Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [noun pl] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , certainly , ’ I said , and went to fetch some from the cold locker in the kitchen , thanking my stars that I 'd happened to see where the soft-drink cans were kept . |
| 2 | She never knew how long she slept , but when she drifted back to consciousness she was aware even before opening her eyes that she was no longer alone in the room , and her body stiffened . |
| 3 | The previous evening they had insisted on taking her to the cinema , ignoring her protests that she would rather see the Molière play at the Comédie Française , to watch Jacques Prévert 's film Les Enfants du Paradis . |
| 4 | By 1989 InterCity director Dr john Prideaux was reassuring his customers that it was wrong to regard the APT as a failure ; it had indeed been a great design success ! |
| 5 | or are we getting him ones that he can kick to pieces ? |
| 6 | Mr O'Neill , 40 , dealt carefully with each inquiry , gently assuring his interrogators that he would do his best . |
| 7 | I felt so sorry for the horse while he was cutting his teeth that I pussyfooted around , falling into my old bad habit of asking Skipper if he 'd like to do something rather than telling him . |
| 8 | John Patten , counting his blessings that he is not yet a Treasury Minister , opted to avoid the economy altogether and put his faith in education , as befits an Oxford fellow . |
| 9 | Even the District Secretary was not averse to reminding his tutor-organisers that they were dispensable . |
| 10 | It started in the Autumn of eighty-eight , when Phil approached me and said , ‘ Look , we would like to consider putting our services that we do offer to finance in a more effective way ’ , running alongside that was a project being run by Oxfordshire Health Authority where they were sending postal surveys to elderly people ; people over the age of seventy erm sixty-five at one point , and were getting back a huge amount of information on their perceived needs . |
| 11 | He said that it would be senseless telling me things that I was incapable of understanding . |
| 12 | If that opportunity is denied the search company then they will have significant problems convincing their clients that they can do a good job . |
| 13 | She was a former civil servant and escaped death only by telling her interrogators that she was a peasant . |
| 14 | In doing so , they unwittingly made a popular decision , for in later years the local men were able to feel easier in their minds about telling their womenfolk that they were " going down to the Russell " . |
| 15 | ‘ You seem sharp enough to me , ’ Lucy said , thinking how hard it was to find a way of guiding someone into telling you things that they 'll assume you already know . |
| 16 | " I am simply making conversation while I decide whether to risk my job by telling you things that I certainly ought not to tell you . " |
| 17 | They sent me to Cambridge for a couple of terms — that 's where I first realized I must run — I do n't want to blaspheme about one of your famous institutions so I sha n't tell you the name of my college though you 're longing to know — the girls in their bed-sitters , the cocoa-drinking , the tittle-tattle , the atmosphere of heartiness or domesticity in the combination-room — But , my dear , it must be getting late and here I am telling you things that you know as well as I do . ’ |
| 18 | Cotton took an appointment as golf director at Royal Waterloo Golf Club , telling his friends that he was testing the theory that absence really did make the heart grow fonder . |
| 19 | It is true to say that Tamburlaine sets himself very few limits , and this is shown when he makes his aspirations clear by telling his friends that he wants ‘ to become immortal like the Gods ’ . |
| 20 | He himself admitted so when he emerged , telling his followers that he thought he had killed Comyn , whereupon one of them rushed in ‘ to mak siccar ’ ( make sure ) : the Kirkpatricks of Dumfries have ever since carried the emblem of a bloody hand with dagger and the motto ‘ I mak siccar ’ on their coat of arms . |
| 21 | It was crossing their minds that it might be safer to leave him in the car , but they had to consider whether they could trust him not to steal it . |