Example sentences of "[vb pp] that [pron] was [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In trying to articulate what she felt so strongly , Clare had forgotten that she was talking to a very sick woman . |
| 2 | He 'd almost forgotten that he was looking for her . |
| 3 | Later , in June 1989 , it was reported that she was proposing to the Lord Chancellor that the Children Bill should reverse a decision which she and other members of the Court of Appeal had felt obliged to make excluding hearsay evidence . |
| 4 | Nutmeg suddenly realised that he was looking at himself ! |
| 5 | This is a convoluted way of achieving a just result , and the law should be that the defendant should be proved to have realised that he was dealing with a policeman , or was reckless about the matter . |
| 6 | She stopped again then said wryly , ‘ When I saw you and gradually realised that he was attracted to you I naturally became jealous . ’ |
| 7 | She hardly knew what she was doing , barely realised that she was starting to unbutton his shirt , her fingers trembling in their haste to feel his skin , and he laughed deep in his throat , a glorying , exultantly male sound that thrilled the woman in her . |
| 8 | But Lokata had not realised that it was treading on a defence secret . |
| 9 | He must have sensed that I was looking at him , he suddenly glanced at me out of the corner of his eyes and , still cleaning the mess tin with his finger , he said quietly , ‘ Why are you staring at me like that , Piper ? |
| 10 | The 62-year-old bishop later explained that he was quoting from a book called How To Be A Wally . |
| 11 | Then probably you have not heard that he was sent for last night just before Compline , to go to Donata , at her express wish . |
| 12 | I have heard that he was saddened by these writings of Fernanda Eberstadt 's , in which his own writings are faulted . |
| 13 | When I 'd checked the pin positions in the morning I 'd decided that it was going to be someone already under par who would be in a position to win next day as opposed to someone coming through the field , because I just could n't see anybody scoring well . |
| 14 | The only company to have voiced an interest in ANDF recently , or to have hinted that it was negotiating for it , is Unix System Laboratories ( UX No 380 ) . |
| 15 | She had felt that she was prying into Elise 's life , but it had to be done . |
| 16 | Her father , himself ten years older than her mother , seemed more concerned about his daughter marrying a man who was seventeen years older than her , and had felt that she was entering into the marriage largely because of the misfortune that had afflicted her family . |
| 17 | I 've always felt that I was raised in the land of melody but I certainly was n't raised in the land of rhythm so I 'm always attracted to good dance music . |
| 18 | He had been so badly injured that he was moved to the prison hospital , where I visited him every day . |
| 19 | It was later generally accepted that he was suffering from multiple neurofibromatosis ( von Recklinghausen 's disease ) , a very rare and incurable disease characterized by the tendency to form neurofibromas ( tumours of the nerve and fibrous tissue ) . |
| 20 | The manager of the Ljubljana branch of the Belgrade Bank has revealed that he was asked by a high official of the National Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina to purchase 3 billion dinars of Agrokomerc bills of exchange ( Politika , 27 August 1987 ) . |
| 21 | The previous week 30 of the country 's 60 examining magistrates had been dismissed , and the Attorney General of Antioquia province , the principal negotiator of the surrender of the Medellín drug cartel chief Pablo Escobar Gaviria in June [ see p. 38283 ] , had resigned after it was revealed that he was related to Gaviria . |
| 22 | Detectives investigating the murder of Glasgow pensioner Agnes Law have revealed that she was killed for the few pounds she had in her house . |
| 23 | She had revealed that she was surrounded by the spirits of her four dead children , her parents , and a host of spirit youngsters through whom she operated when she was on This Side . |
| 24 | Having signed on and said that she was looking for a job as a research scientist , she was advised that she should think again . |
| 25 | Asked about apparent defections from his cause , he claimed never to have said that he was counting on anybody . |
| 26 | It was said that he was retired from the army , the navy , the civil service and the BBC . |
| 27 | Had he said that he was going to his death in Lucifer 's inferno ? |
| 28 | It is said that he was interfering with the choir girls , some of whom were betrothed . |
| 29 | His eagerness to please ensured that he was put upon , and judging by the worn state of his clothes she guessed he was paid a pittance for it . |
| 30 | ‘ We were told that it was going to be arranged for Barry to sing ‘ The White Cliffs of Dover ’ with Mrs Thatcher at the end of the show . |