Example sentences of "[adj] that [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 They made it clear that they saw it as the core of a European army .
2 When he introduced the report in the house , my right honourable friend , the member for Kingston upon Thames made is clear that he accepted them all and that the government was committed to carrying them out .
3 He also advocated the appointment of prison inspectors and made it clear that he expected them to be as thorough as he himself had been , probing every corner and speaking with every prisoner .
4 He suggested abortion two or three times and made it very clear that he thought I was making a mistake .
5 By his expression , it was clear that he thought she was lying .
6 the sky was high , the air so clear that he imagined he could see to the ends of the earth .
7 Although he did not commit a future Labour government to taking the tunnel into public ownership , he made it clear that he believed it would require a public stake to complete the project .
8 ‘ Oh , I hope I shall always be Kingy to you , Miss Sally-Anne , ’ making it clear that he included her in the charmed circle of his friends .
9 From the words of my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State , it is clear that he regards it as vital that King 's Cross should go ahead as an essential part of the entire project .
10 The reason we know that God recognises this dimension in the human personality is that he goes to such great lengths to make it very clear that he loves us , and one of his primary commands to us is that we must love one another .
11 She would cook them all a good breakfast and make it clear that she expected them to be at the table on time .
12 ‘ Khan , it 's clear that you want me out of Kinsai .
13 You 've made it very clear that you think I 'm tarred with the same brush as William and that 's fine by me !
14 It was so clear that I knew I 'd been blind .
15 ‘ I just want to make clear that I pay you every correctitude for what you were involved in there . ’
16 ‘ It 's unproven technology , and Microsoft has not made it clear that it wants it as a server ’ .
17 I expect to double the yield of Tobacco this harvest , but I am sensible that you desire us to put more land under the cane , this sugar trade being the more profitable at home and the Negroes most apt to its cultivation .
18 Sometimes she was so funny that it seemed she ought to be given a show of her own .
19 Ironically the price of sterling went up so high that it made it very difficult for us to sell our other manufactured goods and many people are now of the belief that because of the North Sea oil price rises , this had an adverse affect on our economy , making it more difficult for us to sell manufacturing goods because the pound was very strong against other currencies .
20 ‘ You 're so slim that I thought you might be one of those women who are on a perpetual diet , and I dislike intensely dining with someone who eats like a sparrow . ’
21 The transition was so abrupt that it took her by surprise .
22 He had no really bad faults but you had to be careful that nothing startled him , such as a bird suddenly rising , and on one occasion he did bolt .
23 You 've just to got be ca You 've just got to be careful that you get it i i you 've got it pristine working and it 's gon na work for two days .
24 I am afraid that I told him to go away and not be silly .
25 Perturbed by the keenness of his loss , afraid that it made him , in truth , a stuffed-shirt Englishman as Hannele had assumed , Edward Carrington went to the bathroom and began to fill the mighty iron tub .
26 The district had changed since he last lived here , but he was not so old that he resented it .
27 ‘ She would n't tell me , but was very insistent that I call her the minute you got in . ’
28 The staff all know what 's got to be done and they go off and do it ; it 's just when jobs are different that I give them any guidance .
29 Its complete lack of any taste was so nauseating that I spat it out and decided to eat the rest of the bread by itself I was finishing this when there was the sound of boots in the passage again .
30 it 's quite interesting that they do it
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