Example sentences of "[v-ing] [that] it [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He laid his hand on it , implying that it represented him , and slaughtered it . |
| 2 | Bodies have welcomed particularly this component of the application procedures , stating that it provides them with a good reference point for budgetary control through the course of their financial years . |
| 3 | His best-known work , Tetbury church , Gloucestershire ( 1777–81 ) , is one of the most elegant examples of late eighteenth-century Gothic and was widely admired at the time , the poet William Mason [ q.v. ] , for example , commenting that it gave him ‘ the very highest opinion ’ of Hiorne 's ‘ Gothic taste ’ ; and his approach to Gothic design also appears to have embraced at least the rudiments of scholarship as well as its decorative appeal . |
| 4 | and then they informed me that it was out of stock so I wrote them rather a a polite letter saying that it took them a long to realize it was out of stock when it had been ordered in March and erm I thought their communi communicative system in their office was er non existent . |
| 5 | Some people prefer to work their male ferret on a line , saying that it gives them control over its movements . |
| 6 | Ace took the note and read it , finding that it told her where the Doctor and Howard had gone . |
| 7 | Can he pick up a tin of beans without feeling that it hates him ? |