Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [that] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to pretend that none of it mattered , could half convince himself . |
| 2 | But as the movement became more fiercely nationalistic , the Futurists began to complain that they in turn were being plagiarized in France . |
| 3 | I did think that someone outside that house was using assassins , professional killers , but that would be too dangerous . |
| 4 | The Collector knew it was time he hurried downstairs … he had expected that something like this would happen , but not so quickly . |
| 5 | He had noticed that none of them had his bow or Marian 's . |
| 6 | Etiquette had demanded that none of the cast should leave until the last of their guests had gone , but , as soon as the final raincoat disappeared round the door of the theatre bar , the entire company leapt for their belongings to make a quick getaway . |
| 7 | They sought to show that nothing in modern science required the abandonment of traditional Christianity , and especially the belief in eternal life . |
| 8 | In a fit of pique , he threw out many of his planetary drawings , made with a 10-cm refracting telescope , after high-placed amateurs refused to believe that anyone with such a small instrument could see the detail he recorded . |