Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked up again to see that she was still asleep and then I began leafing through the pages , curious to see whose names were entered there . |
| 2 | But I had now finally to conclude that the love and the joy and the laughter that was Leslie had vanished for ever . |
| 3 | But on my way through the old garden I had a strange feeling that something was wrong , and I ran back upstairs to check that Miss Havisham was all right . |
| 4 | The insight that we are what we keep secret about ourselves works out here to mean that we are our guilty secrets . |
| 5 | Fabia had been in her room for a good half-hour before she cooled down sufficiently to realise that maybe her reaction to Lubor 's hauling her into his arms had been a little — fierce — perhaps . |
| 6 | She had refused to sign the treaty recognizing Elizabeth as legitimate Queen of England , still considering her far from legitimate ; yet , once returned to Scotland , she compromised far enough to say that she would accept Elizabeth 's tenure during her lifetime on the understanding that her own eventual right to the succession was acknowledged . |
| 7 | Note that world execute access is needed to the Process Directory itself ; you need therefore also to check that the entire VMS pathname above the Process Directory also has world execute access at every level . |
| 8 | We went back upstairs to find that all the contents of our lockers had been thrown out over the floors , mixed up , trampled on , and that the lockers themselves had been hurled around the room , across the beds , which had been stripped , and out of the doors . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've seen him play often enough to know that he will do a good job for us . ’ |
| 10 | The sixteenth-century merchant who was so proud of his oriel windows would be astonished if he came back today to find that behind them management was managing and typists typing . |
| 11 | But , at least , it lasted long enough to show that the potential and the will were there . |