Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [vb pp] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , travelling back from work in the moonlight , I would allow myself to fall silent and to wonder what scenes this moon was shining on in the Western Desert , where I had learned that Leslie now was ; and whether he was in present danger . |
| 2 | Although I have said that Eliot had not greatly physically changed , he felt the deprivations of the war as acutely as anyone else . |
| 3 | ‘ Once I had realized that Tenison , the consulting engineer , was not spelt in the same way as Tennyson , our late-lamented poet Laureate , I had no difficulty . ’ |
| 4 | Of all that she had learned that afternoon , the only possible hope lay in trying to establish the real identity of the woman calling herself Delia Forbes . |
| 5 | Anne 's mother told her that she had suggested that Molly came to them while Margaret was busy with nursing , but she and Margaret had decided that the company of the little girl did the old ladies more good than doctor 's medicine . |
| 6 | In their final communiqué the ministers stressed that they had agreed that NATO would remain " the essential forum for consultation among the allies … on policies bearing on the security and defence commitments of its members " . |
| 7 | The whole story is not yet known , although it 's claimed that North Korea er invaded South Korea er I sh I should take that as a hypothesis and not as a fact . |
| 8 | Baker immediately praised Assad 's response as positive , saying that it had demonstrated that Syria was now more willing to enter direct peace talks with Israel than at any time in the past . |
| 9 | He went on to say that he had denied that Pakistan was providing weapons and training for Kashmiri insurgents and had assured Indian leaders of Pakistan 's commitment to the 1972 Simla Agreement ( whereby the two countries had agreed to respect a line of control in Kashmir resulting from ceasefire positions at the end of 1971 Indo-Pakistan war ) . |
| 10 | He said that he had presumed that Khumalo was speaking on behalf of Buthelezi , but realized that he was incorrect . |
| 11 | ( b ) That later on the same night , after Zaidie had reached home , the defendant had driven there with another man and confronted him with a gun and had said that he had come to move out Paulette. ( c ) That after that incident , but still in June 1986 , when Zaidie was driving into a friend 's house , the defendant drove up and , saying that he had heard that Zaidie had hit Paulette , again threatened to kill him if he touched her . |
| 12 | Lord John Russell , who at that time was not a member of Palmerston 's Government , said that he had heard that Panmure did not want a new building for the War Department , and he hoped that : |
| 13 | Trojanowicz , Director of the National Neighbourhood Foot Patrol Centre in Michigan , is so enthusiastic that he has claimed that community policing can help in the policing of international terrorism ( Trojamowicz 1988 ) . |
| 14 | I am not spreading or sagging , the glow of an early sun tan had probably removed a year or two and I 've discovered that lipstick does wonders , but there could have been little doubt in his mind that I was closer in age to his mother than to him . |
| 15 | As a journalist I had seen many countries overseas , all smaller and poorer than ourselves , being granted self-government ; and I had hoped that Scotland would not be denied even the limited self-government that was then being dished out to the Cook Islands and the Faeroe Islands and the Cameroons . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Even if I 'd believed that story when you told it to me , I certainly would n't believe it now . |
| 17 | At first she had been surprised when a flask and a chunk of bread had been tossed down to her that first night , until she had remembered that de Raimes did not want her dead just yet . |
| 18 | It had been he himself , Lewis , who had finally got on to the man there who was in the process of completing the proofs for the forthcoming seminal opus entitled Pre-Conquest Craftsmanship in Southern Britain , by Theodore S. Kemp , MA , DPhil ; the man who had been closeted with Kemp that fateful morning , and who had confirmed that Kemp had not left the offices until about 12.30 p.m . |
| 19 | Furthermore , she had grown to be grateful for the fact that their lives had drifted irretrievably apart , and she had prayed that things might stay that way for ever . |
| 20 | Not long ago she had begun to talk of life not being worth living again and she had demanded that Harry should tell her , once and for all , why it was worth living . |
| 21 | Would she have collapsed into a heap if she 'd learnt that Stephen was silent because he was wondering if his father had murdered his mother ? |
| 22 | If she had discovered that Tina could have said much the same she would have been deeply upset . |
| 23 | If you had thought that Greeks never worry about animals , or rubbish , go to Aegina . |
| 24 | ‘ You might have guessed it if you 'd remembered that night we made love . |
| 25 | If you have found that Doomstones make the adventurers too powerful for comfort , this could be a good way of getting the crystals away from them . |
| 26 | And we have heard that Del Curb was on that planet , along with numerous evil people who seek the phetam Now all the evil ones seem to be on Uulaa , pursuing Del Curb , As are we . ’ |
| 27 | Firstly , if the decree absolute of divorce has not been pronounced the parties are still husband and wife ( Fender v St John-Mildmay [ 1938 ] AC 1 ) ; and we have seen that transfers between them ( provided they are both domiciled in the UK ) are exempt from a charge to inheritance tax ( see Chapter 2 , p20 ) even if they are living apart . |
| 28 | After all it is well known that every type of electromagnetic effect is carried by photons , and we have seen that photons can not escape from within a black hole . |
| 29 | When they cut themselves , they see spots of blood and they had assumed that blood looks like that inside our bodies . |
| 30 | They had missed another call while out , and they had heard that Whitechapel had been sealed off . |