Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] [pron] [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shouted that I was going to call the police . ’ |
| 2 | In the 1870s he demonstrated that he was keeping abreast of developments in analysis too , with a paper on Georg Riemann 's new approach to integral calculus . |
| 3 | While accepting the Comintern classification of Latin American agrarian structures as ‘ feudal ’ or semi-feudal , he maintained that what was happening in Latin America was not that capitalism was superseding feudalism , but rather that the two systems tended to coexist . |
| 4 | He maintained that he was thinking about gold and the strange fascination this metal still exerts upon otherwise rational men grappling with the intricacies of international exchange rates . |
| 5 | They pretended that what was happening was not happening , and if it were to happen , it would certainly never happen to the likes of them . |
| 6 | He even pretended that he was having an affair with a younger woman . |
| 7 | Do you remember at the announcement of last year 's results we erm we mentioned that we were concentrating on four themes one 's cost reduction er driving for cash erm , improving our market share and investing for the future . |
| 8 | As I was floundering around trying to see a picture she mentioned that she was dreading a forthcoming holiday because of travel-sickness — the anticipatory fear would lead to headaches and frequent urination . |
| 9 | At a meeting last summer , he mentioned that he was suffering from a sudden bout of back pain and had just visited an acupuncturist . |
| 10 | Years later when I saw John Sayers of West New Houses for the last time before he unfortunately died , I mentioned that I was planning to start riding my bike again , and he was most amused . |
| 11 | But you see , I just went to the education officer and I say , he , he ran it , he , it , it was , it was his responsibility the Guild 's were and I went to him about a Guild matter and I said oh , erm how I mentioned that I was working and he said well where are you working ? |
| 12 | Normally he would n't touch a job as small as the cottage , but I once did a favour for his father , and when I mentioned that I was having trouble finding someone to do the job he volunteered . ’ |
| 13 | You never mentioned that you were watching us . ’ |
| 14 | The ceramics particularly impressed her and she found that they were referred to in the catalogue as " agitational chinaware " . |
| 15 | I found that they were engaged in retailing rather heavy jokes ; and there came a point when Eliot , feeling perhaps that he ought to contribute , embarked upon a rather long story about George V. It ran somewhat as follows . |
| 16 | After having participated alongside the men — organising the peasantry , conducting a guerilla war , living in the dangerous and uncertain conditions of an ‘ underground ’ existence — the women found that they were expected to return to a supposedly normal feminine role after the struggle . |
| 17 | Some engineers and managers , especially those coming from municipal employment , found the new salaries they were offered higher than their pre-vesting salaries , but others found that they were expected to take a cut . |
| 18 | Then I found that something was nudging at my memory . |
| 19 | Pangs of conscience , and ache of loneliness apart , I found that I was stimulated by the challenge of finding my way about this great and beautiful city , and by having to communicate — to try to speak French quickly enough to make actual conversation possible . |
| 20 | I found that I was trembling . |
| 21 | I found that I was trying to achieve two somewhat incompatible objectives . |
| 22 | I 'd had some sailing instruction before on Lake Bala , in a larger Wayfarer which has room for two people and an instructor , but I found that I was tending to leave the thinking to my partner and the instructor , and just doing what I was told without knowing why . |
| 23 | I suddenly found that I was losing my powers at a time when I needed them most . |
| 24 | To my surprise , I found that I was running towards the battle . |
| 25 | Without noticing its onset I found that I was crying and I went on crying until I slept . |
| 26 | I tried to turn in behind him but found that I was going to overshoot and pulled away to starboard . |
| 27 | When daylight dawned he found that he was sharing space with a hoard of gold ingots , one of the lost treasures of the area . |
| 28 | When he lifted out the first and looked through the handwritten pages he found that he was holding Henryk Liawski 's personal diary covering odd and irregular dates between 1952 and 1958 . |
| 29 | He found that he was getting angry . |
| 30 | After a while Rostov found that he was losing track of the ebb and flow of the conversation . |