Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] to [pers pn] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has occurred to me that other staff within the Royal Bank may be in a similar position to myself , holding a small number of shares which would cost more than their worth to sell . |
| 2 | However , it has occurred to us that to mention some of the unglamorous little things that can happen to you if you do n't might be highly effective in getting you to eat up your dietary fibre . |
| 3 | I even tried to read to you that night at the end of last September . |
| 4 | ‘ Tell me what has happened to you that is so peculiar . ’ |
| 5 | But , away from their partners , more than one has admitted to me that , left to his own devices , he would n't have opted for ‘ daddy ’ status , enjoyable though it may be . |
| 6 | The Government 's examination advisers have already been told to see to it that marking is stricter next year . |
| 7 | I do n't think we need to type an enquiry , I think that the people who realise that , the fact that you had got there is meant to indicate to you that name of the firm was Mallard , and therefore by using by using Mallards , sausage skins , they 're expecting you to use apostrophe s . |
| 8 | Philippa , whose face was normally as radiant and untroubled as a child 's , had not stopped frowning since Lee had started talking to her that afternoon and it annoyed Conrad to see it . |
| 9 | He remembered how Yuan had come to him that night , pale and frightened , woken by a terrible dream . |
| 10 | ‘ There is nothing I would not do for you , ’ he replied , and all at once frustrated beyond enduring , ‘ For pity 's sake , woman , ’ he implored , and , reminding her of a comment she had made to him that delightful mealtime in Bečov , ‘ give me a straight answer to a straight question — are you going to marry me ? ’ |
| 11 | We are all familiar with the cliche ‘ Leaders are born and not made ’ , and whether this is true or not it does suggest to us that leadership is dependent upon an individual possessing certain characteristics . |
| 12 | It was as if everything that had happened to her that day had some how taken place in another time dimension . |
| 13 | It does seem to me that philosophy is much more effective when combined with some ‘ first order ’ discipline , than when taught in isolation . |
| 14 | It does seem to me that young professional cricketers should be able temperamentally to cope with the occasional excesses of the Fourth Estate . |
| 15 | It does seem to me that 's not entirely consistent to government guidance in P P G three which simply states that the structure plan would state whether or not conversions are included within the housing figures . |
| 16 | It does seem to me that criterion eleven erm is has already been covered erm by implication in items er criteria two er and probably three as well . |
| 17 | Her imagination had suggested to her that dinner in a Welsh farmhouse might comprise mutton redolent of wild herbs , or native lobster winged from the coast by landrover . |
| 18 | Yes , more have came to me that 's right |
| 19 | And I have to explain to them that , although it is now customary for every individual member to contest the deputy leadership , it is not yet compulsory under rule . ’ |