Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] that [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 There were no decent men on my own horizons and I already feared that I would be spending my life alone .
2 I always shop on Sunday and I just thought that it was nice to see in the paper today it looks like we will have legalized Sunday trading everywhere for all of us fairly soon .
3 But I 've been a member for many years I like the policy and erm my friends and I just decided that we would fund raise for them as they have n't got anyone in this area .
4 No , no , that would n't worry me , I just , I said when we got rid of our other sideboard let's do without one and then I looked round and thought well what the dickens am I going to do with all this stuff that we 've got and I just found that we could n't do without it .
5 And I just found that I could talk to her , and I think she to me .
6 And I also thought that I had conquered that Greek half of me .
7 And I even noticed that she she was coming out with the thees and thous that that erm
8 We were almost near Templecombe gates when Benjamin and I both decided that we had found the gap in the trees through which she had fled and , despite my warnings , he insisted on going in .
9 That feeling lasted a while but after we 'd had the children something changed and I slowly realized that I did n't love her anymore .
10 Starting out to research the topic of women , power and politics , Margaret Stacey and I soon realised that we could rely on little in the way of help from traditional approaches to the study of politics .
11 And I actually found that it was , it was better to actually talk to them than just send them
12 At lunchtime the aid started going off and I suddenly realised that I was n't going to get through the afternoon — ’
13 It is exactly the sort of corkscrew I always use but the room was so dark and I so flurried that I drove it in sideways and broke the cork .
14 There is only one thing to say about the Home Secretary 's speech : I have heard more intellectual contributions from Lord Waddington on the subject , and I never believed that I would make that statement about anyone holding the office of Home Secretary .
15 And I was told that he was going to die shortly , and that if I wished , the measures that they were using with the respirator could be removed at my request , because he was in a terminal stage ; it was just a matter of time , and I really felt that I could n't make that decision myself .
16 Hanging around with the photographer sparked Tony 's interest in the medium , ‘ It was a combination of things ; one was the bull , the adventure , the romance , and I really found that I liked it a lot .
17 Then his glance flicked down to her mouth , lingered there for a moment — and she just knew that he was remembering those kisses they had shared .
18 I asked her how she knew and she just said that she always thought that it was obvious .
19 And she also realised that it was not her job to heal the hurts of the whole world — though certainly her very nature leaned in that direction .
20 And Elizabeth knew that I knew all about her , and she also knew that she was the only person I 'd ever written to for a photograph .
21 If the invitation had come as a result of anxious discussion with Jenny about Cassie 's state of mind , and she rather thought that it had , Ben showed no sign of it .
22 Kathleen had run home , and she now understood that it was , on this occasion , for reassurance , as though , by conveying the news to her sister , she would convey by implication something of her own anxiety , and receive comfort in Isabel 's own concern .
23 A small pulse began to throb erratically in the hollow of her throat and she ruefully decided that she just was n't used to waking up and being confronted with a virile man in the process of getting dressed .
24 She watched the play of muscles in his powerful back and she reluctantly admitted that he really was a magnificent specimen .
25 We knew her and we also knew that she was taking food to a different set of prisoners ; they were beginning to scatter over an increasingly wide area as there was now no hope of an immediate Allied invasion of northern Italy , which was what everyone had hoped for .
26 thank you situation are appointed jointly by the County Council and the County and effectively these consultations and of that er appointment and the following the last Committee we agreed with the er detail and of the and we also agreed that we would not go ahead with the which until we have seen the result of the consultation and therefore there still outstanding as whether we wish to action the not .
27 But although we found little , report had magnified our findings in no ordinary degree and we afterwards learnt that it had gone over the country around that we had dug up a great treasure of gold .
28 In those circumstances , the point had clearly been reached when the court should be prepared , in W. 's own interests , to overrule her refusal to consent to treatment , and we therefore ordered that she should be treated at the appropriate London unit .
29 Their green eyes fell on the strange eight-legged carving — which may indeed have been a spider , or an octopus , or may yet again have been something altogether more strange and they immediately decided that they were n't so hungry , at that .
30 But I was considered ‘ sharp ’ and they also discovered that I could run quite fast .
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