Example sentences of "[vb -s] that [pers pn] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says that he 's only had two letters of objection and adds that he wonders how long he has to carry on to prove to some people that the crematorium is not an environmental hazard . |
| 2 | Baronworth Investment Services ( 081–518 1218 ) , which prints a weekly update of best buys , runs a special deal with accountants who can not act as direct agents for bond issuers , and splits any commission 50/50 , but emphasises that it does also recommend bonds that pay no commission . |
| 3 | If the mother notices that he does not like certain songs she at once introduces others with different phrases and melody embodying the same teaching . |
| 4 | At Nice we were to change trains : as we 're getting up Constanza notices that she has n't got her ruby , her ring . |
| 5 | Then , in the late summer of 1931 , he writes that he passed definitely from this position of ‘ rational meism , into a fall acceptance of the Christian dispensation . |
| 6 | Professor Sharp , of the Memorial University of Newfoundland , writes that he has just run across the earwig after having acquired five years ' back numbers of this magazine and to say that the Anglo-Saxons had a word for it , as we are all too well aware from listening to conversations between small children . |
| 7 | ‘ I reach London , I assess the situation because I have to do that however clever the plan looks that we put together here . |
| 8 | And he accepts that he set out on the lonely road to stardom too early in life . |
| 9 | Between disquisitions on Chinese opera and Venetian architecture , the story of Marco Polo 's voyage from Venice to Peking is more or less retold , though the narrative is continually being brought to a halt in moments when it half-realises that it does not mean enough . |
| 10 | Thank you Jackie Stewart and Helen , for your tremendous care and kindness , and for all the wonderful Celebrity Challenges that I have always thoroughly enjoyed . |
| 11 | Bloomsbury , £17.99 THERE is a persistent myth about Georges Simenon , inventor of Inspector Maigret , which holds that he has never received proper recognition as a novelist . |
| 12 | She thinks that we have absolutely no understanding of anybody because we were born with a silver spoon in our mouths . |
| 13 | The only reason he 's giving it to us is cos he 's thinks that we did n't have an increase last year . |
| 14 | Paul is a good guy , but everyone is brought up as a liberal and everybody therefore thinks that we do n't have to do anything active about it . |
| 15 | He thinks that we do n't talk to him . |
| 16 | She always thinks that she knows best . |
| 17 | He thinks that you do n't care . |
| 18 | Dr Thaler thinks that it happens only in trained networks because , as a network learns , its elements organise themselves into colonies that respond specifically to different features of the environment . |
| 19 | I was always fascinated with harmony , anyway , from the '60s records that I grew up with — the Everly Brothers , Buddy Holly and the Crickets . |
| 20 | Des Collins , of the Royal Ontario Museum , doubts that it deserves quite such an honour . |
| 21 | In being normative it avows that it does not necessarily conform to everyone 's notion of authority in all detail . |
| 22 | Although the proceedings reinforced Castro 's dominance of the PCC , some decisions ratified by the congress , in particular accepting direct election of all delegates to the National Assembly of People 's Powers , were interpreted as signs that he had either made tactical concessions or had recognized the need for gradual change . |
| 23 | And at least Micky 's deaf-aid thing guarantees that he does actually say the lines you wrote . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ They had talked openly of their respective marital difficulties at Sandringham last Christmas , although the Duchess insists that they did not make a pact by which they would both end their marriages this year . ’ |
| 25 | No one can deny that he is more exciting , excitable and unconventional , with a mix of old and new Hollywood rolled up into a package that mixes James Dean with Humphrey Bogart , though Nicholson insists that he does not want to be compared with anyone . |
| 26 | Despite his obvious sex appeal — to both men and women — Banderas insists that he has never considered himself particularly attractive . |
| 27 | Similarly Coun John Kitson , somewhat miffed at being called a ‘ veteran , ’ insists that he did n't say prospective industrialists had to be given tea and biscuits . |
| 28 | To this end , it insists that you obtain directly from LIFESPAN the modules which you are to inspect and you must enter your agreement under your own LIFESPAN user name . |
| 29 | Consuelo insists that she slept well last night , and is happy to stay on today . |
| 30 | Leapor insists that she has not exaggerated the perils of marriage : |