Example sentences of "[v-ing] [that] [pron] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was awfully fond of her husband , of course , but there was no denying that their own lovemaking had become just a little predictable . |
| 2 | And no sooner was he inside when he heard Mrs Brown singing that her true love had sent four calling birds three french hens two turtle doves not to mention another partridge in a pear tree . |
| 3 | Gordon Turner , 61 , enlisted the help of The Northern Echo , trusting that his long-lost friend had returned to his native Darlington . |
| 4 | Robbie 's voice faltered into silence , and she held her breath , realising that her wretched curiosity had run away with her again . |
| 5 | Realising that his whole future depended on it , he perfected the art of talking ‘ poor-mouth ’ . |
| 6 | Childless women declaimed prayers to the Virgin in Latin while tears rolled down their faces ; and the parents of idiot children danced with them in the market place , swearing that their little brains had been set all to rights . |
| 7 | He returned south , believing that what little resistance remained would soon be mopped up . |
| 8 | Hobbes had left England for Paris in 1640 , believing that his political views made this prudent and , as mathematics tutor to the future Charles II , he was associated there with the exiled English court . |
| 9 | Carrying through life a heavy sense that early separation from Ottery had left him no better than an orphan , Coleridge took comfort in believing that his own grandfather had been an orphan before him , a nameless , parentless child , discovered beneath a Devon sky . |
| 10 | Are you inferring that my sexual preferences have any remote resemblance to your fancy photographer 's ? ’ |
| 11 | The Second Report in 1955 ( HMSO 1955 ) was more optimistic , with the Committee stating that its earlier recommendations had had some influence over employers . |
| 12 | I am sure Martha will forgive me for saying that her very presence excites envy from others . |
| 13 | Arguing against those who said that women could not be ordained , the Anglican theologian of the last generation Leonard Hodgson comments that to say ‘ that a woman is incapable of receiving the priestly or episcopal character involves saying that her sexual differentiation carries with it a deficiency in spiritual receptivity and power ’ . |
| 14 | He is , in one sense , saying that his own authority came from God . |
| 15 | Moreover , during the badal diet breath CH 4 concentrations increased in responders duggesting that their usual diet contained enough sulphate for sulphate reducing bacteria to reduce the amount of hydrogen available to methanogens , whilst on the sulphate depleted basal diet more hydrogen could be used for methanogenesis . |
| 16 | By the spring of 1993 at least nine republics or regions within the Russian Federation were insisting that their own laws took precedence over those of the Federation as a whole , and the Chechen republic had gone still further and declared itself a fully independent state . |
| 17 | erm I suppose that would mean if they felt they were taking up so much of their time that they could n't do what they considered to be their job properly , and if they felt that I think the parents were persisting and insisting that their own children got more attention than the school could really afford to give them if they were going to be fair to everyone . |
| 18 | Both were time served joiners , Brian Linighan insisting that his talented sons learned a trade too . |
| 19 | He was hoping , no doubt , to be told that Mr Wilcox was n't in yet , so that he could leave a message for Vic to ring back , thus putting him on the defensive , knowing that his divisional chief knew that he , Vic , had n't been at his desk as early as him , Stuart Baxter . |
| 20 | He examines why certain individuals can not easily accept the ways of thinking and behaving that their social milieu thrusts upon them . |
| 21 | Former DN member Gen. Humberto Ortega Saavedra , the current C.-in-C. of the re-formed Armed Forces , had declined to be renominated for the leadership , claiming that his national responsibilities obliged him to abandon his previous FSLN posts . |
| 22 | Claiming that his domestic agenda went beyond the liberal-conservative divide of US politics , he denounced President Bush 's opposition to recent civil rights bills , and promised to back a national health plan , to penalize parents whose children missed school , and to send fathers who missed child support payment to prison . |
| 23 | Away from the ether of Breakspear and deprived of his occupational gown , Cyril Ockleton was transmuted into a more subdued and less boyish version of himself , as if sensing that his true persona required a measure of disguise in the wider world . |
| 24 | It was usually solved by arguing that our visual systems use our knowledge of the identity of objects we are looking at to dictate the colours we attribute to them , independently of the wavelength information available at the retina . |
| 25 | Working with children , I often find myself thinking that their young minds have been deprived of innocence , and usually a good deal of fun and happiness along with it . |
| 26 | There are only so many different varieties of coat colour for moggies , and if the family cat was a tabby , or a black cat with a white flash on its chest , then the owners are not to be blamed for thinking that their long-lost friend has finally found its way home . |
| 27 | Would I be wrong in thinking that your two visitors decided to leave their message in a more visible form ? ’ |
| 28 | When you wheel your trolley around the supermarket , you could be forgiven for thinking that our basic foods have n't changed for years . |
| 29 | She quailed at his heartless words , afraid of discovering that her adored father had feet of clay but determined to face the truth . |
| 30 | Then she found herself concluding that her earlier assumption had probably been correct and that there had indeed been someone in Australia , someone who had caused him to return to England in a hurry . |