Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [that] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I overheard that this afternoon , I did n't think that was |
| 2 | In August I revealed that Prime Minister 's son James Major had a £3-an-hour holiday job . |
| 3 | Earlier this year , I announced that local authorities would receive aggregate external finance of £5.13 billion . |
| 4 | ‘ I realized that one day before the war . |
| 5 | Drawing nearer , I realized that warm air had twisted their outline — they were two men using scythes , no , garden rakes . |
| 6 | When I had finished , and when we had counted the money in the hat ( which we did round the corner , discreetly ) , I realized that four songs had earned us enough to pay for a proper meal , each , in a cheap restaurant . |
| 7 | I realized that this suit had been among the clothes Barrymore had left for Selden , and I told Holmes . |
| 8 | During this month I led the life for which I had always yearned hunting big game on my own in the wilds of Africa ; but now I realized that this expedition had meant more to me than just the excitement of hunting . |
| 9 | ‘ But I realised that one day I might not be so lucky . |
| 10 | As I saw the circle moving in on Alfred , I realised that that voice had been his . |
| 11 | But , gradually , I realised that kinky underwear gives me sexual freedom . |
| 12 | Afterwards I realised that this idea was wrong . |
| 13 | ‘ Once I realised that this novel was going to be a kind of mammoth , I decided to forgo writing the series . |
| 14 | but I realised that big weight losses often happen to very overweight people at the beginning of their diets , so I did n't expect to continue at anything like that pace . |
| 15 | ‘ I met that young man Billy Sullivan in the park the other day , ’ Annie said casually , wanting to glean some information about him . |
| 16 | But the situation was now so critical , and the time for restoring confidence so short , that , very reluctantly , I agreed that each Party must sink its political programme temporarily and combine to pursue an economic policy to save the nation from bankruptcy . |
| 17 | I tried that 26-letter word on my ‘ spellchecker ’ : it paused for a moment , then put up its hands with ‘ sorry , no suggestions ’ . |
| 18 | When the child caught this later and went off her food , I found that tiny Marmite sandwiches handed over whilst I pushed the pram round Wood Green and along the New Yatt Road , seemed to be acceptable to the invalid . |
| 19 | In the simplest I found that many owners saw their houses as white elephants . |
| 20 | One symptomatic phenomenon was revealed in my own research in Leicester for an Open University television programme , when I found that many teachers of English were unwilling to come to terms with the interest and creative potential of Asian students in English language , literature and drama . |
| 21 | I found that moderate slip angles produce no nasty consequences , but was restrained from further experimentation with the admonition that the aircraft describes what sounds like a brisk departure into a fast outside flick roll with the nose going hard down to exceed its negative-g limit . |
| 22 | Yet during interviews with managers involved , I found that other factors were at work . |
| 23 | When I arrived ten minutes before her at one stop ( advance means a few minutes ahead as well as two months ) I found that two ladies in wheelchairs had positioned themselves at the foot of the stairs and were pleading with everyone to let them stay and shake hands with Mrs Thatcher . |
| 24 | Nineteen eighty nine edition which is the latest existing in Your Lordship 's House and I found that that edition did reveal at what had happened since to subsec to Sections Two and Three . |
| 25 | I found that most parents were initially rather shocked at finding out their daughter was pregnant , some cried , some got angry , some were very matter-of-fact , and some were quite pleased . |
| 26 | Instead , I found that military firms are to blame for selling all the arms to these poor countries and most of the sales go on without the governments knowing . |
| 27 | On the first morning came two shocks — I found that Christian names were dropped — from now on I was Maidment . |
| 28 | In October I reported that British designer Carolyn Quartermaine had landed a top assignment with an internationally known New York-based designer . |
| 29 | If I used that particular eyepiece on my 76-mm refractor , I would still obtain a magnification of around × 600 — but the image would be so faint that it would be completely useless . |
| 30 | I assumed that open string resonance must be enhanced by this . |