Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bryan even came to my home and scoffed at me for suggesting that he and the Duchess were lovers . |
| 2 | I am sure Martha will forgive me for saying that her very presence excites envy from others . |
| 3 | As regards the Niemecz mechanical organs bearing Haydn compositions : Neumann criticizes me for saying that the machines play ‘ within a narrow range , stating that the machines ’ air brakes can be set in such a way ‘ that the speed is either halved or doubled ’ , and that therefore ‘ the question of an absolute original tempo becomes pointless . ’ |
| 4 | We called for some fish and chips to take back for all of us , but I was n't sure that I could eat them after seeing that documentary where they all had ulcers . |
| 5 | How do social workers go about investigating these complaints , and what leads them towards deciding that a child has been abused ? |
| 6 | ‘ Thank you for remembering that I wanted to see Karlovy Vary , ’ she opened sincerely . |
| 7 | That I think is my main concern , with a request in a sense to you for supporting that over the next year or so , because I 'll be trying to perhaps get invited to the meetings , and perhaps we 'll be inviting officers from the authority to join me in looking at ways of building up that local context in planning to get that into our formal planning systems . |
| 8 | I 've read things in papers people are supposed to have said and think , ‘ You obnoxious twat , I hate you for saying that , ’ but I know there 's gay people out there who read that thing in NME and know it 's a load of bollocks . |
| 9 | Thank you for saying that to us , yes , I would n't have actually picked it up . |
| 10 | I do not say that to mislead you into thinking that Australia is a nasty poisonous place and you 're safe in good old Britain . |
| 11 | However , the fact that students and academics share a taste for informal dress and for the occasional drink should not mislead you into thinking that students and academic staff are equals . |
| 12 | Do n't let me fool you into thinking that all the third category bureau are bad , some develop into excellent typesetting houses with none of the pre-conceptions of the old brigade , it 's just the majority who are dodgy . |
| 13 | Solow 's book might mislead you into assuming that theorem appreciation is best learned by appreciating theorems ; but Burn looks at the raw materials that make theorems possible . |
| 14 | Rather like a spoilt child , he can force you into feeling that his survival depends on your constant presence and care . |
| 15 | Were you to told that this is what they were planning ? |
| 16 | May I help you by suggesting that if you could persuade the Prime Minister to fix the election date now there would be no need for this pre-election period — if the Prime Minister would stop shilly-shallying because he is afraid of going to the country . |
| 17 | I may unnerve you by saying that many of us err in this . |
| 18 | Now , having started in that light , I may be going to disappoint you by saying that I 'm not in fact going to spend the next erm fifty minutes or so talking about the moral , political , philosophical implications of Darwinism . |
| 19 | The person they sought had disappeared into thin air ; it was only then did they puzzle and wonder if the dusk had conned them into imagining that they could be mistaken . |
| 20 | Most importantly , when you meet work colleagues and friends , your springy step must be able to bluff them into believing that you could have managed two laps of the course . |
| 21 | I hope the new approach of the BDA does not mislead them into thinking that all is well with their speech . |
| 22 | This led them into feeling that airlines and motor car manufacturers were their main competitors since they took passengers away . |
| 23 | Perhaps it seems politic to you to end our affair now that you realise you 're suspected — found out — whereas it did n't seem to matter while the evidence of your passion in bed could lull me into accepting that there was no one else . |
| 24 | Such a peculiar coincidence startles me into remembering that I have something to write for Esquire . |
| 25 | They are lulling me into believing that they suspect nothing , so that they can catch us together . |
| 26 | Most bereaved people will talk of being quite sure they have seen the person who has died walking along the street and have called out to them before realizing that it could not be so . |
| 27 | I am sure you will join me in hoping that the pundits have got it right . |
| 28 | Eddie McAteer repeated Betty Sinclair 's plea for restraint : ‘ Join with me in wishing that no one should be exposed to hurt here today . |
| 29 | What principally weighs with me in thinking that Lord Coke made a mistake of fact is my conviction that all men of business , whether merchants or tradesmen , do every day recognise and act on the ground that prompt payment of a part of their demand may be more beneficial to them than it would be to insist on their rights and enforce payment of the whole . |
| 30 | Will the Prime Minister join me in reaffirming that no group either using or supporting violence will be allowed by any Government to bomb its way to the conference table ? |