Example sentences of "[verb] that [noun prp] had [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anna shut the door again , she did not know that Mena had followed her , and walked round the house and came in by the terrace , a smile on her face . |
| 2 | She did not know that Clare had followed her round and sat watching her . |
| 3 | She did n't know that Alice had saved her , yet again . |
| 4 | But when Eliot asked how she would get the keys to the desk , she realized her suggestion had been useless : she had forgotten that Maureen had taken them from her . |
| 5 | The great painter Albrecht Dürer rejoiced that Luther had delivered him from a ‘ terrible distress , ’ from bondage to rituals that the Catholic clergy prescribed as necessary for salvation . |
| 6 | Bartram s query regarding Kalm s American observations was dealt with : Miller had not seen whether Linnaeus had included them in his Species of plants , but mentioned that Kalm had published them himself ; ‘ in the Swedish language ; but as I do not understand it , so I have not been curious enough to send for the book , nor do I hear any good character of it . ’ |
| 7 | The papers to which he had referred , and which he kept in a tin box underneath his bed , contained an unexpected coda to this small adventure — an unfortunate little postscript which reminded me how Captain Scott must have felt when he reached the South Pole only to find that Amundsen had beaten him to it . |
| 8 | When I tried to take it off I found that Lili had pinned it to my petticoat and I was trapped in it . |
| 9 | Mum was pleased as punch when she found that Mary had bought us new clothes , but she was not so pleased when Mary told her she could n't see them until the day of the wedding and took them straight up and locked them in her trunk . |
| 10 | Tamar had left the persuasion to her husband , determined that there was no way in which her mother-in-law would be able to allege that Tamar had driven her out . |
| 11 | After the closed meeting , military sources reported that Yeltsin had informed them of 90 per cent pay rises which he had ordered the previous week . |
| 12 | I had n't realised that Katabatic had beaten us six times so it 's nice to reverse the placings . ’ |
| 13 | I was about to explain when I realized that Kāli had told him already . |
| 14 | Waiting for the kettle to boil , she thought about the other night , and the more she thought about it , the more obvious it became that Donna had got it wrong . |
| 15 | I realised that Harold had appointed him in order to maintain a keener watch on what the BBC was saying about people . |
| 16 | Sharpe turned to see that Harper had joined him . |
| 17 | Realising that Macleod had perceived him clearly , Boswell introduces a short apologia pro vita sua , ‘ a short defence of that propensity in my disposition ’ , in which he justifies his pursuit of the great and famous as ‘ nothing more than an eagerness to share the society of men distinguished either by their rank or talents ’ , and calls it a search for knowledge . |
| 18 | All the fathers of the early church saw the Devil as holding rights over this world , but some of them believed that God had to pay him his dues in order to win back the world . |
| 19 | Some of them believed that NASA had arranged it all for precisely that reason . |
| 20 | After intensive questioning North also conceded that Poindexter had ordered him to lie to the intelligence committee of House of Representatives when he appeared before it on Aug. 6 , 1986 , as part of its investigation into the affair . |
| 21 | Mr Elton advised the NAPF members to circulate copies of the Fimbra guidance note to their scheme members who were considering a transfer out of the company scheme and added that Fimbra had requested them ‘ to refer any instances of misleading scare advertising , or any evidence of bad advice that results in loss to scheme members , to its Complaints Department ’ . |
| 22 | He says that Churchill had told them they could be proud to have mined coal for the war effort . |
| 23 | Although the LTTE denied involvement in the assassination , it was widely noted that they had a strong motive , believing that Gandhi had betrayed them in 1987 when he dispatched the Indian army in an unsuccessful effort to bring Sri Lanka 's civil strife under control [ see p. 35313 ] . |
| 24 | ‘ No , ’ said Miranda , remembering that Angus had warned her about this . |
| 25 | It was hard to remember that God had made them , too , and that He begged for leniency for them . |
| 26 | Then Rachel remembered that Jennifer had said that David had told her he was in love with her and in that moment she knew that what her sister had said had been the truth , because it was there in his eyes . |
| 27 | DeVore smiled , pleased that Lehmann had seen it . |
| 28 | The name meant virtually nothing to him , and a casual observer might easily have suspected that Manville had picked it out completely at random . |
| 29 | That meant within an hour or so of the time at which Mary Penrose claimed that Riddle had left her . |
| 30 | On July 12 Guechi claimed that Madani had given him a mandate to lead the FIS . |