Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [that] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the fact that Hilton says in chapter ten of Mixed Life that the nobleman who is like Jacob married to Rachel and Leah will only become Israel " is verri contemplatif " ( 33.374 – 5 ) , if he is released from worldly responsibilites there is no ground for suggesting that he meant to rule out the possibility of the most profound kind of contemplative experience for the man in mixed life . |
| 2 | Two symbols are therefore used , S indicating a specialist technical contribution and E identifying the person responsible for seeing that they do get together . |
| 3 | The case , Cohen v. Cowles Media Co. , arose from the attempt of Dan Cohen , a Minnesota political operative , to sue two of the state 's largest newspapers for revealing that he had leaked information to them . |
| 4 | William of Jumièges , elaborated by William of Poitiers , reports that Edward set sail with forty ships , crossed to Southampton , defeated a large English force , and returned to Normandy after realising that he needed more men to obtain the kingdom . |
| 5 | I found , after experimenting that I did not need any glycerine at all as I managed to get the colour to work well with just a smudge from the wet brush . |
| 6 | Often I felt so full after eating that I had to lie down or drag myself to lectures , feeling as though I 'd just eaten three Christmas dinners . |
| 7 | Lucker falls asleep after commenting that he does n't want to see how mini-cab drivers supplement their incomes . |
| 8 | Marri Cheni Reddy resigned as the Congress ( I ) Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh on Dec. 16 after stating that he accepted moral responsibility for the unrest in Hyderabad . |
| 9 | Powerhouse walked out after complaining that they had been kept waiting for 40 minutes for the court and Components Bureau claimed the points by default and then appealed unsuccessfully against the Scottish Association 's decision to rearrange the fixture . |
| 10 | Other UN inspectors in Baghdad have extended their stay beyond the planned departure yesterday , after saying that they had gathered fresh information on Iraq 's ballistic missile programme . |
| 11 | Styczynski had x-rays after saying that he had pains in his chest and pins and needles in his arms . |
| 12 | Oh no , I mean the these were clients and they could never be friends after doing that I 've come to the conclusion you can either keep your money or you can keep your friends , but you 're not going to do both . |
| 13 | Shit , after doing that I want to go out and see what 's happening . |
| 14 | After hearing that they had been attending a high school graduation party , they were released by the judge on the condition that they were each driven to their parents ' home exactly as they appeared in court — with only a blanket for |
| 15 | I DISCOVERED OIL pastels one Christmas when kindly relation bought me a large box after hearing that I painted in pastels ; not realising that it was the soft chalk variety that I used . |
| 16 | After hearing that he meant no disrespect , but had not felt emotionally and intellectually up to trying the case , Judge Robert Lymbery accepted Clarke was partly a ‘ victim of the system ’ . |
| 17 | In them he took ‘ every opportunity of recommending a rational method of study ’ , and incidentally inculcating his views of sound critical taste ; it would have been a brave student who dared to admire Carlo Maratta , after hearing that he had : |
| 18 | The jury at Oxford Crown Court found the married father of two guilty after hearing that he 'd tied the woman 's hands hands behind her back in the city 's New Road and subjected her to a terrifying ordeal , during which she 'd feared for her life . |
| 19 | She dramatically resigned after hearing that he has been invited to speak at the Green party conference next month . |
| 20 | ‘ There goes my one moment of glory ’ , he said , after reading that he had lost . |
| 21 | MATRIARCH Emma Funnell has banished Andrew Jones , husband of her great grand-daughter Peggy , from her Bramble House home after learning that he has swindled the car firm of thousands , helping him buy a house for his mistress , Rosie Milburn . |
| 22 | Often , even after insisting that everyone goes back to the launch point , there will be barely enough people to hold all the gliders down , turn them around and re-park them if the wind changes . |
| 23 | On May 25th he resigned after admitting that he had speculated in the shares of companies associated with Daimler-Benz while sitting on its supervisory board . |
| 24 | The issue had already had a major impact during the election campaign , when Wolfgang Schnur , a human rights lawyer in Rostock and the leader of Democratic Awakening , resigned his post on March 14 after admitting that he had worked for the Stasi . |
| 25 | External Affairs Minister Madhavsinh Solanki resigned on March 31 after admitting that he had handed over a note to his Swiss counterpart , René Felber , requesting the Swiss government to slow down its investigations into pay-offs to high-ranking Indian officials allegedly deposited into Swiss bank accounts by the Swedish armaments company AB Bofors [ see pp. 35336 ; 35382 ] . |
| 26 | On March 10 Gustav Just resigned as a Social Democrat ( SPD ) deputy in the Brandenburg parliament after admitting that he had participated in the execution by firing squad of six Ukrainian Jews in July 1941 . |
| 27 | And she has now been booted out of the Miss Italy contest after admitting that she underwent a sex-change operation last year . |
| 28 | The earlier court had convicted him on Sept. 16 , 1990 , of aggravated murder , after finding that he had ordered troops to fire on demonstrators during the December 1989 riots which led to his father 's overthrow and death [ see p. 37725 ] . |
| 29 | She moved back a step , after discovering that she 'd unknowingly moved closer to him than was socially acceptable . |
| 30 | She had been studying for her A levels however when , after discovering that she had smuggled a pining and off-his-food spaniel up to her bedroom to sleep one night , her father had put some of her own recent doubts into words . |