Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we had become very curious about why none of the drains had fallen out , it transpired that she was diligently cutting an inch a day off the other end ! ’ |
| 2 | I mentioned this to no one for two practical reasons : one was that I loathed swimming , and if I pretended that I was still menstruating , signing the little red book every four weeks , I should be able to evade an unpleasant experience for at least one week out of four ; the other was that I feared further reprisals might be taken against me . |
| 3 | We also tested a sample of autistic children in the chocolate-finding task and found that they were again behaving just like the three-year-olds : going to the baited box for twenty trials , despite wanting to win chocolates and occasionally trying to filch them from the experimenter 's bag . |
| 4 | Later that year we met other Soviet researchers and found that they were also studying the stabilising effect of longitudinal fields on pinches . |
| 5 | It meant that she started off at an advantage , for as soon as they imagined they had caused her misery they found that they were only confirming her grim and ribald idea of the way things would always be . |
| 6 | He found that they were suddenly eating pizza and jokingly said oh they might have got him one , so one of them used a police car to take him to the nearest all night pizza place and then he walked back to the airport and waited , having done a deal with the one taxi driver who was there , and he and shared a taxi , arriving home c. 0215 and then proceeded to have a meal of a MASS of pasta and sauce previously made by me , and of a type which both boys always ask day in day out when here or there ! |
| 7 | They never changed the booth they sat in and they found that nobody was ever sitting in it as if it had an invisible reserved sign hanging above it . |
| 8 | When we were reading it I found that I was just reading it as a book and the and that all the coming about you forget who 's in , who 's there and who 's not there . |
| 9 | I found that I was mostly focused on the leader 's chest , where the blue cloth was more taut , stretched by the magnificent swelling mounds beneath it . |
| 10 | On returning from Spring Harvest ( and back to work ) I found that I was constantly thinking about God , Jesus , being a Christian . |
| 11 | Rincewind found that he was now hanging onto the end of a tongue of bark and fibre , lengthening as it peeled away from the tree . |
| 12 | Then to her final and total humiliation Phoebe found that she was actually having a good time ; she was enjoying her mother and her mother 's easy authority and charm . |
| 13 | It niggled away at her for about perhaps another two seconds , then , apropos of nothing , almost without her own volition , she found that she was suddenly bursting out , ‘ The only time your name was mentioned at lunchtime was when I stated that I was here , in Czechoslovakia , to interview you . ’ |
| 14 | After an arduous approach march they reached Heraklion airfield , but found that it was well guarded . |
| 15 | Hammicks , which had promised to match prices elsewhere , found that it was rarely called on to do so . |
| 16 | Sometimes I found that it was better left off , but equally it could often provide the missing element in certain sounds . |
| 17 | CIA Marketing Director Bryan Squibb said : ‘ More than half the companies surveyed have left themselves unprotected against bad debt and reported that they were merely making bad debt provisions , taking legal action , vetting customers or using debt collection agencies . |
| 18 | She reported that it was well written and the product of an expert . |
| 19 | The first , St Joseph 's in Marton Road , had space for 200 children but objected since it is still recovering from the effects of housing another primary school following a major fire . |
| 20 | Gradually the people realized that we was here to look after the flats . |
| 21 | He refused to co-operate and was told he was ‘ letting the school down ’ and given an indication that this would affect his school report , ‘ and that 's when I realized that I was only acknowledged for my sporting ability . ’ |
| 22 | But I think you realized that I was never using the words seriously . ’ |
| 23 | An industrial tribunal ruled that he was unfairly dismissed from his job on the basis of unjust accusations . |
| 24 | And she began to laugh , her temper draining away , and for the first time she realised that he was frequently doing something which no one else had ever succeeded in doing before — he was defusing her rage . |
| 25 | Bobo was reaching out with her begging gesture again , and he realised that he was still holding the bananas . |
| 26 | She realised that he was still speaking , and she answered vaguely , ‘ Do ? |
| 27 | After about twenty minutes , walking and fishing , she realised that she was hopelessly lost . |
| 28 | The author realised that she was wrongfully dismissed at a time when the company needed her services . |
| 29 | Lucy looked down and realised that she was still carrying the switchblade . |
| 30 | I realised that I was still blaming you for what Cherith did to me . |