Example sentences of "[vb past] that [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least the British players demonstrated that they fully deserved to be on the same court — much against many people 's expectations . |
| 2 | The recent tours of the Republic by New Zealand and world champions Australia demonstrated that it still continues to do so — and how . |
| 3 | Labour was utilised more efficiently , and as well as being mindful of his employer 's interests , Barratt demonstrated that he also had a care for his workmen . |
| 4 | It seemed to me that it was not only natural but positive : it demonstrated that he still had a relationship with God . |
| 5 | Diana has never been close to the Princess Royal , and demonstrated that she now has no intention of pretending otherwise . |
| 6 | They often came into conflict with the local Transport Committees , formed from the local branches of the main transport unions , who correctly maintained that they alone had the right to issue permits for the movement of essential items which would otherwise have been held up in the dispute . |
| 7 | She maintained that you simply stood and watched the other Girls ; this was called ‘ sitting at the side of Nellie ’ ( Nellie or Eleanor being the only daughter John allowed to take part in the business . ) . |
| 8 | I once visited a pensioner in my village and mentioned that I occasionally like jam but never make it myself because I do not eat it often enough . |
| 9 | I have used this set-up to photograph cichlids , but I found that they invariably show their fright colours and not their lovely breeding colours . |
| 10 | Friedman 's doctors found that they often needed to confront the patients with their underlying hostility . |
| 11 | She tried to pin her thoughts elsewhere , but found that they always boomeranged back . |
| 12 | I myself did not know anything about this and having checked with Gillyan Ford and all Publicity Assistants , found that they too had had no previous indication of the requirement to scan adverts . |
| 13 | The tone controls really are sensitive and , being used to the somewhat reluctant EQ on my own amplifier , I found that I only had to move the X-Amp 's a few degrees before the sound began to change radically . |
| 14 | And I had spent a total of three winters playing Grade cricket in the city and found that I really liked the place and the people . |
| 15 | Yeah , I , I found that you suddenly put |
| 16 | But Coleridge found that he rather enjoyed the rolling of the deck , and held long and facetious conversations with a talkative fellow passenger . |
| 17 | As she hesitated , Tug found that he desperately wanted to know what she would say . |
| 18 | He had blushed at the thought and turned quickly away , but as time passed he found that he desperately wanted to share his secret with her ; until then he 'd always confided in her unhesitatingly and it seemed strange that something should now make him hold back . |
| 19 | In all our dealings with the head teacher we found that he consistently refused to accept that the methods of teaching at the school were failing our son . |
| 20 | She found that she gradually became prone to weight gain and as a result experimented with several different diets . |
| 21 | Sainsbury 's sponsored one of the nine categories — Press Advertising — and found that it also received a certificate in this category for its graduate recruitment campaign . |
| 22 | I was about to go back to the hotel when a pool attendant gestured to me and whispered that he urgently needed to change Iraqi dinars into dollars . |
| 23 | Corman called ‘ It 's a wrap ’ on Friday evening , and realized that he still had almost forty-eight hours ' usage left on the warehouse and sets he had rented for The Raven . |
| 24 | he looked down at the two hands locked onto his arm and then at the small man hurrying on ahead , and realized that he still had his chaperons , and once again they were not of his own choosing … |
| 25 | At breakfast the next morning Van Cheele realized that he still felt uncomfortable about yesterday 's adventure . |
| 26 | What I wanted to say was that when I read the Annual Report I was rather surprised to find that there is no reference to the er report of the committee under the chairmanship of Bob , Bob on the organization of the R Y A and then I realized that it probably did n't come to the Council till after the end of the year that we have under consideration but it did seem to me that it has some contentious and some very interesting and rather good points in it and I wonder if we could be told how the consideration of it is getting on . |
| 27 | When she told her friends about it ( ‘ My dears , he took a garden vegetable and changed it into a bird in front of my eyes ! ’ ) , her friends realized that she also had a wonderful imagination . |
| 28 | He realized that she already had fans , but the others were almost certainly complete wankers . |
| 29 | her lips curled in a smile , and Patrick wondered if she knew what effect she was having on him — and then realized that she probably did . |
| 30 | When she looked up the mountainside , as if searching for help there , I realized that she still had fear of me , little knowing the true state of affairs , and felt herself like an animal in a trap . |