Example sentences of "[to-vb] that [pers pn] had [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though when the meal was ended and they went outside it was to discover that it had begun to drizzle . |
| 2 | DONATION — Pauline was pleased to report that she had written to the National Westminster Bank Sponsorship and Community Affairs Dept. and received a donation of £500 to the Society . |
| 3 | Rafeedie dismissed the case against Alvarez as " the wildest speculation " and rebuked the DEA for having been complicit in the abduction of Alvarez when there was nothing but circumstantial evidence to suggest that he had participated in Camarena 's torture or death . |
| 4 | Fran had read all she could about Luke Calder before the interview and knew that he came from the poorest part of Glasgow and that he had got to where he was today by dint of sheer hard work and determination , but , looking at him now , she found it hard to imagine that he had come from anything but a moneyed background . |
| 5 | The family were surprised to hear that he had written to his father asking if he could bring a friend to stay . |
| 6 | He began to suspect that she had gone to Glasgow . |
| 7 | She started to wish that she had stayed at the table . |
| 8 | When the British civil servant Sir Robert Armstrong struggled in the Spycatcher trial to deny that he had lied by claiming that he had been ‘ economical with the truth ’ he met with well-earned derision . |
| 9 | How could she not have known she was in love with him ? she wondered — it seemed impossible to believe that she had looked at him , touched him , made love with him , and not known until yesterday . |
| 10 | But , by that same morning , Ben Braithwaite had started to believe that he had thought of the cut in wages all by himself . |
| 11 | After several years , therefore , when the illness recurred , Margaret sent after Richard only to learn that he had died at the hour she was afflicted . |
| 12 | When the Dutch troops landed and passed through Wells , Ken wrote to James to say that he had withdrawn from his palace , taking his carriage horses lest they be commandeered ; indeed his previous service at William 's court would have caused much embarrassment if he had remained to meet him . |
| 13 | During one of my trips to the USA in the 1960s , Shaheen telephoned my hotel one day to say that he had arranged for me to have lunch with Richard Nixon , who at the time had not yet declared that he would run for the presidency in the election of 1968 . |
| 14 | It might be more accurate to say that he had escaped from him . |
| 15 | It does n't actually say I I I was just looking , it does n't s seems to go up to September nineteen eighty six but not to say that he had escaped from prison . |
| 16 | He went on to say that he had heard from a mutual friend whom he had met in Alexandria that I had a good job , and added : ‘ Mother said , in an old letter which took months to reach me , that it was in the Foreign Office . |
| 17 | Winston phoned me back within an hour to say that he had spoken to Harriman , that Harriman had spoken to the State Department , that they had dispatched two telegrams — one to Pretoria and one to Cape Town , the places between which the governmental functions are divided — and that in addition he himself had sent a telegram to the Prime Minister of South Africa , signed by the not unimpressive name of Winston Churchill . |
| 18 | There are two sides to every story , of course , and obviously no supervisory officer was likely to admit that he had participated in an attack upon the position of burgh politicians known to be in the interest of the Administration . |
| 19 | She 'd needed all her courage then , to stand over him and introduce herself ; to refuse to be sent away , to admit that she had come to Geneva in vain . |
| 20 | It claimed that Ms Oruene had failed to show she was treated less favourably than any other candidate and that there was not a shred of evidence to show that it had deviated from normal procedures . |
| 21 | For this to work though , it was absolutely essential to get them to their spot a minute or two ahead of her , and to achieve that we had arranged for Mrs Thatcher to pause for a cup of coffee with the VIPs in a small room just outside the terminal door . |
| 22 | The Commission will now issue a " Reasonable Opinion " , giving the government two months to prove that it had complied with EC law . |