Example sentences of "[verb] [that] [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The climactic series of explosions of 27 August added volumes of fresh material to the already huge eruption column above the volcano , and some estimates suggest that it rose as much as eighty kilometres into the air . |
| 2 | I do know that he became very depressed when the times were bad and he had the mortgage payments to meet . |
| 3 | Pinkie could still think quite clearly enough to know that he had very little prospect of a new commission . |
| 4 | I do not think it can be claimed that they opened up new territory ( writings by Dorothy Heathcote and others in the 1970s were concerned with a level of sophistication in drama teaching which the team seemed not to be able to articulate ) , but in terms of giving some sense of order to the basic functioning of drama the publication deserves to be seen as an important landmark . |
| 5 | She had also claimed that he took long liquid lunches and had even been thrown out of a wine bar for fondling another girl . |
| 6 | Researchers there say that they achieved similarly fascinating results , though handicapped first by a small budget and also by several death threats from potential subjects . |
| 7 | Having half expected that hair to feel crisp , to prickle beneath her palms as it had against her breasts , she was surprised to find that it felt as soft as down . |
| 8 | ‘ But I found that I had n't any money with me , so I came along here instead . ’ |
| 9 | I found that I had far more anger in me than I ever realized . |
| 10 | It made me uncomfortable , but I found that I grew more confident . |
| 11 | She reached out for the time and found that she had over forty hours still to go before she met the contact again . |
| 12 | She found that she stayed quite dry there , but she wished she were somewhere else ! |
| 13 | The executives reported that they became highly involved in writing the cases . |
| 14 | Also I express surprise at the Labour leader 's volte face a short while ago in the press he reported that he had more important matters to think about , or discuss insofar as fox fox hunting was concerned or words to that effect . |
| 15 | ‘ Greatly simplified calculations were done but it was realised that they left out many important factors and were therefore quite unreliable . |
| 16 | I would however prefer that you got as much advice as possible from the books first . |
| 17 | Solanki had told the Lok Sabha on March 30 that " I now regret that I handed over this note " but that " neither I nor my ministry instructed the Swiss authorities to stop or impede investigations into the Bofors case " . |
| 18 | I viewed A&R men the same way and when I met them I realised that they knew even less than I thought they knew . |
| 19 | Tamar laughed with her and realised that she felt less depressed about the forthcoming confinement after this little spell of humour . |
| 20 | Maggie realised that she felt perfectly safe with him . |
| 21 | Her face reflecting her disgust , and horror as she stared at the other woman , Ellie turned to glance at Feargal to see how he might be taking this insulting piece of arrant mischief-making , and was astonished to see that he looked not angry , but almost sad . |
| 22 | Consuelo insists that she slept well last night , and is happy to stay on today . |
| 23 | The night before her operation Mrs Fellows was prescribed a sedative to help her relax and sleep because she admitted that she felt very nervous . |
| 24 | In the 1930s and 1940s research on one large mollusc , the squid , revealed that it had truly giant nerve axons , which could be dissected out individually and were big enough to insert electrodes into . |
| 25 | Tests revealed that he had abnormally high levels of insulin in his blood , which could only have been injected . |
| 26 | They participated more fully in the intellectual and political life of their time — some argued that they participated too much — and reflected their society 's values , again , perhaps , too much if the criticisms of the ‘ social gospel ’ were accepted . |
| 27 | Peter Samuel of Kingfisher , who quoted the names of nine search firms he had employed ( including two major international consultancies , Heidrick and Struggles and Norman Broadbent ) , argued that he used both large and small firms because of the variety of assignments he handled . |
| 28 | One woman was so mean that she turned out all the lights immediately they got into their bedroom . |
| 29 | Yeltsin had given a dramatic description of tanks closing in and said that he believed that he had not much time left . |
| 30 | ‘ Constanza says that she felt so much for her mother , even if she did not understand then what it meant to her to be cut off from Italy , from Rome . |