Example sentences of "and [vb past] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The priest made us sit next to him on footstools ; he bent his red face towards us and whispered that we should become the angels of our homes and his . |
| 2 | I was about to go back to the hotel when a pool attendant gestured to me and whispered that he urgently needed to change Iraqi dinars into dollars . |
| 3 | It required LEAs ( in Section 34 ) to ascertain the needs of children in their area for special educational treatment , and recommended that they be educated in ordinary schools wherever possible . |
| 4 | He recognized that the manyattas were ‘ an indigenous school ’ , an integral part of the process whereby a Masai became distinctively a Masai , and recommended that their character-building qualities be respected and adapted . |
| 5 | The judge gave Vernage five life sentences and recommended that he serve at least 25 years . |
| 6 | Paul Gross , a chemistry professor at Wake-Forest , recognised Pons ' ability and recommended that he go to graduate school . |
| 7 | Psychiatric reports were eventually obtained and recommended that he should be detained in hospital for treatment , not in prison . |
| 8 | The specialist diagnosed an ‘ inflamed pubic bone ’ and recommended that I wear an athletic support for sport . |
| 9 | He sent it to several publishers and recommended that I accept an offer from Norton , a fairly up-market American book firm . |
| 10 | I am employing the kind of argument that has been used to resist demands that God prove Himself by miraculous interventions of some form — demands that in Christian tradition Christ himself refused to satisfy when he turned down the Pharisees ' request for a ‘ sign ’ and asked that they have faith instead . |
| 11 | Whereas John 's will had been full of retribution , Jennie in one sentence thanked the thirteen people she considered important in her life and asked that they should simply ‘ share and share alike ’ . |
| 12 | Mr Bowles refused to go as his wife was ill and asked that someone else be sent to Scotland . |
| 13 | The Governors considered the job description too vague and asked that it be made precise . |
| 14 | Its former owner , the late Audrey Barrie-Brown left it to the Roman Research Trust and asked that it be turned into an educational centre . |
| 15 | ‘ Bess Halidon , your mother , gave me proof of it when she came here on the day prior to her death and asked that you be found employment . ’ |
| 16 | The GP visited again 10 days after his first call and asked that I continue to review the wound regularly and alter the dressings as necessary . |
| 17 | The executives agreed and asked that I act as the facilitator . |
| 18 | One day when he was extremely unrealistic and euphoric , I really became upset ; it was like going in to see a stranger — he was receiving a high dosage of morphine at that time — and I called his pulmonary doctor and requested that something be done or an explanation be given . |
| 19 | While she phoned the switchboard and requested that they page the cardiographer , Michael Barrington the orthopaedic SR arrived and glanced at the shattered stubs of the young man 's femurs . |
| 20 | British Nuclear Fuels has always denied that its operations cause the sort of dangers alleged by its critics , and affirmed that its discharges and exposure levels are kept within the limits laid down by the regulatory authorities . |
| 21 | Bernice could n't take her eyes from the tall woman , and realized that her companions , too , must have been staring . |
| 22 | Donna consulted the directions on the sheet of paper and realized that they must be pretty close to their destination . |
| 23 | He had seen its lines in the spectrum , and realized that they did not correspond to any known substance . |
| 24 | Dicke and Peebles were preparing to look for this radiation when Penzias and Wilson heard about their work and realized that they had already found it . |
| 25 | We were shocked to discover how important this secretive and ill-attended rite was , and realized that our aquatic curiosity might well have offended these creatures on whose appearance , or otherwise , rested the continuation of the entire festival . |
| 26 | Then he remembered the copy of Ruggiero 's letter , and realized that there was something he could do after all . |
| 27 | He looked at the number plate and realized that he had found the sole piece of ostentation Miss Morgan had allowed herself ; she had been Angela Jane Morgan and the car was AJM 563 . |
| 28 | Corman called ‘ It 's a wrap ’ on Friday evening , and realized that he still had almost forty-eight hours ' usage left on the warehouse and sets he had rented for The Raven . |
| 29 | Then he caught Epitot 's eye , and realized that he knew it too . |
| 30 | He asked himself , ‘ What is the direction upon which I have been depending ? ’ , and realized that he had been relying on a sense of what seemed ‘ natural ’ and ‘ right ’ to govern his actions . |