Example sentences of "[vb base] [that] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suggest that we try to put our differences aside for the next few hours and get on with the business at hand . ’ |
| 2 | I suggest that we delay announcing our existence to the press until we have a name and clearly stated function . |
| 3 | If you suggest that he has done anything for a base motive such as money , he replies , ‘ That does not do justice to you , or to me . ’ |
| 4 | Clients often report that they stop seeing themselves as abnormal when they meet others in a similar situation . |
| 5 | Only then did Folly realise that she had left her purse behind . |
| 6 | ‘ The ones who come back who are n't mutated to the point of monstrosity say that they 've seen it . |
| 7 | The majority of offenders against this offence say that they forgot to renew their licence , which does not diminish their liability for this absolute offence ( i.e. not requiring any guilty knowledge or mens rea ) . |
| 8 | If we say that they do have something in common with other things that look white we must remember that their having something in common simply is their looking white . |
| 9 | ‘ Here 's another of those men who run away and then say that they have forgotten who they are . |
| 10 | The company claims that customers say that they want to do their development at the workgroup level in an open systems environment , on a range of hardware and under different operating systems , and to share data in a decentralised development environment , rather than have it all tied to the Repository on the mainframe server . |
| 11 | In 89 , a poem of infidelity ( ‘ Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault ’ ) , the Poet abases himself , vowing to perform all kinds of penance in order to win the Friend back , including never mentioning his name again in case he ‘ haply of our old acquaintance tell ’ : it is over , in the past . |
| 12 | You say that you wish to marry her . |
| 13 | Erm , now what that means is , if you ca n't answer the question and you 've only got a few lines down then sort of trying t w blur it a little bit and make it waffly so that there 's something we can point to and say that you 've written something , right ? |
| 14 | Can you put your hand on your heart and say that you have made it plain what he or she is allowed to do ( hopefully not unnecessarily restrictive ) and what he or she should not do ? |
| 15 | ‘ You say that you have heard nothing from him — as regards the future marriage , that is ? |
| 16 | ‘ The newspapers say that you want to marry her . |
| 17 | I 'm gon na ring them up and say that I 've found her ! |
| 18 | And say that I 've busted my bra strap ! |
| 19 | I do not mean to be offensive to the hon. Member for Sherwood when I say that he has entertained us with his prepared briefs in many of our coal debates , but that it is a bit rich of him continually to criticise the contraction of the coal industry when he has supported many of his Government 's policies on the industry . |
| 20 | He seems resigned to a shortened climbing career , but content that he 's made it all . |
| 21 | On the machine build that he 's given me for this year , of which that is an example . |
| 22 | ‘ You forget , ’ Dorothea said gently , ‘ you forget that I have seen him . ’ |
| 23 | I stress that we have made them in the most constructive vein possible . |
| 24 | I was surprised to see that the recording venue was good old Abbey Road Studios : there is such a prominent background rumble that I had assumed it must have been some city church . |
| 25 | With increased accident rates and the ever increasing development of small workplaces , with little health and safety protection where , where our members are mainly women , part-time workers , in addition to the growth of sub-contracting and competitive tendering , and the increasing number of home workers , mean that we have to re-evaluate our priorities , and as such our health and safety service must be equipped to provide all the necessary support and information to underpin our activities in these vital areas of recruitment and growing sections of employment . |
| 26 | ‘ You mean that you do know something that may help them ? ’ |
| 27 | But when on several occasions there is the right correlation of the child 's behaviour with the child 's use of the term , we conclude that he has mastered its correct use . |
| 28 | Mandy had shaved several years from her life , and put that she 'd spent her last few summers working as a waitress at the Banff Springs Hotel . |
| 29 | The dodgy S & M imagery of ‘ Raping A Slave ’ ( actually a meditation on power and work ) and other included tracks form the ‘ Young God ’ EP and the still-withering power of ‘ Cop ’ ( ‘ Nobody burns your skin off like a cop ’ ) amidst the all-powerful monotony show that we 've lost something along the way . |
| 30 | But when we have got such a satisfactory outcome , unless subsequent events show that we have got it wrong , or that we have wrongly read the environment or some other major change , we would aim to stick with it for some years . |