Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that our friends and allies round the world who may be faced with potentially aggressive neighbours are entitled to look to us for support in arms sales , for example , of the Challenger tank which is made in Leeds , and that nothing proposed on restricting arms sales generally in the interests of world peace will prevent us from supporting our allies in circumstances where that is necessary ? |
| 2 | She says that everyone dreams of winning a medal , but at the moment she is just hoping to get there . |
| 3 | Not that I planned on dying . |
| 4 | It was by chance and with the support of a visiting teacher of drawing who also happened to be a lecturer at Goldsmiths College that I succeeded in getting a place at art school , the first and last totally blind student to have ever done so in Britain . |
| 5 | There are other entries describing my passion for clothes , and also my concern to look good — for example , it notes that I insisted on having long hair , despite problems of manageability . |
| 6 | Whilst I am happy to bolt Spectrum PCBs into metal or plastic cases and generally perform the role of tester I must confess that I balked at performing this simple assembly job . |
| 7 | ‘ The car was so badly crushed that I thought about asking the boss if he wanted it posting back . ’ |
| 8 | It was only to Pam that I admitted to feeling guilty and ashamed of the wave of relief I felt at her funeral , as though a weight had been lifted from my shoulders . |
| 9 | It was something like four or five days after I finished filming Total Recall with Arnold and I had to put every dime that I had into buying a house . |
| 10 | There were certainly questions that I had in listening to the lecture and reading of the material and erm as herself said , there does seem to be something of an in own thinking about this . |
| 11 | The moon rose high in the sky and shone unfalteringly into the woods , a silver goddess that I felt like worshipping . |
| 12 | And he spoke to me so kindly , and with such innocent enthusiasm , that I felt like saying to Jamila , Hey , he 's not so bad ! |
| 13 | Shostakovich obviously had good reason for these references , but they are to music so well-known that I worry about finding them in someone else 's piece , even a composer of the supreme integrity of Shostakovich . |
| 14 | It was at this point , when I was twelve years old , that I took to reading junk books the way some people take to eating junk food . |
| 15 | But nothing can take away the pleasure that I derived from looking at what I took to be a photograph . |
| 16 | Okay , but I just wanted to go on to say that I think in reviewing how the budget may be brought more closely under control in the coming year , officers will need to look at the erm size of the committees because we are working with committees at the moment that are larger than those committees which used to exist when this year 's budget was set and that has had some impact and we need to have the implications of any change of committee size whether that might affect the budget , how that would affect the budget , also whether there is any potential for reducing the number of committees further and also whether the rates might be changed , I particularly would like officers to report on what , whether there would be any significant saving from er setting the rates at the round figures they were at a couple of years ago erm |
| 17 | Well somebody , some of the , one of the guys that I works with coming to pick me up . |
| 18 | I live in the scouse pool and this is one of the opportunities that I have of going to watch Leeds . |
| 19 | I see that someone terrified of using any woodworking tool involving the slightest of danger may be attracted by the SuperCut , and it might have potential for novices , but then what tool offers complete security ? |
| 20 | ‘ Why ever not ? ’ he asked with such assumed innocence that she felt like screaming . |
| 21 | Di Driver had been coming to my classes for some time and she knew I was appearing on the programme but I had no idea that she planned on paying me a visit ‘ on air ’ . |
| 22 | He thought that the discount for contingencies should be comparatively small and that the £10,000 the widow received from the estate should give rise to a deduction of £200 from the annual dependency for the accelerated benefit that she received by obtaining it on his death . |
| 23 | The animals failed to draw blood but , two weeks later , she was still so worried about getting her fingers bitten that she admitted to finding the whole business of pushing letters through a letter box as nerve-wracking , in its own way , as trying to hole a four footer . |
| 24 | One advantage of the no-choice system is that Vaughan can write her menu late in the afternoon , around the dishes that she feels like cooking on the day , with the best ingredients available to her . |
| 25 | As a French observer at the end of her reign pointed out , ‘ it was solely by suffering her power to be abused that she succeeded in preserving it ’ . |
| 26 | It was with difficulty that she refrained from making a sharp remark . |
| 27 | The woman made a pile of cracked Minton tea plates in the wire in-tray that she used for stacking the washing-up . |
| 28 | Do you really expect me to believe that it 's out of respect for my position that you insist on calling me Mr Vass ? ’ |
| 29 | Raddle you know that you use for marking sheep . |
| 30 | and if you 're for instance dealing with a purchaser who 's interested in buying around about December what was the system that you had about saying what the service charges might be ? , |