Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] that [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I asked that all of them should be put in . |
2 | I made that clear in the advertisement , I hope . |
3 | Suddenly I realized that many of the techniques that Penrose and I had developed to prove singularities could be applied to black holes . |
4 | But by then various other children were misbehaving too , so I sent them out , and suddenly I realized that half of my class was outside the door having a whale of a time ! |
5 | On a recent visit to Warsaw I found that many of the street names had been changed during the past year . |
6 | By rearing larvae , I found that two of the most important food chains in the garden are plant-moth-ichneumonid , and plant-aphid-hoverfly-ichneumonid . |
7 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
8 | During our wait , I found that one of the other boys had been badly hurt , too . |
9 | When I have been entertaining Shirley and Terry Jones doing an evening meal on a Saturday or a Sunday and sometimes both to help Shirley when she was getting into the run of going back to work I found that one of the cheapest of dinner party deserts was lemon meringue pie . |
10 | Yes , yes When I have , have been entertaining Shirley and Terry , doing an evening meal on a Saturday or a Sunday , sometimes both to help Shirley when she 's getting into the run of going back to work I found that one of the cheapest of dinner party deserts is lemon meringue pie |
11 | I found that most of the animals in the circuses were looked after with a great deal of care and attention . |
12 | Learning the collect each week was interesting ; for I found that some of them were short and easy to remember , others were longer and somewhat involved in thought and language . |
13 | More especially , I wondered at their risk when I learnt that some of them had landed across the Channel and were astonished to find that the natives did not speak English . |
14 | At this stage I noticed that two of them were ‘ pairing off ’ and defending a rock at one end of the tank , their main targets being the other chromides , although no damage was done to the ‘ victims ’ . |
15 | One day , however I noticed that one of the zoanthids had disappeared . |
16 | By this time I noticed that one of the electras and an exasparatus had a fungal growth on the whole body . |
17 | Suddenly I noticed that one of the giants was very close to me . |
18 | As I eased the Transit over some of the more violent ruts in the track , I noticed that one of the lean-tos was in fact an old single decker bus from which the wheels had been removed . |
19 | As I drew nearer I noticed that half of the roof had gone and there was a large gaping hole in the wall at the side of the cottage . |
20 | It caused some mirth amongst my friends , but I noticed that several of them began to pin up similar notices in their own homes . |
21 | It was fitting , granted pop 's liberation of the private , that the sexuality that had lain for so long as ‘ private ’ under the dominant culture now became public with shocking force : ‘ I noticed that several of the men and women present had weals across their back and buttocks . |
22 | I discovered that some of my results did not agree with those of other observers , and of course everything depends upon the quality of one 's eyesight . |
23 | With this in mind I decided that all of the items in my dream package should be easily available , over the counter , products chosen to meet my ideals and suitable for the not-so-experienced hobbyist , the main candidate likely to be interested in buying a basic marine system . |
24 | I felt that some of those on the bank waiting for the net to come in were wanting a body and wishing hard for a corpse . |
25 | From Asmar 's reports , I knew that some of them were into arms trafficking as well as dope and that meant they had to have close ties with Syrian-supported terrorist groups like the PFLP — GC . |
26 | I knew that some of his friends were into drugs , but I did n't know Ryan was until he collapsed on me one day . |
27 | I knew that several of the others were in as bad shape as myself — probably worse . |
28 | And as I got in here I saw that one of the men sitting just where you are was Hal MacQuillan . |
29 | I saw that next to it Dana wrote ‘ Sixtynine ’ ( the amatory position the French call soixante-neuf ) and changed the ‘ comma ’ shapes into ‘ 69 ’ . |
30 | ‘ I thought that one of the most interesting things about the Manson case was how they thought that The Beatles were talking to them , and that they thought The Beatles were the four horsemen of the apocalypse mentioned in the Bible . |