Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [that] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Everyone agreed that the result was most successful .
2 Everyone agreed that the loss of eyesight was a consequence of the animals taking up residence in an environment with no light , but the Lamarckians argued that the inherited effects of disuse provided a better explanation of the process than natural selection .
3 I asked that the link road from to Lane , which had been omitted , should be included in the town plan and Councillor has written on that matter to District Council and they agreed that it should be .
4 I just think I just think it 's quite important for us all to realize I did a , when I used to do a similar job to this it took me a long time before I realized that the customer , you know on the phone does n't know that your you should n't have asked an open question there
5 It was only when everyone rose to their feet , shook hands and made a beeline for the cooking tent — where , it emerged , Balvinder Singh had been for the last half-hour — that I realized that the ceremony was over .
6 And then I r I realized that the job was only gon na last a year , cos it 's only a year job , so the best thing I can do is to go all out for what I wan na do when I leave the centre .
7 Then I realized that the house did not belong to a human , but to the horse who had brought me here .
8 The moment I had reached the Rhossili car park at the start of my walk , I realised that the mildness of this sunny spring day was being blown to bits out on Worm 's Head .
9 I realised that the floor manager wanted myself and two other Muslim girls ( who were wearing white headscarves which covered their foreheads ) to sit together .
10 ‘ Eventually I realised that the money was nothing to do with me .
11 I realised that the standard of scholarship of the staff of Judson was not as high as that of the rest of the University , but their care of the students seemed to me more personal .
12 Then all at once , so subtly that I could hardly be sure when I first saw it , I realised that the sky was full of movement , small shadowy shapes skimming low over the ground , silently , as if bats or night-time swallows were criss-crossing my line of vision , swarming between the broch and the sea .
13 I realised that the girl had finally noticed me .
14 In fact at one stage I thought this lack of drama might make poor reading , however , as I progressed I realised that the Club 's story was a neat piece of social-history entwined with personalities and tested by problems .
15 I realised that the detail and the logic of the story made it impossible not to believe Fearnley .
16 Because that 's where I realised that the drama school training helped a lot .
17 Looking through the contents list of the first edition of Observations , I cam across the following titles — ‘ Money from SOED ’ , ‘ Local Authority Support for Teacher Research ’ , ‘ Classroom Observation ’ and ‘ Your Observations ’ , and I realised that the report of a small scale study which I recently submitted to RIU contained all these features .
18 That was the first day I realised that the war was really over .
19 The moment was complete when I realised that the action had also cured my arthritis and that I had n't needed the strategically-placed piece of double-sided sticky tape .
20 As I dug up a bronze Roman belt-stud , I realised that the site was a mixture of historical periods .
21 I was so immersed in my thoughts that it was several seconds before I realised that the sound dinning in my ears was the telephone ringing .
22 After my canvas was half painted , however , I realised that the canvas was at the wrong angle .
23 In an earlier Chapter I argued that the canon is ‘ bursting ’ , because of the advent of other anglophone literatures , and the increasing interest in contemporary writing .
24 In the first chapter I argued that the fact that the Scots settlers and the Irish natives were respectively Calvinists and Roman Catholics had profound consequences for the development of social conflict .
25 I argued that the application of this principle would mean in effect the employment of a sub-unit of five men to cover a target previously requiring four troops of a commando , i.e. , about 200 men .
26 I recommended that the paper be published as it was because it would take Linde several months to correct it , since anything he sent to the West would have to be passed by Soviet censorship , which was neither very skillful nor very quick with scientific papers .
27 I now set out the reasons for which I agreed that the appeal should be allowed .
28 I checked that the bomb was all right , especially that the white crystals of the explosive mixture were dry , then added a plastic-straw fuse and a charge of the explosive around the hole bored in the black pipe and taped everything up .
29 Someone maintained that the land owners would be immediately involved in these management groups .
30 After first working my times on my Bühlmann decompression work sheet , I found that the Aladin Pro complemented the SAA tables when diving defensively , though I must stress , I used the instrument as a backup to assist the previously worked out dive profiles .
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