Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of them agreed that Mrs Shaw who was ‘ one of the best ’ , helped Mr Shaw tremendously with his plays . |
| 2 | Five of the twenty-seven staff who made written responses gave the book two stars for pupil popularity , i.e. ‘ very popular ’ ; two of them reported that girls had complained about ‘ having to read about male heroes ’ and that The Machine Gunners , which ‘ girls see as a boy 's book ’ , had frequently been the impetus for such comments . |
| 3 | I think I read that Blagden was open from half past |
| 4 | Also in March I announced that Dr David Owen was to give his endorsement to one of the parties in the general election . |
| 5 | Last month I announced that applications had been invited from 14 units for NHS trust status in April 1993 . |
| 6 | Darwin hoists a pint of Dregs saying , ‘ I 've had my share of good moments , such as when I cheated that Wallace simpleton out of any credit for natural selection . |
| 7 | And then when the invitations to speak to the Housewives ’ Register and Parish Council started rolling in , I realized that CHE had been noted as a part of the life of the town and it had a lot of potential friends . |
| 8 | The negro was obviously homosexual and I realized that homosexuals had been buying that stuff for years . |
| 9 | I was about to explain when I realized that Kāli had told him already . |
| 10 | It was only now that I realized that Lineker was n't Arabic for goal ! |
| 11 | So far as I can reconstruct events , I was gazing at the water jug when the exchange started ; I discovered I was smiling when I realized that Anne was watching me ; whereupon I looked at her interrogatively ; she looked at the water jug with a slight frown ; Millie glanced at each of us in turn , then picked up her dessert spoon and studied that instead ; I watched her smiling at the spoon ; which made me start smiling again ; which made Anne start looking at me again ; which … kept us all occupied throughout the main course . |
| 12 | The moment I got back I realized that things had changed . |
| 13 | I realized that Hindley did not care what conditions he lived in , and Joseph clearly spent more time praying than cleaning . |
| 14 | Looking around the room , at the old , worn furniture , I realized that Herbert must be very poor . |
| 15 | During that pause I realized that Mala had not been offered a seat , nor any food or drink . |
| 16 | For the first time I realized that Celia would know all about me from my letters to Aunt Louise . |
| 17 | When I realized that Hilda 's was more than a normal crush , I should have stopped it I suppose . |
| 18 | ‘ It was n't long before I realised that Fabien felt the same too . |
| 19 | Of Mathilda there was no sight whatsoever and I realised that Bowyer 's death had panicked many of the servants into leaving Templecombe . |
| 20 | I realised that life might still hold some pleasure , if not happiness . |
| 21 | Before that , Rachel had simply been my younger sister ; prettier , brighter and sweeter than me , but that had never really bothered me until that moment , when I realised that Jacob obviously loved her far more than he would ever love me . |
| 22 | I wondered why McIllvanney had not told me that Rickie and Robin-Anne Crowninshield were drug addicts , then I realised that McIllvanney would not have told me anything that might have risked my acceptance of the charter , but now that I had learned that the twins had such a severe drug problem I was even less keen to take on the job . |
| 23 | Elegance was not a concept I associated with myself , nor with nuns , but as I thought about it I realised that Lili was right . |
| 24 | When I realised that Barny was untrainable , I knew I would have to find a hand-reared owl if I was to stand any chance of training one successfully . |
| 25 | It was when I took my jacket off and stood before a mirror and saw for the first time that all I was was a pair of scarlet braces , that I realised that evangelism was n't enough . |
| 26 | It was at this stage that Reg and I realised that David Stirling was suffering from one of his frequent migraine attacks … . |
| 27 | Only then I realised that Ron Gibbs had just joined us . |
| 28 | I realised that Harold had appointed him in order to maintain a keener watch on what the BBC was saying about people . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | As work began in earnest on the book , I realised that Roderick had lost none of the skills that I , as his research student twenty years before , had regarded with awe . |