Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [that] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And everyone agreed that the swinging couple had a ball at the London nightclub . |
| 2 | Chairman , thank , thank you very much indeed erm Chairman , I will in fact and er perhaps if I read that in the first instance I have n't circulated it erm if I read that the first instance it will set the of what I have to say . |
| 3 | Then some creatures emerged from it , through an opening I had n't noticed , and I realized that the other heap was a dwelling . |
| 4 | I realized that the odd muffled mumbling from the direction of my co-star before our first entrance was the sentence on the business-card . |
| 5 | Er , first of all may I give my sincere and abject apology for not being here to chair the Garrick 's A G M , this is due to a longstanding appointment made before I realized that the first Thursday in December is traditionally the day for the A G M. |
| 6 | I realized that the mysterious man had told someone to watch me , and this was a message from his spy . |
| 7 | To my disappointment I realized that the nearest group was in Manchester , which was too far away to be useful . |
| 8 | We talked about Niki in Austria and from that conversation I realized that the two drivers were reverse medals of each other and that if you could combine the two , you would probably have the perfect driver . |
| 9 | Her hair was much longer and blonder , although I realized that the latter was probably due to the awful quality of the recording . |
| 10 | But soon I realized that the old man was blind . |
| 11 | And then I realized that the little cup she 'd brought with her out of the sea , and gave to me for Adam — that little cup could be none other than Undry . ’ |
| 12 | I could not have had a better send off , and I realized that the public battles had played only a marginal part in it . |
| 13 | Eventually , I realised that the only side to match the As are the Js . |
| 14 | ‘ I was in New Zealand , watching the rugby league students ’ world tournament , when I realised that the 15-a-side game did not have an equivalent competition . |
| 15 | Coz I realised that the poor boy had a problem |
| 16 | I was surprised to see them up in the tall grasses , instead of moving along the exposed bank , but I realised that the rising river level had forced them up . |
| 17 | But what he did come to recognise was the inadequacy of existing literature : ‘ I realised that the main writers on history and statistics at the time had done very little research and were relying on a few books . |
| 18 | I had applied for an Adjournment debate on this subject , but I realised that the hon. Member for Rotherham ( Mr. Crowther ) had a prior right , representing as he does the NLVA . |
| 19 | In Chapter 2 , I argued that the emancipatory conception of higher education — as I termed it — is to be found historically in the deep structure of the concept of higher education ( and I developed the idea in Chapter 8 , in discussing emancipation as the highest form of rationality ) . |
| 20 | I argued that the representational theory of mind , with its assumption that thinking is the possession of determinate ‘ mental states ’ which are in some sense encodings ( pictorial , syntactic ) of actual or possible states of affairs , contributes to the difficulty of the mind-body problem . |
| 21 | Stupidly , I presumed that the ancient axiom that females were put on this planet for purely decorative purposes or that being pretty ( or perhaps a spot of procreation ) were the pinnacles of achievement had forever died out alongside the bustle and/or the bubble car . |
| 22 | Peter and I agreed that the next step should be for us ( you ? ) to circulate the above topic/author proposals as an Aunt Sally to Paul and Jackie Schachter to see if this coincides at all with their thinking . |
| 23 | In drawing up a care plan , Mrs Allen and I agreed that the main problem was the infected gash on her leg and the surrounding area of cellulitis . |
| 24 | In the case of the subject I shall henceforward designate as Subject A I found that the medial end of the clavicle had not yet fused , though fusion had taken place at the acromion and verical border scapula . |
| 25 | Despite staying for a week , spent mostly looking after of course , I found that the close bond I experienced having witnessed 's birth took a lot longer to develop with . |
| 26 | When I investigated , I found that the long microphone lines across the stage were picking up BBC Radio 2 . |
| 27 | Remarkably enough , I found that the black hole would not be completely black . |
| 28 | To my great surprise , I found that the black hole seemed to emit particles at a steady rate . |
| 29 | I found that the new piece-rate price had been cut . |
| 30 | I found that the power-management features could more than double the battery life . |