Example sentences of "[vb past] that [pers pn] [vb base] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I proposed that I teach one woman what I knew so that she could teach the others after we got more machines . |
| 2 | Alliance partisans admitted that they read anti-Alliance papers but they claimed their papers were less pro-Conservative than Conservative partisans ' papers and less pro-Labour than Labour partisans ' papers ( Table 6.6 ) . |
| 3 | Those who said they never revealed that they have cystic fibrosis were more likely to be employed ( 64% ( 110/172 ) v 53% ( 311/585 ) , difference 2.5% to 19% ) , than those who revealed their cystic fibrosis at job interviews , but the questionnaire did not ask about responses to confidential medical questionnaires . |
| 4 | Miss Chadwick added that they sing two services a week and in addition perform larger choral works in the concerts they stage once or twice a term . |
| 5 | For example , some GPs in our study indicated that they want all prescriptions to be entered on patient records , ’ Mr West said . |
| 6 | Labour demanded that we publish illustrative figures on the effect of the changes on pensioners and claimants . |
| 7 | Their women , far from being grateful , turned on them , snarling , in late night conversations telling them to shut up ; far from setting them free to work for the Revolution , their women demanded that they take emotional responsibility and also clean the loos . |
| 8 | But I did argue when she insisted that we remain separated while on the planet . |
| 9 | They were staying in a hotel until they could find a Hat , but his doctor insisted that they spend some days in Brighton so that he could properly recover . |
| 10 | Not only were we going through the timid rituals of conventional courtship after a six-month diet of take-away sex , but I was the one who insisted that it stay that way until we were legally united . |
| 11 | My diary records such incidents as , ‘ Had to eat another roll at breakfast , much to my disgust ’ , or ‘ M. insisted that I eat another piece of toast , so I walked out in disgust . ’ |
| 12 | The Principal , a frightful piece of lava from a volcano long extinct , actually insisted that I relinquish domestic tuition , simperingly permitted the murky phrase sexual harassment to hover in the air between us , and indicated that in the course of the aestival recess he might be reconsidering the terms and conditions of my employment . |
| 13 | structural engineers reminded that they assume overall responsibility for their designs . |
| 14 | It had taken her nearly ten years to do so , ‘ as everyone said that we have enough societies in Bedford already ’ . |
| 15 | He rightly said that we grant exceptional leave to remain to a number of people if it would be unjust to return them , perhaps to a civil war or something like that . |
| 16 | Come evening time , after half-a-dozen more flickering Trek videos and prior to the conference party , I suggested that we get some wine/beer from the off licence . |
| 17 | Thus the surrealists suggested that we experience every-day life as if its materiality were a network of signifiers . |
| 18 | I then suggested that she take small steps , one at a time , further into the depths of the cupboard — remembering that this was all in her imagination and that she was still feeling totally relaxed . |