Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [that] [pron] [be] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 At the end of November 1983 , I announced that I was going to head an inquiry into occupational pensions .
2 I realized that they were talking about some poems of Emily 's .
3 I was talking to friends when I realized that someone was watching me .
4 Then I realized that she was trying to push him away .
5 Then I realized that he was wounded , and could not run ; and that he carried a sword in his hand .
6 He seemed bright enough and very eager to learn , but when I went to the school to see his work I found that his handwriting was very , very bad and his spelling was absolutely atrocious , and although he was good at mathematics , as time went on he began to get very worried and very upset about it and when I looked at his work I realized that he was doing a lot of the words back to front and was getting the direction of figures mixed up .
7 It was then that I realized that he was going to leave me on my own .
8 Yesterday evening , for instance , I realized that I was smiling to myself ( I was thinking about writing this minute ! ) and it set off a substantial debate , conducted entirely in silence .
9 I realized that I was having to struggle not to be nice to him .
10 The radio was silent and I realized that it was coming from outside .
11 I realised that I was driving far too aggressively for my own , and any other road user 's , good .
12 The more I researched , the more I realised that I was missing the dog that did n't bark — and that was all the stuff that was being done by women to men , that nobody wanted to talk about .
13 I shouted that I was going to call the police . ’
14 I found that they were engaged in retailing rather heavy jokes ; and there came a point when Eliot , feeling perhaps that he ought to contribute , embarked upon a rather long story about George V. It ran somewhat as follows .
15 Then I found that something was nudging at my memory .
16 Pangs of conscience , and ache of loneliness apart , I found that I was stimulated by the challenge of finding my way about this great and beautiful city , and by having to communicate — to try to speak French quickly enough to make actual conversation possible .
17 I found that I was trying to achieve two somewhat incompatible objectives .
18 I found that I was trembling .
19 I 'd had some sailing instruction before on Lake Bala , in a larger Wayfarer which has room for two people and an instructor , but I found that I was tending to leave the thinking to my partner and the instructor , and just doing what I was told without knowing why .
20 Without noticing its onset I found that I was crying and I went on crying until I slept .
21 To my surprise , I found that I was running towards the battle .
22 Years later when I saw John Sayers of West New Houses for the last time before he unfortunately died , I mentioned that I was planning to start riding my bike again , and he was most amused .
23 Normally he would n't touch a job as small as the cottage , but I once did a favour for his father , and when I mentioned that I was having trouble finding someone to do the job he volunteered . ’
24 But you see , I just went to the education officer and I say , he , he ran it , he , it , it was , it was his responsibility the Guild 's were and I went to him about a Guild matter and I said oh , erm how I mentioned that I was working and he said well where are you working ?
25 Right from the beginning I assumed that we were going to have to work at interesting the press in the story .
26 I told them I told that I was going home for good when the sister hurted herself .
27 [ … ] And I saw a man who was holding a stick , and I believed that he was going to castigate the bad violins , for I heard many of them …
28 I noticed that she was crying .
29 I noticed that he was starting to smell .
30 I forgot that someone was living illegally in Paris on the floor of my home and demanding a large sum of money to leave .
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