Example sentences of "[vb infin] that [ex0] was [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did think that there was something between her and Peter Yeo — her partner — but nothing came of it . |
| 2 | ‘ thought that , following your direction , the jury might think that there was something in the statement which the defence wanted to hide , using the cloak of privilege . |
| 3 | She did n't think that there was anything broken … but no thanks to Johnny , she thought bitterly . |
| 4 | From the experience of the 1920s and 1930s , therefore , it would appear that there was nothing overwhelmingly certain about the success of communism in Vietnam or , at least , about the success of the Indochina Communist Party . |
| 5 | But why did he feel that there was something more , and why was n't he acting on that instinct , the way that he 'd always acted ? |
| 6 | In practice , there might be situations of doubt ; a man might claim that there was nothing to alert him to the girl 's age ( e.g. a 15-year-old girl , who looks much older , soliciting in a street with other prostitutes ) . |
| 7 | When he looked at Rose , he could see that there was something wrong . |
| 8 | Well we went past the crash and we could see that there was something going on but we were n't sure what it was . |
| 9 | And then the shadows moved again , and Lugh could see that there was nothing there at all , and that he was nearer now to Tara than he had thought , and after all it had only been a trick of the light . |
| 10 | Because as she opened her eyes she could plainly see that there was nothing even remotely ghost-like about the tall , broad-shouldered figure of her husband , Ross Wyndham , now sitting on the seat beside her . |
| 11 | The silly bitch really could n't see that there was anything dubious about turning your daughter in to a pin-up . |
| 12 | Now how a man who works on can think there 's anything funny about species I just ca n't understand erm but there it is. erm well , suppose , however , that in my view wrongly one did suppose that there was something erm in this sort of idea of the decoupling between the processes which we observed in single populations and erm the sort of mechanisms leading to large scale evolution , what kinds of processes are held to be important when it comes to large scale evolution events ? |
| 13 | In many ways one could argue that there was nothing new in the FMI ; it was simply that many of these changes were almost two decades late in being recommended since they closely resemble many of the proposals contained in the Fulton Committee Report of 1968 ( Cmnd. 3638 ) . |