Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun pl] [conj] [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made notes and said that if he had a key to the house he 'd be able to plan what was needed in a shorter time . |
| 2 | Goldring says that teachers in 34 states tried Choices and found that the unit answered many students ' needs to discuss their fears about nuclear annihilation . |
| 3 | In that year a London chemist , Smithson Tennant , burned diamonds and found that carbon dioxide was the end product ; the same amount of carbon dioxide was produced by burning equal weights of diamond and charcoal . |
| 4 | But he was resented by long memories in those who had fought a war ; by Churchill 's men for weakening the morale of the Air Force through his attacks on area bombing ; by the school of Lord Vansittart which loathed Germans and said that Nazis were typical of that race , and hated a bishop who told them never to identify the true Germany with Hitler . |
| 5 | In response to Australian concerns about human rights , Zhu acknowledged differences but said that China wanted to exchange views . |
| 6 | In a typically Chinese way , when I was discharged , the doctor who had treated me escorted me to the car , and shook hands and asked if I had any complaints , as he knew the hospital left plenty of room for improvement . |
| 7 | When Mr Major and Mr Delors emerged from their talks they shook hands and smiled but said nothing to reporters . |
| 8 | The two men exchanged experiences and found that they had heard the same noises of heavy breathing and the kick on the door . |
| 9 | Feeling fury begin to soar in her again , she determinedly stayed where she was when she heard sounds that indicated that both men were leaving . |
| 10 | Where there had been one figure faintly outlined in the frame of the staging there were now two — one large , obviously Jotan , and one much smaller , a child Alexei thought until he saw the muscular build and shortened legs and realised that Jotan had caught a dwarf . |
| 11 | All those years ago he knew things and said that services should be replanned in London , but did nothing whatever about it . |
| 12 | On a sunny wall I grew tomatoes and found that they need n't be , after all , red bags of tasteless liquid but firm and sweet and tasting of — I could just remember it — tomatoes . |
| 13 | Thomas Carlisle as a young man was absolutely disgusted by Coleridge because Coleridge was all sort of fat and flabby and had ha frilly cravats and and was a was a was a dopehead and a heroin addict and er sat around all day in a darkened room and took drugs and drank and stuff like that , which um disillusioned Carlisle very much . |
| 14 | We made enquiries and found that she had helped her mother to carry water every day in Bangladesh . |
| 15 | We had customers that came or we delivered to , out of the area . |
| 16 | He made inquiries and discovered that for just 19 he could get to Ontario . |