Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] that [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I found that delivering babies was exciting and a bit scary , but I noticed that the environment was not comfortable for women . |
| 2 | I found that raising the volume helped to improve the realism but I would have like more presence and crisper definition . |
| 3 | I had never done anything like that in my life , but I found that having to do it was in the end very exciting because you have to rely on the Lord and he supplies help in unforgettable ways . |
| 4 | I discovered that sitting very still for as long as possible was the first great secret . |
| 5 | I intended to explore the ways in which major English writers of the sixteenth century created their own performances , to analyze the choices they made in representing themselves and in fashioning characters … but as my work progressed , I perceived that fashioning oneself and being fashioned by cultural institutions — family , religion , state — were inseparably intertwined . |
| 6 | I decided that aiming my camera at the TV set was just as reasonable as aiming it out the window " ( ART news , Jan. 1986 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ In my work I am involved in life and death situations so , on the scale of things , I decided that losing an election was not a matter for heartbreak . ’ |
| 8 | I felt that falling in love with you at that stage would very definitely not be a good idea . ’ |
| 9 | But I knew they came from my convict , and I felt that having criminal friends made me more common than ever . |
| 10 | I knew that telling them would be hard but nothing prepared me for their anger and grief during our final month together . |
| 11 | I agreed to marriage counselling but only if I could go alone , although I knew that going alone was a bit like filing fiddled expenses . |
| 12 | I got the job at and I 'd had e I 'd had experience , I knew that going to was no problem . |
| 13 | From the start I knew that finding Domitila Barrios de Chungara and Higon Cussi was not going to be easy . |
| 14 | Erm to my self respect and I just I was determined that it was n't going to happen to my daughter , so in consequence I saw that working on the side to get to get the uniform so that she could go to school in a new uniform same as all the other kids as a necessity . |
| 15 | It is usually held in October or November and I thought that holding it today perhaps heralded better news or that we were on the brink of a breakthrough or a decision . |
| 16 | I thought that controlling rebellious minorities was a step that all countries would have to take , but I found that if people discuss and compromise then most disagreements can be solved quite easily . |
| 17 | It 's early days but if the injury hung around and I thought that pulling out of the world championships was a necessary course of action to prevent more serious problems , I 'd do it without hesitation . ’ |
| 18 | I learned that using someone sexually leaves you feeling oddly empty and bad about yourself . |
| 19 | However , I was disappointed at the reply she gave to my questions at a public open meeting held on April 7th , when I suggested that following many and varied discussions in different regions of the country , there was extreme concern in the non-action by the government in the matter of the vast difference in the value of imports from different countries , in particular Japan , as against the value of the imports they take from this country . |
| 20 | This argument did not satisfy the European Court , which ruled that discriminating between companies on the basis of their corporate nationality would deprive the right of establishment of all meaning . |
| 21 | These claims were never universally accepted ; the destruction of the unity of Christendom by the Reformation helped to undermine the authority of the Pope to allocate territory , but it was Catholic France that first challenged Spain 's position in the West Indies and that conflict had been going on for some years when in 1559 , at the end of one round of European wars , France and Spain included in the peace treaty a clause which stated that fighting in regions west of the Azores or south of the Tropic of Cancer was not to be taken as a reason for resuming hostilities in Europe . |
| 22 | Well , oh yes , I 'm sure I 'm not saying that 's the only thing that controls people 's food intake I mean clearly there are things cultural some cultures , the Japanese seem to love eating raw fish , I mean how they can bring themselves to do it I do now know , I mean the raw is I do n't think I 'd want to eat again , but er erm not always if they were cooked either , but erm the , the er and certainly if you look at the Australian Aborigines even though we take the Australian Aborigines as our kind of primeval people , they have astonishing food taboos , I mean their attitudes to food are very very culturally er effective to , to a quite extraordinary extent , some so that somebody somebody discovered that eating a tabooed food by accident , they 'll get very ill , a kind of psychosomatic illness . |
| 23 | The type of reactor used at Chernobyl had a design flaw , which meant that dropping in the control rods to avert a surge in power briefly exacerbated the surge . |
| 24 | She was very distressed and embarrassed by the March , 1992 , report which said that having agreed to attend a gala for the blind — with only her expenses to be paid — she had broken her word by demanding a fee only two days before the event . |
| 25 | He quoted a study of all fuels by the Henley Forecasting Centre which concluded that doubling the fuel costs over five years would simply keep energy consumption level through the 1990s . |
| 26 | Similarly dismal conclusions come from a study for the British government by ERL , an environmental consultancy , which calculated that meeting the government 's official goal of recycling half the reusable waste in household bins could cost roughly £50 ( $10 ) a household — or twice as much as ordinary rubbish collection . |
| 27 | It was the ICF who realised that looking casual allowed them to travel in large numbers and remain undetected by the police . |
| 28 | In her insouciant assumption of the pleasure she gave others , Caterina was trapped : she expected that overflowing fountain of love , and when it was staunched , the guilt took her in its fist and squeezed . |
| 29 | He quotes Kettle ( 1982 ) who argued that according to the Home Office , 50 per cent of the population of Ashford remand centre were black , and for Brixton and Aylesbury prisons , remand prisoners were between 25 per cent and 35 per cent black . |
| 30 | In therapy , she realised that making almost any change was better than standing still . |