Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] and [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Telford Development Corporation began to coppice the woodland for conservation purposes , a group of countryside wardens , foresters and a lecturer in 3D-design got together and decided that something should be done with the waste timber . |
| 2 | At the beginning of this week a girl phoned up and said that erm the chap he normally deals with is away |
| 3 | Gedanken peered closely and saw that one of the banners said ‘ Good luck ! ’ , another ‘ Come back soon ! ’ , and another ‘ Hooray for the Daring Explorer ! ’ |
| 4 | Last time we went the , the came on and declared that it was your birthday and wished you a very happy birthday and you were standing up there , bouncing up and down . |
| 5 | Bilal came down and said that Tom would be next , which was , of course , meaningless . |
| 6 | Half-way through one driver came in and said that the Minister for Human Resources had spent half an hour longer than he had agreed . ’ |
| 7 | Potter came in and concluded that his chief was absorbed in profound celebration ; he put the coffee on the table and crept out … |
| 8 | ‘ I locked the lecture-room , came downstairs and checked that there was no one in the ground-floor rooms , then locked up the building . ’ |
| 9 | That waitress just came over and said that we were in love . ’ |
| 10 | Peter said it was a good game when they came home and found that Woking had won five nil they thought they 'd chosen the wrong one . |
| 11 | One very hot morning , when she was about nine years old , she woke up and saw that instead of Kamala there was a different Indian servant by her bed . |
| 12 | The morning I woke up and realised that perhaps the reason I resented young Tulloch s much was because I too was an observer of human beings and that this most likely derived from an equal failure to establish satisfactory human relationships , was not a happy one . |
| 13 | Mrs Johnson said ‘ No ! ’ indignantly , and Mrs Stych woke up and checked that the girl had her name down correctly , too . |
| 14 | In the opening decades of the 19th century Glasgow woke up and found that it was no longer an ancient market place reached by tree-lined avenues . |
| 15 | The sleeping-car attendant came back and announced that by great good fortune he had an empty berth for which the occupant had unaccountably not appeared . |
| 16 | ‘ One farmer came back and said that employing 300 Kenyans cost one-fifth as much as weedkiller , ’ he said . |
| 17 | ‘ She came back and said that the people had arrived for my early morning meeting . |
| 18 | It used the allocation , came back and said that its original estimate was entirely wrong and it required an extra £48 million — the original estimate was £48 million out . |
| 19 | I came back and saw that most Vietnamese workers do n't care about politics . |
| 20 | The ‘ sheriff ’ came out and said that Customs wanted us to fly to Darwin for clearance , but we begged for mercy and he let us stay and gave us a ride to a lodge in the police wagon . |
| 21 | Yet when Carr realised that everything was not going quite his way , he came out and declared that ‘ the GAA had made an enemy in him . ’ |
| 22 | Just as she was about to leave he came out and complained that he could n't find the tin-opener . |
| 23 | She woke fully and knew that Mr Evans was home and riddling the fire . |
| 24 | Joanna , 25 , whom Brian befriended during training sessions at the centre , later turned up and confessed that her disappearance was a hoax . |
| 25 | But anyway I flared up and said that sort of remark was what we were supposed to be fighting the war about and I went for him . |
| 26 | Rostov turned round and saw that everyone was bowing except Alexei . |
| 27 | The woman turned round and saw that the red crow was perched on the balustrade , flapping its wings like a man trying to keep warm and looking in at them , its head cocked to one side . |
| 28 | They just walked in and saw that you had posters up and |
| 29 | His voice was low , and she glanced up and saw that he was watching her with a strange kind of intensity . |
| 30 | The men working with him then walked out and demanded that the firm concerned , the Mercantile Lighterage Company , should order him to join . |