Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [that] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier this year , I announced that local authorities would receive aggregate external finance of £5.13 billion . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In the simplest I found that many owners saw their houses as white elephants . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Yet during interviews with managers involved , I found that other factors were at work . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | On the first morning came two shocks — I found that Christian names were dropped — from now on I was Maidment . |
| 10 | Unlike most of the sights before , you are unlikely to be standing alone and I noticed that other visitors wandered round in disbelieving silence . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In Norway recently , I noticed that most buildings had a flag pole with their national colours flying . |
| 13 | ( Years later , I discovered that those flats were actually owned by the College , but they did n't tell me that . ) |
| 14 | In Chapter 3 I observed that most feminists have been more interested in studying linguistic sex differences than in critiquing or questioning this activity . |
| 15 | I felt that hidden eyes must be observing us from behind bushes and tree-trunks . |
| 16 | I knew that such contradictions could be resolved for Jean-Claude in his work , and I felt that he , like me , should not allow them to dominate life . |
| 17 | Certainly Terry , Brian and I knew that close friends had been campaigning for us and that that experience could have changed them , just as we 'd been changed by what we had gone through . |
| 18 | I knew that three deaths in my immediate vicinity within four years had to look suspicious , and I had already planned my reaction carefully . |
| 19 | I knew that these paintings were produced for the Spanish in the decades after their conquest of Latin America , and represented the christianising of the old centres of Inca culture , in Peru and Bolivia especially . |
| 20 | But I knew that absurder things had happened in America and Britain — and in Spain . |
| 21 | When I saw this happening I began to watch more closely , and I saw that some nights even when she was n't up on the stage Madame had her eye on these two and would often look from one to the other and then back again . |
| 22 | I feared that many readers , prejudiced by the supposed right-wing commitment of the Group , would misread the Report , and take for granted that we were opposed to all the innovations of recent years . |
| 23 | When I was much younger , and not as religious as I am today , I thought that religious Jews had sex through a hole in a sheet , wore clothes from the last century , and were generally out of touch with life and the world we live in . |
| 24 | I thought that elementary particles were less attractive because , although scientists were finding lots of new particles , there was no proper theory at that time . |
| 25 | I thought that three guineas would be an appropriate amount , drew up a licence and sent it to him to sign . |
| 26 | I later read a book on astrology which told your former lives , and I learned that 2000 years ago I held an important post as a male . |
| 27 | With practice I learned that those flames instantly settled down to a proper blue flame . |
| 28 | ‘ But I said that all matters relating to players were Trevor Francis 's domain . |
| 29 | I said that asymmetric arms races were more likely to lead to interesting progressive improvements than symmetric ones , and we can now see why this is , using human weapons to illustrate the point . |
| 30 | DURING my introduction I said that some Regions are better placed than others to increase their growth rate . |