Example sentences of "and [verb] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have always found the quality to be of an extremely high standard and presumed that with the publicity generated by the 150th anniversary celebrations last year , there would have been an increase in interest in the magazine . |
| 2 | The University will do its best to avoid large increases and guarantees that for students on course , fees will not rise by an amount larger than the annual rate of academic inflation . |
| 3 | Denouncing the demonstrators as " vandals " , and suggesting that behind them stood " dark forces " seeking to destroy Albania , he appealed for the co-operation of opposition parties in restoring calm . |
| 4 | You know what you want a do , get some bags and bag that stuff up and sell that on the side of the road fifty p a bag . |
| 5 | It could give a whole new meaning to DROP-in centres and old folks ' CLUBS and mean that for once the social workers wo n't be criticised for making a balls-up … or down . |
| 6 | This right was often exercised and mean that by 1983 many were in the hands of individuals with no interest in golf , but who had inherited bonds by assignment through parents or grandparents . |
| 7 | I believe , therefore , that Rousseau was right to look with apprehension on the fragmentation of society into a collection of interest groups , and to see that in such circumstances it is all too easy for the general interest , the good of the community as a whole , to be lost sight of . |
| 8 | Erm people tend to relate back er and think that in theory it 's a nice welfare thing , and it 's nice for the community , and they do sterling work , do n't get me wrong , because I think they are a vital part of a community but , how much of a deterrent they are er , we are , we are unable to measure . |
| 9 | She smiled down at him and realized that in the few weeks he 'd been with her he had not only put on weight but had grown a few inches in height too . |
| 10 | Even nobles who had at one time covertly recommended such a union were alarmed by the unseemly haste , and realized that in any case the tide of national opinion was against the match . |
| 11 | Having considered two cases ( one of them going back more than 25 years ) , it upheld verdicts in lower courts and ruled that in view of the complex scientific issues involved , the government was best placed to decide on sites and to assess their environmental impact . |
| 12 | She looked up at him , her face so blotched and swollen that despite himself he put out a hand to comfort her , only for her to let out a frightened cry , trying frantically to burrow into the sofa to avoid any contact with him . |
| 13 | The whole group burst out laughing and agreed that on that occasion she should be ‘ let off ’ her reading . |
| 14 | In 1909 they took the par as 84 , and agreed that in mixed foursomes , when short of a male partner , ladies could ‘ play with other ladies ! ’ |
| 15 | But he fell in with Southey 's plans , none the less , and agreed that in the meantime they must live frugally in Bristol and earn money . |
| 16 | In due course , the company informed their financial advisers of the new arrangement and agreed that in the circumstances , proper practice dictated that D be told of the new development . |
| 17 | And using that as an exit line she stalked out . |
| 18 | It 's the classic chicken and the egg problem , that if you try and identify something starting one area , and using that as a sort of causal factor for another area of behaviour , I 'm not sure whether , in the majority of cases , you can satisfactorily identify one as being the cause and the other being the result of that causal factor . |
| 19 | She felt a rush of excitement and anticipation , and realised that in the preoccupations of the last half hour she had not thought of Giles Carnaby once — definitely a record . |
| 20 | No , and I did n't do that until I read someone Niall 's and he had repeated flowers and I thought why has he repeated flowers and realised that in fact that it is necessary . |
| 21 | At Christmas her Uncle Bertie assembled the clan at his manor house in Wiltshire and announced that as a start she had better be presented at Court . |
| 22 | The sleeping-car attendant came back and announced that by great good fortune he had an empty berth for which the occupant had unaccountably not appeared . |
| 23 | Lord Lane paid tribute to his ‘ team ’ of judges and revealed that over the past four years he had reviewed almost 1,500 life sentences — a task he had been unable to delegate and which he willingly relinquished to his successor , Lord Justice Taylor . |
| 24 | And the thing that was said a lot was a Slippery Elm stick , well I still do n't really know what it was but er it was a kind of a s , bark of the Slippery Elms , a Slippery Elm bark or something and they sharpened it to a point and inserted that into the womb you see and it was done , and then of course I heard a lot about gin , sitting in a hot bath with gin . |
| 25 | ‘ But Martica Heaner , the hips and thighs expert , said I had to exercise every day for at least 10–15 minutes , and combine that with a calorie-controlled diet , ’ she says . |
| 26 | If one took that as a parameter , and applied that to the existing settlement pattern , there is indeed a high degree of risk of coalescence if in fact a new settlement were of a significant significantly larger than fourteen hundred dwellings . |
| 27 | But soon Owen 's erstwhile disciple T. H. Huxley began to question the dinosaurs ' relationships to lizards ; he saw the closeness of birds to some reptiles , and inferred that at least some dinosaurs had gone on two legs rather than four , the Iguanodon among them . |
| 28 | The Commons Committee made field visits to the areas highlighted by FoE , and reported that in Cumbria 's Whinlatter Pass ‘ Forestry Commission officials have observed extensive dieback of shoots on Scots Pine , evidenced by browning of needles … |
| 29 | The Ministry said that 97.25 per cent of the electorate of approximately 11,000,000 had voted , and reported that in some areas , including in the disputed Western Sahara , there were 100 per cent " yes " votes . |
| 30 | Now if we take it just one step further , there was a lady well there still is a lady called and she did some research , what she was trying to look at was the the sort of body language if you like the actions that people er use and associate that to their personality and she looked particularly at people who were open positive communicators truthful I suppose but people who were open communicators and looked at the sort of things they did and also at people who perhaps were n't quite so honest and open and truthful . |