Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [that] [pron] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd heard since that he 'd left the health service and gone abroad to work … and now not only was he back , but she was expected to work with him . |
| 2 | It was when the laughter ceased altogether that one had to worry . |
| 3 | Karen , very tired and possibly a little drunk , realised slowly that she had seen him deploy this technique before , at an earlier dinner in the house , and that somehow it was probably quite offensive . |
| 4 | He realised suddenly that he had to go to the bathroom . |
| 5 | Leaving the clinic she realised suddenly that she wanted to go to her garden . |
| 6 | Mr Barnes replies : ‘ I can not stress enough that we have sought sheep to import into the UK that are able to move freely without any signs of stilted action . |
| 7 | We had owned the Sumatras for just a few months , but already we had seen that they are volatile and eccentric birds , much given to sudden screech-ups and bouts of cackling , which in other chickens would denote the arrival of an egg , but from them seem to signify only that they have given themselves a fright . |
| 8 | I am sure that hon. Members have talked to constituents , many of them young women with children , who say bitterly that they feel trapped in their environment and dare not go out at night , even to have a cup of tea with a friend . |
| 9 | Right , well I I part of me says , the the there are two aspects , the other side of the coin a little bit , if we talk about recording achievement and not recording failure , we here have an opportunity to point out to youngsters , encourage youngsters in that they are all capable of achieving in some way and to get them to write down that they have achieved , that 's the other side of the coin . |
| 10 | It was only as they drew nearer that he began to make out that it was the concrete skeleton of an unfinished three-storey duplex , its half-built walls , pillars and floors rising out of a sea of mud . |
| 11 | He went to the youth 's ‘ assistance , ’ only to find later that he had assaulted a policeman who had seen the youth committing an offence . |
| 12 | She put her name forward to the chairman of the local party only to find later that he had approached her father to get his consent then double-checked by asking her husband for his permission too . |
| 13 | In summary , our observations are consistent with the presence of at least one exon of the proto-oncogene ERG in the complex PCR probe and suggest also that we have trapped exons from one or more other genes . |
| 14 | I do know though that we 've got some definite orders from it already . |
| 15 | If you find yourself changing your mind in the course of an answer , either cross out what you have written and start afresh , or , if there is no time for that , say frankly that you have changed your mind . |
| 16 | Wonder wh well what 's that , you know , be a bang so close well it was n't till , till some time after we found out that they 'd stationed a naval gun somewhere Newtown way and they 'd f fired this gun to , as a practice . |
| 17 | I did a little analysis on the league table last evening and found out that we 've beaten *all* the bottom six and have n't played or beaten anyone in the top nine yet ! |
| 18 | The day before we were going to fly we were putting the airplane together — it was a Sunday — and we found out that we had forgotten to make the flanges that held the tailpipe to the airplane . |
| 19 | Later I found out that I had appeared fierce and unapproachable . |
| 20 | You should have seen Captain Trentham 's face when ‘ e found out that I had chosen a spell in the Fusiliers rather than going back to gaol . ’ |
| 21 | I then found out that I 'd had an infection and raging temperature all the way through and Amber was born with it , too . |
| 22 | In the end I thought it was a good job that I 'd cut her dead because I began to pick up the gossip about her and found out that she 'd left home when she did because she was pregnant and had had a baby . |
| 23 | He 's only recently started to take notice of Hannah like take her swimming and that on and since he found out that she 's got a heart murmur and that 's what it 's like , cos he for tea on the way back , and then he bathed the children and put them to bed , and last night no , what he put them all in the bath again , put that down again |
| 24 | She explained the minister 's ill-treatment of her as revenge for her withdrawal of an annual gift of £8 to the parish church when she found out that he had attempted to publish her charity . |
| 25 | Last week AWSD let out that it had clasped hands with IBM 's once-proud flagship , its now-sullied mainframe operation Enterprise Systems , in setting up a co-funded unit to develop scalable mainframe-class multiprocessor RS/6000 RISC-based machines such as the SP1 Power Parallel system showed off last Tuesday . |
| 26 | Shelley did n't mind , but it would have been polite to let her know beforehand that she had to run two clinics instead of one . |
| 27 | She doubted then that he had felt very much like climbing trees or swimming in the river for some long while after he had lost his parents . |
| 28 | Senior union leaders acknowledge privately that they have to win a hearts-and-minds campaign among their members . |
| 29 | You 're nostalgic for childhood whilst it happens to you because the dreams show you the landscape you 're passing through , but you do n't know yet that you want to escape . |
| 30 | I was ill , but he did n't know actually that I had used that method . |