Example sentences of "[vb -s] that [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the second play , Audience , Ferdinand is called in by the head maltster , played by Freddie Jones , who insists that he joins him for a drink and a chat . |
| 2 | Charles , her husband , jokes all the time about what I 'm wearing , insists that I join them for formal dinners late at night , and then teases me throughout them because I 've never eaten squid before , and I do n't know what haggis is made of . |
| 3 | I think that 's , that 's pretty consistent , probably with how bands are formed , actually , is n't it , its friends of friends , and somebody knows somebody else , and somebody 's looking round for a drummer , just happens that somebody mentions it to somebody else . |
| 4 | He says that they used lots of fuel at low level . |
| 5 | But in the very next poem he says that he did it for a change of diet , a bout of ‘ physic ’ as it were , needed after over-indulgence : ‘ being full of your ne'er cloying sweetness , /To bitter sauces did I frame my feeding ’ ( 118 ) . |
| 6 | There is no lasting acrimony between Gedge and Rigby and when they meet up he often jokes that she provided him with enough material to launch and sustain a musical career . |
| 7 | Here is a passage of Thoreau which both demonstrates the creative process and also shows that it led him to the peak experience which he termed being charmed . |
| 8 | Reworking the question into a related generalisation , on the other hand , shows that you understand something of the complexities it contains . |
| 9 | And now this spineless crowd of chancers demands that we back them against Lamont 's minions [ and their threatened imposition of VAT on books ] because of their contributions to knowledge . ’ |
| 10 | It seems that they chase somebody like John who , at the outside may end up after five years owing them perhaps a hundred to two hundred pounds |
| 11 | ‘ Shut the window , please ’ is said in a situation where the speaker rather expects the hearer to act so as to fulfil a certain sort of wish of his , if he indicates that he has it by an imperative sentence . |
| 12 | This means that everyone has something in common with the rest of the group and it leads to a more relaxed and productive social activity . |
| 13 | This means that we deprive ourselves of their expertise and the valuable contributions they can make as well as failing to challenge the implications of statements such as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher 's claim , ‘ Children who need to be able to count and multiply are learning anti-racist mathematics — whatever that may be . ’ |
| 14 | True faith in God means that I distrust myself in order to trust in God . |
| 15 | Which means that you have plenty of time to cool your heels … and fish . ’ |
| 16 | Goodey has not looked at it satisfactorily as far as I 'm concerned and as far as many of the scheme members are concerned , I mean he has concluded that the employers are still entitled to er do what they like with the surplus , the only thing that he recommends that they do it with the approval of the regulator himself , but he the other thing that the |
| 17 | ‘ Ron Barr of Cibola recommends that you orient yourself by identifying some resort houses and a beach , further south some low cliffs , and still further south a stand of palms with one particularly high one on its north end . |
| 18 | He claims that he regards himself as ‘ someone who has stepped off the edge of a cliff ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Then how do you account for a statement by a witness who claims that you passed him in your van , driving in the direction of Penzance , at about 11.45 that night ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ He claims that I employed him as an assistant in order to find him a real job . ’ |
| 21 | The fact that Mr Lee can climb up to E1 suggests that he pushed himself into difficulties , in a scenario which must be familiar to most climbers or mountaineers . |
| 22 | His , though , is a concern with modern city life rather than with the truly rural , and it is in the sheer acreage of glass in the walls of the towering skyscraper blocks that he devotes himself to a series of studies on the diagonal . |