Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [that] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realized then that we 'd been barking up the wrong tree . ’ |
| 2 | I realised then that he had been shot . ’ |
| 3 | Dean agreed : ‘ I had an opportunity to watch Jimmy a couple of times from short leg in my first season here , and I realised then that he does n't go very far forward . |
| 4 | I struggled with the whole thing the night before Christmas and the whole of Christmas Day , and finally I realised then that I wanted you just as you were . |
| 5 | And it was n't until I got back that they 'd said he was doing asymptotes . |
| 6 | When I found out that we had been placed next to each other in class with all my friends around I went , ‘ Oh no , I 'm sitting next to Grant ’ . |
| 7 | Later I found out that I had appeared fierce and unapproachable . |
| 8 | ‘ Then I found out that I came a poor second to the real love of her life — money . |
| 9 | Too late I found out that I did n't . ’ |
| 10 | I found much that I identified with , the old lady looking in the TV shop window , enjoying all channels , one assumes , the ‘ Eye-drop ’ queue in the hospital . |
| 11 | I mentioned earlier that we closed the erm , Royal Minton factory and four other factories are on short time , but we continued to invest in operation efficiency to improve our competitive position and er , now over to er , to James . |
| 12 | I mentioned earlier that I encountered a problem with the bass E string , but it 's something that can be easily rectified . |
| 13 | He was the goalkeeper for Manchester United and I joked later that I threw him the bag of money and he dropped it ! |
| 14 | Although I have Well I 've come through two wars and I remember the relief of Mathaking but I 'd sooner that I 've was born when I was . |
| 15 | I guessed now that she had met this other man during her widowhood . |
| 16 | When a girl whom I knew only as Meriel remarked , as we were washing up the cocoa-cups , that she was ‘ brought up in a bog ’ , and I commented naïvely that she had no trace of Irish accent , the unassuming daughter of the Earl of Meath merely smiled . |
| 17 | I have never known anyone work like it — and I discovered today that she had been writing articles for the Clarion Cry at midnight on top of everything else she did in the house . |
| 18 | ‘ But before I could say anything I discovered suddenly that I 'd meant nothing to you but an unimportant little romantic adventure , ’ he added bitterly . |
| 19 | I heard later that they fell in love . |
| 20 | I heard somewhere that he claimed to sleep with a different woman before every match . |
| 21 | I heard once that you wanted to conduct Shostakovich 's Sixth Symphony but you thought Mravinsky had done it so well you would n't touch it . |
| 22 | ‘ About two years ago I worked out that it cost about £1,000 a week to keep a woman in prison . |
| 23 | I worked out that I had walked thirty-two miles the previous day and night . |
| 24 | And against all sense and credibility I worked out that I had landed in the midst of what might be called a farmstead , Fraxilly-style . |
| 25 | I decided then that I did n't want to be a martyr , and since then I have n't been near a hairdresser 's . |
| 26 | I felt then that I understood her . |
| 27 | When you struck me last night I — I felt only that I wanted you . |
| 28 | So I knew immediately that he had never seen her . |
| 29 | I think I knew already that she did n't take it seriously . |
| 30 | I knew then that I had walked into a situation from which there would be no escape . |