Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [that] [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The television was switched on , Omi started a new piece of crochet-work , Herr Nordern abandoned his statistics , Frau Nordern her reports , and Paul , boldly and half-truthfully announcing that he had finished his homework , joined Erika on the sofa to watch a good thriller on West German television . |
| 2 | He told the details to an incredulous audience , although tactfully leaving out the part about Steinmark 's base habits , merely suggesting that he had probably been taking a short cut across the line . |
| 3 | Not out of Steve , anyway , who was saying nothing much , only affirming that he had bashed Charley to save his mother ; he had ‘ guessed ’ where she was . |
| 4 | Dr Sasaki had not looked outside the hospital all day ; the scene inside was so terrible and so compelling that it had not occurred to him to ask any questions about what had happened beyond the windows and doors . |
| 5 | As he had passed her in the little hall this morning a tendril of her silky black hair had brushed his ruined cheek , and the smell of it had been so distracting that he had feared for his composure . |
| 6 | Helen asked no questions about Chris , only saying that it had been a lovely evening and Moira was still talking about the tinned peaches and jelly . |
| 7 | Gloucester opened negotiations with the dowager almost immediately , apparently claiming that he had been given custody of her and her land by the king , and by January 1473 the countess and her feoffees had agreed to make an estate to Gloucester in all the dower lands . |
| 8 | Gloucester opened negotiations with the dowager almost immediately , apparently claiming that he had been given custody of her and her land by the king , and by January 1473 the countess and her feoffees had agreed to make an estate to Gloucester in all the dower lands . |
| 9 | However , there were people there who were ‘ greatly desiring that she had been out of that country ’ , and she bustled off to York , where the Archbishop paid a man five shillings to lead her out of the town . |
| 10 | ‘ It looked all right , did it ? ’ she asked Morris again , perhaps forgetting that she had asked him once already . |
| 11 | One foggy night she lost her way and had to grope along the bank for some way finally realising that she had circled round and returned to the Halling side by mistake . |
| 12 | He was just checking that I had n't left for good , was glad that I had n't , and was that real coffee he could smell ? |
| 13 | By the sixteenth century , no longer assuming that it had a right to positions of leadership in the armies , the aristocracy began to attend military academies where it learned the art of making war . |
| 14 | ‘ No , ’ Stephen said , stabbed , just realizing that she had . |
| 15 | Guiltily realizing that she had n't finished yet , Jezrael leaped just in time to rewind the cuber . |
| 16 | I had never before consciously thought about my kidney — or rather my kidneys — hardly realising that I had any . |
| 17 | Even after his first round of 69 , Woosnam was still maintaining that he had not been looking forward to playing , that it had not done much for his confidence and that he was still very nervous with the putter in his hand . |
| 18 | At once regretting that she had let herself become riled , she delved into her bag and came out with a bar of soap . |
| 19 | But the nurse left court still insisting that she had n't struck a blow . |
| 20 | Being a fair-minded person and still hoping that I had a chance to get a cultural stew going , I listened carefully to the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent , Central ( Mr. Fisher ) , but he did not give me a chance either . |
| 21 | Without really still thinking that I had any chance of success , I went back down to the Circle Line and journeyed on to Liverpool Street . |
| 22 | He was a strange man , still lonely in spite of taking her for his wife , and kept his own counsel , never discussing his thoughts with her , keeping his troubles deep , and always ensuring that she had whatever she needed . |
| 23 | I thought it was just like Commentating that it had n't |
| 24 | He came to see me some weeks later explaining that he had failed to get a job . |
| 25 | As he spoke , he continued to caress her swollen breast , clearly sensing that she had no desire for him to stop . |
| 26 | She felt he was looking at her professionally now : a woman who had only had two cups of coffee for breakfast , who had not gone shopping or taken herself out to lunch as she had planned , who , in the old days , never seemed to waste a minute , who never laid down in the middle of the day and yet was now stretched out on the bed , inert , apathetic , openly admitting that she had n't realised the time . |
| 27 | I HAVE no doubt that the vandals who defaced Bomber Harris 's statue are feeling pretty smug and probably thinking that they had made a point for Dresden . |
| 28 | Understandably thinking that he had achieved an odd escape , declarer gleefully played off three rounds of diamonds to discard his losing club , but now it was West who took the setting trick when he was able to ruff . |
| 29 | He was now regretting that he had brought Bigwig . |
| 30 | While emphatically denying that he had acted improperly — Richardson claimed that his resignation was motivated by the desire to avoid damaging the ALP 's prospects in the next federal elections , due by mid-1993 — he admitted meeting Symons in his Senate office , writing a reference for him , and telephoning Amata Kabua , President of the Marshall Islands , after Symons was arrested . |