Example sentences of "[vb pp] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was minuted that the papers did not imply a commitment by the Regional Council to particular levels of growth or policy stances and did not constitute a formal statutory stage of public consultation . |
| 2 | Could we have it minuted that erm Derwent get a couple of P A hires free from . |
| 3 | and I thought well now she looks familiar as well , I still have n't twigged that its the same Meg Ryan riding her bike and then Meg Ryan comes up |
| 4 | In any case , wings which could have lifted that huge body would have been far too cumbersome when diving . |
| 5 | Phillario has already wished that the rain would sweep Mira away , and now Corydon is intent on getting rid of weeds . |
| 6 | Since those days I have sometimes wished that I had been able to record on tape the conversations I had with Gilbert Harding , who was an intellectual . |
| 7 | Mossy , a little like Sean Walsh , would have wished that the kitchen and living quarters of the Hogan household were more separate . |
| 8 | We have all wished that we 'd had the perfect retort at some time , but most of us can only think of something smart about three days later . |
| 9 | I 've often wished that I had stayed on and tried for university , but I was n't keen , and my family was n't the sort to encourage it . |
| 10 | This social sanction will be , in the first place , some kind of social ostracism or discomfort ; it may or may not be wished that it be associated with a legal penalty . |
| 11 | I 've always wished that I never came back to this country . |
| 12 | When she told him calmly about the baby , he had genuinely wished that his wife would divorce him . |
| 13 | Many times Louisa had wished that the woman might weep as her husband had done , might permit something deeper than care for her creature comforts to reach her . |
| 14 | ‘ And , for your information , I 've long wished that I 'd never heard of you — or your wretched grandmother . |
| 15 | Being able to tile or overlap windows within applications is a nice convenience but have you ever wished that you could do the same thing with separate applications on the desktop ? |
| 16 | I would have wished that the Liberal Democrats might have remained in their place , especially as their amendment is now before the House for debate . |
| 17 | If you have ever wished that you had a third hand to make notes we have the answer . |
| 18 | Many a time I had wished that Frank and Salome were not so upwardly mobile and were back slumming it in Stuart Street . |
| 19 | From the ascription on the first page of H400D , Te Deum Simple Le feu Roy ayant voulu qu'il ne dura guere plus que sa messe ordinaire ( ‘ Simple Te Deum , the late King having wished that it will last little more than his usual mass ’ ) , we can deduce that this score , or at least this inscription , must be dated between the death of Louis XIV in September 1715 , and that of the composer , in June 1726 . |
| 20 | She was still distressed and could have wished that Mr. Crowther had waited a little longer before telling her about her inheritance , when the sadness and regret she felt about Aunt Alicia 's death was not so overpowering . |
| 21 | And if so , it is devoutly to be wished that both his SNP and Liberal Democrat opponents in North Aberdeen at the next election will together ensure that his constituents are reminded of their sitting member 's fundamental disagreement with his own party 's long-established policy on this key constitutional question . |
| 22 | The Halifax , Britain 's biggest building society , also disclosed that it had set aside a £20m provision against its loans to the collapsed London docklands developer Kentish Property Group . |
| 23 | They do have a medical examination as part of the process of coming here and in the course of that medical examination it is sometimes disclosed that a woman is or is not a virgin , and that is sometimes noted on the medical report and from time to time some ECO 's have used that piece of evidence in making a decision about the relationship of the wife ; I have always condemned it and by and large it does not happen . |
| 24 | Yesterday it was also disclosed that Thorn EMI had failed to sell its defence business after trying for five months . |
| 25 | The move came as the Bond group disclosed that the fifth deadline for its A$2.5billion brewing deal with New Zealand 's Lion Nathan had passed without agreement , and that the basis of talks was to change . |
| 26 | THE first split in the Government 's ranks over the ambulance workers dispute appeared last night when it was disclosed that Mr David Trippier , the Environment Minister , had written to the Health Secretary saying he could see the logic in the ambulance workers ' case . |
| 27 | further investigations disclosed that they were in fact glued on with a resinous adhesive which appeared transparent to the X-rays . |
| 28 | Club officials disclosed that Mr Souness had kept news of the operation secret from the players so they could concentrate on the match against Portsmouth . |
| 29 | As investigators from the Mines Inspectorate , British Coal and unions began their inquiries into the accident , the company disclosed that the trapped men had never been in serious danger . |
| 30 | The branch had previously disclosed that a BA fitter had used the wrong bolts to secure the windscreen panel , which fell off at 17,000 feet , 20 minutes after take-off . |