Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fitzgerald calculated the critical number of samples needed to be 80 per cent certain that the mean score would be no more than one year out , and found that in one book it was 72 samples — which amounted to nearly half the book ! |
| 2 | We found that in each case it was necessary to think of three dimensions . |
| 3 | In this condition , and with much-increased fuel tankage , it could usually reach at least 30,000 feet , and on one occasion was taken up to 36,000 feet by George Burges — although he reported that at this height it was very unstable . |
| 4 | The whole group burst out laughing and agreed that on that occasion she should be ‘ let off ’ her reading . |
| 5 | She realised that at some level she had always known this , since otherwise she could not have recovered so quickly . |
| 6 | Roy also revealed that at one stage they went to local paramilitaries to ask them to leave one young offender alone . |
| 7 | He believed that with such experience she would not have resisted the orders of her assailant . |
| 8 | The sea roared like a pride of hungry lions , thudding against the side of the ship like a thousand battering-rams , so that it seemed that at any moment it must break through and drown them all . |
| 9 | The Collector estimated that at this rate they might carry on for another two or three weeks . |
| 10 | He stated that during this period he was interrogated and beaten on a daily basis . |
| 11 | After much of the previous evidence had been repeated , Professor Tidy , a police forensic expert , stated that after detailed examination he had found human blood on all three of the Tidburys ' clothing . |
| 12 | He replied that without total control he did n't have a job . |
| 13 | She knew he was being evasive and sensed that in some way he was trying to protect her . |
| 14 | On the Friday morning we heard that by popular demand we were to stay on another week . |
| 15 | Counsel for the appellants had attacked this finding because the patient had been an outpatient at a different hospital in the past and a practitioner there could have fulfilled this function ; and he submitted that in any case it was a duty of the hospital managers to find out if it was practicable to obtain the recommendation of a practitioner who had previous acquaintance with the patient : he relied on the form of the question ‘ explain why you could not get a recommendation from a medical practitioner who did know the patient ’ on the hospital admission application form . |
| 16 | The ITA decided that in this region it did not matter if the finance was not ‘ local ’ . |
| 17 | Sycorax saw that in this regard she had achieved her curse : for Kit too , Roukoubé was a mongrel whelp , the reminder of his weakness and Ariel 's strangeness . |
| 18 | If he was in a procession the other members of the procession still worried about his inability to walk a straight line and feared that at some point he would peel off from the file . |
| 19 | I feared that at any moment I might fall and break my neck . |
| 20 | ‘ So her father must have been a canon , ’ said Mark , though he felt that for some reason it was the canon 's widow who cut more ice here . |
| 21 | I asked our education correspondent , Mike Baker , to list some of the topics he felt that with more space they could cover properly . |
| 22 | She knew that for some reason it was important for Jasper to have it from her . |
| 23 | Even Otto knew that without papal support he could not survive . |
| 24 | He knew that in some way he had hurt her . |
| 25 | She could not guess why or how , but she knew that in some way he was out to drive a wedge between herself and John . |
| 26 | Also I could hear irony in his tone and I thought that for some reason he was very annoyed indeed . |
| 27 | I thought that in some way I was n't pleasing you . |
| 28 | They entered the house at lightning speed , with Robyn only too aware of the expensive hallway , the elegant furnishings , convinced that at any moment she would disgrace herself ; to vomit now , before she reached a bathroom , would be the final humiliation . |
| 29 | Hamilton asserted that in ordinary life it was the strong arm of the law and not the strong arm of the husband which protected women from hurt or molestation . |
| 30 | When he was told of a young man who wished to become a poet , Eliot replied , " He 's getting ready for a sad life " , and Ronald Duncan said that during this period he looked " miserable and unwell " and " began to affect many signs of premature old age " . |