Example sentences of "[v-ing] and that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This pattern persisted for nearly six months before both parents began to realise that James ' behaviour during the day was not improving and that he stopped playing as soon as he saw his father . |
| 2 | she feels that the whole thing needs rationalizing and that she 's just come , co come to the pi the point where she can rationalize everything for once in her life . |
| 3 | On Thursday , facing uproar on all sides of the Commons , Mr Major ordered that the mess be sorted out and Downing Street duly declared that there would be extra money for the poor over and above RPI uprating and that it had all been planned before the Budget . |
| 4 | The Webbs objected that the scheme did not distinguish sufficiently between deserving and undeserving and that it included no measures for the prevention of unemployment . |
| 5 | Then she saw that Peter had been crying and that he had taken the trouble to wear a clean , white shirt . |
| 6 | She asked after you and was pleased when I told her how well your business was doing and that you seemed in good spirits since she said she had been anxious for you . |
| 7 | I think he once did say to me that he was very disturbed at how much ‘ coke ’ David was doing and that it had got to the point where he did n't hide it from deFries , whereas he did for quite a while at first . |
| 8 | I seem to recall that the hon. Gentleman was one of those who until recently persistently argued that standards in our schools were not falling and that he resisted pressure for changes in teaching methods and other ideas designed to correct the fall . |
| 9 | I suppose that bearded bloke must 'ave dropped it , I suppose I must 'ave picked it up without thinking and that I went off with it in an absent-minded way . |
| 10 | On a slightly different theme , left to our own devices and left to the club 's devices this Association and membership have always been very proud of our own record of educating and not legislating and that we have an ability er to instill in people a need to gain information and training along the way . |