Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [that] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the simplest I found that many owners saw their houses as white elephants . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In Norway recently , I noticed that most buildings had a flag pole with their national colours flying . |
| 6 | ( Years later , I discovered that those flats were actually owned by the College , but they did n't tell me that . ) |
| 7 | In Chapter 3 I observed that most feminists have been more interested in studying linguistic sex differences than in critiquing or questioning this activity . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | With practice I learned that those flames instantly settled down to a proper blue flame . |
| 13 | ‘ But I said that all matters relating to players were Trevor Francis 's domain . |
| 14 | DURING my introduction I said that some Regions are better placed than others to increase their growth rate . |
| 15 | However , she realised that these matters would just have to take their course , although she must also remember she did n't have unlimited time at her disposal , because her father would be expecting her back at the office . |
| 16 | After that we would go to Tahiti , and I saw the excitement grow in Ellen as she realised that these plans were so close to coming true . |
| 17 | Can you see it requires more in a static holding , this is building muscle power and you have to do things , and muscle can build it if , it c if you asked that those legs to do that every day they would get better at it , because what the body would then do would be build in more muscle fibre to cope with the job , so can you see it , what you ask the body to do , you 've got to ask it the right amount , not too much or else you damage and you 've got to ask it regularly and gradually increase it if you want to improve the muscle power . |
| 18 | Adrienne Ring announced that she has taken over as Chairman of the Publicity Sub-Committee and she asked that all dates of rallies etc be sent to the office as soon as possible . |
| 19 | She demonstrated that some women could make their voices heard on political as well as spiritual matters during the Interregnum . |
| 20 | She learnt that these plates did not come up to the manufacturer 's high standards and would go back into the melting pot . |
| 21 | She added that all rooms contained details about the charges in an information directory . |
| 22 | And she added that some women were just as bad at bullying as the men . |
| 23 | Now , though , she perceived that many things which she had taken for granted in her life , simple , cosy , homely things , were , in fact , great luxuries . |
| 24 | You could n't call Tom Russell 's sister pretty , Belinda decided , but at the same time she knew that most men would be instantly attracted to Mrs Hamilton and would call her beautiful . |
| 25 | She announced that the first meeting of the Friends will be held on 13th November ( further details in the Calendar ) , and she stressed that all members of staff will be particularly welcome at all Friends meetings . |
| 26 | If you bought that many bonds then you would effectively be losing around £3.50 a week in interest , not much more than doing the pools . |
| 27 | She said that all MPs must take advice on personal security very seriously for the sake of themselves and their families ; Gow 's name had been found on an IRA death list discovered in a south London flat in December 1988 . |
| 28 | She said that several times , walking round the room . |
| 29 | She said that several times , walking round the room . ’ |
| 30 | For example , Christine Horton ( 1989 ) told the conference she regretted that many aspects of policing had a symbolic role which were not conducive to quantitative measures and were difficult to present with absolute objectivity . |