Example sentences of "[vb -s] that [pers pn] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her decision was said to follow demands from station heads that she increase her appearances from four to five mornings a week . |
| 2 | It takes me places that I thought I 'd never see |
| 3 | And how come the reader of Animal Farm accepts that they accept it ? |
| 4 | We ordinarily say of causal circumstances and causes that they make their effects happen , but we do not say , and will deny , that effects make either of the two causal items happen . |
| 5 | We also say of causal circumstances and causes that they explain their effects , in a sense in which effects do not explain the causal items . |
| 6 | The other holds that we discover what we have to say through the process of writing — D. H. Lawrence would support this view . |
| 7 | He recognizes that this willingness to fillet the intellectual and thematic from even the most ho-hum work is absent from the Anglo-Saxon world , yet he also thinks that he understands it because of his own ( despite the tennis lessons and jogging ) Jewishness . |
| 8 | Yes , but unlike Eliot and Empson , Pound — by the abrupt , brusque and aphoristic way in which he delivers his critical judgements — insists that we understand them as immediately spun off from the imaginative work , thrown over his shoulder , as it were , as he hurries from one part of the workshop to another . |
| 9 | In the second play , Audience , Ferdinand is called in by the head maltster , played by Freddie Jones , who insists that he joins him for a drink and a chat . |
| 10 | What happens when ‘ he ’ moves in and I ca n't work at all hours , ca n't eat when I like , ca n't take a bath any time I like , when he insists that I visit his relatives ? |
| 11 | Charles , her husband , jokes all the time about what I 'm wearing , insists that I join them for formal dinners late at night , and then teases me throughout them because I 've never eaten squid before , and I do n't know what haggis is made of . |
| 12 | ‘ He insists that you meet his mother and discuss things — reasonably . ’ |
| 13 | I 've got one friend whose husband insists that she keep her stockings and push-up bra on during sex . |
| 14 | If the hospital agrees that you need someone to travel with you , they also will get help with their travel costs . |
| 15 | He does n't mean anything by it — it just so happens that he inflicts his pent-up frustrations on the person nearest to hand . |
| 16 | It just happens that I do which is really why I was interested in doing the book . |
| 17 | She says that they kept her awake at night , and climbed over the fences . |
| 18 | She says that they took everything , £200 plus all her jewellery . |
| 19 | He says that they used lots of fuel at low level . |
| 20 | She says that they gave them every assistance possible . |
| 21 | The Ecology Building Society argues that it is recreating the original grass-roots feel of a membership-owned mutual society , and says that it involves its members closely in the development of new savings accounts . |
| 22 | Mum says that it took her hours to look up all the verses . |
| 23 | Making it clear that short-termism is not an affliction from which Siemens AG suffers , the company says that it expects its loss-making semiconductor division to show a profit in the 1995-96 business year , which starts October 1 1995 : it looks for sales of some $2,000m that year , compared with about $1,187m last fiscal year ; the company aims to achieve profitability via tight cost control , strategic cooperation with other companies and the moving of labour-intensive activities to south-east Asia ; the division 's workforce will be just under 12,000 in 1995-96 compared with some 13,200 at present . |
| 24 | She says that I said she looked like a bloody parrot . |
| 25 | And she says that she does what she can in her own way , she tries her best to do what she can to help . |
| 26 | She says that she knew they were being pushed down the hill and she screamed when she felt the flames . |
| 27 | She also says that she knew you . ’ |
| 28 | He says that she told her husband , they discussed it and decided not to tell the police . |
| 29 | The newspaper says that she ends her speech with the words : ‘ There is no magic formula that will transform sorrow into happiness , intolerance into compassion , or war into peace . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Miss Wharton , who with a young boy discovered the bodies , says that she found it unlocked . ’ |