Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [to-vb] [pron] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | in which all the fingertips of the hand are joined together to form something that resembles a bird 's beak . |
| 2 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , I want simply to tell you that work on your notes connected with the Big Glass is at last under way and that I have remained scholarly and impartial throughout what has not been an easy task , in view of what you say about me and especially about my family , and which you must have known would give offense . |
| 3 | Franz Dornseiff — a German scholar who proved his courage and independence in difficult times — tried hard to persuade us that it was in fact authentic Greek poetry of the sixth century B.C. He also tried to show that a long description of the Jews attributed by Photius to Hecataeus of Miletus was really composed by this late sixth-century writer , and not ( as is generally admitted ) by the younger Hecataeus of Abdera who lived after Alexander . |
| 4 | Kate tried hard to convince herself that this was the truth . |
| 5 | Dejection was again with her next morning , pressing heavily to remind her that she would face another day of visualising Doreen riding knee to knee beside Silas . |
| 6 | Martin Bayfield has yet to convince me that he is answer to the no.2 jumping position , although his work in the rucks was good . |
| 7 | " I 've seen enough to convince me that the only recommendation I can make to the bank is that they should withdraw all financial facilities to the Ingard group forthwith . |
| 8 | Then one night he came home to inform them that he had lost his job . |
| 9 | Unit holders would have felt a sense of reassurance if the management and the trustees had written promptly to tell them that their units had been suspended . |
| 10 | Unit holders would have felt a sense of reassurance if the management and the trustees had written promptly to tell them that their units had been suspended . |
| 11 | ‘ Bumface came here to tell me that he was going to fight the War Office and that he was not having the WO Instruction for me to report forthwith to the Ski Battalion at Bordon . |
| 12 | It was easy , somehow , to be drawn into his game , though she would do well to remind herself that it was very likely nothing about Matthew Blake was innocent . |
| 13 | And the fact that none of her so-called friends at the college — not even her room-mate — had cared enough to warn her that her handsome fiancé apparently regarded an engagement as no pressing reason to stop ‘ playing the field ’ … |
| 14 | ‘ That 's nice , ’ I said to a stranger , speaking only to reassure myself that I could . |
| 15 | There was great jubilation in the family when he returned home to tell them that he was to start in the Despatch Department in two weeks ' time , in the huge new office in Edge Lane where Eileen worked . |
| 16 | Remember also to tell them that you love them . |
| 17 | A group of men and women are coming together to re-create something that is beautiful , more beautiful than I can ever realize by simply reading the score . |
| 18 | It was only when he started automatically to strip it that he realized what it was that was so different . |
| 19 | ‘ I did n't hang about long , but I saw enough to convince me that all that rubbish about Melanie 's frigidity was pure invention on your part . ’ |
| 20 | I had to leave my place in front of the screen frequently and go behind to convince myself that each new voice was indeed coming from the same man . |
| 21 | As one teacher put it to me , ‘ on a bad day I have the feeling that I am struggling hard to do something that may not be worth doing at all ’ . |
| 22 | Well , if death can ever be glamorous , that , I suppose , is the glamorous side of war casualties , but I think we need to spend the rest of our time very much looking at what it was like for the ordinary people of St Aldate's. erm And here , I apologise for producing a modern slide of Carfax , but I think just to remind you that we are talking about a very busy crowded city area , and erm about a city whose whole aspect was changing during the war . |
| 23 | The remarkable persistence of the wasp 's performance serves also to remind us that most other animals have contingency plans to extricate them from such behavioural culs-de-sac . |
| 24 | We wish also to persuade him that once he takes fully into account that his ultimate goals are spontaneous ( are , not ought to be ; what they ought to be is intelligent as well as spontaneous ) , he will require no first principle other than ‘ Be aware ’ for choosing between them . |
| 25 | She had planned now to tell him that he was the one who was thick ; that he had fallen into her trap ; that she , Gazzer , and Bella knew all about him and what he had done . |
| 26 | ‘ Have you come here to tell me that you 're going to fight me after all , now that Janice is no longer around ? ’ |
| 27 | My hon. Friend does well to remind us that when the Labour party was last in office its idea of luxuries included petrol as well as televisions and caravans . |
| 28 | But I threw it away and wrote instead to tell him that the Victorian nonsense was his , not ours , since the rule was imposed on us by Parliament . |
| 29 | Both summarize complicated interests and classes , and we need constantly to remind ourselves that the overwhelming majority of people of different religions live together in peace . |
| 30 | I attempted desperately to convince myself that what I was experiencing was just a particularly cruel and hateful dream concocted by some part of my mind determined to exact due penalty from my conscience for my having behaved with such despicable lack of grace during the holidays … but failed utterly ; my sub-conscious ' stock of nightmare-paradigms includes nothing so banally twisted as Gav . |