Example sentences of "[v-ing] that [pron] was [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In January he was in hospital , hotly denying that anything was really wrong with him . |
| 2 | Noticing that I was not provided for , he slapped his right-side coat pocket and , diving in , produced an opened packet of Gauloise Bleu , from which loose container he took out a cigarette . |
| 3 | He then sent a counter-embassy to Charles ( in the autumn of 772 ) , explaining that he was not unlawfully retaining those lands claimed by the Pope on behalf of the Exarchate of Ravenna , as the claim was false . |
| 4 | She listened to his calm voice explaining that he was not available and if she would like to leave a message … but the message she would like to have left was far too complicated , so she rang off without saying anything . |
| 5 | It was made clear to a friend of mine who was dying that he was not wanted on the ward , not through words but by the minimum care he was given after an unsuccessful operation and the refusal of any doctor to speak to him . |
| 6 | After checking that I was not talking to the media , I asked what the nature of her enquiry was , and she proceeded to furnish me with the facts . |
| 7 | She was so excited to be returning that she was up before dawn and ready for the journey south long before the arrival of the taxi that was to take them to Berwick for the train to King 's Cross . |
| 8 | She consistently refused any offers of help with cooking and cleaning or transport to the hospital , maintaining that she was quite capable of managing for herself . |
| 9 | He had been long absent from the public balcony of the Roman palace which he had made his stage , and he was now proving that he was n't in chronic decline , as rumour held , with a pox contracted years ago , but had merely suffered a passing dose of ‘ flu . |
| 10 | The burden of proving that it was not reasonably practicable would appear to fall on the defendant . |
| 11 | This saddles the defendant with the task of proving that it was not practicable that the procession should have been postponed . |
| 12 | He gave Doddie Weir a whack and he 's vilified by the press for three weeks afterwards , some of them suggesting that he was not fit to be a policemen . |
| 13 | The great virtue of Cagney to the Hollywood set-up was that he could realistically depict anger , violence , and meanness without in any way suggesting that he was personally a worthless villain or that the film in which he was appearing was deliberately condoning these unpleasant qualities . |
| 14 | Or schools get very excited by computer-assisted learning , ordering equipment and retraining teachers — only to find that the pupils , so full of enthusiasm three years ago , have totally lost interest , while the ‘ experts ’ are once again suggesting that it was n't such a good idea after all . |
| 15 | The the reconciliations suggesting that it was n't a good stock take . |
| 16 | I also remember that on that occasion some cautious , niggly comments circulated , suggesting that it was somehow out of order to rejoice in this magnificent sound . |
| 17 | I do him the credit of suggesting that it was not of his invention . |
| 18 | Yet the Declaration of Rights made no provision for regular Parliaments ; it merely stated that " Parliaments ought to be held frequently " , and even then it was the last demand made in the document , suggesting that it was not a particularly high priority . |
| 19 | Two weeks ago I wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury suggesting that it was now time for the Church Militant to denounce antibiotics in the same uncompromising terms once used against usury , but I suspect my advice ( admittedly unsolicited ) will go the same way as the seed of Onan . |
| 20 | I think Steve you were you were suggesting that it was only the G three T one . |
| 21 | ‘ It seems feasible therefore that subinfeudated and honorial vills may have differed in village planning policies … suggesting that it was under honorial administration that they [ regular village plans ] were most likely to be established . ’ |
| 22 | When Modigliani was working , Zbo could not resist peeping through the door once or twice to watch , with the excuse of seeing that everything was all right . |
| 23 | I was so caught up in what I was seeing that it was only when I reached the top of the close where they lived that I started to think again about what I was doing there , and it was then that my feelings of fear started . |
| 24 | That 's with me , seeing that it was so long before it was diagnosed , that 's why my feet and hands are still paralysed . |
| 25 | Although I was sceptical as to the Brighton affair , I could not help seeing that there was rather a look about Mr Wilson sometimes ; for instance when , as occasionally happened , his wife 's leg was too bad for her to go shopping and he went alone . |
| 26 | He stood for a moment longer , looking at her , unable to speak , seeing that she was so beautiful it was hurtful to him , thinking that in other circumstances he would be unmanned by such beauty , except that he was not unmanned , that was the very last thing … |
| 27 | He turned up at the dance studio in a pair of very skimpy tight shorts and observing that everyone else was very white and wore towelling track suits , and seeing that he was very tall and very naked , got nervous so went for a walk and smoked a joint . |
| 28 | He seemed incapable of accepting that she was very lonely . |
| 29 | the difficulty , for the father , of accepting that he was no longer the only decision maker ; |
| 30 | Realising that she was n't following him , he came back , his whole manner suddenly , quite brutally antagonistic . |