid range RS/6000s are expected from IBM sometime next month , as well as a new version of the AIX operating system for the PS/2 : IBM has said that it plans to bring its various Unix flavours closer together , and is expected to add some — though not all — of the features found in its flagship AIX for the RS/6000 to the somewhat neglected PS/2 version . |