Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] that [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realised that almost the instant she left me . ’ |
| 2 | The bridge humbucker has been designed to give a very hot response indeed , and I found that even the centre single coil kicked the amp quite nicely . |
| 3 | When I came back to Scotland I found that generally the standard of club rugby was lower . ’ |
| 4 | I found that quite a hard time erm and especially if you do n't have any family near . |
| 5 | After my research I found that only the rich countries make weapons and the poor countries simply buy the finished goods . |
| 6 | I noticed that even the adults showed no ill effects at all when I moved the odd battered brother or post-spawning female to recoup in a low pH growing-on tank . |
| 7 | We had heard that the paths ahead were precarious and exposed , but my heart sank when I noticed that even the horses were being blindfolded . |
| 8 | Before the war began , listening to reminiscences of those who had experienced the last war and sensing their dread , I imagined that once a war had started , no one would ever be happy again . |
| 9 | I showed that instead the symmetry would have broken everywhere at the same time , rather than just inside bubbles . |
| 10 | On my visits to schools as a member of the Kingman Committee , I discovered that often the English department 's description of its syllabus would explicitly state that children should not be taught the definition of grammatical terms . |
| 11 | So , when at last I came to a small village with a large church , I decided that perhaps the priest might be the best person to tell me where these prehistoric pagans buried their dead . |
| 12 | Not necessarily : ‘ I do n't think I meant that even the people who have no caveats attached implied that they knew absolutely everything in the box . |
| 13 | So it was a way of getting out and I knew that eventually the council would have to rehouse me . |
| 14 | I feared that even an emergency home call might go unheeded . |
| 15 | I thought that presumably the bill was still divided proportionately between the countries . |
| 16 | I thought that rather an inelegant phrase and I shall return to it . |
| 17 | No , I thought that perhaps a stroll down Unter den Linden — such memories for me there — and then I have another idea . |
| 18 | But then I thought that perhaps an accident was awaiting me or one of my relatives . |
| 19 | " And I thought that maybe a few bruises under the seat of your pants might make sure you remember something else that 's important . |
| 20 | At about then I took note that there were n't in fact any other boats moving on the river and I remembered that often the locks closed for maintenance in winter and maybe the lock-keeper would have gone shopping … |
| 21 | The Bank itself commissioned a study which noted that approximately a third of its projects failed to meet these rigorous criteria . |
| 22 | Van den Berghs ' marketing director Bill Young took the UK marketer of the year trophy in recognition of his deft handling of the I Ca n't Believe It 's Not Butter controversy , which showed that even the monolithic Unilever can be quick on its feet when its brands are under threat . |
| 23 | The vegetation of the field was analysed by ordination and correlation techniques which showed that only a minor part of the variation in species distribution could be accounted for by underlying edaphic factors , though in the peripheral areas of the pasture the presence of hedges and trees accounted for significant changes in the vegetation — e.g. Dadtylis glomerata occurred mainly in or close to the shade of the trees . |
| 24 | He argued that matter and spirit were manifestations of a single underlying substance — which meant that even the most primitive form of life had some spiritual qualities . |
| 25 | But he failed to win planning permission because Derwentside Council 's development control sub-committee rejected most of the individual elements , which meant that effectively the whole scheme was refused . |
| 26 | Rather more perceptive ( I felt ) was an article in The Independent , a London newspaper , which said that even a serious scientific book like A Brief History of Time could become a cult book . |
| 27 | It also adopted four constitutional amendments , one of which specified that only the Macedonian Assembly could proclaim a state of emergency in the republic . |
| 28 | The government accepted the recommendations of the Department of Health 's advisory group on air pollution , chaired by Stephen Holgate of Southampton University , which concluded that even the highest levels of ozone pollution in Britain posed no severe or long-term threat to health . |
| 29 | And first I want to discuss this idea of hopeful monsters , which is a phrase which goes back to Richard Goldsmith , the geneticist , who argued that occasionally a single — well he was vague about what kind of mutation he had in mind , because he had really rather odd ideas about what genes were and so on but he held occasionally that some genetic change gave rise in some sense in a single dialectical leap to organisms strikingly different from their parents and that speciation consisted of the establishment of such hopeful monsters or macro mutations . |
| 30 | Newman and his original associates ( all white and mostly women ) were hard-liners who argued that only a revolution of the working class could resolve the individual psychic crisis . |