Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [that] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I told that miserable bloke who looks after the lorries the same fing meself , ’ she told her friends . |
| 32 | And I believed that this world of darkness and changing images went on without a break , as unceasingly as the other less real one outside , wherever outside was , and by some unlikely philanthropic gesture of the city corporation was allowed to co-exist and be connected by the little dark doors with dark portholes . |
| 33 | How longingly I recalled that other bed , with Sophocles beside it and Mary in it , as I camped out on unsavoury sacks among the dregs of humanity who were my new companions ! |
| 34 | The idea seemed too melodramatically absurd , until I recalled that all melodrama has its basis in the lurid facts of earlier generations . |
| 35 | At this unhappy moment , I recalled that mysterious sentence , ‘ Wallace and Darwin did not know it , but there are alternatives . ’ |
| 36 | Unlike most of the sights before , you are unlikely to be standing alone and I noticed that other visitors wandered round in disbelieving silence . |
| 37 | As I went into the house , I noticed that one person did not come to meet me . |
| 38 | Later during the trip I noticed that one morning the smell had n't registered with me . |
| 39 | I noticed that last week permission was given for gas exports . |
| 40 | About this time I noticed that those crews who consistently got aiming point pictures on the bomb plots issued by HQ Bomber Command after each raid were never selected for PFF . |
| 41 | During the World Cup , when an ‘ Anglo-Saxon conspiracy ’ was talked about in France , I noticed that most people in England laughed , dismissing the claim as the words of a bad loser . |
| 42 | In Norway recently , I noticed that most buildings had a flag pole with their national colours flying . |
| 43 | Not that I imagined that any bolt could keep out that terrible avenging creature ! |
| 44 | What is more , the journey via New York and Los Angeles included a first leg of the marathon journey on a British Airways Concorde , where I enjoyed that extraordinary experience of arriving in Manhattan — thanks to the five hours time difference — more than an hour before the 10.30 am departure time from Heathrow . |
| 45 | Back at the Neuadd Arms I discovered that pre-race training for most of the other entrants consisted of downing the maximum number of pints of ale in the least possible time . |
| 46 | At Oxford I discovered that most people were only too willing to be friendly if I gave them a chance . |
| 47 | ( Years later , I discovered that those flats were actually owned by the College , but they did n't tell me that . ) |
| 48 | Years later I discovered that this process had been studied by a distinguished scientist , Beveridge , and described in a book The Art of Scientific Investigation . |
| 49 | In Chapter 3 I observed that most feminists have been more interested in studying linguistic sex differences than in critiquing or questioning this activity . |
| 50 | I observed that this policy was repeated last Sunday and No 75069 was rostered to haul four coaches from Aberystwyth to Machynlleth , with a scheduled departure time of 18.10 . |
| 51 | I indicated that legal action was , in my view , inappropriate in respect of what was a rather feeble attempt at satire , and the importance of the programme would be enhanced to an absurd extent if anyone depicted in it took it seriously , but none of us liked being ridiculed . |
| 52 | We gained energy from each other and I determined that this strength must be used creatively . |
| 53 | ’ He gave a sob , ‘ and she went rattling down the stairs to her room the way she always did and then I heard that awful sort of slither and Bunty 's scream … ’ |
| 54 | ‘ I 'm telling you , ’ she said , ‘ when I heard that big clock in the hall striking the five , you could 've knocked me down with a feather ! |
| 55 | And Jaz actually said oh I heard that some bloke from your school is gay is n't he ? |
| 56 | ‘ I heard that Lebanese guy offer you a room at his place . |
| 57 | Earlier this week I warned that poor tour morale was the only likely threat to England 's chances of beating an inept Indian Test side , but now misgivings have become reality . |
| 58 | Lying in second place and sitting on a possible £3,000 I decided that two practice sessions were needed and on the Tuesday , a week before the match , I had a day off work ( I left Dek in charge of the shop — yet again ) and headed 70 miles down the M.1. to the canal to try to sort it out . |
| 59 | I decided that further thinking would get me nowhere . |
| 60 | Far too quickly and when he left for Oman , I felt that aching void which , after decades of marriage , never lessened when he and I separated to travel alone . |