Example sentences of "[v-ing] [that] in [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I concentrate in this chapter on sexual difference and on cultural and racial differences in the last chapter , it is worth remembering that in some contexts they interrelate . |
| 2 | Indeed , there is a case for supposing that in complicated matters it is likely to be the worst one . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Are you saying that in this case he 's playing a game of his own ? ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I breakfast quickly , drinking several cups of tea , knowing that in this wind I need to avoid dehydration on the grind over the pass . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He disputed Lenin 's contention that imperialism constitutes the last stage of capitalism , arguing that in Latin America it represented only the first stage . |
| 10 | He stood for a moment longer , looking at her , unable to speak , seeing that she was so beautiful it was hurtful to him , thinking that in other circumstances he would be unmanned by such beauty , except that he was not unmanned , that was the very last thing … |
| 11 | He was probably thinking that in these times it was not worth taking the risk of offending anyone , just in case they were agents of Horemheb and you ended up in an emerald mine on the Eastern Coast . |
| 12 | Like the three kings in the story , O went home another way , feeling that in some way he had just been warned about something . |