Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb infin] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had , he would have heard me say that it was for the Attorney-General to enforce the law , not the Government . |
| 2 | They came together with control engineer Dave Smith to look at this particular problem but , as their work progressed , their recently acquired quality training made them realise that a Corrective Action Team was needed to look at the wider question . |
| 3 | ‘ Our people saw that the Sterling plant was quite different from other plants , ’ Anthony recalled , ‘ and it made them appreciate that because our product was going into a pharmaceutical process , quality is absolutely critical . ’ |
| 4 | For example , ‘ I forgive you for being so patronising towards me ’ would make them feel that they were having their sins confessed to them . |
| 5 | And first for the Combers , we will bring them down From eight groats a score unto half a crown , If at all they murmur , and say t is too small , We bid them choose whether they will work at all ; We 'll make them believe that trading is bad ; We care not a pin , though they are ne'er so sad . |
| 6 | ‘ If you can make me understand that , I stand a better chance of helping to get you the money to find it , ’ Waldegrave said . |
| 7 | I mean , it did make me realize that for large parts of a drama lesson when the kids were supposed to be working on their own they were n't probably doing an awful lot . |
| 8 | And perhaps their foolishness will make everyone understand that however much fun Home Alone is for children at the cinema it is fiction and can not be made real by acting it out . |
| 9 | Yes , she was the first person who made me realise that acting was more than just speaking and doing . |
| 10 | It also made me realise that it was stupid to waste any part of what little time we all have left in silly sulks . |
| 11 | She interwove the Emmaus story into her talk , mentioning words such as ‘ companioning ’ , ‘ accompanying ’ — which made me realise that we are all here to help see one another to the heavenly Jerusalem : — the word meaning a place of peace — ‘ Jerushalom ’ . |
| 12 | It made me realise that other people have the same problems and it helped enormously to share with the other mums . |
| 13 | This incident made me realise that our careful descriptions of the relationship between dialect and Standard English might be misread , and so in the final Report I insisted that we should reiterate many times that all pupils should learn , and if necessary be explicitly taught , Standard English . |
| 14 | The survey also made me realise that it was not enough to have read about the early beginnings of any religion ; one needed to study it as a living faith and see the development of thought and interpretation . |
| 15 | But enquiries from two missionary friends already recruited as Kachin advisers made me realise that there would be little opportunity to influence policy and relationships . |
| 16 | This question made me realise that there must be lots of new knitters out there with electronic of Duomatic 80 machines who do not know this technique . |
| 17 | This sight made me realise that the herbicides not only caused the trees to lose their leaves , as I had heard , but also sometimes killed the entire tree . |
| 18 | ‘ It made me realise that people in showbusiness are really rather nasty , ’ she says . |
| 19 | ‘ My conversation with him this evening made me realise that he can be quite devious , and also that he has a rather cruel sense of humour . |
| 20 | ‘ Maybe it was seeing the Dawsons that made me realise that you ca n't lose something you never had . ’ |
| 21 | As a final thought , my enjoyment of the longer essays made me regret that we still do not have an Oxford Companion to the Earth Sciences . |
| 22 | This made me feel that Sorrel was still with us , and I 'm sure she was — in Bamba . |
| 23 | The therapist made me feel that my obsessions were not silly or trivial and , by implication , that I was n't either . |
| 24 | It must have been the totality of the situation that made me feel that heaven was very near and the invisible clearly seen . |
| 25 | ‘ Keith felt very , very sorry for David and he always made me feel that I was a real bastard . |
| 26 | In fact the aftermath of that fire , when so many people expressed resentment about the funding of the repairs , made me feel that they were . |
| 27 | The study of the Buddha made me feel that I was in the presence of a very great religious teacher , a man of great compassion , who diagnosed man 's original trouble as greed , desire , attachment , the escape from which was the treading of the Noble Eightfold Path . |
| 28 | ‘ They were really kind to me and they made me feel that they genuinely cared . ’ |
| 29 | He made me feel that my ideas and my interest were important to him . |
| 30 | The calm , thoughtful way she acknowledged them and talked them through with me made me feel that we had taken the first step towards friendship . |