Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [that] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The desirability of this is obvious , though it must be said without wishing to offend anyone that it seems as imminent now as it was when the claim was first being made 30 years ago . |
| 2 | But here 's a thought for both men : there are times when a nation has to be persuaded to do something that it does not want to do because its future welfare demands it . |
| 3 | So — in the year in which we 've forced the text-centred discipline that is rock writing to incorporate everything that it has excluded for so long ( the relationship between the star 's body and the fan 's , the voice , the materiality of music ) — maybe it 's time to make criticism grapple with what undoes it , ‘ the uncritical ’ itself . |
| 4 | She said she had seen the programme and wondered if it had spoiled anything for me , but I was able to reassure her that it had improved my life . |
| 5 | The waiter brought the champagne and thumped it around in a bucket of ice to persuade us that it had n't come out of the refrigerator . |
| 6 | At the time of birth , however , an angel strikes its upper lip , so causing it to forget everything that it has seen and learned . |
| 7 | I merely felt the need to satisfy myself that it had not escaped your attention … ’ |
| 8 | Men will say ‘ I love you ’ to get women into bed with them ; women will say ‘ I love you ’ to get men into marriage with them ; both will say ‘ I love you ’ to keep fear at bay , to convince themselves of the deed by the word , to assure themselves that the promised condition has arrived , to deceive themselves that it has n't yet gone away . |
| 9 | Whatever their purpose , the turntable , loop and building were probably removed within a relatively short time , for in the years following its opening the BCR could not afford to keep anything that it did not need . |
| 10 | To build up a shop 's reputation in the public eye ( ie to make customers more aware of the shop and the goods it offers , and to convince them that it provides good value and good service ) |
| 11 | Van Doren 's excuse to the investigating congressional committee was the most interesting part of the unedifying episode : ‘ I was almost able to convince myself that it did not matter what I was doing because it was having such a good effect on the national attitude to teachers , education and the intellectual life . ’ |
| 12 | Well as we approach the end of 1991 , I 'm sure I do n't need to remind you that it has been a very difficult year . |
| 13 | He tried to tell himself that it did n't matter , that you could find the same situation all over the West End ; back in the long-lost days of sweetness and light he could remember taking his wife to a performance of Jesus Christ , Superstar when it had gone through so many cast changes that no-one was even bothering to count , and what a bunch of wankers they 'd been . |
| 14 | Evan loved to tell you that it began with a minor domestic row . |
| 15 | I am here to tell you that it does . |
| 16 | Once you have received the mail message to tell you that it has ‘ Scanned OKay ’ , you can re-use Option 1.3.2 to enter the configuration file module . |
| 17 | " Miss Adeane , " he murmured , somewhere above her , " if this pose of the sacrificial victim is intended to impress me , I ought to warn you that it does not . " |
| 18 | ‘ It does n't seem to bother you that it has n't been altogether successful so far . ’ |
| 19 | They refused to allow him to examine his sister 's file except to show him that it contained a photograph of her . |
| 20 | She wrinkled her nose in irritation , wishing that her father had had the foresight to warn her that it had not been fully completed , instead of waving her on her way with a cheery remark about how the change would do her good . |
| 21 | Her lips parted to tell him that it did , but hesitation seemed to have become a periodic tendency , afflicting her like hiccoughs . |
| 22 | And yet all our common sense ought to tell us that it does n't always have to be chips with everything and meat with every meal . |