Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] that a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In January I announced that a chat show host 's spouse was to appear in EastEnders . |
| 2 | I realized that a haircut like that was no Saturday-morning trim and blow-dry . |
| 3 | When I took it over from Matt I realised that a wilderness was something different from the average person 's orderly life . |
| 4 | Eventually I realised that a weapon could be more effective than my 11-year-old fists and depleted teeth , so I smashed an empty milk bottle over his head . |
| 5 | One day , I fear that a demonstration of the kind I faced in 1982 will go wrong and someone will get hurt . |
| 6 | I stress that a council of the regions will be agreed next week which will probably become operative in January 1993 and on which the regions of Europe will be represented . |
| 7 | ‘ I apprehend that a tribunal which is by law invested with power to affect the property of one of Her Majesty 's subjects , is bound to give such subject an opportunity of being heard before it proceeds : and that that rule is of universal application , and founded upon the plainest principles of justice . |
| 8 | ‘ I apprehend that a tribunal which is by law invested with power to affect the property of one of Her Majesty 's subjects , is bound to give such subject an opportunity of being heard before it proceeds : and that that rule is of universal application , and founded upon the plainest principles of justice . |
| 9 | I realise that a parking space next to an overflowing litter bin , in between a lorry full of cattle carcasses and a carload of adolescents playing heavy metal with their windows open on a sound system loud enough for Wembley Stadium , is not exactly the quintessential southern English landscape that would inspire a Constable painting , a Betjeman poem or an Elgar concerto — but it is the best you are going to get . ’ |
| 10 | And there 's one here with a a group of people and I found that a stone wall makes an ideal thing to trick photography with . |
| 11 | I found that a Parish Church could present almost the same problems as our Congregational ones . |
| 12 | I say that a psychologist deals with the things normal people say and do , while a psychiatrist deals with the things dotty people say and do . |
| 13 | I 'm sure you 'll understand what I mean when I say that a reader in , for example , Moscow would find your book very difficult to relate to . |
| 14 | And the fact that I say that a lot of these accidents happen because perhaps you 're not paying the attention , very often I 've been or know of situations where the bloke is really paying attention to what he 's doing and the still the unfortunate occurs . |
| 15 | As far as er the honourable gentleman for Edinburgh Central is concerned , he said there was a case for a wider inquiry into the auditing o of companies , well that is not something specifically called for er by Bingham although I acknowledge that a case can be made for that but I think we want to be extremely careful before extending that in the way that he and the honourable member for Great Grimsby proposed beyond the direct er responsibility to the members or the owners of the company . |
| 16 | I suggest that a lot of so-called ‘ equal opportunity ’ is based on political myth — ignoring our in-built sex differences . |
| 17 | Secondly , a while ago I mentioned that a guy called Alan Byrne had been over for a trial , in Elland Road , from Shamrock Rovers in Dublin . |
| 18 | All that I can say on the fixed link between Euston and the new complex — because I mentioned that a number of options are still being considered — is that it will be a dedicated link . |
| 19 | My attackers had scattered and I assumed that a teacher was approaching along the corridor . |
| 20 | I assumed that a crome was C R O M E , and I still do ! |
| 21 | I estimated that a sample of one in 12 night visits performed by general practitioners in Berkshire in the year beginning 1 July 1991 would provide details of about 2000 visits . |
| 22 | And at that stage , when I entered into the agreement , I believed that a marriage to Janice could have worked . ’ |
| 23 | I believed that a murrain would fall on the hens that he kept on his house-top , a wasting illness on the sheep that he kept by his door . |
| 24 | I noted that a star collapses if the internal pressures in the object can not resist the gravitational contraction . |
| 25 | In an earlier chapter I noted that a study of poor people 's movements in the US concluded that such influence as they had was derived from mass protests rather than from participation in electoral politics ; and a study of the economic progress of black Americans in the late 1970s argued that it was ‘ under the impetus of the civil rights movement and the ghetto revolts of the sixties , [ that ] blacks gained access to new employment opportunities in business , government , the media , and high paying jobs in the skilled crafts ’ ( Smith , 1978 ) . |
| 26 | I imagine that a psychiatrist , for example , would apply the word to the behaviour of a patient according to rather technical criteria which would indeed provide an analogy with what a sanitary engineer means by good sewage effluent . |
| 27 | She said drily : ‘ I imagine that a man 's idea of the ideal secretary is a woman who manages to imply that she would like to go to bed with her boss but nobly restrains herself in the interests of office efficiency . |
| 28 | Taking both these factors into account , I conclude that a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence should be given the opportunity to make representations in writing to the Secretary of State about the length of his tariff period before it is set . |
| 29 | I noticed that a horse was coming along the road , so I supposed the animals were afraid of him . |
| 30 | The House will expect me to apologise again for the remarks that I injudiciously made when I was trying to illustrate a simple point — that , with the private sector providing more rail services in future , I hope that a range of choice will be available to the travelling public in terms of price and time of day , rather like that provided by the airlines and the long-distance coach market . |