Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [that] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found that quite a hard time erm and especially if you do n't have any family near . |
| 2 | Before the war began , listening to reminiscences of those who had experienced the last war and sensing their dread , I imagined that once a war had started , no one would ever be happy again . |
| 3 | I feared that even an emergency home call might go unheeded . |
| 4 | I thought that rather an inelegant phrase and I shall return to it . |
| 5 | No , I thought that perhaps a stroll down Unter den Linden — such memories for me there — and then I have another idea . |
| 6 | But then I thought that perhaps an accident was awaiting me or one of my relatives . |
| 7 | " And I thought that maybe a few bruises under the seat of your pants might make sure you remember something else that 's important . |
| 8 | The Bank itself commissioned a study which noted that approximately a third of its projects failed to meet these rigorous criteria . |
| 9 | The vegetation of the field was analysed by ordination and correlation techniques which showed that only a minor part of the variation in species distribution could be accounted for by underlying edaphic factors , though in the peripheral areas of the pasture the presence of hedges and trees accounted for significant changes in the vegetation — e.g. Dadtylis glomerata occurred mainly in or close to the shade of the trees . |
| 10 | Rather more perceptive ( I felt ) was an article in The Independent , a London newspaper , which said that even a serious scientific book like A Brief History of Time could become a cult book . |
| 11 | And first I want to discuss this idea of hopeful monsters , which is a phrase which goes back to Richard Goldsmith , the geneticist , who argued that occasionally a single — well he was vague about what kind of mutation he had in mind , because he had really rather odd ideas about what genes were and so on but he held occasionally that some genetic change gave rise in some sense in a single dialectical leap to organisms strikingly different from their parents and that speciation consisted of the establishment of such hopeful monsters or macro mutations . |
| 12 | Newman and his original associates ( all white and mostly women ) were hard-liners who argued that only a revolution of the working class could resolve the individual psychic crisis . |
| 13 | Approaching a set of traffic lights where she normally went straight on , and where the queue ahead seemed to stretch into infinity , she realised that only a few cars were waiting to turn left into the Cheltenham road . |
| 14 | You 've just wasted , you finished that quite a long time ago , and you have |
| 15 | She emphasised that only a small proportion of the 30 million eggs eaten daily in the UK would be affected . |
| 16 | She implied that only a fool could allow what was known as ‘ love ’ to enter into consideration in the matter . |
| 17 | Her wings might be old and her talons blunt but strangely her illness had sharpened her mind even more and she knew that somehow a chance would come . |
| 18 | She gave that only a moment 's thought . |
| 19 | We observed that sometimes a sentiment attributed to a powerful senior member of the county bureaucracy was accepted as sufficient grounds for considering a school more sympathetically ( or more critically ) than would otherwise be the case . |
| 20 | On the other side , ‘ some years ago we observed that quite a large proportion of the concentrated acids we sold was diluted by our customers on site and sometimes in rather unsatisfactory conditions ; small companies did n't have facilities to dilute acid safety — it generates a lot of heat . |
| 21 | We saw that only a few months ago when the right hon. Gentleman vetoed the appointment of a Labour city councillor in favour of the appointment of his Tory placeman . |
| 22 | When Peter Townsend and his army of researchers monitored low incomes in the sixties and seventies for their massive study , Poverty in the United Kingdom ( Penguin , 1982 ) , they found that about a quarter of the unemployed were drawing supplementary benefit . |
| 23 | The Council suggested the need for independent ‘ unified ’ research to ascertain the size and scope of the heroin problem , as they feared that otherwise a number of ‘ in-house ’ research papers would be produced which would lack coordination and the necessary overview . |
| 24 | And in the middle of that , they thought that perhaps an ornamental lighting column with sort of , with lights coming out from the top of it just to make it a bit more fancy . |
| 25 | The more he thought about it , the more he realized that only a slight change would need to be made to his own plans . |
| 26 | And he revealed that only a few weeks ago Magherafelt traders turned down the option of having security gates erected in the town during a meeting with police . |
| 27 | He noted that only a small part of the ancient Sicàn capital , covering an area 1.5 x 1 km , had been excavated so far . |
| 28 | If disputes within the party over policy and doctrine were one symptom of Conservative confusion , another was the ‘ legion of leagues ’ which appeared in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , when it seemed that hardly a year went by without the founding of some new right-wing association . |
| 29 | He knew that only a very good fighter — a much better fighter than he was could knock a man unconscious with one punch to the jaw . |
| 30 | He knew that only a few not very helpful smudges had been found after Mary Connon 's prints , taken from the dead woman 's fingers at the post-mortem , had been eliminated . |