Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] that [noun prp] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was about to explain when I realized that Kāli had told him already . |
| 2 | I realised that Harold had appointed him in order to maintain a keener watch on what the BBC was saying about people . |
| 3 | As work began in earnest on the book , I realised that Roderick had lost none of the skills that I , as his research student twenty years before , had regarded with awe . |
| 4 | I presumed that Prentice had had a word in somebody 's shell-like , or maybe nobody was very interested . |
| 5 | When I tried to take it off I found that Lili had pinned it to my petticoat and I was trapped in it . |
| 6 | From the depths of my patchy education , I recalled that Shelley had drowned in a storm on a lake . |
| 7 | About eleven I noticed that Nigel had dozed off with a smile still on his face . |
| 8 | I noticed that Harvey had forgotten his resolve not to let Pike get a good look at him and stayed close to him all the time . |
| 9 | Then I discovered that Frank had given his version , so it seemed to me that there were two laws in existence . |
| 10 | Years later , when I heard that Inez had left her husband and that the police were investigating her disappearance , I was tempted to carry the matter a little further . |
| 11 | On Sunday I heard that Sidcombe have gone to the wall . |
| 12 | I knew that Inez had had her turn in the little hut but I did n't know until afterwards that she was pregnant . |
| 13 | ‘ I knew that Frank had to grow up , after five years , ’ said the star , ‘ or he would seem a complete idiot . |
| 14 | I began to see the nervousness in your eyes whenever I got too close to you , and when I kissed you at the inn I knew that Matilda had lied about one point at least . |
| 15 | I knew that Hannah had experienced problems with rodents so I expected to find rat runs and nests underneath the flags , but only mice had been there . |
| 16 | Opening my eyes I saw that Rozanov had pitched to the floor . |
| 17 | I only had time to gasp in horror , before I saw that Heathcliff had caught him . |
| 18 | When I went to the House I thought that Churchill had sat there , and Lloyd George and my hero Aneurin Bevan had sat there , and I felt quite humble . |
| 19 | For one moment , when the right hon. Gentleman first rose to speak , and given that he will not be standing at the next election , I thought that Daniel had come to judgment and that the right hon. Gentleman was going to show some concern for those who seek asylum in this country and who have fled from oppressive regimes that were supported by the Government of which he was happily a Cabinet member for so many years . |
| 20 | When your first telegram arrived at about two a.m. a few nights ago requesting destination for the modified aircraft , I thought that Stirling had spoken to B.G.S. here and fixed his requirements with you . |
| 21 | After a few weeks of our secret meetings , I thought that Sarah had discovered the fact that we were both , in our different ways , being unfaithful to her . |
| 22 | At first I thought that Jacob had come back again , to make sure I was all right . |
| 23 | I thought that Robert had covered his tracks well and then that it was inconceivable that Lili , who knew everything , should n't have known all that her husband did . |
| 24 | And this was n't an Anglican church , erm it was a Baptist church , and when I was seven I understood that Jesus had died for me and then I asked him into my heart and when I was twelve I was baptized , which is the equivalent really of being confirmed . |
| 25 | Edward could not be typical of his friends , but I remembered that Clive had called him a friend to verse , and that he had read my work . |
| 26 | Earlier this year , however , I learned that Kew had contracted with the world 's largest bibliographic data supplier , OCLC , for conversion of their catalogue . |
| 27 | There was a lot of laughter , not the least when someone asked the whereabouts of Alan and Joy , and I said that Alan had gone to be induced ! |
| 28 | I suspected that Fenella had bullied him into it . |
| 29 | All the fathers of the early church saw the Devil as holding rights over this world , but some of them believed that God had to pay him his dues in order to win back the world . |
| 30 | Some of them believed that NASA had arranged it all for precisely that reason . |