Example sentences of "[to-vb] [that] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A romantic orphan , though , who was able to accept that he had caused his brother to suffer . |
| 2 | Now , in the faint light of the dawning day she had to accept that he had not done so . |
| 3 | ‘ The trouble was , Len himself refused to accept that he had a problem , ’ said Martin . |
| 4 | And he refuses to accept that he has a bad boy reputation which goes before him with officials . |
| 5 | But it is impossible to accept that he acted alone in such an amateurish manner . |
| 6 | It may be of interest to many , particularly Bennett 's detractors , to know that he disapproved originally of the Main Force having H2S , even the earlier versions . |
| 7 | It was vaguely insulting to know that he treated her as casually as he would have treated any stranger with whom he found himself forced to share a house . |
| 8 | She was n't to know that he 'd been posted to Berlin . |
| 9 | Yes very , you know , so I mean I 'm not to know that he 'd not already told somebody else . |
| 10 | She had to know that he had considered and that he was committed by his reply . |
| 11 | Still , it was nice to know that he had . |
| 12 | She wanted to avoid Oliver , although she was desperate to know that he had moved out of the flat . |
| 13 | Pinkie could still think quite clearly enough to know that he had very little prospect of a new commission . |
| 14 | And how were they to know that he had not wanted very much ? or was that to be his real pleasure ? |
| 15 | But to know that he had been there , and she had n't seen him … |
| 16 | But she was not to know that he had had this desire , and went into the house with head bent , feeling that she had been a failure . |
| 17 | She did n't want to feel this attraction , and did n't want to know that he felt it too . |
| 18 | To know that he knew the truth at last . |
| 19 | I do n't want to know that he says . |
| 20 | Odd-Knut — whose English was good enough to know that he did not want us to call him ‘ Odd ’ — suggested that he could leave us near the Finnish border and we could ski or walk the last bit . |
| 21 | He really liked Chicken Thallium and he wanted people to know that he did . |
| 22 | ‘ But really I just want him to know that he 's got to do a bit of work , that he can walk , that he can get around . ’ |
| 23 | Richard Cocco Senior at the Palisade Music Company would like the bass playing world to know that he has developed the first 4-wrap low B bass string , as part of the R. Cocco 5-string bass set . |
| 24 | Yet he so influenced or anticipated what was to come that he remains still the great point of departure for modern Protestant theology . |
| 25 | I shall be taken to implicate that he has only fourteen and no more because had he had twenty , then by the maxim of Quantity ( " say as much as is required " ) I should have said so . |
| 26 | There would still be the difference between the two sections that , whereas section 5 plainly places the probative burden on the defendant , under section 4 , the defendant would have no more than an evidentiary burden to raise the issue , in which case it would be for the prosecutor to establish that he knew that witnesses were present . |
| 27 | In GEC 's Patent , the hearing officer held that the initial onus fell on the employer to establish that he did not benefit from obtaining a patent . |
| 28 | The applicant is required to certify that he has taken nature conservation into account when implementing his scheme , even though the average farmer can not be expected to be capable of assessing such impacts . |
| 29 | He was referring to print-outs that had enabled the US Congress to discover that he had been secretly bombing Cambodia . |
| 30 | The horror depicted in Kafka 's Metamorphosis , in which a man awakens to discover that he has become a large insect , invites comparison with the norms of women 's existence — her passages from childhood to puberty , from mature womanhood to menopause and old age ; her experience of pregnancy . |