Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] that [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I addressed first two ancient problems : the relationship between Luke and Acts ( I found that Acts resembled Luke more than it resembled any other book of the NT ) and the relationship between the Apocalypse and the Gospel of St John ( I found that they differed from each other more than any other two books of the NT ) . |
| 2 | Imagine my amazement when , on my first day in the new set-up , I found that everyone fought for attention by dramatizing every event . |
| 3 | ‘ In some ways , ’ he said yesterday , ‘ Python does look very old-fashioned now , yet when I arranged a compilation of all 45 shows for the BBC I found that we had on the Not The Nine O ’ Clock News unintentionally pinched a number of things , putting the signature in the middle of the programme , parodying famous TV interviews . |
| 4 | and I found D Y by D X and I found that it came to erm X squared . |
| 5 | When I last wrote to you in January I mentioned that I hoped to be relieved of the secretarial duties of the B.A.E.C. by another member who had volunteered to take these over . |
| 6 | I stipulated that it had to be different from mine . |
| 7 | In my third year at Oxford , however , I noticed that I seemed to be getting clumsier , and I fell over once or twice for no apparent reason . |
| 8 | I just said ‘ Yes ? ’ and as I dropped the pen she 'd handed me back into her bag , I noticed that she carried at least two fat rolls of ten-pound notes secured with circular gold clips shaped like salamanders , or maybe alligators . |
| 9 | I reckoned that I had at least one brigade of white cells on the start line with other brigades available as required . |
| 10 | I guessed that they came from the execution during the second war . |
| 11 | I divined that they spoke of the woman who was on trial for her life in Geneva on the morrow . |
| 12 | I sensed that they approved of him whole-heartedly , and that by comparison I was no longer the blue-eyed boy of the family : I did not come up to scratch . |
| 13 | It was in 1972 , when I was twenty-five , that I decided that something had to be done . |
| 14 | ‘ It was then I decided that there had to be a market out there for an ironing service for professional women — and this has very much proved to be the case . ’ |
| 15 | At age seven I decided that I wanted to be a soldier , after I had watched a TV programme about the D-Day landings . |
| 16 | On the other , I felt that he had after all taken a sort of liking for me . |
| 17 | That was why I insisted that you come to France . |
| 18 | As soon as I set foot in there , I knew that I had to be involved somehow . |
| 19 | ‘ I knew that I had to be the best at everything if I was to haul my family out of the financial trouble they were in . |
| 20 | Although I had seen you , Frankenstein , for only a few moments , I knew that I belonged to you . |
| 21 | er I knew that he lived at . |
| 22 | I knew that he needed to be alone to think about all that he had heard . |
| 23 | I knew that there had to be a wound : she had not been drowned or strangled or poisoned . |
| 24 | A huge , heavy , panelled oak door faced it , and peering through the windows I saw that it led into the mill kitchen . |
| 25 | In 1980 , coming back from a hospital in the States where I had been told that I ought to have an operation ( interestingly on my throat — it was as though all the tension caused by what I could not say was caught up there ) , I saw that I had to be free of this . |
| 26 | When I saw that I wanted to be him , or one of them , or both of them , but anyway I was just so happy to watch them together . |
| 27 | Sam looked out over the flooding river and breathed in the damp smell of the morning as if testing wine for bouquet , and I thought that he lived through his senses to a much greater degree than I did and was intensely alive in his direct approach to sex and his disregard of danger . |
| 28 | Then I thought that she lived in the cottage — Maria looked after her , perhaps ; or perhaps this room that was to be mine for the week-end was normally hers . |
| 29 | He would plant her downstage and get her to start playing ’ I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls , ’ and then sabotage her work from the back wall . |
| 30 | Years later I learned that he died in 1981 at his chateau near Grasse . |