Example sentences of "[to-vb] that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every time I come here I begin to worry that I have somehow crossed into another stream and am sailing back in the opposite direction . |
| 2 | Are you willing to take responsibility for your life , to accept that we create our own reality ? |
| 3 | Erm that the time has now come to accept that we do have to do the same things and it has to be in black and white and it has to be E E C wide . |
| 4 | A great many crocodile tears were shed , for , since Unionists had such an elevated view of the principle of leadership , they were unable to accept that they had just driven their own leader from office . |
| 5 | Whether you agree or disagree with what they do , you have to accept that they 've worked out a very complicated system of values . |
| 6 | I criticise them for refusing to accept that they made a mistake and for refusing to take any action to put matters right , when it was patently obvious that everything was going disastrously wrong . |
| 7 | We can not expect teachers of science , history of geography to accept that they need to know about , say , the nature of language or the multiplicity of its functions , unless we can show how the need for this knowledge derives — by a chain of relevance sufficiently direct to be convincing — from their own search for greater pedagogic effectiveness . |
| 8 | But the shaming should not be of a ‘ stigmatizing ’ nature which will tend to exclude them from being accepted members of the community ; it should be of a kind which serves to reintegrate them within it , by getting them to accept that they have done wrong while encouraging others to readmit them to society . |
| 9 | It 's interesting that gay men on Switchboard found it much easier to accept that they did n't automatically know best for lesbians than white people on Switchboard find it to accept that they might not know best for Black people . |
| 10 | I am happy to accept that they did not know that the payment that they stood entitled to receive was limited by the list size criterion . |
| 11 | Now that she was forced to accept that she had n't , Celia began to panic . |
| 12 | It one thing to accept that she had no future with Harry and quite another to force her heart to give up hope , to stop loving him . |
| 13 | To tell Luke the truth , somehow force him to accept that she had never been involved with Florian in the way he imagined , might just possibly put an end to his — his persecution of her . |
| 14 | A romantic orphan , though , who was able to accept that he had caused his brother to suffer . |
| 15 | Now , in the faint light of the dawning day she had to accept that he had not done so . |
| 16 | ‘ The trouble was , Len himself refused to accept that he had a problem , ’ said Martin . |
| 17 | And he refuses to accept that he has a bad boy reputation which goes before him with officials . |
| 18 | But it is impossible to accept that he acted alone in such an amateurish manner . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , I 'm beginning to accept that you intend to make a fight of it . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I agree , yet somehow I find it difficult to accept that you live entirely by that principle . ’ |
| 21 | On top of your fear , anger and guilt , you have to accept that you have no control over what happens next . |
| 22 | I think you just have to accept that you have fairly shy fish — but they obviously like their home , as they are breeding . |
| 23 | Nobody seemed to accept that I 'd been in charge of my own body and my own medication for the best part of my life ; they seemed to think that was a very strange idea . |
| 24 | You refuse to accept that I knew nothing about the drugs . |
| 25 | I 'm asking you to accept that I 've got reasons , and not to ask me what they are . |
| 26 | If it 's too painful for her to accept that I want to look for Elaine , then I sha n't . ’ |
| 27 | Sooner or later I would have to accept that I needed to look elsewhere . |
| 28 | How very difficult it was to accept that I did need it and to show that I needed it . |
| 29 | Well I 'll have to accept that I do n't know where that came from but I 've got down here state 's interest |
| 30 | One problem of the past year has been the length of time it has taken me to accept that I need to work in the bookshop most of the time even though I know this work has to be done and though I enjoy it ( most of the time ) . |