Example sentences of "[verb] that [pos pn] [adj] [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was awfully fond of her husband , of course , but there was no denying that their own lovemaking had become just a little predictable . |
| 2 | He did not know that her vivid imagination had given her a convincing picture of Julia 's death . |
| 3 | But Miss Hemse maintained that his psycho-kinetic powers had bent her contraceptive device while she and her fiancé were making love as they watched him on television . |
| 4 | Morgan had claimed that her former husband had subjected their child to sexual abuse , and had withdrawn visitation rights . |
| 5 | Arriving back , as he did from his holidays , to discover that his honourable companions had n't given him a second to call his own , he took umbrage ( somewhere near Troy ) |
| 6 | After thanks and apologies all round I was driven back to the Lion to find that my borrowed sheep had been sold and had disappeared . |
| 7 | When the late Conservative administration did its sums at the end of 1963 it found that its future programme worked out at an annual rate of increase of 4.1 per cent . |
| 8 | Although the villagers of Zubaydat significantly increased their productivity through the introduction of drip irrigation , they quickly found that their real problem lay with marketing . |
| 9 | Yet Tate , herself a Jamaican , found that her second-generation informants used Jamaican Creole as their in-group language , and sounded so authentic that they could pass for Jamaicans in Jamaica , in her judgement ( personal communication ) . |
| 10 | He did not complain when he found that his sleeping place had been claimed by another player ; nor when Garvey told him to wash the mud off the wagon wheelrims , and forbad him or Izzie ever to speak a word to Gabriel . |
| 11 | Another doctor found that his severe disability inhibited psychiatric patients from discussing their problems , and an occupational therapist found that elderly confused patients occasionally lacked confidence in her but she managed the situation by reassuring them and immediately focusing attention back on them . |
| 12 | There were no startling innovations , as Scott found that his main task had to be the adaptation of the wartime organization of the Metropolitan Police to meet peacetime conditions , and he was hampered throughout by a manpower shortage for which it seemed that no solution could be found . |
| 13 | Doetsch found that his synthetic analogue prevented the normal development of the viral infection within the cells , prompting him to suggest that it might have therapeutic potential ( Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences , 1981 , vol 78 , p 6699 ) . |
| 14 | Whatever evidence the IAAF officials discovered in the laboratory , one only needed to look at recent pictures of Johnson , in which he resembled an inflated balloon , to guess that his improved times showed he 'd been sucked back into the drug culture . |
| 15 | Sara curtsied , and backed to the door ; and it was only when it had closed behind her and she was standing on the long , tiled landing that she realized that her future mother-in-law had not once asked about her family in Ireland . |
| 16 | The Shah realized that his Western friends wanted above all a stable , friendly Iran . |
| 17 | So she said lightly , ‘ You know Sebastian , ’ knowing full well that her mother , wearing the rosiest of rose-coloured glasses about her only son , would think that her only daughter had answered in the affirmative . |
| 18 | One version circulating at the Palace is that Her Majesty realised that Her Other Majesty did n't yet know the result when she arrived for their weekly get-together . |
| 19 | Then she realised that her other hand held a much more potent weapon . |
| 20 | And no sooner was he inside when he heard Mrs Brown singing that her true love had sent four calling birds three french hens two turtle doves not to mention another partridge in a pear tree . |
| 21 | Gordon Turner , 61 , enlisted the help of The Northern Echo , trusting that his long-lost friend had returned to his native Darlington . |
| 22 | It had shocked Vi to realize that her own side fought every bit as dirty as the Germans and that German seamen were torpedoed , too . |
| 23 | Robbie 's voice faltered into silence , and she held her breath , realising that her wretched curiosity had run away with her again . |
| 24 | Faccenda argued that its former employees had made improper use of a ‘ package ’ of confidential information , ie names and addresses of customers , the best routes to take to reach them , details of their usual requirements , times of Faccenda 's usual deliveries and , above all , information about Faccenda 's prices . |
| 25 | The authors believed that their serological results supported the view that infection with M paratuberculosis might cause Crohn 's disease . |
| 26 | Some of those who believed that his first bankruptcy had been engineered by the Shipping Federation had come to his rescue at the eleventh hour . |
| 27 | Like Wilson , Nixon believed that his national mandate gave him a legitimacy that the legislature lacked , a body that was , ‘ cumbersome , undisciplined , isolationist , fiscally irresponsible , overly vulnerable to pressures from organized minorities , and too dominated by the media ’ . |
| 28 | Childless women declaimed prayers to the Virgin in Latin while tears rolled down their faces ; and the parents of idiot children danced with them in the market place , swearing that their little brains had been set all to rights . |
| 29 | Hobbes had left England for Paris in 1640 , believing that his political views made this prudent and , as mathematics tutor to the future Charles II , he was associated there with the exiled English court . |
| 30 | Carrying through life a heavy sense that early separation from Ottery had left him no better than an orphan , Coleridge took comfort in believing that his own grandfather had been an orphan before him , a nameless , parentless child , discovered beneath a Devon sky . |