Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I proposed that we fish the same swim , which was large enough to accommodate both of us without the risk of crossed lines . |
| 2 | In a surprise move , NEC Corp has approached Convex Computer Corp and proposed that it market the Convex C3 minisupercomputers in Japan to plug the gap below its own SX3 supercomputers . |
| 3 | Lily said , ‘ No , we can get Miss Bradshaw 's signature any time we want it ’ , and Vernon shouted that they had a perfect right to loiter on a public pavement . |
| 4 | The current generation of devices has already established a growing acceptance of electronic media among information users and demonstrated that they have a choice in the way they get access to the resources they need . |
| 5 | It was threatened again ( though Edward VIII made it plain that he would only comply if the Liberal government demonstrated that it had a popular mandate for abolition ) in 1909 . |
| 6 | Secretly she exulted that he had the car . |
| 7 | When Xerox first embarked on benchmarking it helped that it had a Japanese partner , Fuji Xerox , that it could look to for information about Japanese practices . |
| 8 | In my case , I think it helped that I had a modest aptitude for football . |
| 9 | The Staufer maintained that they accepted the magisterial primacy of the Roman Church — the pope 's power to approve and anoint the emperor — but they challenged the jurisdictional primacy , namely the pope 's claim to appoint the emperor . |
| 10 | The next day 's headline — Youth denies sex attack — told how the teenager maintained that he took the schoolgirl behind a shop for a goodnight kiss , alleging that the girl consented to his advances . |
| 11 | You mentioned that we need a stronger centre in government . |
| 12 | Kate mentioned that she joined a local knitting club , so I 'm surprised that she has n't discussed the subject there and been given advice as to which way to proceed . |
| 13 | He mentioned that he hoped the Princess of Wales would open the refurbished clinic the following year . |
| 14 | Then I mentioned that I had a Lawson Buford tuba solo from 1927 somewhere in my record collection and I was back in favour . |
| 15 | ‘ You mentioned that you had a half-brother , ’ she murmured , ‘ and that he 'd be coming into Woodline Design . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Dame Sybil mentioned that you have no ribbon to fasten your braid , my lady . |
| 17 | She still , at this point , disliked the songs and it was n't until she was in the studio and involved that she found a passionate core to the music and began to revel in it . |
| 18 | Studies on savants who can tell you the day of the week on which you were born found that they followed the rules of a calendar to work out the dates . |
| 19 | And so the Air Staff found that they had a vociferous and powerful industrial lobby in both Westminster and Whitehall to back their case for GOR 339 . |
| 20 | Nicholas 's nephew Thomas Collett , a barrister , and his wife came to Little Gidding in 1628 but after two years found that they had no vocation for its kind of life and returned to London . |
| 21 | A review of American schemes carried out in 1990 by the General Accounting Office found that they reduced the total amount of litter by 10–20% by weight and 40–60% by volume . |
| 22 | But Ramsey and Barth found that they shared a common sense of humour . |
| 23 | However , the New York Times of July 12 , reporting on hitherto secret State Department cables provided at the request of the Senate foreign relations committee , found that they included no such clear warning on Glaspie 's part . |
| 24 | When R. Hoy put these hybrid females on a Y-maze he found that they preferred the songs of hybrid males to those of either parental species . |
| 25 | Mayer and Timms ( 1970 ) , in a noteworthy social work text , found that there existed a massive level of misunderstanding between client and social worker concerning individual need . |
| 26 | I also found that I had a vitamin deficiency , and Anna-Lisa introduced me to vitamin supplements . |
| 27 | I applied for an interview , and shortly afterwards found that I had a new job . |
| 28 | I 'd been told about the Afon Por-Gilli but never got around to finding and paddling it so when I found that I had the first Wednesday of the month off we set off westbound across the border . |
| 29 | I found that I gained a lot of strength from all this regular correspondence with people and , four years on , I now feel much more myself again , although of course I still miss my husband tremendously . |
| 30 | He found that he enjoyed the work . |