Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] that [det] [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	I received a telephone call just before Question Time telling me that that enterprise will have to close .
5	‘ 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 ? ’
6	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 .
7	are you telling me that these people are renting this place out ?
8	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 .
9	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 .
10	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 .
11	Leopold wrote resignedly , telling him that such things were inevitable for every artist of outstanding talent .
12	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 ’ .

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