Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | My Higher Self was warning me that this project , though attractive , would take me in the wrong direction , and would be a costly mistake . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | The Prince was deadly serious , emphasizing the earnestness of his proposal by reminding her that one day she would be queen . |
| 6 | I received a telephone call just before Question Time telling me that that enterprise will have to close . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | are you telling me that these people are renting this place out ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Leopold wrote resignedly , telling him that such things were inevitable for every artist of outstanding talent . |
| 15 | ( Ms Obholzer blocked that exit by telling him that domestic gas in Vienna was now non-lethal . ) |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |