Example sentences of "[conj] that [pers pn] had [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 's new is that the old defence , that a director did not ‘ knowingly or willingly ’ allow something to happen has been eroded and , Bell said , ‘ directors will have to show specifically and beyond a shadow of doubt they could not know what was happening or that they had minuted their protest ’ . |
| 2 | What was in his mind — except that he had killed his dallta , and wished to die with him ? ’ |
| 3 | The statement would simply say that an exchange had been arranged in conditions of total secrecy , as demanded by the kidnappers , an unspecified ransom had been paid , and that they had broken their word . |
| 4 | He said that the Government were out of touch with homelessness and with the hopelessness of large sections of society , and that they had forfeited their right to govern . |
| 5 | The National Consumer Council had the impression that consumers wanting to borrow money felt agencies automatically regarded them as ‘ guilty ’ and that they had to prove their innocence . |
| 6 | Darci Alves confessed to sole responsibility , in what was seen as an attempt to get his father acquitted , but a key prosecution witness , Genesio Ferreira da Silva , 15 , a former employee and relative of the Alves family , stated that he had overheard both of them plotting the murder and that they had celebrated its successful execution with a barbecue . |
| 7 | I told her who I was , and that I had met her father . |
| 8 | That she had lied to me , that my father had been betrayed by Mills and that I had avenged her husband 's memory . |
| 9 | I knew it did me good to be reminded of how much I loathed the suburbs , and that I had to continue my journey into London and a new life , ensuring I got away from people and streets like this . |
| 10 | Kerr reported on the visit at the July meeting of the Council , drawing attention to ‘ the adverse criticisms contained in this report ’ , emphasizing that it had been a strong visiting party , and that it had reached its conclusions unanimously . |
| 11 | The wife stated that she had succumbed to undue pressure from her husband to sign the documents and that he had misrepresented their effect , in that she had believed that the security was limited to £60,000 and would last for only three weeks . |
| 12 | She claimed she and the murdered girl had been drinking with the old man , and that he had killed her friend , but the old man was acquitted and McLachlan was sentenced to hang . |
| 13 | What had really confused everyone was the fact that Kemp always carried a hip-flask of brandy in the car 's glove compartment , and that he had given his wife — trapped by the legs beside him — several sips from this flask before the ambulance arrived ; and had even drunk from it himself ! |
| 14 | When I entered , the servants told me that Mr Rochester had arrived , and that he had hurt his leg when his horse slipped on ice on the road to Hay . |
| 15 | One night , long after the senator had chartered Wavebreaker , I had defended him to Ellen , saying that it was not Crowninshield 's fault that he had been born to wealthy parents , and that he had used his wealth well . |
| 16 | Edward could not be typical of his friends , but I remembered that Clive had called him a friend to verse , and that he had read my work . |
| 17 | I was told that the manager had gone to lunch , and when I asked for him to be bleeped I was told again that he had gone to lunch and that he had left his bleep at the switchboard — all in a tone that suggested that this was standard behaviour . |
| 18 | She did not even realize her hair had come down and that she had lost her hat until she found herself leaning against a wall somewhere on the other side of St Jude 's Passage , her lungs bursting , her temples and her pulses hammering out their distress , her whole appearance wild and dishevelled and attracting not the least attention in that place which-no matter what might have befallen her — had seen it all before . |