Example sentences of "and [verb] that [pron] [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George did , and yearned to tell him the Army had thought of it , that Maxim had mentioned how they worked under codenames , then wondered if the Army should tell Moscow that , too- and realised that he was after a list , as well . |
| 2 | Later , at the staff table , Sarah told Catriona and Patrice that she was from New York and that she and her mother were travelling around Europe . |
| 3 | He gave up looking and found that he was on his own . |
| 4 | Standing on the front seat , Eb felt a rivulet of ice-cold water run down the back of his neck , and found that he was underneath a leaking gutter . |
| 5 | Iraq denied that the cylinders were part of a gun and maintained that they were for use in the petrochemical industry . |
| 6 | The upshot was that I was summoned by the university authorities and told that I was to be allowed to continue my studies but only under certain stringent conditions . |
| 7 | I wanted to get on with the drop — the pilot had been in that freezing water for long enough ! i changed to a right-hand hold , then I talked to my passengers as much as possible to keep them calm and show that everything was under control . |
| 8 | And then , reassuring myself , I would gaze upon the white and gold protector , the messenger of the Almighty , and know that everything was in order . |
| 9 | Only at Wrexham were painful thoughts quite unexpectedly revived : Coleridge caught sight of Mary Evans , and discovered that she was in the town visiting her grandmother . |
| 10 | A widow had the shock of her life when she opened a letter from her local council and discovered that she was in arrears with her rent . |
| 11 | The Priština committee of the Party issued a statement which described the organizers of this petition as ‘ nationalists , chauvinists , and fascists ’ , and alleged that they were in contact with ‘ hostile elements ’ in Belgrade . |
| 12 | The steward is said to have issued the boys with a receipt , made out for £5 and indicating that it was for the journey from Stonehouse to Gloucester . |
| 13 | The weekend of 13/14 March was used to do the cut over and to ensure that everything was in full working order . |
| 14 | We gradually got to know some of the members of our Pathfinder Squadron , and to realise that they were in fact rather special . |
| 15 | Monks were supposed to enjoy Lectio : in the scriptures and in the writings of the fathers of the Church , the monk had an encounter with the divine and felt that he was in some mysterious sense studying God himself . |
| 16 | I always gave my husband the benefit of the doubt and ‘ buried ’ his brutality because I was so ashamed and felt that I was in some way to blame . |
| 17 | I looked through the hole again and saw that they were on the top step . |
| 18 | She glanced at her watch , which was luminous , and saw that it was past teatime . |
| 19 | After a long time she looked at her bedside clock and saw that it was past midnight . |
| 20 | At one time she felt Charlotte turn towards her husband , and knew that they were in each other 's arms . |
| 21 | That waitress just came over and said that we were in love . ’ |
| 22 | One month later Glassford was reported to be completing the work of preparing nominal votes , and in this his lawyer , who lacked experience in such matters , was being helped by the agent of Lord Dundas , who clearly considered him still an ally , but on August 6th , Glassford removed such illusions by making it quite plain that he meant what he had said about his price for support , and denied that he was in any way pledged to Lord Dundas : |
| 23 | I 'm just describing my attitude at the time , which I shared with most of my fellow students : an attitude of complete boredom and feeling that nothing was worth making an effort for . |
| 24 | Next morning they would wake up and find that they were at home . |