Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] [verb] [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I realized that I had to do something pretty dramatic to avoid too serious an accident . |
| 2 | He paused for a moment and she realized that she had said something wrong . |
| 3 | They realised that they had to tighten everything up , an approach which was helped immeasurably by the mid-second half arrival of Dean Richards . |
| 4 | It was late in the afternoon when he realised that he had eaten nothing since breakfast , and he was about to go out into the town in search of a restaurant when the telephone rang . |
| 5 | When one day I tidied up and cleared out this cupboard , I realised that I had ignored everything in it for over a year . |
| 6 | ‘ But the day I wrote this song I honestly believed that I did love everyone ! ’ insists Paul , chirpily . |
| 7 | Everything David had shown her of himself had made her love him and yet she believed that he had done something unspeakable . |
| 8 | She was transferring her anxieties to him and now that she recognised that she wanted to do something about it . |
| 9 | Gary again started to pray about YWAM as he recognised that he had lost something — perhaps his original vision was wrong . |
| 10 | But it seemed that he had sparked something off . |
| 11 | He assumed that they had forgotten something and had returned . |
| 12 | After the opening page , he noticed that he had retained nothing of what followed and that he was eating a potato crisp . |
| 13 | Seldom a telegram came and nobody liked to see one come to a house . |
| 14 | She fiddled around for a while , and cursed and muttered before she managed to get one detached . |
| 15 | I reckoned that I needed to chance everything on a — well , it 's a bit like roulette , when you feel an inexplicable urge to stake everything on one number … |
| 16 | A group of refugees rescued from the war in Bosnia and brought to this country have been inundated with offers of help and accommodation.The six families were rescued by a headmaster , who saw pictures of the war on television and decided that he had to do something to help . |
| 17 | He told them briefly what had happened and , satisfied that they had packed everything , led them out towards the Galilee Gate . |
| 18 | They examined the rope again and , satisfied that they had seen everything , climbed the stone steps back on to the track high on the river bank . |
| 19 | The very stillness of his muscles meant that I 'd touched something he 'd thought hidden . |
| 20 | This meant that you had to type everything , including the definitions for forms and reports , making dBFast more primitive in this aspect even than dBASE III Plus ! |
| 21 | In the short time I talked with him , I saw that he had lost none of his character . |
| 22 | One felt that one had to do one 's best . |
| 23 | I felt that I needed to have someone around me all the time , whereas the others did not , and I was scared . |
| 24 | She immediately choked , coughed , and felt that she had swallowed something . |
| 25 | He and Levshin , his deputy , knew that they had to do something , but in 1856 their ideas were unambitious . |
| 26 | Nicholas knew that he had to do something , but he was not sure what . |
| 27 | Clive heard the fountain , and knew that he had torn something important . |
| 28 | No , I knew that I had seen someone , or something . |
| 29 | As a result I knew that I had recovered everything within the detecting capabilities of my old machine and did not expect that there would be anything left to be found . |
| 30 | For a moment he thought that he had felt something , an infinitesimal trembling of the earth . |