Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [adv prt] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the nominees attending the lunch , as recognition of their achievements , was Montgomeryshire nurse Sue Blower , who had returned specially from her work as a nurse tutor in Bucharest , Romania , where she is helping to set up that country 's first school of nursing for 40 years . |
| 2 | A person who makes the task of the constable more difficult when he is seeking to carry out that duty is obstructing the constable in the execution of his duty . |
| 3 | Sooner or later you 're going to find out that life just does n't work that way . ’ |
| 4 | We 're going to match up that cow and her little calf we got last week with a daddy — or go bust in the attempt . " |
| 5 | The regulars , as she put it , had mostly departed and she and her husband were soon going to close down that side of the business for the winter . |
| 6 | ‘ Are you going to hand over that bag and let me leave here ? ’ she demanded . |
| 7 | Family members too will have considerable feelings , and this might be an opportunity for a family meeting in the old person 's home , acknowledging the sadness for everybody of having to give up that home , accepting the necessity for more care , and with it the reassurance that the family will be vitally needed for continued regular visiting and involvement . |
| 8 | Indeed , apart from having found out that Ven was unmarried , she had learned precisely nothing ! |
| 9 | The modern DNA machinery , according to this view , is a late-comer , a recent usurper of the role of fundamental replicator , having taken over that role from an earlier and cruder replicator . |
| 10 | It was suicidal trying to put out that fire … |
| 11 | She closed her eyes abruptly , trying to blot out that glitter of derision . |
| 12 | She had felt much the same herself of late , restless , needing to work off that restlessness , only she had n't had the same opportunities to indulge herself . |
| 13 | Now I 'm working to follow up that policy statement . |