Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] that [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People in Western Europe , for example , rarely dispute that Jesus lived , but in Eastern Europe the denial of his historical existence is almost a canon of Marxist dogma . |
| 2 | Francis Morgan would no doubt ring him too , but he was naturally so shaken that McLeish thought that small piece of insurance worthwhile . |
| 3 | She suddenly realised that fitzAlan had turned his horse back into the forest , along a parallel course with the river , but out of sight of the small hamlet . |
| 4 | Indeed Welford Beaton , like many other Hollywood figures , thought that Vidor had carried ‘ realism just a little farther than the public will prove willing to follow ’ and he brilliantly argued that films had to give hope and to show a way forward , but he did conceded that The Crowd was one of the best films ever made and he hoped that it would inspire further ventures into realism . |
| 5 | He returned thoughtfully to the Saint Pierre au gratin , only to discover that matters had not progressed well in his absence . |
| 6 | With a bloody chin and an empty stomach , Manville had left his apartment already fuming , only to discover that vandals had been at work on his car during the night . |
| 7 | ‘ Always knew you were one of me mates , ’ said Archie , highly gratified that things had suddenly been made easy for him . |
| 8 | She stumbled out of the car only to find that Rune had been quicker , waiting for her to emerge , offering her his supporting arm as her ankle momentarily twisted on the cobblestones , causing her to utter a sharp cry of distress . |
| 9 | He went instead to the City Press office , only to find that Catherine had been sent home . |
| 10 | The papers to which he had referred , and which he kept in a tin box underneath his bed , contained an unexpected coda to this small adventure — an unfortunate little postscript which reminded me how Captain Scott must have felt when he reached the South Pole only to find that Amundsen had beaten him to it . |
| 11 | Bede 's statement that Chad was sent by Oswiu to the archbishop of Canterbury to be consecrated , only to find that Deusdedit had died ( HE 111 , 28 ) , is unlikely to be correct because Wilfrid had known that Deusdedit was dead when he was earlier seeking consecration as Ealhfrith 's bishop and the probability must be that Oswiu 's court would have known this too . |
| 12 | I ca n't recall the routes up which I was dragged , but what I do remember is strolling back to the car under one of those hazy , purple , Peak District sunsets , contentedly weary and glowing with achievement — only to find that thieves had struck . |
| 13 | For example , EMI spent millions of pounds developing its Nobel prize-winning medical scanner in the early 1970s , only to find that competitors found ways around the complex wall of protecting patents for several hundred thousand pounds . |
| 14 | He was surprised that he 'd had no word from that gentleman , and even more so to find that Theda had not either . |
| 15 | We can only assume that Sussex did not diverge too far from the rest of the southern English religious experience , after its rather late entry into the fold . |
| 16 | Many Russian exiles have long suspected that spies had been planted in their midst by the KGB , and for some the advertisements confirmed their darkest fears . |
| 17 | And tomorrow , one hoped , he would merely assume that Nicholas had made a pettish departure and was sulking somewhere , awaiting apology or forgiveness . |
| 18 | The Colonel 's vain attempt to get a word in was so sharply smothered and he looked so rattled that Clarissa sat down again . |
| 19 | It just so happens that Paul had to make his visit there before going on to be decapitated somewhere else . |
| 20 | The Soviet leadership , no doubt extremely relieved that Castro had succeeded in crushing the invasion without having to redeem the pledges that Khrushchev had made to him , extracted maximum propaganda value from Washington 's loss of face , but once again reassured the Americans that ‘ we have no bases in Cuba and do not intend to establish any ’ ( Khrushchev 's message to J. F. Kennedy , 22 April 1961 , US Department of State Bulletin , 8 May 1961 , pp. 664–6 ) . |
| 21 | After a walk back to the inn and a half-hour wait , they set off again for Bath , very much relieved that matters had not been worse . |
| 22 | The judge obviously thought that A had told a tall story , but he had to accept the facts in the Case Stated by the Crown . |
| 23 | It just so happened that Mandy turned up at the afternoon surgery . |
| 24 | The armourers all slept in a long room on the first floor , with J. in a small room to himself at the end , and it so happened that Matthew occupied the corresponding small room immediately underneath on the ground floor . |
| 25 | It so happened that Hazel had never seen a crow . |
| 26 | He would dearly have loved to be with them and greatly regretted that age precluded any such thing . |
| 27 | Zen suddenly understood that Bartocci had some move in mind , something which he was keeping up his sleeve for the moment . |
| 28 | By the early fifteenth century the Exchequer had become so overcommitted that creditors had to queue for payment , and a creditor 's place in the queue was determined as much as anything by political favour . |
| 29 | The situation seemed so threatening that Tottenham formed a 10-man wall but Wilson shot wide when Slawson tapped the free kick to him . |
| 30 | Emily was astute enough to recognize that Hari had a singular talent , a fine touch for design that eluded most men . |