Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [vb infin] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It made me realise that other people have the same problems and it helped enormously to share with the other mums . |
| 2 | Little for that matter did I believe that this experience was to be the start of a whole new direction in my life , the lessons of which I have attempted to set out in this book . |
| 3 | Did you know that traditional Lloyd Loom furniture is made from paper twisted around fine steel , which is then woven into the finished product ? |
| 4 | ‘ Did you know that those Yugoslavians who came into your hands had very good reasons to fear for terror ? ’ |
| 5 | For a moment he said nothing , then asked quietly , ‘ Did you know that old shop 's to let again ? |
| 6 | Did you know that any number doubled is even ? |
| 7 | Thermal underwear may be a multi-million pound industry , but did you know that any article of clothing can be called thermal ? |
| 8 | Did you know that human beings also raise their eyebrows when they greet each other as a signal of friendship to people they know ? |
| 9 | Did she know that one day he 'd come along and look ? |
| 10 | He will recall that , when British Rail proposed that Waterloo should be the first channel tunnel station , not only did it say that one station was sufficient and that it did not need a second one but , in the case which it put to the House of Lords during the discussions , it said specifically that King 's Cross was not an appropriate location for a second station . |
| 11 | At the time when the Prime Minister said that if his policies ’ were not hurting , they were not working , ’ did he realise that those policies would cause the longest recession since the 1930s ? |
| 12 | Why did he conclude that fifty millesimals were better ? |
| 13 | To exonerate him the court invented the second stage : did he believe that reasonable people would regard his behaviour as not dishonest ? |
| 14 | Although he was involved with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre , he never settled with any organisation for long , nor did he believe that permanent companies were likely to produce better work than ad hoc assemblies . |
| 15 | At first he was surprised at this and only when they referred to him as an ‘ adult ’ did he realize that some time in the previous weeks the last of his juvenile plumage had moulted and his wings now had the rich and glossy glow of an adult golden eagle . |
| 16 | Were they just words he was reading , or did he realize that three aircraft meant twenty-one crew , and countless women waiting anxiously for the phone call that would tell them their man was safe — or the letter that would tell them he was not ? |
| 17 | But at no stage did he deny that these conditions are part of the explanation . |
| 18 | Long before John Robinson 's Honest to God made Bonhoeffer known to a mass public , Hartwell persistently made us see that this theologian-martyr really mattered for post-war theology . |