Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [vb past] that [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the second my eyes cleared floor level I saw that the relics had gone ! |
| 2 | Then as I hovered in an agony of uncertainty I noticed that the salivation was diminishing ; she was able to swallow . |
| 3 | In an earlier chapter I noted that a study of poor people 's movements in the US concluded that such influence as they had was derived from mass protests rather than from participation in electoral politics ; and a study of the economic progress of black Americans in the late 1970s argued that it was ‘ under the impetus of the civil rights movement and the ghetto revolts of the sixties , [ that ] blacks gained access to new employment opportunities in business , government , the media , and high paying jobs in the skilled crafts ’ ( Smith , 1978 ) . |
| 4 | In the first chapter I argued that the fact that the Scots settlers and the Irish natives were respectively Calvinists and Roman Catholics had profound consequences for the development of social conflict . |
| 5 | In an earlier Chapter I argued that the canon is ‘ bursting ’ , because of the advent of other anglophone literatures , and the increasing interest in contemporary writing . |
| 6 | Once I had got to grips with how to work the machine I noticed that the harmoniser in the machine did n't appear to work properly : ie. if I set the interval to a major 3rd , the processor would intermittently switch between a major 3rd and a minor 3rd . |
| 7 | Through the haze of early half-waking I knew that the dust was everywhere . |
| 8 | When I got out into the corridor I saw that a piece of wire had been strung between two beams on either side of the block and that a sort of ladder was leaning against it . |
| 9 | For a moment I thought that the Secretary of State had reached his peroration . |
| 10 | At that moment I understood that the Army out there , with its tanks aiding those madmen or , OK , even those pitiful people defending their immediate right to life is not defending anything that can be described as a social or national cause . |
| 11 | On a practical point I noticed that the colours were n't as bright on the low radiation monitors that I used . |
| 12 | It is true that at a Personnel Committee meeting I stated that the council had always honoured industrial tribunal decisions in the past . |
| 13 | When I traced my own family tree I found that the Heys had come into the parish of Penistone ( and more particularly to that part known as the township of Thurlstone where I lived ) about the year 1800 and that during the previous three centuries they had resided in Kirkburton parish immediately to the north . |
| 14 | That was the first day I realised that the war was really over . |
| 15 | When I returned , to my astonishment I saw that the sailors were already in the boat . |
| 16 | On the more difficult topic of the Pauline corpus I concluded that the evidence was equally compatible with a widely differing set of authors or a single unusually versatile author , but that it did not support the view that four epistles stood out as uniform by comparison with all others . |
| 17 | In the closing stages of the tournament I felt that the message had got through to the players about staying on their feet , and there were less penalties given for this offence than in the pool games . |
| 18 | As I made my way back along the road I noticed that the ditches on both sides of the road contained dead British and German soldiers . |
| 19 | ‘ In Ribble Valley I realised that the Liberals ’ poll tax policies were exactly the same as the ones I 'd worked out , based on reason and logic , in my own back room , ’ he says . |
| 20 | Last year was the centenary of the Borough Charters , so on the one hand I was trying to restore the traditions of the thing — erm we tried to reintroduce some of the pomp and ceremonial — and then on the other hand I felt that the mayoralty often did n't seem terribly relevant to people of my generation , and so I tried to involve a lot of young people in various activities and the offshoot of that has been a Youth Advisory Committee which I 've set up , which at the moment is in the process of trying to negotiate with the County Council for some premises to try and increase the sort of Youth Club type evening provision in the town . |
| 21 | Well I , I took the liberty of the Lord Lieutenant 's appointed me to something called the Sussex Rural Options Land Bank and I brought you a copy of the leaflet , having notice of your question and I did ask the officer who deals with this in the Sussex Rural Community Council if he could give me the latest score on housing I thought that the news was bad from what he had said , but having said that , I mean every effort is being made to deal with the issues you raise in this council which is now chaired by Peter . |
| 22 | Section I concluded that the impact of the duty of care on managerial efficiency , even with a more rigorous content , will inevitably be rather modest , but that the duty nevertheless is capable of playing an important role . |
| 23 | At the time I thought that the drink had finally taken its toll . |
| 24 | At that time I believed that the United Kingdom would be facing severe economic problems in the future , and I decided that I wanted to work somewhere where I could serve the community , and make a contribution to the resolution of those problems . |
| 25 | Despite pleas from both Spanner and the referee I insisted that the match go ahead , pointing out that not only a principle but also three certain points were at stake . |
| 26 | On my last visit I noticed that an image of James Joyce had been engraved on a tiny glass window on the seat behind me , and other historical figures literally emerged from the woodwork when I looked a little closer around the bar . |