Example sentences of "and [that] [pers pn] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | However the representatives of NEC and Fujitsu reserved comment , saying that they had not received official notice of their position and that they looked to the future to reveal this . |
| 2 | In that same year Welford Beaton argued that it was people like clerks who made up the bulk of the great movie audience and that they went to the cinema for inspiration . |
| 3 | Apparently Naud has discovered that there about ‘ 1700 semi-mounted ploughs sold in the UK ’ , presumably annually , and that they wanted to be a big part of that market . |
| 4 | I knew that I possessed a sidereal compass and that I belonged to another world . |
| 5 | A fierce aunt shocked me by telling me shyness is a form of rudeness and selfishness , and that I had to be the first to talk to two people . |
| 6 | Lord Fraser ( at p813 ) stated : The Crown contended that the definition in s454(3) ( now TA 1988 ss681(4) ) applied to all transactions that did not have a bona fide commercial reason , and that it applied to the present transaction , the sole reason for which was to avoid tax . |
| 7 | Our subsequent contacts with school staff in the city indicated that the legacy was a powerful and often negative one , and that it continued to be reinforced because despite a general loosening of LEA control and a government-sponsored shift to a greater measure of school self-determination , the Authority was perceived by schools as continuing to present itself as the main definer and arbiter of good practice . |
| 8 | Thierry Millerand , Sotheby 's head of French furniture , remarks on the extreme rarity of the Louis XVI ormolu-mounted and painted satinwood and mahogany commode ( est. $1.2–1.6 million ) that is the top lot of the Ortiz-Patiño offering of French furniture : ‘ The commode is one of the very few surviving examples of French eighteenth-century painted and veneered furniture ’ and adds , ‘ We are certain that it was executed by Joseph Baumhauer and that it belonged to a great collector , Nicolas Beaujon , in the eighteenth century ’ . |
| 9 | She knew it was a modern world and that it happened to people all the time and that it was n't such a big deal — medically or culturally . |
| 10 | It was Gibbon 's opinion that Trajan 's conquest of Dacia was maintained for reasons of prestige , and that it contributed to the weakening of the empire . |
| 11 | Cristiani then told a news conference that it was not clear whether the logbooks had in fact been burnt , that Hernandez had ordered one of the defendants to make them " available " , and that it remained to be determined what subsequently happened to them . |
| 12 | It is true that liberalism could not back a jacquerie and that it preferred to paternalism the teaching of political economy in schools . |
| 13 | He later went on to say that he had seen the same man in the vicinity about 5.30 to 6.00 , and that he seemed to be heading for the Oliver 's shop . |
| 14 | Gregory says he was the son of a slave and that he came to prominence in the household of king Charibert , whence he was promoted to being comes of Tours . |
| 15 | But we still do n't know much about the man himself apart from his age ( 59 ) , and that he went to Shrewsbury School at the same time as Michael Heseltine . |
| 16 | What is striking about it is that he is the first Anglo-Saxon king known to have abdicated to go to Rome and that he went to Rome not as a baptized Christian but to seek baptism . |
| 17 | You do n't mention him , except to say that he was a biologist and that he went to England to work for two years at the chemical weapons experimental establishment at Porton Down . |
| 18 | If so , it was impatience of a singular kind — not just the feeling that he had something important to contribute , but the certainty that France ( and the whole world ) was on the verge of a colossal crisis and that he had to be ready . |
| 19 | ‘ Simon reckoned he 'd adored you for years and that he intended to be that boyfriend , and he 'd make it happen by ensuring the two of you were together as much as possible . |
| 20 | He tells me you asked for advice because of tantrums and that you agreed to him asking me to call on you … ’ . |
| 21 | The vet said that nothing could be done to save her and that she had to be put down . |
| 22 | Little that is definite is known of her early years , except that she was said to have been a backward child ; that she was sent to a private school , Hope House , in Taunton ; that she broke away from the family tradition of Methodism and became an Anglican ; and that she came to the attention of Dorothea Beale [ q.v. ] , and taught at Cheltenham Ladies ' College from 1877 until 1881 . |
| 23 | As Giancarlo took her round his guests , formally making introductions , Constance knew that she could fit into this world of refinement , privilege and elegance — and that she wanted to . |