Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] that [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lange admitted that he had " been over a barrel " after the French government had threatened that unless the accord was accepted , New Zealand would be denied access to French markets for its agricultural exports , the mainstay of its economy , |
| 2 | Colin insists that they had expected the ensuing fuss . |
| 3 | Initially , some progress appeared to have been made at the Jakarta meeting when Sihanouk and Hun Sen announced that they had finally agreed on a compromise formula on the issue of the SNC chair ( Sihanouk as chair , Hun Sen as vice-chair ) . |
| 4 | During the trial , Lord Maclean heard a taped confession where MacIver admitted that he suggested which lorry to hijack and drove to Inverness a week before the robbery to check the vehicle 's routine . |
| 5 | Bernard announced that he wished to be known as an uncle , not a grandfather . |
| 6 | ABOUT 15 YEARS ago the computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum announced that he had discovered a new personality type — the compulsive programmer . |
| 7 | On April 8 Tudjman announced that he had received assurances from the JNA leadership that the JNA would not interfere in the settlement of the political crisis , but on April 11 the Croatian government announced the establishment of a de facto republican army in the form of a Croatian National Guard Corps . |
| 8 | Pascoe realized that he 'd been asking questions that Susan had n't answered . |
| 9 | The midwife toad came to public notice when , in the early years of this century , the Austrian biologist Paul Kammerer announced that he had persuaded the toads to breed once more in water and that , as a consequence of this , they had re-evolved nuptial pads . |
| 10 | Mr Engholm admitted that he had lied in 1987 to a committee investigating a dirty-tricks campaign mounted against him by the Christian Democrats . |
| 11 | After Annie had left , Kelly realized that she had n't asked Cy for a lift home . |
| 12 | Kohl and the French President François Mitterrand had already appealed for emergency aid when they met in Assmannshausen on June 22 , and on the same day West Germany announced that it had agreed to guarantee a DM5,000 million ( approximately US$2,980 million ) loan to the Soviet Union . ) |
| 13 | In the letter of resignation which he conveyed to the Constitutional Council on Jan. 11 , Chadli revealed that he had dissolved ( on Jan. 4 as it later transpired ) by presidential decree the National Popular Assembly . |
| 14 | After hearing the evidence , the Tribunale Penale di Roma found that they had obtained the drugs from Hurley for the purpose of entrapping Italian nationals , among them Mario Cetera , the husband of Joan Schumacher , American heiress to the Prentice Hall publishing fortune . |
| 15 | Major J. W. Pringle reported that he had examined the car and found that the body had separated from the truck and there were a number of deep chips on the outside edges of the tyres of the wheels . |
| 16 | Grayling found that he had a hard time getting people to take him seriously . |
| 17 | ‘ Mrs Walker thinks that she saw Ruth in Woolworth 's . ’ |
| 18 | He laughed with forced heartiness , as limping badly he began to walk along the corridor , leading the way , and Hari realized that he had used the laugh many times to conceal his true feelings . |
| 19 | Writing about this film thirty years later John Clellan Holmes recalled how as an adolescent he had been initiated into manhood by the momentary revelation of ‘ the soft , white trembling curve of Jean Harlow 's breast ’ , but even at the time Welford Beaton argued that it had succeeded at the box-office because more than any other picture we have had , it demonstrates that the true mission of the screen is to supply visual entertainment' . |
| 20 | Richard admitted that he had listened to the advice of people who were deliberately trying to sow dissension between them . |
| 21 | Ambitious Toronto-based systems integrator and facilities manager SHL Systemhouse Inc on Friday announced that it had signed a letter of intent to buy City of London-based banking and financial services systems company AST Trans-Act Ltd . |
| 22 | Murder brought Raskolnikov to see that he did n't believe his reasons for committing it . |
| 23 | As an example of the pitfalls involved in drafting questions , we can consider the fuss that there was in 1983 when Hill announced that he had found that as many as 40 per cent of six-year-old children had seen ‘ video-nasties ’ ( i.e. video films of horror , violence , and sadistic sex ) . |
| 24 | Gregory records that he wrote ten books of histories , seven of miracles and one of the Life of the Fathers , together with a commentary on the Psalter , and a work on the offices of the Church , each in one book . |
| 25 | On June 28 Treuhand announced that it had taken control of PDS landed property , and frozen all its bank accounts , restricting the party 's freedom to spend money from those accounts without Treuhand permission . |
| 26 | The uncertainty was fuelled further when Larne boss Gary Irwin admitted that he thought the goal had been disallowed for a foul on goalkeeper Graeme McConnell . |
| 27 | The story actually started when Kylie admitted that she had lost weight after joining Neighbours because of the gruelling schedules that the series demanded . |
| 28 | Ken announced that he had a solution . |
| 29 | Elisa realised that she had stumbled , almost literally , into a very well-to-do household . |
| 30 | Back they came to enjoy wedded bliss at Ince for ten days , before Killigrew announced that he had to join his yeomanry for several weeks . |