Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [that] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you get out of singing that you do n't get anywhere else . |
| 2 | This procedure , called reroughing ( or sometimes twicing ) takes further the idea of iterating that we met earlier in this chapter . |
| 3 | The photograph would , Rose believed , be a tactful way of hinting that she did n't intend being around so much . |
| 4 | As under the 1953 Act , the onus of proving that we have good reason , lawful authority , or one of the other defences , rests squarely with us . |
| 5 | It is a condition of booking that you take out travel insurance covering emergency repatriation and holiday cancellation . |
| 6 | It 's a condition of booking that you have medical insurance valid for our watersports activities , including a 24 hour call service for repatriation to UK if necessary ; local hospital care is primitive . |
| 7 | It 's a condition of booking that you have medical insurance valid for our watersports activities , including a 24 hour call service for repatriation to UK if necessary ; local hospital care is primitive . |
| 8 | This is an aspect of weaving that I had n't thought about until I read Audrey Palmer 's book ‘ Create with Knitweave ’ . |
| 9 | Only when he trawled his memory of leaving the room earlier , and found there a distinct recollection of checking that he had locked the door behind him , did irritation turn to anxiety . |
| 10 | So good ways of checking that you got it right , and then you can go on comfortably with , let's have a look at erm this time you 're buying a block of gold , er |
| 11 | What has happened is a swings-and-roundabouts operation , whereby last year pensioners received more than the cost of living that they had incurred , whereas this year they will receive less . |
| 12 | It is a modest mark of our gratitude to those with gifts and skills of writing that we make this increase to the Public Lending Right … ’ |
| 13 | May we learn to face up to our problems and try to sort them out instead of pretending that they do n't exist or trying to run away from them . |
| 14 | This was no credit to her own piety — but what was the use of pretending that she had any piety left ? |
| 15 | There is of course no logical reason why things should be different this time , wrote Harsnet , why this too should not be an illusion , the illusion of imagining that I know not only what step to take first but also what step to take second and even what step to take third . |
| 16 | Who should I have always been guilty of believing that I had never done enough ? |
| 17 | And he 's so scared of ageing that he tries every anti-wrinkle cream available . |
| 18 | This last provision looks so sweeping that there is a danger of supposing that it has swept away all difference between legal and equitable rights . |
| 19 | The kind of imprinting that we have been considering so far is called ‘ filial ’ imprinting . |
| 20 | ‘ But assuming that the Queen 's health continues to be good , Prince Charles will be well into middle age himself , and will be very aware that history could repeat itself if he puts William through all those ghastly years of waiting that he has gone through . |
| 21 | It was during those months of waiting that she felt in her heart that her husband was once again seeing Camilla . |
| 22 | ‘ not for the purpose of repining that they had been deprived of the important blessings of hearing and speech , but to manifest their love and gratitude to God for all those other things He permitted them to enjoy . ’ |
| 23 | Its urgent overall rhythm commands the choreographer to keep the dancers moving forever onwards with greater intensity to the climax , whilst the shorter phrase rhythms give the Chosen Maiden and smaller groups such ways of moving that they hold the audience 's full attention until the fall of the curtain . |
| 24 | The kind of teaching that they enjoy , value , and entered the teaching profession to do may no longer be appropriate for many of the classes that they have to take . |
| 25 | Nor that the reason she had sent Maggie to an all-girls ' school was not to protect her from evil-minded youths , but to protect her from the sort of teaching that she seemed to be getting . |
| 26 | It was a way of acknowledging that they had left school and would shortly start a more grown-up life . |
| 27 | Okay , they 're poor paid , but at least they would have the pride of saying that they 've got a job whereas the elderly are having to just sit at home and turning down their fires and turning down their central heating in case they ca n't afford their bills ! |
| 28 | As described by one character , this catch-all phrase is ‘ a short way of saying that they do n't claim to find either the ultimate cause or the ultimate cure , but they do know exactly how it functions , and can prescribe accordingly ’ ( 149/151 ) . |
| 29 | Some authorities made a point of saying that they did not have a training programme because they depended on courses that presented themselves , e.g. : ‘ We always hope to send staff on courses as they are advertised ’ . |
| 30 | In this case , it is another way of saying that we wish to be governed neither by elected representatives nor by our own countrymen . |