Example sentences of "[v-ing] [that] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity . |
| 2 | He cut into her thoughts with a question about the ball and she repeated her earlier assurance that she 'd had a successful evening , adding that in all conscience she ought to have been driving back to London to work on some of the stories . |
| 3 | That is why Britain largely escaped enclave development and why we must augment Hobsbawm 's assertion that the home market " provided the broad foundations for a generalised industrial economy " , by adding that in this provision it was materially assisted by an overseas market for manufactured goods of a kind possessed by no other economy . |
| 4 | Some candidates leave the examination room complaining that at one stage they remembered a case , but later forgot to cite it . |
| 5 | I weighed in by saying that for some reason it no longer appeared in the Radcliffe Camera , as I gathered the library had ceased to subscribe to it . |
| 6 | ‘ Are you saying that in this case he 's playing a game of his own ? ’ |
| 7 | She wrote to me saying that in this place she found it possible to forgive for the first time and then return home to seek reconciliation . |
| 8 | I breakfast quickly , drinking several cups of tea , knowing that in this wind I need to avoid dehydration on the grind over the pass . |
| 9 | He went out of the room , into the corridor and into his room and there he stood with his back to the door , his mouth wide , gasping at the air , still in fright , yet knowing that in some way he had emerged as if out of a deep canyon . |
| 10 | ‘ Is there anywhere near here where we could get some bread and cheese ? ’ asked Breeze , thinking that at this moment she could eat a dog-biscuit with gusto . |
| 11 | Like the three kings in the story , O went home another way , feeling that in some way he had just been warned about something . |
| 12 | This creates a conflict for them because , although they want to be stroked and petted like any other domestic cat , they are deeply suspicious of the hand that does the petting , fearing that at any moment it may grab them and hold them down . |
| 13 | What else could she do but go on , fearing that at any moment he would realize she 'd tricked him ? |