Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Gottle a geer ’ Gazza would undoubtedly be a tremendous asset to the team , but after Silvers recent professions of poverty , I tend to agree with the Guardian that this is a ‘ We are still a big club ’ smokescreen . |
| 2 | Denis Healey is another politician I admire , and I tend to agree with the view that he is the best leader the Labour Party never had . |
| 3 | I want to write about the nightmare that we all have to confront every morning when we awake . |
| 4 | Now in this first session I really want to look at the way that er er financial planning will affect you once you , once you retire , it may be that 's the sort of area you 've not looked at in detail . |
| 5 | there 's various things you can talk to them about , and all you do is , all you 're looking for is some key words to motivate them , right eh er to a certain extent you want , you want to assume from the start that they do n't have a clue what they 're doing |
| 6 | For example , supposing you want to refer to the fact that the groom is a medical student and you have a story about a king dying in the Middle Ages who says the physician has killed him , tell this story but end it , ‘ Of course medicine has come a long way since those days , . |
| 7 | ‘ We want to get across the message that it is vital to continue campaigning , ’ says BA director Tim Godfray . |
| 8 | Chairman , the last speech was really explaining what I want to get over the fact that so many people want to talk on the issue and to complicate the issue . |
| 9 | At least when that happened , she would stop feeling his rejection so poignantly — stop caring about the fact that she disgusted him so much that he did n't want anything to do with her except sexually , and that against his will and to the damage of his self-respect . |
| 10 | I hope to touch on the subject that he mentioned shortly . |
| 11 | Disgusted Seagull Our best managers also happen to go by the rule that you 're only as good as your last game . |
| 12 | Some of those who comment on subjects such as the safe disposal of nuclear wastes seem to work on the assumption that the relevant sciences and technologies are standing still . |
| 13 | Politicians seem to work on the assumption that the early bird catches the voter . |
| 14 | I gave you time to adjust to the fact that I 'd make love to you tonight and — ’ |
| 15 | Yet for them , such a personality-type is compatible with their way of life , and even beneficial ( certainly , they never seem to suffer from the obesity that afflicts food addicts in societies with storable food-surpluses ) . |
| 16 | The research is still continuing but conclusions to date seem to point to the fact that , although powers of reasoning are not necessarily enhanced , the speed at which the subject is able to reason or recall certainly is . |
| 17 | ‘ Statistics seem to point to the fact that Friday 13th is definitely unlucky ’ , said a spokesman . |
| 18 | But , in the absence of something in the context which suggests that narrower meaning , the authorities in the 19th century and earlier all seem to point to the conclusion that the requirement to establish a conviction requires a proof not only of the finding of guilt but also of the court 's final adjudication by sentence or other order . |
| 19 | The origins of this marital-rape exemption seem to lie in the notion that the wife is the husband 's property , or that the wife promises intercourse on demand , but it has been defended in modern times on the basis that such cases raise essentially family matters , better suited to examination in a non-criminal court , and that in any case proof would be difficult . |
| 20 | Graham Greene sarcastically remarked of the latter that ‘ Both the director and the star seem to labour under the impression that they are producing something important ’ , and the film 's success was enough to assure Wilcox that Hungarian naughtiness should give way to solemn patriotism . |
| 21 | It is not until they get accepted into the Project that we find the problem emerging that perhaps senior staff are not supportive . |
| 22 | Therefore , if we change our attitude , we get rid of the craving that produces suffering . |
| 23 | It was I remember reading in the paper that it 's been it 's been filmed at a house which no one 's ever been allowed to go in even the great sort of one of these country mansions , it was not Bradley Hall |
| 24 | Mostly they 'd make for the West End and meet others like themselves ; they 'd pick up survival information , get oriented within the subculture that they 'd entered , and learn where the free food could be picked up . |
| 25 | I remember thinking at the time that someone had got their priorities wrong . |
| 26 | I remember thinking at the time that the two men were father-figures in more than one sense , and that it might as well have been Father Eliot as Father D'Arcy . |
| 27 | I also remember thinking at the time that dressing like a white man and taking a white man 's name was n't ever going to hide the Apache in him . |
| 28 | These men , suddenly faced with being at home all the time , feel threatened by the fact that life seems to be shutting all the doors on them . |
| 29 | The drivers , now cut up and veering to the Left , find voting for the party that has championed the self-employed harder to do . |
| 30 | Some girls apparently continue screaming despite the fact that a number of fellows have already reached her and are trying to wrestle her to the ground . |