Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [that] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Last month I announced that applications had been invited from 14 units for NHS trust status in April 1993 . |
| 3 | The negro was obviously homosexual and I realized that homosexuals had been buying that stuff for years . |
| 4 | The moment I got back I realized that things had changed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I argued that individuals can gain great advantage from their ability to refine and enrich their methods of communication by this means . |
| 7 | But there , too , I found that things had changed . |
| 8 | I addressed first two ancient problems : the relationship between Luke and Acts ( I found that Acts resembled Luke more than it resembled any other book of the NT ) and the relationship between the Apocalypse and the Gospel of St John ( I found that they differed from each other more than any other two books of the NT ) . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ I found that abortions were regularly carried out on women seven , eight , and even nine months pregnant , often against their will , and that there were even cases of officially-instigated infanticide . |
| 10 | In both general texts and volumes dealing with special topics , I found that women were often invisible . |
| 11 | ‘ When I compared notes with managers in places like Glasgow and Manchester , I found that women there seemed to go for more restrained , less glitzy clothes . |
| 12 | Those got taken up with a lot of promotional work , and in my case I found that charities got in touch with me a lot to open fetes , attend jumble sales , etc . |
| 13 | While carrying out research for my book , Our Treacherous Hearts : Why Women Let Men Get Their Way ( Faber & Faber , £14.99 ) , I found that men are not only often let off the hook by women , but are actively ‘ idealised ’ by them . |
| 14 | So anyway that was one of the reasons , when I found that Brothers was slowly going out of business , when I saw last in , and I asked him if er I could have this thing ? |
| 15 | I found that amendments that sought to divert young people from criminal activity would not fit into the Bill because of what an Officer of the House described as ’ the curious geography of the Bill ’ . |
| 16 | From these observations , Hofmann and I proposed that plumes consist in part of deeply subducted oceanic crust and sediment . |
| 17 | Back in Chapter 4 , I mentioned that pull-ups were very useful exercises because they strengthen the muscles needed to pull yourself up over a high wall . |
| 18 | At the time I wondered how any improvements could be visual , when I learnt that players could ignore March winds and appear on the 1st tee in shirt and slacks . |
| 19 | I noticed that children often marked themselves like this in play . |
| 20 | Through an interpreter I replied that things were well and we had no famine . |
| 21 | I discovered that wellies were good for keeping feet wet when the water came above your waist — and I found alternative footwear ! |
| 22 | I prayed that condoms were like stretch stockings and all came in one size . |
| 23 | The college of nursing which accepted me is currently taking on Project 2000 students , and I anticipated that standards of education would have improved since my training . |
| 24 | But from the beginning I sensed that things were n't going to be easy , not for any of us . |
| 25 | Later I heard that Irishmen outside Sligo nurtured suspicions that the Minister used the Finance of All Ireland just to favour his home town with a new bridge , a new hospital and other luxuries . |
| 26 | I decided that things would work better if I upgraded by adding a 1 Meg expanded memory board to give 2 Meg of RAM . |
| 27 | ‘ You know very well that I decided that months ago — and nothing 's changed . ’ |
| 28 | I also stated that when I felt that things were going well and the government was settled I would take a trip and that trip starts now . |
| 29 | Though very tense throughout the whole week , I felt that things were not going too badly . |
| 30 | Recognising that some form of help is required by these fish as they are invariably suffering from stress , damaged fins and shock brought about by different water conditions , and not wanting to use anything alien to their systems , I felt that herbs would be gentler and less likely to result in any problems with breeding the fish later . |