Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [that] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I overheard that this afternoon , I did n't think that was |
| 2 | I realized that this suit had been among the clothes Barrymore had left for Selden , and I told Holmes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As I saw the circle moving in on Alfred , I realised that that voice had been his . |
| 5 | Afterwards I realised that this idea was wrong . |
| 6 | ‘ Once I realised that this novel was going to be a kind of mammoth , I decided to forgo writing the series . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In the simplest I found that many owners saw their houses as white elephants . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The idea seemed too melodramatically absurd , until I recalled that all melodrama has its basis in the lurid facts of earlier generations . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In Norway recently , I noticed that most buildings had a flag pole with their national colours flying . |
| 17 | Not that I imagined that any bolt could keep out that terrible avenging creature ! |
| 18 | At Oxford I discovered that most people were only too willing to be friendly if I gave them a chance . |
| 19 | ( Years later , I discovered that those flats were actually owned by the College , but they did n't tell me that . ) |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In Chapter 3 I observed that most feminists have been more interested in studying linguistic sex differences than in critiquing or questioning this activity . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We gained energy from each other and I determined that this strength must be used creatively . |
| 24 | And Jaz actually said oh I heard that some bloke from your school is gay is n't he ? |
| 25 | Erm , I felt that that Tony was getting a bit frustrated |
| 26 | I felt that any response I might make to this sad ending would be inadequate to the occasion . |
| 27 | I felt that this conversation was adding little to my , or my listeners ' , knowledge of how to buy a coffin , so I thanked him kindly for his time and said goodbye . |
| 28 | " Although sponsored club competitions are prolific in the U.K. , I felt that this opportunity was quite different , offering club golfers the chance to participate in a national tournament during the winter , " said Ivan Straker , Chairman of Seagram Distillers . |
| 29 | I felt that this person could change my life … could bring me happiness- and unhappiness . |
| 30 | Axelrod had already begun to think in ESS terms , but I felt that this tendency was so important that I wrote to him suggesting that he should get in touch with W. D. Hamilton , who was then , though Axelrod did n't know it , in a different department of the same university , the University of Michigan . |