Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adj] that [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I became aware that feet were scuttling down the stairs , and my father was bellowing from the regions below , ‘ For God 's sake , come down ! ’ |
2 | Of course I did n't kill my father but I made sure that Katie was never , ever alone with him . |
3 | But I felt sure that Leveque was not involved in the racket side of the mayor 's activities . |
4 | I asked him to desist not from his prayers but from his actions because I felt sure that God wanted to prepare the Anglican priest for his death . |
5 | I felt proud that Mr Rochester had trusted me with the story of his past life . |
6 | She made sure that Duart and his heir would be magnificently turned out for this visit to a foreign clan . |
7 | She was still pondering this , as well as thinking about Faye Hamilton and the long difficult journey through pregnancy that lay ahead , when she became aware that Dr Russell was laughing to himself — just a quiet chuckle at first , but as he realised she was watching him and saw her bemused expression the sound grew to a full-throated and resonant guffaw . |
8 | She became aware that Mrs Diggory was at her side . |
9 | As she turned back to her coffee , she became aware that Anthea was gathering up her bag and some programmes , and the professor was sitting oddly rigid in his chair , staring after the two young men with an appalled expression on his face . |
10 | She seemed worried that Prince Charles would not make the wedding in time . |
11 | She felt sure that Freddie Nash was as in love with her as she was with him for there was hardly a day when they did not manage to meet , often in Jock Hallett 's cottage , where their mutual passion , already discovered at The Angel , seemed to intensify . |
12 | She felt sure that plans must have been well advanced for the action they intended to take , and she thought that councillors should have been asked to approve the use of emergency guidelines at that time . |
13 | She felt sure that Allen had been wrong about the white horse . |
14 | She felt sure that Nan would know everyone in UCD in days . |
15 | Although so alike physically , she felt sure that Jonna would not stand up to his father 's rage , as George would have done . |
16 | As she slept in her Italian-designed tube steel bed with the iron-grey duvet , she felt sure that Steve in the room across the corridor must know who was in there with her , and as she went to work next day , she felt sure that everyone must see what she was dragging with her . |
17 | She felt certain that Mr Johnstone and Mrs Beeley walking behind could hear . |
18 | It was when we became engaged that things seemed to change . |
19 | Still pleading competition and the greater suitability of women for keyboard work , they proposed first that machines henceforward be given alternately to men and women workers ; or , a further concession , that all new machines be given to men until there were 50 per cent worked by each sex , and attributed alternately thereafter . |
20 | In the hours that followed the announcement of the attack , they seemed convinced that Hitler had triumphed in the east without provoking war in the west . |
21 | They returned convinced that Britain 's trees — and especially its beech trees — were showing ‘ acid rain ’ or Waldsterben symptoms as bad as , if not worse than , those on the continent . |
22 | Her family remained supportive , despite the emotional load : they remained hopeful that Rose would one day regain the motivation to try to help herself , and therefore the people around her . |
23 | He made sure that Dosh — or Freddie — sat next to him , so I ended up with Freddie or Dosh in the back seat and she was getting very friendly by the time we got to Knightsbridge . |
24 | When it became apparent that learners were not mastering grammatical structures by this method , pattern practice was introduced , and with the advent of language learning laboratories , the student spent much of his time listening to and mechanically repeating drills . |
25 | It became apparent that Japan was not to be viewed merely within the context of East Asia . |
26 | Although there was no reliable estimate of the numbers detained , it became apparent that Iraq had moved some foreign nationals to potential military targets such as air fields and oil facilities , to deter any US air attacks . |
27 | As the scale of local government grew and the environment began to change more rapidly , it became apparent that services needed to be more closely integrated in order that they would meet the needs of the environment . |
28 | During the first decade of the twentieth century it became apparent that Britain could no longer sustain its role as an independent makeweight in the European balance of power . |
29 | As the number of states contractually linked to the Soviet Union in this manner increased , it became apparent that Moscow hoped to construct a network of loose understandings on military security with Third World states and establish Soviet relations with them on a firmer institutional basis . |
30 | After one or two early passages of arms , when Wheeler had first come into the post , in which it became apparent that Wheeler was prepared to be a good deal nastier to Ian than Ian was to him , Ian had settled for a civil service manner in which he made no attempt to contribute to the department 's thinking . |