Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It transpired that she had also been one of a party at the Hall the same day . |
| 2 | The same was not true of the broader European Economic Community , which despite its wider brief demonstrated that it had both strength and flexibility . |
| 3 | Here , however , lay the crux of the matter , for the King of Prussia and his government maintained that they had never been officially associated with Leopold , whose activities were purely personal , and that the King was concerned with the matter only as head of the House of Hohenzollern . |
| 4 | This was challenged by one of the defendants who maintained that she had never been on stage in a state of total nudity , as the police present maintained . |
| 5 | I pretended that I did now , of course , so he did n't say anything else . |
| 6 | Some hours after the alleged attack , Sharon McLean ran out of the Peace Gardens in Holt Street , near Wrexham police station , and pretended that she had just discovered the body , the jury was told . |
| 7 | They talked , and in course of it Paul mentioned that he had already sketched out plans for a second book ; the Professor had already informed Mr Lamprey of the first . |
| 8 | As we approached the river , the Trent , which had a bathing-place in the grounds , he mentioned that he had already had a dip and recommended it . |
| 9 | James mentioned that he had never understood why people went on strike until he became a wage-earner . |
| 10 | We found that they matched quite closely . |
| 11 | I found that I had far more anger in me than I ever realized . |
| 12 | It made me uncomfortable , but I found that I grew more confident . |
| 13 | Eventually his mother was asked to remove him because the staff never managed to bring his behaviour under control ; they found that he produced just too much undesirable behaviour for them to get to grips with . |
| 14 | In those days I had been doing a good deal of drawing ; and , having come under Wyndham Lewis 's influence , I took my Vorticist efforts round to the Master , and , to my surprise , I found that he thought quite well of them . |
| 15 | Looking around at the suffocating power of the Roman Catholic Church and the less humane churches of Protestantism , he found that he had nowhere else to go ; they had no answers for this situation either . |
| 16 | He found that he did just better than his predecessor and was pleased . |
| 17 | In the end I went to the police and found that she 'd just reported that he was missing . ’ |
| 18 | She reached out for the time and found that she had over forty hours still to go before she met the contact again . |
| 19 | On all points we found that she tracked accurately and remained beautifully balanced . |
| 20 | She found that she stayed quite dry there , but she wished she were somewhere else ! |
| 21 | When she came to pay for the bill , she found that it had already been paid . |
| 22 | Plotting the line on a map , he found that it passed straight through Westminster Abbey , the site of which was originally known as Thorney Island from a conspicuous mark : a hallowed clump of hawthorn . |
| 23 | When Wendy opened hers , she found that it consisted entirely of crispbread and realised that she would be able to eat only during the applause — Harrison Birtwhistle 's music had not yet been written . |
| 24 | Tawell , who was deeply affronted that such a respectable businessman should be arrested on such a charge , exclaimed that he had never heard of Sara Hart , nor of Salt Hill , and he had definitely never been there . |
| 25 | Stirling felt this inferred that he had loosely prattled at a cocktail party , whereas the gatherings referred to were private dinner parties . |
| 26 | The executives reported that they became highly involved in writing the cases . |
| 27 | Altogether 149 respondents reported that they had never undertaken or funded any HIV prevention work specifically aimed at gay or bisexual men . |
| 28 | McCaw Cellular Communication Inc reported that it sold about 14.5m newly issued shares of Class A common stock to AT&T Co for $400m as part of AT&T 's negotiated attempt to win a 33% stake for $3,730m and acquire an option for voting control of wireless phone company . |
| 29 | She reported that she had already removed , cleaned and returned them as she had caught some wool under one of them . |
| 30 | Mr B. P. reported that he had already lost 3 stone some time before but had stuck at 15 stone and was pleased when he started to lose again . |