Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I found that I had n't any money with me , so I came along here instead . ’ |
| 2 | I found that I had far more anger in me than I ever realized . |
| 3 | It made me uncomfortable , but I found that I grew more confident . |
| 4 | She reached out for the time and found that she had over forty hours still to go before she met the contact again . |
| 5 | She found that she stayed quite dry there , but she wished she were somewhere else ! |
| 6 | The executives reported that they became highly involved in writing the cases . |
| 7 | Also I express surprise at the Labour leader 's volte face a short while ago in the press he reported that he had more important matters to think about , or discuss insofar as fox fox hunting was concerned or words to that effect . |
| 8 | I viewed A&R men the same way and when I met them I realised that they knew even less than I thought they knew . |
| 9 | Tamar laughed with her and realised that she felt less depressed about the forthcoming confinement after this little spell of humour . |
| 10 | Maggie realised that she felt perfectly safe with him . |
| 11 | The night before her operation Mrs Fellows was prescribed a sedative to help her relax and sleep because she admitted that she felt very nervous . |
| 12 | In the 1930s and 1940s research on one large mollusc , the squid , revealed that it had truly giant nerve axons , which could be dissected out individually and were big enough to insert electrodes into . |
| 13 | Tests revealed that he had abnormally high levels of insulin in his blood , which could only have been injected . |
| 14 | They participated more fully in the intellectual and political life of their time — some argued that they participated too much — and reflected their society 's values , again , perhaps , too much if the criticisms of the ‘ social gospel ’ were accepted . |
| 15 | Peter Samuel of Kingfisher , who quoted the names of nine search firms he had employed ( including two major international consultancies , Heidrick and Struggles and Norman Broadbent ) , argued that he used both large and small firms because of the variety of assignments he handled . |
| 16 | Yeltsin had given a dramatic description of tanks closing in and said that he believed that he had not much time left . |
| 17 | Later , when he went to check that Bathsheba 's sheep were safe , he noticed that they looked very frightened . |
| 18 | He noticed that she looked very flushed . |
| 19 | At this point I noticed that he had only one nostril . |
| 20 | Our human calculator estimated that we had over 30,000 books , not to mention huge stacks of magazines , periodicals , and encyclopaedias . |
| 21 | Upon retirement he declared that he had only one regret : his failure to divert the tram track round the sea-side of the Metropole Hotel ! |
| 22 | It also claimed that he had nearly 20 meetings with North between 1985 and 1987 . |
| 23 | I realised that men in politics had dominated world attitudes for long enough and although they claimed to be experts on everything , my experience showed that they understood very little . |
| 24 | Unisys Corp and Honeywell Inc say they have settled the pending lawsuits over the sale of the Sperry Aerospace Group to Honeywell in December 1986 — Honeywell reckoned that it paid too much because Unisys held back material information ; Unisys will make a pre-tax payment to Honeywell of $43.2m over three years toward a $70m total settlement , with the remaining funding coming from insurance and an investment banking firm ; as a result of the settlement , Unisys will report a net extraordinary charge of $26.4m against its first quarter figures for the period to March 31 ; it says the charge will be offset by a larger than expected net gain from implementing the FASB 106 and FASB 109 accounting changes that it already announced it would make . |
| 25 | Most traders offered extensive lines of credit , without interest , to their friends and kinsmen — a wealthy Kufran , for example , reckoned that he had about 30,000 dinars on loan to his friends at any one time — apart from commercial credit . |
| 26 | Eva protested that they had n't enough money . |
| 27 | Although at this stage of my work I shared interests with him on matters concerning children 's learning and Art Education , I quickly discovered that I had so much more to learn from him about ideas , materials and their uses and in the need to create a working environment of a high order . |
| 28 | Suppose a botanist working on the taxonomy of the ( hypothetical ) Peruvian bladder-grass family ( Vesicaliaceae ) discovered that it contained only one genus , Vesicalia , and that the genus had but one species , V. peruviensis . |
| 29 | Fabia loved that he seemed as befuddle-headed as she . |
| 30 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |