Example sentences of "[adj] that [pers pn] had [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | While exploiting the conquered territories France constantly proclaimed in public that it had come to Indochina on a " mission civilisatrice " to help the backward nation into the light of the twentieth century . |
| 2 | The conditions in which they had been kept in the notorious Tazmamert prison had been so appalling that they had had to be transferred to a hospital for medical treatment to make them fit for release . |
| 3 | It had been a rough race and Kelly had been glad that she had elected to be among the leaders throughout . |
| 4 | He was glad that he had expressed to her , however blunderingly , what he felt . |
| 5 | Would n't Veronica think it suspicious that she had gone to the lengths of calling two days running ? |
| 6 | The IMF announced on May 21 that it had agreed to the government 's request to extend for an additional year its current three-year extended arrangement granted in 1989 . |
| 7 | But he may also have intended to remind those present that he had come to the throne as a result of the treaty he had made with Edmund , which according to Florence of Worcester established peace , friendship and brotherhood between them . |
| 8 | He made a series of trips to Algeria reminiscent of those that he had made to the French provinces in the autumn of 1944 . |
| 9 | Martin Hyman of British Aerospace got five enquiries and said that though he could have wished for more , those that he had talked to had , he felt , benefited considerably . |
| 10 | Snodgrass embarked on a story about a very famous jewel called the Koh-i-noor , which he thought had once adorned a great King 's State Crown and explained how it had been so rare and so heavy that it had had to be kept locked away behind bars and guards , so that nobody could steal it . |
| 11 | Egyptian reports about the Misratis were rather confused , claiming first that they were Moslem Arabs , later that they were Jews of Libyan origin ; first that they had confessed to spying for Mossad ( the Israeli secret service ) , later that they had admitted only counterfeiting documents . |
| 12 | Sartre records that by 1920–21 , the personal predicament of Nizan 's father had become so desperate that he had taken to disappearing at frequent intervals from the family home at night , disappearances which Sartre interprets as " attempted suicides " . |
| 13 | The king 's foresters and verderers complained at the Huntingdon Forest Eyre in 1286 that they had gone to Benwick to make an inquest of the venison . |
| 14 | The UAE announced on Aug. 19 that it had agreed to the deployment of Arab and other foreign forces . |
| 15 | ‘ Ven ! ’ she whispered , and was barely aware that they had moved to the darkened area of her bedroom . |