Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What will give you that extra bite of interest is something like — and here I stop and open my indexed notebook of Victoriana ( and I advise you to keep a similar book for your chosen period ) and I find under " B " : boiled mutton on the sideboard for breakfast . |
| 2 | If the salesperson is convinced that the objection is the major stumbling block to the sale , he can gain commitment from the buyer by saying : ‘ If I can convince you that this model is the most economical in its class , will you buy it ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ As I was saying , Christina , I can assure you that Tropical Island Interiors will take all the worry and stress out of furnishing Crystal Springs Hotel . ’ |
| 4 | I can assure you that any busybody would be hard put to it to prove maltreatment ! |
| 5 | I can assure you that any information given during the interview will be treated in the strictest confidence . |
| 6 | ‘ Ah , but I need to know for sure , you see , because I have some doubts , and before you ask me why I should be so concerned I will assure you that this time it is partly for my own self-esteem that I would like to know . ’ |
| 7 | ( I can assure you that this book was not written straight through from beginning to end ! ) |
| 8 | I can assure him that fair play is what he has got in this case . |
| 9 | Should it surprise us that this tale from the East Midlands should be taken into a largely religious anthology produced in the West Midlands ? |
| 10 | His career with us ended abruptly when he incurred a nasty knee injury in the game at Watford in the last day of 1938 and was unable to play again that season , so that there are still fans at Selhurst Park who will tell you that that loss cost Palace the single promotion place to Division |
| 11 | ‘ As to that machine paying for itself , let me tell you that one side of one tube alone has thirty-nine thousand rivets to be inserted . |
| 12 | I ca n't tell you that this keyboard is the best you 'll ever buy , because its feel may not suit you at all , but if you take that and the monitor aside , and specify totally different units that do suit you , then the system box wo n't let you down . |
| 13 | I can , I can tell you that this morning that the pothole is not only there it 's full of water so you ca n't actually see it , but , the point is it 's Doctor Watson 's Lane |
| 14 | Or you may return to where you bought an item and the assistant ( who served you last time ) will tell you that this shop has never stocked whatever it is . |
| 15 | I must tell you that this infant has never cried at all apart from at the moment of birth when he took his first breath — and that must be accepted as an unavoidable demand for satisfaction of an impossible desire . |
| 16 | And I will tell you that some time next week what was the scope of it is . |
| 17 | Any journalist will tell you that British rugby union players , with two or three beguiling exceptions , are hardest to get anything out of worth printing . |
| 18 | Any journalist will tell you that British rugby union players , with two or three beguiling exceptions , are hardest to get anything out of worth printing . |
| 19 | ‘ You ca n't just ignore everything that medical science has taught us . ’ |
| 20 | I can also tell him that urban aid of £9.7 million has been made available over the years for homelessness projects in Scotland . |
| 21 | " I would be grateful if you would tell her that this house also belongs to me . |
| 22 | It is sufficient to say that the majority view appears to be in line with that which I have formed in the light of the British authorities , and that the dissenting opinion of Wilson J. does not persuade me that that view is wrong . |
| 23 | She could n't allow herself that brief moment of hope , only to find herself right back where she had started . |
| 24 | It should not persuade us that this writer has yielded or sold out , any more than it should persuade us that the boy poet Klima is in every sense the boy poet Jaromil . |
| 25 | We should satisfy ourselves that any work beyond this was necessary because a restricted repair was not practical and re-roofing in part or in full was the only effective method of repair . |
| 26 | ‘ Captain Carter , let me remind you that this Priory , of which I am in charge , is not only a house of God , it is a place where we attend to the sick and the dying . |
| 27 | As a Mitsubishi dealer , I 'd remind you that this car won the 1989 Lombard RAC Rally and came a close second last year . |
| 28 | Decision makers should satisfy themselves that current practice is itself worth having before using it as a comparison for a new treatment . |
| 29 | If you fill your factory with machines so sophisticated that they can make anything that any blueprint tells them to make , it is hardly surprising if sooner or later a blueprint arises that tells these machines to make copies of itself . |
| 30 | For the sake of this exercise , it matters little that , as a Soviet planner , I fail to narrow the gap between my compressor technology and yours ; nor does it concern me that one rouble of imported Western equipment requires five roubles in investment support : if the six roubles I invest produce fifty roubles of output , how have I injured myself ? |