Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] and [vb past] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I began to lose consciousness and felt that I was standing on the world 's edge aside of a high , dark space looking across it , thinking that I was about to enter into it . |
| 2 | Kurchatov visited Harwell and suggested that he might give a lecture on Soviet work into thermonuclear reactions in gas discharges . |
| 3 | She tasted blood and thought that it was Ryker 's , but then realized that her own face was gashed just below the left eye , she guessed by flying glass . |
| 4 | At the end of August the Soviet authorities eased restrictions on Japanese visits to family graves on Etorofu , the most militarily sensitive and least accessible of the four islands , and in September the Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze visited Japan and suggested that his government was prepared to negotiate over the Northern Territories . |
| 5 | Out of the blue , the Scotland midfield schemer Don Masson , who had missed a penalty in the game against Peru , approached McLeod and admitted that he too had taken the banned drug . |
| 6 | On Nov. 7 the newly elected Moderator of the Dutch Reformed Church , Pieter Potgieter , confessed his church 's guilt at the role it had played in establishing apartheid and said that it now considered that policy to be wrong . |
| 7 | The deposed king had announced his decision to return at the end of May , when he committed himself to promoting democracy and announced that he was planning to sponsor an interim multiparty government of national consensus which would include members of the military . |
| 8 | General Hodge met Jackson and deduced that he and some other members of UNTCOK would do all they could to sabotage American aims in south Korea . |
| 9 | One such school had immediately offered places and declared that it would abide by any access restrictions laid upon it . |
| 10 | For a moment , just before they left the house , as she and her aunt clung tightly to each other , the silent tears coursing down their faces , Ruth hated America and wished that it had never been discovered . |
| 11 | With a grunt Toby agreed to arrange things and hoped that I would do the driving and that Jefferson intended to provide some decent champagne . |
| 12 | The two men exchanged experiences and found that they had heard the same noises of heavy breathing and the kick on the door . |
| 13 | The jury negatived negligence and found that there was contributory negligence on the plaintiffs ' part , and Hawke J. held that there was no conversion , for the defendants had acted reasonably . |
| 14 | On Oct. 16 the Romanian National Assembly approved by 324 votes to seven the new Council of Ministers proposed by Prime Minister-designate Theodor Stolojan , who undertook to accelerate reforms and promised that he would continue his political neutrality and would not stand in the forthcoming ( 1992 ) elections . |
| 15 | He asked them why elephants did n't ride bicycles and explained that it was because they had n't any thumbs to ring the bell with . |
| 16 | James Griffith-Edwards , a professor at the Addiction Research Unit in London , examined Paul and concluded that he was suffering from ‘ something very nasty and pathological ’ which forced him to hack . |
| 17 | He was 74 that coming April and felt that he was tired mentally . |
| 18 | However , the Tsar broke his promise to share power and stated that he still had overall power . |
| 19 | On a sunny wall I grew tomatoes and found that they need n't be , after all , red bags of tasteless liquid but firm and sweet and tasting of — I could just remember it — tomatoes . |
| 20 | Thus , the Act of Appeals of 1533 empowered him to punish heretics and hinted that he possessed the additional authority to determine what constituted heresy . |
| 21 | We made enquiries and found that she had helped her mother to carry water every day in Bangladesh . |
| 22 | De Sede , in turn , feigned surprise and stated that he had n't given the solution because he did n't know it . |
| 23 | It found that women often felt fairly unsure of their ability in DIY matters , but once they had breached the confidence barrier many regularly tackled demanding jobs and felt that their results were as good or better than those achieved by the professional . |