Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It transpired that she had also been one of a party at the Hall the same day . |
| 2 | The autumn statement yesterday demonstrated that we have substantially increased in real terms — after inflation — the spending in each of the three areas that my hon. Friend mentioned . |
| 3 | The same was not true of the broader European Economic Community , which despite its wider brief demonstrated that it had both strength and flexibility . |
| 4 | Mr Brown demonstrated that he has already utterly mastered the use of the sound-bite to get a headline phrase into the news bulletins . |
| 5 | Lachman , who can now claim the distinction of selling his company twice and buying it back once , quipped that he has personally established a new executive benchmark , transactions per year ( TPY ) , having sold Interactive to SunSoft , Praxis to SunSelect , Interactive to Systemhouse and having bought back Lachman , all in the space of the last twelve months . |
| 6 | Here , however , lay the crux of the matter , for the King of Prussia and his government maintained that they had never been officially associated with Leopold , whose activities were purely personal , and that the King was concerned with the matter only as head of the House of Hohenzollern . |
| 7 | This was challenged by one of the defendants who maintained that she had never been on stage in a state of total nudity , as the police present maintained . |
| 8 | I pretended that I did now , of course , so he did n't say anything else . |
| 9 | Some hours after the alleged attack , Sharon McLean ran out of the Peace Gardens in Holt Street , near Wrexham police station , and pretended that she had just discovered the body , the jury was told . |
| 10 | They talked , and in course of it Paul mentioned that he had already sketched out plans for a second book ; the Professor had already informed Mr Lamprey of the first . |
| 11 | As we approached the river , the Trent , which had a bathing-place in the grounds , he mentioned that he had already had a dip and recommended it . |
| 12 | James mentioned that he had never understood why people went on strike until he became a wage-earner . |
| 13 | She found that they vary independently of each other which suggests that at least one of the inversions is on one of the 8 metacentric pairs not involved in the numerical variability ( C. R. Bantock , personal communication ) . |
| 14 | We found that they matched quite closely . |
| 15 | I found that I had far more anger in me than I ever realized . |
| 16 | It made me uncomfortable , but I found that I grew more confident . |
| 17 | Eventually his mother was asked to remove him because the staff never managed to bring his behaviour under control ; they found that he produced just too much undesirable behaviour for them to get to grips with . |
| 18 | In those days I had been doing a good deal of drawing ; and , having come under Wyndham Lewis 's influence , I took my Vorticist efforts round to the Master , and , to my surprise , I found that he thought quite well of them . |
| 19 | Looking around at the suffocating power of the Roman Catholic Church and the less humane churches of Protestantism , he found that he had nowhere else to go ; they had no answers for this situation either . |
| 20 | He found that he did just better than his predecessor and was pleased . |
| 21 | In the end I went to the police and found that she 'd just reported that he was missing . ’ |
| 22 | She reached out for the time and found that she had over forty hours still to go before she met the contact again . |
| 23 | On all points we found that she tracked accurately and remained beautifully balanced . |
| 24 | She found that she stayed quite dry there , but she wished she were somewhere else ! |
| 25 | When she came to pay for the bill , she found that it had already been paid . |
| 26 | Plotting the line on a map , he found that it passed straight through Westminster Abbey , the site of which was originally known as Thorney Island from a conspicuous mark : a hallowed clump of hawthorn . |
| 27 | When Wendy opened hers , she found that it consisted entirely of crispbread and realised that she would be able to eat only during the applause — Harrison Birtwhistle 's music had not yet been written . |
| 28 | Tawell , who was deeply affronted that such a respectable businessman should be arrested on such a charge , exclaimed that he had never heard of Sara Hart , nor of Salt Hill , and he had definitely never been there . |
| 29 | Stirling felt this inferred that he had loosely prattled at a cocktail party , whereas the gatherings referred to were private dinner parties . |
| 30 | The executives reported that they became highly involved in writing the cases . |