Example sentences of "[verb] that [pron] [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His financial transactions extended throughout the eastern counties , and although the bulk of his fortune almost certainly came from moneylending , his six houses in King 's Lynn and the quay attached to his own stone house in Norwich suggest that he also had interests in trade . |
| 2 | Instead , she let him know that she never took guys home on a first date . |
| 3 | Do we even know that he ever reached Turkey ? |
| 4 | Do you know that I once beat Ulrike Meyfarth ! ’ |
| 5 | He is all the better as a witness , since one can not doubt that he genuinely sought instruction . |
| 6 | CHATTING to former England all-rounder Trevor Bailey during the Old Trafford Test , I was intrigued to discover that he once played football against Manchester United in front of 57,000 spectators . |
| 7 | He realized that she already had fans , but the others were almost certainly complete wankers . |
| 8 | When she looked up the mountainside , as if searching for help there , I realized that she still had fear of me , little knowing the true state of affairs , and felt herself like an animal in a trap . |
| 9 | He also agreed that he once claimed surfing was better than sex , and had said he could not be gay because he went surfing , which he considered a largely heterosexual sport . |
| 10 | He also agreed that he once claimed surfing was better than sex , and had said he could not be gay because he went surfing , which he considered a largely heterosexual sport . |
| 11 | Margaret was pleased to see that she now had Reg 's full attention . |
| 12 | In this film Leonard recorded eight poems from his recent book ( ‘ For Wilf And His House ’ , ‘ Beside The Shepherd ’ , ‘ Poem ’ , ‘ Lovers ’ , ‘ The Sparrows ’ , ‘ Warning ’ , ‘ Les Vieux ’ and ‘ Elegy ’ ) ; the sleeve was careful to emphasise that he also wrote songs for a local group called The Stormy Clovers , by no means his first such work . |
| 13 | However , on May 23 US President Bush announced that he strongly supported Baker 's statement . |
| 14 | She felt guilty , but she could say with a clear conscience that her business was so demanding that she hardly had time to think of Northumberland although , in truth , as her successes and problems in Italy had increased , there seemed less and less reason to return to Nora . |
| 15 | For weeks it threatened to be a cesspit of scandal , and not to be outdone the controversial English striker Stan Bowles , whose behaviour over the years made him seem like a surrogate Scot , admitted that he frequently took drugs . |
| 16 | He had felt the need , though , to take into account the super-sensitive relations between these two teams , and if the biggest surprise was that he had addressed gentle caution to the English management as well , they having been innocent , faraway onlookers during the shenanigans , it was because he recognised that they too nursed feelings of exasperation and he imagined that they might soon have burst uncontrollably into flames . |
| 17 | Ramesh K says that he had not met Mr Uppal before , and his brother , Kewal K , says that he briefly met Mr Uppal some years ago . |
| 18 | Bourke says that he then drove Blake to new accommodation that he had rented a few days earlier at Highlever Road in north Kensington . |
| 19 | He says that he always shunned help from neighbours , but he hopes he now gets other help . |
| 20 | Merseyside police have revealed that they probably killed James a few hours after they took him from the Strand shopping centre in Bootle . |
| 21 | On 7 June 1786 the society noted that it still lacked information on which to base any specific resolution for the encouragement of scientific farriery and the matter was put aside . |
| 22 | 1 noticed that they frequently lost interest during bulletins when political activities and speeches were reported or some official announcement was made . |
| 23 | When I enlarged and looked more closely at some of the diagrams in the book , I noticed that they also carried marks indicating where an Edwardian cyclist would have encountered a crossroad , a sharp bend , even a humpback bridge . |
| 24 | Zhelev , then UDF leader , at a rally in Blagoevgrad ( near the Yugoslav border ) on Jan. 21 , 1990 , had denied the existence of a Macedonian minority , and appeared to suggest that he also regarded Yugoslavia 's Macedonians as ethnically Bulgarian ( a commonly held position in Bulgaria ) . |
| 25 | He will remember that we also had difficulty over the Tombs report when again we could not get the necessary information . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , little is known about how Æthelred raised tributes : the charter S 943 of 1006x11 shows that he sometimes sold land for the purpose , but as the national council ( the witan ) usually participated in the decision to pay , the main burden almost certainly fell on the people . |
| 27 | Fowler , who arrived a few minutes later , was middle-aged ; he had stayed a detective constable ostensibly because he could not pass the examination for sergeant , but his colleagues claimed that he deliberately avoided promotion . |
| 28 | But you must surely understand that I never meant things to get out of hand like that . ’ |
| 29 | Bouchard 's studies of identical twins separated at birth and brought up in different countries , classes and cultures , showed that they still shared similarities in actions and habits despite separation . |
| 30 | Heseltine was able to announce that he already had assurances of support from a hundred MPs when he formally declared his intention to contest the leadership . |