Example sentences of "[adj] that [pers pn] had [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is fairly clear that they had rediscovered at least some of Mendel 's laws before his work was known to them . |
| 2 | It seems clear that they had corresponded during 1796 , and by the time they met again at Stowey they were well acquainted with each other 's work . |
| 3 | Other speakers followed , but it soon became clear that she had spoken for ail present . |
| 4 | 1 was attracted by another that I had discussed on a visit to Europe : certain branded drugs would not be prescribed at all when entirely adequate substitute generic drugs existed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But if he came prepared to kill it was odd that he had relied on seizing the first convenient weapon ; unless , of course , he knew that the mallet would be ready to hand . |
| 7 | It seems possible that he had worked as a journeyman for Rastell on some part of the massive volumes of Sir Anthony Fitzherbert 's Graunde abbregement , 1516 , and its Table , 1517 ( Short-Title Catalogue 10954–5 ) . |
| 8 | Her general condition was so weak that he had arranged for the doctors to take special care of her , financially assisted as usual by Theo . |
| 9 | Feeling flustered and guilty that I had departed from my normal custom of never working on a pupil 's painting , I foolishly replied " Yes " . |
| 10 | ‘ This looks like a good job , ’ I though , unaware that I had arrived in the middle of Danny Baker 's leaving party . |
| 11 | It was so hot outside that she had settled for an orange cheesecloth caftan , which she 'd jacked in with a belt of linked gold hippos . |
| 12 | WE got so much that we had asked for from Norman Lamont yesterday that it might seem churlish not to give his Autumn Statement an unqualified welcome . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Timothy rose when Stephen and Kate did , glad that they had decided on refreshment . |
| 15 | It had been a rough race and Kelly had been glad that she had elected to be among the leaders throughout . |
| 16 | He was glad that he had expressed to her , however blunderingly , what he felt . |
| 17 | Given that they had the ‘ weather works ’ that day in the shape of sleet , hail , wind and rain , whilst simultaneously a view of quite a lot of snow on Vesuvius , I was glad that I had stayed at home with a good book . |
| 18 | But that , too , was the time when Mrs Aggie struck her so hard that she had fallen on her back , and all because she had called Mrs Nelson ‘ a bloody cow ’ . |
| 19 | Last year at the RSC , she said , she 'd gone all the way through the season and had worked so hard that she had forgotten about drawing . |
| 20 | Would n't Veronica think it suspicious that she had gone to the lengths of calling two days running ? |
| 21 | I was too tired , only vaguely conscious that we had come off the canal bank and were angling down across a steep slope of stony ground to the rice-green flatness of the valley floor . |
| 22 | I was also very conscious that you had telephoned before the 6pm cheap rate because of the mackintosh nonsense , and did not want to detain you . |
| 23 | " Fell overboard , " Rowe explained , and the other crew members stood around shame-faced , each conscious that he had shared in the incompetence which had prevented the recovery of their skipper . |
| 24 | The UN Under-Secretary-General for Emergency Relief Co-ordination , Jan Eliasson , said in Baghdad on Aug. 21 that he had failed during talks with senior Iraqi officials on Aug. 17-21 to persuade the government to complete a new memorandum of understanding covering UN relief operations in Iraq . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Provided , therefore , that the basis of the distinction between and was originally geographical-and it must be emphasized that this is only one possible explanation , albeit perhaps the most tenable on-it seems likely that they had come into currency before the middle of the sixteenth century , before the distinction between the geographical locations of the medreses had begun to become blurred . |
| 27 | It was obvious that she had come into the laboratory after the blow had been struck , and had in fact seen very little . |
| 28 | It had been Dalrymple 's idea to require the clan chiefs to take the oath of allegiance and it became obvious that he had hoped for an opportunity to punish one clan as an example to the others . |
| 29 | Both had been arrested and were charged with serious terrorist offences , of which I was sure they were totally innocent ; although I was equally sure that they had engaged in active political propaganda , which in some ways would have been no less objectionable to the South African government . |
| 30 | Her brother had been in the bathroom , but he was so drugged that he had slumped against the wall and slept in a haze through the remainder of the night . |