Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adj] [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I became aware that feet were scuttling down the stairs , and my father was bellowing from the regions below , ‘ For God 's sake , come down ! ’ |
| 2 | Of course I did n't kill my father but I made sure that Katie was never , ever alone with him . |
| 3 | But I felt sure that Leveque was not involved in the racket side of the mayor 's activities . |
| 4 | I asked him to desist not from his prayers but from his actions because I felt sure that God wanted to prepare the Anglican priest for his death . |
| 5 | I felt proud that Mr Rochester had trusted me with the story of his past life . |
| 6 | The first was not so much Offa 's death on 26 or 29 July 796 ( ASC D , s.a. 796 ) as the death of Ecgfrith , his successor , 141 days later ( ASC A , s.a. 755 ) which threatened all that Offa had struggled to achieve within Mercia and created dynastic uncertainty at the centre of the Mercian polity as royal power was assumed by Coenwulf , a prince claiming descent not from Eowa or Penda but from a certain Coenwealh , allegedly in the genealogies a brother of Eowa and Penda ( see Appendix , Fig. 8 ) . |
| 7 | But the poetry which emerged front that experience is hard and clear , and it is as if his capacity for suffering existed with an immense ability to use and to order it . |
| 8 | She made sure that Duart and his heir would be magnificently turned out for this visit to a foreign clan . |
| 9 | She was still pondering this , as well as thinking about Faye Hamilton and the long difficult journey through pregnancy that lay ahead , when she became aware that Dr Russell was laughing to himself — just a quiet chuckle at first , but as he realised she was watching him and saw her bemused expression the sound grew to a full-throated and resonant guffaw . |
| 10 | She became aware that Mrs Diggory was at her side . |
| 11 | As she turned back to her coffee , she became aware that Anthea was gathering up her bag and some programmes , and the professor was sitting oddly rigid in his chair , staring after the two young men with an appalled expression on his face . |
| 12 | She seemed worried that Prince Charles would not make the wedding in time . |
| 13 | She felt sure that Freddie Nash was as in love with her as she was with him for there was hardly a day when they did not manage to meet , often in Jock Hallett 's cottage , where their mutual passion , already discovered at The Angel , seemed to intensify . |
| 14 | She felt sure that plans must have been well advanced for the action they intended to take , and she thought that councillors should have been asked to approve the use of emergency guidelines at that time . |
| 15 | She felt sure that Allen had been wrong about the white horse . |
| 16 | She felt sure that Nan would know everyone in UCD in days . |
| 17 | Although so alike physically , she felt sure that Jonna would not stand up to his father 's rage , as George would have done . |
| 18 | As she slept in her Italian-designed tube steel bed with the iron-grey duvet , she felt sure that Steve in the room across the corridor must know who was in there with her , and as she went to work next day , she felt sure that everyone must see what she was dragging with her . |
| 19 | She felt certain that Mr Johnstone and Mrs Beeley walking behind could hear . |
| 20 | After some time one became aware that members of a quite different clan were also to be found scattered in little clusters throughout the open-plan living area . |
| 21 | It was when we became engaged that things seemed to change . |
| 22 | Still pleading competition and the greater suitability of women for keyboard work , they proposed first that machines henceforward be given alternately to men and women workers ; or , a further concession , that all new machines be given to men until there were 50 per cent worked by each sex , and attributed alternately thereafter . |
| 23 | In the hours that followed the announcement of the attack , they seemed convinced that Hitler had triumphed in the east without provoking war in the west . |
| 24 | They returned convinced that Britain 's trees — and especially its beech trees — were showing ‘ acid rain ’ or Waldsterben symptoms as bad as , if not worse than , those on the continent . |
| 25 | Her family remained supportive , despite the emotional load : they remained hopeful that Rose would one day regain the motivation to try to help herself , and therefore the people around her . |
| 26 | He made sure that Dosh — or Freddie — sat next to him , so I ended up with Freddie or Dosh in the back seat and she was getting very friendly by the time we got to Knightsbridge . |
| 27 | When it became apparent that learners were not mastering grammatical structures by this method , pattern practice was introduced , and with the advent of language learning laboratories , the student spent much of his time listening to and mechanically repeating drills . |
| 28 | It became apparent that Japan was not to be viewed merely within the context of East Asia . |
| 29 | Although there was no reliable estimate of the numbers detained , it became apparent that Iraq had moved some foreign nationals to potential military targets such as air fields and oil facilities , to deter any US air attacks . |
| 30 | As the scale of local government grew and the environment began to change more rapidly , it became apparent that services needed to be more closely integrated in order that they would meet the needs of the environment . |