Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [coord] [vb past] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Crump expressed her gratitude with the eloquence of total silence but with a little look which , as Hope noted and saw that it was noted , signalled that she was pierced to the heart . |
| 2 | Ramsay decided and declared that he had been mistaken in staying on in Berwick thus long . |
| 3 | So when Bernard rang and said that he and Colette would be away for a fortnight — would I like a break ? — I moved in to babysit their cottage by the sea . |
| 4 | Susan explained as well as she could that at present they would n't want any help , whereupon the visitor bristled and announced that she was ‘ Blunt by name , and blunt by nature ’ , and knew better than to push herself in where she was n't wanted ! |
| 5 | Just as darkness fell a man and a woman came and announced that I was sitting in their seats . |
| 6 | Fitzroy acquiesced and said that they would be placed in a Reading Room on the following day . |
| 7 | The employer refused to do this so Mr Bowles resigned and claimed that he had been constructively dismissed and that his dismissal was unfair . |
| 8 | NO SNOW fell during the night and at 10.00 , after Erika had run her five kilometres under a dazzling blue sky , Karl ran and said that he thought he rather did that a brief tour of Berlin would be possible and that he would be waiting in the lounge of the Palast at 11.00 ; adding that Paul should meet them at the television Tower at 1.00 |
| 9 | Atkins interrupted and said that they certainly could make it stick . |
| 10 | The receivers disagreed and said that they needed to raise a further £22,000 and wanted to realise one further property belonging to B and L. |