Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be a good manager requires one to handle this array in such a way that education is fed and fostered — education which is provided by teachers , encouraged by parents , watched over by governors , expected to be accountable to central and local government and capable of satisfying everyone that high quality is delivered . |
| 2 | The defendants had previously sent the shop manager a letter instructing him that these shoes were not to leave the shop without the label first being removed . |
| 3 | My Higher Self was warning me that this project , though attractive , would take me in the wrong direction , and would be a costly mistake . |
| 4 | I 'm usually quite clear-minded , but it was strange the way my unconscious set to work , pushing back my maternal goalposts and persuading me that another year or two would do my hoped-for child no harm . ’ |
| 5 | That 'll be perfectly all right — Rose was out of her mind buying you that ridiculous creation anyway , far too low cut and tight in the bust . ’ |
| 6 | They feel that it is not appropriate for their naughty child to receive special treatment or they feel that they should not reward the child for doing something that other children do naturally . |
| 7 | The Prince was deadly serious , emphasizing the earnestness of his proposal by reminding her that one day she would be queen . |
| 8 | I received a telephone call just before Question Time telling me that that enterprise will have to close . |
| 9 | ‘ Can you offer me no explanation of such clear symptoms , or are you ignoring these , are you telling me that such suffering is a figment of my imagination ? ’ |
| 10 | Chaplin was telling me that such people don ’ t qualify for medals or monuments , unlike those who fight and kill or wound , or are killed or wounded . |
| 11 | are you telling me that these people are renting this place out ? |
| 12 | He and Zak went away together , and Donna drifted around from table to table for a while telling everyone that poor Angelica had really been very sweet , not a murderess , and she , Donna , was dreadfully upset at the suggestion . |
| 13 | When it comes to Opposition claims about NHS trusts , should not we bear in mind that , two years ago , the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) was telling everyone that general practitioner contracts would result in less time being spent with patients ? |
| 14 | We had to find a way of convincing ourselves that any move , no move , any news , no news , good treatment , bad treatment were all indicative of imminent release . |
| 15 | He did not worry too much in those early years of his married life , telling himself that some women were slow to conceive , but after twelve years and his wife still childless , he had to accept the painful fact that she never would have any . |
| 16 | ‘ I shall be here , ’ Joan said quietly — telling herself that wild horses , let alone Richard of Gloucester , would not keep her from Edward . |
| 17 | She lay sleepless for so long — trying to get a grip on the situation , convincing herself that one kiss , one evening that held all the trimmings of romance had no real value — that she awoke late . |
| 18 | By the time Tiare was ten , her mother made the girl promise never to marry until she was at least nineteen , telling her that hasty love affairs never led to happiness . |
| 19 | His hair was almost black , heavy and smoothly groomed , swept back from a face that was icily cold , only the long , humorous-looking mouth telling her that this hostility was solely for her benefit and not some natural mannerism . |
| 20 | The two-way division agreed at Aachen in March 842 is best seen as a way of putting pressure on Lothar , convincing him that this time he had no alternative to opening negotiations in earnest . |
| 21 | It was apparently Da Ponte who persuaded the emperor to pass the text , telling him that all scenes which might offend good taste or public decency had been excised . |
| 22 | Leopold wrote resignedly , telling him that such things were inevitable for every artist of outstanding talent . |
| 23 | ( Ms Obholzer blocked that exit by telling him that domestic gas in Vienna was now non-lethal . ) |
| 24 | I tried to keep despair at bay , telling myself that some sort of mistake had been made . |
| 25 | Neumann also refers to the Ländler 's being ‘ in three slow beats , reminding us that many Haydn minuets are rooted in folksong , ‘ which itself is unhurried ’ . |