Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [that] [pron] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ We 're prepared to accept that you just got caught up in a drug bust . |
| 3 | it made eating and doing a little more exciting to know that someone else had just ceased doing these basic human things for ever . |
| 4 | The other officers drifted away , and Charles following into the office was relieved to see that it hardly differed from those he had known . |
| 5 | Aileen Baker was delighted to find that she only needed to borrow 60 per cent of the purchase price of a three-bedroom flat she had her eye on . |
| 6 | Readers from last month will be glad to know that I finally tracked down the elusive Tequila based Marguerita in a Tex-Mex cafe in Covent Garden . |
| 7 | When we read in the Roslavl' files that twenty-three agitator brigades were dispatched to villages in order to celebrate international Women 's Day , it is hard to imagine that they ever came across our peasant woman from Struga , and even more difficult to believe that they would have much impact on her ways of thinking even if they did . |
| 8 | It would be far too glib to suggest that he consciously made the second change , to adopt Christianity , merely to give himself an excuse to abandon sexual relations with Mrs Moore , whatever the nature of those relations had been . |
| 9 | She watched them go off together , then went in search of Robert , though she found it hard to believe that he really wanted to talk to her . |
| 10 | I 'm glad to say that I never found out what they intended . |
| 11 | The thick forests growing on the flanks of the volcano were completely levelled , in some cases so completely that it was hard to tell that there once had been trees growing there . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As we get older and perhaps more worldly , it is sometimes awkward to admit that we ever believed such nonsense , and even more difficult to admit that not everything we imbibed was bad or wrong . |
| 14 | ‘ The truth ! ’ she exclaimed , too hurt and angry to remember that he still had every reason to be suspicious . |
| 15 | Labour 's hand on inflation would be strengthened if its leader were able to announce that it now supported early British entry into the exchange rate mechanism of the European monetary system . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Werner plan , from which that prediction was drawn , was wrecked by events outside Europe — the Nixon shocks and partly the effects of the OPEC increase in the oil price — but no hon. Member seems able to recall that it ever existed . |
| 18 | We might n't even be able to tell that there ever had been two vehicles . |
| 19 | For our purpose it is important to note that it merely threatened to dent the Treasury ascendancy over economic policy-making . |
| 20 | Mike was waiting for her in the lobby when she came down , and she was pleased to see that he too had dressed as informally as possible in deference to the humidity . |
| 21 | Margaret was pleased to see that she now had Reg 's full attention . |
| 22 | ‘ I was stunned to find that you still looked the same and I was very alarmed . ’ |
| 23 | I am sorry to say that I often broke the tenth commandment for I really coveted that model and expect many of my contemporaries were also guilty of that sin . |
| 24 | I am sorry to say that I never heard her at her best because of circumstances . |
| 25 | The Letter calls him king of all England and Denmark and the Norwegians and of some of the Swedes , which if genuine implies that he already claimed Olaf 's throne , and Florence of Worcester says that in 1027 he heard that some Norwegians were discontented , sent them large quantities of gold and silver , and secured an undertaking of future support . |
| 26 | Thus the plaintiff would be obliged to show that he either bought/sold shares at an inflated/deflated price compared to what would have been the price , but for the defendant 's actions . |
| 27 | In fact many parents were so anxious to sign that they actively sought out the petition holders . |
| 28 | These economists were ready to accept that there probably did exist a particular unemployment rate at which inflation was neither rising nor falling but they were unwilling to associate this rate with a state of overall full employment . |
| 29 | That left Michael McMahon , and when I wrote to his solicitors I was astonished to hear that he too had written a 100,000-word manuscript . |