Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] that [pers pn] have " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | I guessed now that she had met this other man during her widowhood . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | So I knew immediately that he had never seen her . |
| 9 | I knew then that I had walked into a situation from which there would be no escape . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ I knew then that I had to box it up . |
| 11 | ‘ It has no name , ’ Sapan said , ‘ but when I told some other people I brought here that it had no name , they said to me that it was called Narnia . ’ |
| 12 | " I saw him just before nine and I thought then that he 'd been dead about twelve hours , perhaps a little longer . |
| 13 | I remembered then that you had some of your luggage in Mariánské Láznë . |
| 14 | ( I learned later that she had thought I had put her into some kind of charitable institution — a sort of workhouse . |
| 15 | I wished intensely that I had the power to see into Filmer 's mind . |
| 16 | But I wished fervently that I had been able to do more , and as I passed my hand along the richly coloured coat over the ribs the vast bandaged finger stood out like a symbol of my helplessness . |
| 17 | I wished later that I had n't been so shy . |
| 18 | I wished again that I had been at B.P. with Angela and Anne and Wendy and my other ‘ comrades ’ . |
| 19 | I wished only that she had spoken to me before . |
| 20 | Yet each time that third line came round the tune seemed to gather itself up and find new energy from somewhere , and perhaps it did n't fall quite so far each time in the fourth , and Tabitha was captivated despite herself , watching the pretty man play and wondering how he would end it , how he could ever resolve the disagreement between the rush and the ebb , until she realized suddenly that he had , with a quiet , lilting little rill that ran up and then down and flicked its tail and was gone . |
| 21 | She doubted then that he had felt very much like climbing trees or swimming in the river for some long while after he had lost his parents . |
| 22 | She commented afterwards that she had made no money on the venture : ‘ I lost nothing , neither did I gain much , others run away with the profit . ’ |
| 23 | She thought ruefully that she had been pretty unfair . |
| 24 | She could n't remember whether the stories were true or not , but she thought dimly that they had both hoped they were . |
| 25 | She thought suddenly that she had taken Dr Neil for granted , that she had not fully realised either his hard work or his dedication , and for the first time understood the impulse which had caused him to leave the cushioned life of a younger son of a good family and become an East End doctor instead . |
| 26 | No matter that she had n't understood the broken phrases gasped from Rune 's lips as he had devoured her with his kisses ; she knew instinctively that they had been an expression of his desire for her in that sweet moment of culmination . |
| 27 | She had never seen her in the morning and she knew instinctively that she had made a mistake in arriving without warning . |
| 28 | She saw immediately that she had said the wrong thing . |
| 29 | ‘ You thought perhaps that I had forgotten about your existence ? ’ |
| 30 | She remembered uneasily that he had n't said a word about it . |