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

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1 For the first time Benny realised properly that they were going to live separate lives though in the same city .
2 The two boats were running along the coastline on almost parallel courses , Ewen close in , perforce following the jagged line of the shore , and our boat ( I found later that she was called Sea Otter ) on a straight course some way out .
3 You found out that we 're monitoring the ranks of the military , Academicians and priests .
4 ‘ Sam found out that I was seeing Paula .
5 I found out that he was having an affaire with another woman .
6 ‘ I found out that he was visiting Mary Penrose at the house in Moorgate Road . ’
7 He started up the stairs , but Burun sidestepped so that he was standing in the way .
8 It was not long after that news came through that she was giving demonstration flights of a Focke-Wulf side-by-side twin-rotor helicopter within a building at Templehof .
9 Alina had assumed that Belov was taking her to another of the buildings , but it seemed now that he was going to lead her out of the settlement altogether .
10 I felt when I came here that I was going backwards .
11 He believed then that he was going to die .
12 Now when we came across that it was dealt with very quickly and the , er sparklers were removed , but , er you know , the potential danger there particularly with young children running around , might want to play with a sparkler , with thirty or fifty thousand of the things in the same room .
13 A shadow fell on them from time to time , from his own past as well as from hers , and it seemed then that they were threatened by some evil which could blot out their joy at a moment 's notice .
14 Senator Ted Kennedy revealed yesterday that he is to wed lawyer Victoria who 's father is to stand trial over an alleged fraud .
15 PARIS — French customs officers along the entire length of the Pyrenees announced yesterday that they were joining the 19-week-old strike by the country 's tax collectors and would be closing the border to commercial traffic , writes Patrick Marnham .
16 IPSWICH Port Authority announced yesterday that it is to shed ‘ in the region of ’ 35 jobs because of the recession .
17 The 36 year old former Eurythmics star — who announced yesterday that she is expecting a baby in the New Year — and a 20-strong film crew hired a Grade 1 listed building in central London to shoot her latest video .
18 Hampshire Police confirmed yesterday that they were called to the scene of a fight outside the Captain 's Corner nightspot in Southampton around midnight .
19 Would you mind if it leaked out that we were having an affair ? ’
20 They forgot briefly that they were having a fight ; instead they had a happy half-hour of fantasy about what books they could write and read and live with .
21 If that is the case , would it not have been better for the hon. Gentleman to keep his own counsel when he stated publicly that we were bound to fail in our negotiations ?
22 It began to get foggy , and finally Alec admitted honestly that he was lost .
23 In fact I discovered later that he was sitting just under the window , and could hear everything that was said in the kitchen .
24 Perhaps he heard today that he 's going to be evicted , his mother 's sick , his kid 's been thrown out of school .
25 ‘ Dancing attendance ’ was not one of Nora 's expressions but she realised now that he was gone that she had done precisely that .
26 She made out that she was paying at the farm to clean it .
27 It was partly because these artificial agglomerations soon broke up that we were left at the finish with a lot of little scraps , which nobody , when not talking through the back of his head , could mistake for potential nations .
28 I had found myself staggering from one situation to the next … we decided then that I was doing the same thing wrong you see , and so we looked at the actual practice …
29 As Liz called softly that she was standing by , Doyle moved quickly across the road , his gun drawn and ready .
30 MCVITIE 'S , part of the United Biscuits Group , announced today that it is to invest £4m in its Hungarian operation Gyori Keksz to build a crisp factory .
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