Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [verb] [that] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It — it disgusts me to think that I 'd let you kiss me that way . ’ |
| 2 | This circumstance encourages me to hope that you may , if you have any opening for such a youth , be willing to take George , who is exceedingly desirous of obtaining the situation — or indeed any situation which through industry and a desire of improvement may hereafter insure a creditable independence ; but , above all things he seems to wish that it may be possible for you to take him into a situation similar to that which was offered to his Brother . |
| 3 | He wants you to know that you 've got those and you 've got a fair idea of how much you 're leaving . |
| 4 | Now that you are moving away , he wants you to know that you were special and he hopes to return some of the self-esteem that he stole from you . |
| 5 | So fascinated has he become that he 's painted nothing else in all that time . |
| 6 | mm , I mean has he recommended that you use that |
| 7 | What has he got that we lesser men have not ? ’ |
| 8 | The laibon wants it understood that it has taken him some time to trace the trouble back to this incident . |
| 9 | The Elizabethan playwright , Ben Jonson , challenges us to see that it is appropriate to appreciate everything : |
| 10 | but , I 've , until that happens I regret that I canot support Chris 's resolution . |
| 11 | Said she , she 's going in for her fourth operation presumably to have this stapling done again , she says I believe that she 'd be far more counsellor , I , I would of thought she , she would of had counselling anyway before they go to stage of operating , surely , I mean , er do n't they look in into sort of psychological aspects of it , it 's usually a |
| 12 | If your conscience allows you to say that you really are stuck at some point do n't be afraid to pass on to the next paragraph . |
| 13 | It allows you to check that you have not forgotten to do essential jobs and , if you have , it provides the chance to rectify the mistake . |
| 14 | At one stage she says she suggested that he go and she stay , for the sake of those who believed in them . |
| 15 | she says she reckons that it 's Scottish , it 's a Scottish brand , but you know , I do n't think it must be . |
| 16 | In the film , The Silence of the Lambs , Sir Anthony plays the cannibalistic serial killer and says he fears that it glorifies violence . |
| 17 | He says he says that it 's gon na stop crime so much cos if everyone can have a gun . |
| 18 | He repeatedly says he believes that she will lead the Conservatives into the next election and emerge victorious . |
| 19 | Trevor Pinnock ensures that the music keeps moving , and never allows us to forget that it conveys the emotional meaning of the words and is not , as some interpreters would have us believe , detached from all relevance except the purity of its own sound . |
| 20 | What you have expressed so far leads me to believe that you totally agree with the concept of ethnic cleansing concentration camps because , unfortunately , such bigoted homophobia suggests equally bigoted sexism , racism and nationalism . |
| 21 | Erm , I think Chair , it , there is a need obviously for all committees to be realistic , and erm , that certainly is our intention within those , but I would say again , it leads me to believe that you should keep a reasonable er , committee contingency in case certain difficulties present themselves in terms of those additional er , pressures and requirements . |
| 22 | My preoccupation with the scenery of the Highlands and the western fiords leads me to feel that I should really be elsewhere , say in Glen Nevis or Torridon . |
| 23 | It does n't help when , as a child , your brother leads you to believe that they 're used as rubber pants for hamsters . |
| 24 | Sharp fulminated against any notion of equality of opportunity while the financial disparities between authorities remained , but his writing on the subject leads one to suspect that he viewed it as a ‘ shibboleth ’ in more ways than financial ones . |
| 25 | • What experimental evidence leads us to believe that we possess an internal body clock ? • What do we know about the rhythms that the clock controls . |
| 26 | I suppose the very idea that they have spacecraft and can zoom about all over the Galaxy at warp seven , leads us to assume that they must be . |
| 27 | All four books reveal a steady concern with imitation and interpretation , and to read them together is to be clearer about what it is that the writer intends us to think that he thinks about things . |
| 28 | It takes me places that I thought I 'd never see |
| 29 | If when you pay prescription charges you think that you may qualify for free prescriptions , ask the chemist for a receipt form FP 57 ( EC 57 in Scotland ) . |
| 30 | Goff recollects him saying that he felt in danger of being left behind because whilst exciting things were happening in art he was not being allowed to develop . |