Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] that [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I said , I was almost half way up the front before I realised that between knitting the back and starting the front I 'd had a teaching session . |
| 2 | Then I saw a friend using parallel rulers on a map , and I realised that by using a similar technique I could put all those 1/4in cutter into use . |
| 3 | I found that by grafting their Cartesian clarity on to our language I 've produced a different fruit altogether . ’ |
| 4 | I thought I might have problems here , because the inside mitre on the four outer glazing bars created a slight undercut for assembling the curved outer members in the horizontal plane , but I found that by locating the curved members on the bottom rail first , then swinging the tops in on a slight curve , they just clicked into place nicely . |
| 5 | I found that by adding white I could achieve my desired effect . |
| 6 | I found it difficult to get cuttings to root in earlier years , but I discovered that by starting them in water for 10 days , then potting up , I lost very few . |
| 7 | ‘ I felt that by fracturing the well in conjunction with a gravel pack we could produce a ‘ highway ’ into the reservoir that would allow it to produce at peak efficiency , ’ says Hannah , a consulting production engineer . |
| 8 | ‘ Sweet darling , ’ he murmured , and kissed all hurt she had felt away before , shaking his head , he said self-mockingly , ‘ And I thought that by taking myself off to Prague I might get you out of my thoughts . ’ |
| 9 | I thought that by going away to school I would be leaving nothing behind . |
| 10 | I said that in pointing into the flower-vase and saying , ‘ Here ’ , I am obviously distinguishing one place from another as the place where the thimble is , and that if places could n't be distinguished — by pointing , or naming , or describing , or giving co-ordinates or in some other way — there would be no possibility of this use of ‘ Here ’ . |
| 11 | Not only did I not want surgery or drugs , but I hoped that in refusing them I would not be offending my surgeon ! |
| 12 | The windows up here were waist-high , but very deep , and she found that by lifting herself up into the actual narrow embrasure , and leaning precariously forward , she could get a limited view of the clearing below . |
| 13 | She found that by giving a little leap she could stride across almost like a grown-up . |
| 14 | Maude Stanley was only expressing a truism , as far as respectable society was concerned , when she advised that in starting a club ‘ discipline and order are the first requisites ’ . |
| 15 | She added that in planning policy terms , there was no good reason for officials recommending refusal of the application . |
| 16 | She imagined that after playing tennis and having tea , they would go on somewhere and she would like to be available to go with them . |
| 17 | It had been a way of escaping from the poverty into which her family had sunk , and she knew that by working hard for long , tiring hours and helping Fred turn the mediocre business into one that was thriving and profitable she would one day be able to help her parents and her brother too . |
| 18 | She knew that in speaking to Alix her voice would find its normal level , her mind would return to its normal tuning . |
| 19 | Taking a step forward , she saw that by crossing to the side of the compound and climbing the fence she would be able to get back round to the entrance . |
| 20 | Q. You thought that by doing that you had wiped out every document that existed that would reflect ( the diversion ) , did n't you ? |
| 21 | Some six months later an anguished letter arrived from the United States in which she said that since arriving in the USA she had barely had two weeks without an attack of herpes and could she possibly attend again when she was next in England . |
| 22 | We related to her how everything happened ; she exulted and gloried and was now blessing you ( O God ) who are able to do above what we can ask or conceive , because she recognized that with regard to me you have given her so much more than she used to beg for when she wept so pitifully before you . |
| 23 | ‘ We started from the point of making the mass as low as possible , ’ Wortmann says , ‘ We found that by avoiding the turbulence of two rotors , we were able to achieve a rotor speed of 450 kilometres per hour at the tip — the fastest in the world . ’ |
| 24 | Longterm full dose ursodeoxycholic acid treatment , however , is expensive and we reasoned that by giving one third of the full therapeutic dose , the cost of maintenance treatment would be acceptable . |
| 25 | We discovered that by making permanent changes to their usual diets individuals felt that their general health improved dramatically ; they felt far better mentally , and they managed to lose those ugly pounds of flesh that had been slowing them down and stubbing their ego . |
| 26 | Since so many of us had made love to either O or to Boy we felt that by comparing notes we knew a great deal about how they behaved when making love , and so when we saw them reappear so obviously as lovers we were pleased to see that our predictions had been correct . |
| 27 | ‘ We felt that by cutting out the broker to reduce the cost , building up a team of very friendly tele-sales and tele-service operators to talk to customers and explain and do all the form filling for them , they would eventually sign . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm sure we 'll do well without Eric — we proved that by beating Arsenal last Saturday . ’ |
| 29 | I wonder , however , if they realised that by producing documents in this civil action , the defendants could safely resist the use of those documents if the police subsequently acquired them ‘ independently ’ from some other source . |
| 30 | They found that by introducing a normal gene to substitute the defective one , the mice recovered from the illness . |