Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Travelling at a speed of a hundred miles an hour made him worry that he would leave the safety of God 's Earth . |
| 2 | We have made a major contribution to the overall income of pensioners , while all that the Labour party has to offer is inflationary erosion of savings , a failure in home ownership and many other schemes that Labour has offered ; although such proposals make it seem that pensioners are better off , because they are offered with other features , in reality it is a small percentage rise . |
| 3 | The experience made me realize that there is more to speechreading/ lip-reading than meets the eye . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In fact , the numbers of Punch aficionados make me worry that the same end will come to the comp complex as came to Punch . |
| 6 | The low morbidity and excellent functional results of pouch construction with ablation of all colonic disease and the anal mucosa among patients with familial adenomatous polyposis make us believe that this is the operation of choice in most patients for this disease . |
| 7 | I know for a fact she 's had her eye on my mother 's matinée jacket collection for years and when I once , in passing , said I wondered what happened to those old prosthetic devices in the estates of deceased senior citizens , Madge let it slip that she knew a way of turning a Zimmer frame into an attractive lamp ! ’ |
| 8 | I sat down and began switching my tail from side to side to let her know that I was constantly alert and maybe a little unpredictable . |
| 9 | When he had begun to eat , I'tibar Khan entered with the box and laid it before the unhappy father , saying : ‘ King Aurangzeb , your son sends this plat to your majesty to let you see that he does not forget you . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't let Barney hear you say that , ’ Melissa murmured with a faint smile . |
| 11 | In other words do they assume that biological or cultural categories are unproblematic ? |
| 12 | I have to consider is that evidence correct as far as they are concerned , in other words do they believe that this is what Mr. Winterbone was like ? |
| 13 | And after leaving the main bedroom did you learn that the rest of the flat was secured ? |
| 14 | Then he looked at the Curator , straight into his eyes to make him understand that the person he was thinking of was himself . |
| 15 | She stood defiantly in front of him , shaking her head , trying desperately to find the words to make him realise that she was tired , due for leave , and really felt he should ask someone else . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ The problems of distribution and the various changes that we had to make to establish ourselves in Scotland made me think that if I just swung the compass I 'd land up in Paris . ’ |
| 19 | The sense of dispossession sustained an underworld of thugs , drug pushers , and thieves ( I wanted to write about crime in Hawaii , but the godfather of the North Shore let me know that he 'd rather I did n't ) . |
| 20 | Come and show us how you do it I 'll give you a red pen Do you remember that earlier we said participation |
| 21 | And as a child did you know that that you you did n't use this room to ? |
| 22 | Not till they had come up onto the green did he realise that the figure in waterproofs pulling the doctor 's trolley was Chris . |
| 23 | In those circumstances does he think that there is a place for a new organ donor card , which has to be countersigned by next of kin ? |
| 24 | Darwin himself had little sympathy for these ideas and not much , personally , for Spencer , though he did once say — I quote Burrow ( p. 182 ) — ‘ in a moment of enthusiasm … that Spencer 's Principles of Biology made him feel that he ‘ is about a dozen times my superior ’ , and thought that Spencer might one day be regarded as the equal of Descartes and Leibniz , rather spoiling the effect by adding , ‘ about whom , however , I know very little ’ ’ . |
| 25 | It ran beside a broad , shaded boulevard of feathery pepper trees , and the sudden sight of European-style buildings made him reflect that the jungles , fields and villages through which they 'd been moving for the past few hours had remained unchanging throughout many centuries . |
| 26 | His face shadowed as the thought of Ray Doyle 's punctured body made him realise that perhaps Doyle 's oriental interests were a thing of the past , now . |
| 27 | These ideas make me think that creativity and beauty are linked . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | Occasionally he would mutter a few words of comfort , or reach out a hand and lay it reassuringly on Sigarup 's blanketed body to let him know that he was still awake . |
| 30 | The idea that he was alive crystallized the need to let him know that we were trying to help him . |