Example sentences of "[verb] that [pron] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It transpired that he wanted to be able to comment on each question in more depth and indeed some staff did so on separate sheets . |
| 2 | ‘ Never mind , ’ called McAllister , ‘ needs must … ’ and wobbled down Vetch Street , praying that she arrived at her destination in one piece , the balance of the wretched thing being all wrong , especially with the overloaded basket at the front . |
| 3 | In it the pope said nothing about homage , and argued temperately against lay investitures , minimizing their importance , and denying that he sought for himself any increase of authority or any diminution of the king 's due power . |
| 4 | It was not supposed that they dealt at arm 's length . |
| 5 | In fact there is no reason to believe that the Franks were involved in any long-distance migration : archaeology and history suggest that they originated in the lands immediately to the east of the Rhine . |
| 6 | ‘ You should also know that we consulted with your Corps commander this morning , ’ the Frenchman said , ‘ and he ordered that we should be given every possible assistance . ’ |
| 7 | If I could know that they fell into the hands of men of learning and curiosity , I should be more easy about them . |
| 8 | Many subsequently returned to their homes , all over the Soviet Union , where the local doctors may not know that they worked at Chernobyl and may therefore not recognise subsequent cancers or other problems as radiation-linked . |
| 9 | Even if X. Ray was only the Baptist to some little woodchuck 's saviour , I do know that nothing died with Osvaldo except his own faults . |
| 10 | Did you know that she dealt in stolen goods , arranged thefts and then fenced the goods , did you know she arranged insurance for many of the smaller shopkeepers — her kind of insurance ? |
| 11 | Your audience must know that you finished on time , without knowing how you did it . |
| 12 | " I did n't know that you worked in the Biology Department . |
| 13 | In fact , we might have to be reminded that it came from a pig at all . |
| 14 | As long ago as 1893 , I.S. Leadam demonstrated that they did in fact enjoy the protection of the courts . |
| 15 | One of them made crochet toilet-seat covers that they sold at the shop . |
| 16 | She did n't know very much about romance , to be sure , just enough to know that it seemed to be a force that did not like to be tamed and squeezed into the orderly compartments of people 's lives . |
| 17 | Kate felt inordinately pleased at his offer , even though she was astute enough to know that it came from a desire for any company , rather than hers specifically . |
| 18 | So he 'll be glad to know that she thought about him and wanted him to know it . ’ |
| 19 | It helped that they believed in his faked war record and legends such as that the religious leader Gregorio Aglipay inserted a slither of wood into Marcos 's back before the Bataan campaign in 1942 , allegedly giving him magic powers . |
| 20 | I urge you to take your master into your confidence , explaining that you glanced at my book by chance while cleaning his study , and that you have been greatly disturbed by it . |
| 21 | Ronald Duncan offered a perhaps apocryphal account of how lunch had been cancelled when Eliot sent a telegram explaining that he had to " bury a woman " . |
| 22 | Whilst there are undoubted cultural factors acting on the latency phenomenon , as Freud himself recognized , he nevertheless maintained that it rested on a biological , innate foundation . |
| 23 | The INSTALL LIST command that you executed at the beginning of Appendix D will show you whether they are installed OPEN and SHARED . |
| 24 | It has also been claimed that they acted as Rome 's representatives in areas devoid of large towns or cities , or military garrisons , but this hardly equates with the known distribution of most of the British-based officials in or near auxiliary forts . |
| 25 | Harry Gent , at any rate , always claimed that it arose from the numerous illegal cockfights that were held in the cellar . |
| 26 | After the war he also confessed to me that his eyesight was very bad and he would not have passed any normal eye test that we used in the RAF , hut he did have contact lenses . |
| 27 | Only slowly did the various industries realise that they had to better the ‘ lot ’ of their workers and reduce the occupational risk . |
| 28 | I realise that they looked for a family atmosphere , but is imposing this solution in such an arbitrary way really in the best interests of the game ? |
| 29 | The feelings of the young hon. Member for Gedling ( Mr. Mitchell ) about the way in which local government has broken up were expressed subjectively and I suspect that he will not agree with me when I say that they seemed to date from about 1979 — and we know what happened in 1979 when the hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) was first elected . |
| 30 | This analysis raises the same question addressed in the previous section : if the speaker wanted the hearer to recover these effects , why did n't he or she simply say that they sprinted up the hill ? |