Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] and [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I do n't believe this sort of thing goes on and suggest that Jon Ronson made it all up after reading a dodgy magazine . |
| 2 | Now I 've not mentioned this not totally creditable episode in Milton 's life , I 've not mentioned it simply to make him unlikeable to you , but to go on and say that the kind of egoism which issues in this way in his life issues in a rather different way in his worth . |
| 3 | ‘ But one thing I do n't want to happen as time goes by is to sit down and say that I did n't do as well as I might have done in another tournament because I did n't put in enough effort . |
| 4 | Do n't get me wrong on this , this is not in any way , shape or form meant to be a criticism , what we 're trying to do here is to sit down and say that by tomorrow night , can we organise ourselves any better . |
| 5 | When Telford Development Corporation began to coppice the woodland for conservation purposes , a group of countryside wardens , foresters and a lecturer in 3D-design got together and decided that something should be done with the waste timber . |
| 6 | My difficulty is as as you 've already heard I 've got no mandate to speak about particular locations or even sectors within Selby District although clearly I do have a mandate as I already have said to come along and say that we feel Selby District is an appropriate location . |
| 7 | But if you can get somebody to come along and say that then er erm y your case gets a lot stronger . |
| 8 | It was a pointless ‘ command ’ , for Baldwin was on the edge of nervous collapse , irritable , complaining and , in the closer judgment of Jones , ’ entirely without resource The Downing Street secretaries circumvented the King by getting an haphazardly chosen doctor ( they had previously tried fourteen others , all of whom were away ) to come in and certify that the Prime Minister had to go . |
| 9 | It may be suggested that he may simply qualify somewhat and say that it is wrong for others to tell such lies and not for him , and that there is no purely logical inconsistency here . |
| 10 | However , before getting too carried away and concluding that detailed activity-based accounting may soon be outdated , and replaced by more simple machine-time analyses , it must be remembered that the extremes of CIM are still a long way off for most industries . |
| 11 | At that stage it would have been easy to have got carried away and think that the Cup was won but I made a point of saying that " A wise man does n't count his chickens " and we did n't do that . |
| 12 | He informs Fleming that he had had to put them to work elsewhere and hopes that it will not be thought strange that the men are taken away . |
| 13 | Nobody stands up and says that we should n't be in the business at all , we should get rid of all of them , so all the argument about how many . |
| 14 | Unless Opposition Members are prepared to stand up and pledge that they will meet the costs of every private home , no matter how high and heavy , our proposals for 1993 will overtake most of their objections , and I am grateful to have had the opportunity to respond to the debate . |
| 15 | At the beginning of this week a girl phoned up and said that erm the chap he normally deals with is away |
| 16 | In some ways I was more reckless and exposed myself to danger because I felt we had to come out and prove that the Government was responsible for the deaths of all the students . |
| 17 | all the consultation that also talks about in this paper is met with the two centres , the management committee of Highfields youth and commune centre and also the users of the Moat Centre and I think in light of everything that 's gone on I think it 's substantially a success to stand here and say that we have at least achieved some result and I I formally would welcome the Libs supporting this this afternoon and I 'm grateful for the turn that the Libs have made and in light of er what er Mr the involvement Mr has put in . |
| 18 | Gedanken peered closely and saw that one of the banners said ‘ Good luck ! ’ , another ‘ Come back soon ! ’ , and another ‘ Hooray for the Daring Explorer ! ’ |
| 19 | Anyway , 'e spoke for about an 'our and at the end of it 'e asked for people to come forward and testify that they were saved . |
| 20 | Single people have every reason to come forward and declare that they are entitled to a discount . |
| 21 | And then the old keeper used to come round and see that we were all right and they 'd be there till the following day and carry on for about three or four weeks you see . |
| 22 | Joseph looked ahead and saw that their side of the boulevard was blocked by two carts with big , iron-rimmed wheels . |
| 23 | This provides a smooth surface to paint over and ensures that the colours come up clean and bright . |
| 24 | Last time we went the , the came on and declared that it was your birthday and wished you a very happy birthday and you were standing up there , bouncing up and down . |
| 25 | We must ensure that there is local flexibility when assessing housing benefit so that it is sufficient to meet the charges that are imposed locally and to ensure that the gap does not widen . |
| 26 | One can picture Hoskyns looking down from the skies and being grateful for his pupil ; and Bethune-Baker looking down and thinking that he always knew where Hoskyns might lead the Churches . |
| 27 | Bilal came down and said that Tom would be next , which was , of course , meaningless . |
| 28 | Half-way through one driver came in and said that the Minister for Human Resources had spent half an hour longer than he had agreed . ’ |
| 29 | Potter came in and concluded that his chief was absorbed in profound celebration ; he put the coffee on the table and crept out … |
| 30 | ‘ I locked the lecture-room , came downstairs and checked that there was no one in the ground-floor rooms , then locked up the building . ’ |