Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I little thought that fresh intrusions would interrupt and spoil my solitudes . |
| 2 | Although I never pointed it out to Ira Dilworth , I rather felt that certain Ogden Nash lines entitled ‘ The Purist ’ might also apply , on occasion , to him . |
| 3 | I suddenly remembered that elegant pair of legs wrapped round the royal torso . |
| 4 | I just felt that these people did n't share my values . ’ |
| 5 | But I soon realised that this view of women is completely bogus . |
| 6 | I soon found that different dye lots knitted to different sizes , so that stripes in the dark colours needed four rows less than the lighter ones to make my four inches . |
| 7 | A glance at the awful title suggested the answer ‘ nothing ’ but I soon found that this book is not like all the others . |
| 8 | I finally asked that same bishop , who was a personal friend , for baptism . |
| 9 | It took me a long time to admit that , but I gradually realized that many people were grateful to me for sharing the thought with them . |
| 10 | But somehow I always feared that one day she would return to claim what 's hers . |
| 11 | I always thought that academic litigation was a peculiarity of modern America , but no : one Paul Nicholas sued the University of Paris for withholding his degree . |
| 12 | I quickly discovered that this fish was quite happy for me to take him in my hand , and from that day on I never used a net to catch him , just a hand and a plastic bowl to put him in . |
| 13 | Second , I also knew that this disquiet existed alongside other more conventional attitudes which perfectly fitted the portrayal of parents usually found in that literature . |
| 14 | I also considered that big bream were far too shy to tolerate the presence of a punt , with all the inevitable disturbance that punts cause , so relatively close to the swim . |
| 15 | I later discovered that this country was called Brobdingnag . |
| 16 | I even hoped that damned cat would find his way back so that I 'd have an excuse to ring you . " |
| 17 | I initially thought that all countries would be affected by the statement that you need to build military arsenals to keep the populations employed . |
| 18 | ‘ I almost forgot that insatiable appetite of yours , ’ he said . |
| 19 | And this ‘ vague altruism ’ apparently permeated up to the highest levels in government : for example , Neville Chamberlain , who had been a leading figure in the pre-war National Government 's denial of the problem of child malnutrition , was so shocked by the stories of the children 's condition that he commented to his sister , ‘ I never knew that such conditions existed , and I feel ashamed of having been so ignorant of my neighbours . |
| 20 | I recently discovered that this consultation paper had been sent out to some environmental NGOs in England in March for comments by the end of April . |
| 21 | She instinctively felt that that kind of attention was n't good for him . |
| 22 | She feverishly thought that this time , though he was tender and romantic at times , he was being very cautious about his feelings for her . |
| 23 | But she effortlessly avoided that exasperating coyness with which some seek to engage their audience , and the group also included the angelic Wir haben beide lange Zeit with whose chiming repetitions she wove an enchanting spell . |
| 24 | One of Isaac Bashevis Singer 's characters in a short story tells the narrator-author : ‘ You once wrote that human nature is such that one can not do anything in a straight line . |
| 25 | She further declared that any charges of heresy against Pole would be heard in England , announcing in words ironically reminiscent of her father 's that : ‘ she would in observance of the laws and privileges of her realm , refer them [ the charges ] to the cognisance and decision of her own ecclesiastical courts . ’ |
| 26 | Mary MacArthur spoke in defence of married women 's high sickness claims to the Departmental Committee on National Health Insurance in 1914 , but she still feared that any improvement respecting their position under the scheme would ‘ discriminate in favour of the wage-earning woman as against her uninsured sister , whose need is often as great , [ and ] will result in a State premium on the industrial employment of married women ’ . |
| 27 | Sometimes she was afraid that animals might take them , but when they went noisily along the path she still hoped that one day the man would be waiting there for them , beside the pile of stones . |
| 28 | She later discovered that eighteen bridges had been destroyed . |
| 29 | Mrs Ross tells me that she later discovered that several years earlier near Paisley signal box two trains had collided with loss of life . |
| 30 | At trial she also said that any fighting done by her was done in self-defence . |