Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb past] that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found your recent article ‘ A new discipline ’ on marketing in the Nineties ( MW December 6 ) extremely interesting and felt that it raised a number of important issues . |
| 2 | He was still convinced that there was something wrong and said that he had noticed some urethral discharge first thing in the morning and also a slight ‘ tingle ’ when he first passed urine in the day . |
| 3 | On one occasion we bought two from a toothless ancient , whose family claimed he was a hundred and twenty years old and boasted that he had killed a hundred and forty men in his day . |
| 4 | He afterwards thought this refusal very foolish and regretted that he did not go . |
| 5 | When Mark returned with a large wooden and discovered that it floated , he looked up and a slow smile crept over his face as he said , ‘ It 's a trick ! ’ |
| 6 | How was it possible that in a single fraction of a second , and for the very first time , she discovered a motion of the arm and body so perfect and polished that it resembled a finished work of art ? |
| 7 | His face was so dark and wizened that he reminded Corbett of a monkey he had once seen in the royal menagerie in the Tower of London . |
| 8 | He ended the tour so upset and disorganized that he had no plans for the summer holiday . |
| 9 | In some ways , he was so sleepy and relaxed that you wondered how he ever got the adrenalin up to race . |
| 10 | He shook her awake and explained that he planned to make his way back into the forest , skirting the area of rocks , to get a closer look at whatever it was that had caught his attention . |
| 11 | He had simply been angry and believed that it meant he had been right all the time and that his sister really was in Hepzibah 's Power . |
| 12 | She also felt the tiniest bit muzzy and hoped that she had n't a cold coming on . |
| 13 | He was so distressed and shocked that he did n't play in the first two Tests , batted himself at No. 8 in the third and fourth matches , and withdrew from the fifth . |
| 14 | He was non-committal , and she was surprised and relieved that he had agreed so swiftly . |
| 15 | She raised her head , astonished and relieved that he had not seen through her . |
| 16 | It was n't until he called in at the vicarage and found the vicar shot , stabbed , strangled and poisoned that I gave up completely . |