Example sentences of "[v-ing] that [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm just praying that we win it . |
| 2 | When Gilgamesh later dreamt that Enlil , the father of the gods , had decreed his destiny , it was Enkidu who interpreted for him , explaining that it indicated his certain mortality as well as the gifts of unexampled supremacy over the people and victory in battle . |
| 3 | So good ways of checking that you got it right , and then you can go on comfortably with , let's have a look at erm this time you 're buying a block of gold , er |
| 4 | The farmers ' wives indulged him in the harshness of his religious practices , never minding that he brought his own delph and cutlery and would eat only boiled eggs and bread . |
| 5 | ‘ Some needed reminding that we expected them to honour their word . ’ |
| 6 | Once again the movies were proving that they had their own version of what was real . |
| 7 | Surely you 're not suggesting that they had anything to do with his death ? ’ |
| 8 | While staying at The Vyne in Hampshire at the end of the last century , Lord Charles Beresford made a spectacular conquest which led to the object of his desire suggesting that they furthered their acquaintance in her room after the rest of the party had retired . |
| 9 | Encourage them to express these feelings by suggesting that they state what exactly is worrying them . |
| 10 | So A is suggesting that someone do something on Thursday . |
| 11 | I would qualify this by suggesting that you ask yourself if you could bear to be knitting the same garment twenty years hence . |
| 12 | I 'm suggesting that you avoid it . ’ |
| 13 | However that may be , a member of the Coordinating Team visited the school shortly afterwards , and explained the principles of the Major and Minor Projects to the head , suggesting that he developed his ideas a little more specifically . |
| 14 | He sent it through , suggesting that I cover it . |
| 15 | You 're suggesting that I damaged your car deliberately . |
| 16 | IBM Personal Systems Business Unit Europe/Middle East/Africa says it had record volume of sales in the first quarter of this year , and points to Dataquest figures suggesting that it outshipped its nearest competitor by 66% during the last quarter of 1992 and the first quarter of 1993 — gaining 4% in market share over the previous six months ; the company also said it reorganised its manufacturing and distribution operations at its Greenock , Scotland , plant , cutting distribution costs for its ValuePoint and ThinkPad brands by more than 65% , cutting its inventory by 17% since the end of 1992 ; this magnitude of savings will also be realised for the PS/2 and PS/1 lines this year . |
| 17 | ‘ Methinks I should contrive to send her a message , suggesting that she pays me another visit . ’ |
| 18 | They 're gon na gain from that or they 're gon na be seeing that they think they gain from that and all you 've got ta get over to the members we 're gon na be a cohesive force and that we 're going , we are going to fight some day together for them . |
| 19 | which I asked if they would stay , but they altogether refused , and seeing that they refused I did not hinder them to go , for I will press no man . |
| 20 | But anyway seeing that we got it and all this business and and er eventually they got it , but they did n't get it in nowhere near a a as good as ours and you know . |
| 21 | Joe just put your hand up now just put your hand up I 'm just seeing that you remember your number . |
| 22 | I thought you might just have remembered that , seeing that you typing it out for me only yesterday . ’ |
| 23 | Does anybody like to make a contribution on Appendix B Right , the point is that we 're accepting that we support it , and that the Association of County Councils and that 's the International Affairs Sub-Committee of the A C C be informed of the County Council 's support , of the options set out in Appendix B. Is that agreed ? |
| 24 | hinting that he had plenty in the bank . |
| 25 | He astounded his American masters by demanding that they give him a more worthwhile job or he would be on his way home . |
| 26 | After being swamped by people demanding that we give them the freebie SEAL course , we have , after long and difficult nights of deliberation , come to a decision . |
| 27 | THE Environment Secretary , Mr Chris Patten , yesterday wrote to Mr Neil Kinnock , the Labour Party leader , demanding that he dissociate himself from proposals designed to stop the growth of second homes . |
| 28 | You were standing by the boat , demanding that I let you on board , and I felt such a raw , aching need lance through me that it shocked me . |
| 29 | In the end , my knitting was getting so chewed with all the knitting and unravelling that I took it off on waste yarn . |
| 30 | Steve Goodwin is The Drummer From Cud and he 's pretending that he thinks it 's a really cool joke ha ha ha that both he and the band he loves have become a synonym for wanky indie crap . |