Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] had [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Anyway , Laura wanted to know if anybody had reported that the undertaker was missing . ’ |
| 2 | As Moore looked into those eyes , he realized that he had seen that look before . |
| 3 | As an example of the pitfalls involved in drafting questions , we can consider the fuss that there was in 1983 when Hill announced that he had found that as many as 40 per cent of six-year-old children had seen ‘ video-nasties ’ ( i.e. video films of horror , violence , and sadistic sex ) . |
| 4 | You will pick up from these last remarks that I had decided that my basic marine aquarium should be devoted to fish only , a good choice in many ways for a basic system , especially for those inexperienced in marine aquaria keeping . |
| 5 | But even the groups chairman , Professor Geoffrey Rose of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine , admitted that he had thought that when all the trials were completed , the benefits of intervention would be certain . |
| 6 | ( The great Pasteur believed that he had shown that it could not so evolve . ) |
| 7 | Consistently the view was presented that one had to feel that the job which one was doing at a particular time could be related to some end product . |
| 8 | The notebooks also show that she had grasped that the A form contained two strands running in opposite directions , but she had not then understood the exact relation between the A and B forms . |
| 9 | That , and the discovery that she could not bear a man near her in the early days after the rape ; so she had feigned an illness , explained as the consequence of her breaking her engagement with Havvie , which , of course , had caused an immense furore inside and outside of society , and Mama and Papa had put off their visit to England , and sent her loving letters , for she had written that she had discovered that she did not really love Havvie at all , had merely been beglamoured by his appearance , name and title . |
| 10 | In a letter to President Eisenhower , Sir Anthony compared Nasser to Mussolini , and it was revealed that he had felt that the Government should have resigned over the issue . |
| 11 | In re Polemis [ 1921 ] 3 KB 560 was wrongly decided because it had held that once liability was established , a person was responsible for the direct consequences of his acts even though these were not foreseeable . |
| 12 | In Book I , Chapter 3 , Section 3 of his A System of Logic ( written before he had decided that a quality is simply a sensation regarded in a certain relation ) he distinguishes between a sensation and a quality , a distinction which , he feels , may be missed because we can seldom refer to the sensation otherwise than by a circumlocution , for example , by reference to the quality , as when we call a sensation ‘ the sensation of white ’ . |
| 13 | She cast an impatient look at Mitch , who was standing with the same stunned attitude he had adopted when he had seen that the girl was blind . |
| 14 | She forgot that she had decided that she did not love Johnny and wanted him out of her life . |
| 15 | She was pushing a piece of toast around on her plate , wondering if she had imagined that arctic expression on his face just now , when she heard the door open . |
| 16 | The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order . |
| 17 | Today , however , the Sun must be wishing that it had held that headline in reserve . |
| 18 | Miss X had taken out the mortgage because her father was retired and she had intended that her fiance should move in with her and her parents . |
| 19 | Baker immediately praised Assad 's response as positive , saying that it had demonstrated that Syria was now more willing to enter direct peace talks with Israel than at any time in the past . |
| 20 | ( b ) That later on the same night , after Zaidie had reached home , the defendant had driven there with another man and confronted him with a gun and had said that he had come to move out Paulette. ( c ) That after that incident , but still in June 1986 , when Zaidie was driving into a friend 's house , the defendant drove up and , saying that he had heard that Zaidie had hit Paulette , again threatened to kill him if he touched her . |
| 21 | I also recognised that I was expected to take responsibility for the interpretation of the utterance , exploring a wide range of contextual assumptions ( about hospitals , illness , operations , and convalescence ) and deriving a wide range of contextual implications — not only a wider range than I would have derived had the newsreader just produced [ 14b ] , but a wider range than I would have derived if I had realised that the speaker was talking about the pound . |
| 22 | So when we received persistent telephone calls from our clients asking whether we had heard that all was not well with the horse , we had to take a view . |
| 23 | Time was , he remembered , when she had attended the Greek Orthodox Church , where he also had gone when small , but its splendour had palled when she had realized that more fashionable people belonged to the United Church . |
| 24 | ‘ She is totally pure ! ’ he replied , and felt that he had to tell that lie , even if he went to hell there and then for it . |
| 25 | In their final communiqué the ministers stressed that they had agreed that NATO would remain " the essential forum for consultation among the allies … on policies bearing on the security and defence commitments of its members " . |
| 26 | Then off they went but I had noticed that Mrs Taylor was really crying . |
| 27 | After each film was seen subjects had to decide whether they had seen that precise film section before or not , making the response either ‘ Yes ’ or ‘ No ’ . |
| 28 | Feeling more put out than embarrassed when the theatre management turned them away , the six complained that they had understood that ‘ you had to be in the nude in order to get in ’ . |
| 29 | The hon. Gentleman said that I had said that we would keep internment on the statute book . |
| 30 | He said that he had presumed that Khumalo was speaking on behalf of Buthelezi , but realized that he was incorrect . |