Example sentences of "[v-ing] that they [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He astounded his American masters by demanding that they give him a more worthwhile job or he would be on his way home . |
| 4 | ‘ They are obviously regretting that they let her start the paper round , but there seemed to be no reason for them to object to it . ’ |
| 5 | cos she , she kept saying that they owed her |
| 6 | This can be expressed by people saying that they feel they want a child for their fulfilment as human beings . |
| 7 | I was surprised by the number of people who were saying that they disliked him , and by the degree of bitterness and the spiteful determination that he had to go . |
| 8 | When the girl 's mother and aunt came round to his house to take her back he became so violent and threatening that they decided they might be endangering the girl 's life by staying and arguing . |
| 9 | Though I did n't know that then , so I rang your hotel — and , while insisting that they contact me , without letting you know , the moment you walked in … ’ |
| 10 | When someone spoke at length he imposed unstated opinions or principles on his audience by assuming that they shared them . |
| 11 | The counterpart for our experimental data is not so straightforward , since the subjects do not report their reservation values ( even assuming that they have them ) . |
| 12 | My guess is that , with a few exceptions , it wo n't but that in four years we 'll have another Mogg-Davidson book claiming that they got it right all along . |
| 13 | If someone is given too much change in a supermarket , for instance , they might keep the money claiming that they need it much more than the supermarket does and , anyway , nobody would find out . |
| 14 | The proportion responding that they thought they could trust the United Sates " a great deal " was 62% ( up from 45% in 1975 ) , a figure not matched by any other country : the closest was Norway , which 37% thought they could trust to the same extent . |
| 15 | So at the moment with the earning that they paid you up to date two hundred and fifty quid I ca n't give you reduced advice under the legal aid system at the moment because you 're still being paid . |
| 16 | I filled four pages which I sent with a footnote requesting that they send me some books . |
| 17 | He 's got a flair ( not a formula ) for knowing what his customers want and ensuring that they get it . |