Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] had [adv] [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found myself , by a curious alchemy of eye and ear , wondering at things in Don Quixote and Brahms 's Second Symphony that I had neither noticed nor pondered before . |
| 2 | He knew that I had always stopped and got off if there was anything else on the road — and that was back in wartime remember — so he said that with the sort of traffic that 's on the road now I would never be on for getting off ! |
| 3 | Irene had three much older spinster sisters who adored her , and her one consolation when she was discharged from the Waaf was that she had somewhere to go and three loving sisters to look after her . |
| 4 | It seems to have been her settled conviction that she had only to see and to speak to him , and he would agree to return to her . |
| 5 | Part of her annoyance was brought about by the fact that she had never met nor heard of Mary Brown but part of it was fuelled by the fact that her son had broken with the faith . |
| 6 | What was even more worrying was that she had never cried and even when he remonstrated with her and told her bluntly that their two children were dead and buried she just smiled and turned away . |
| 7 | That they had all stood and let him go . |
| 8 | Altogether 149 respondents reported that they had never undertaken or funded any HIV prevention work specifically aimed at gay or bisexual men . |
| 9 | In 1858 , Samuel Healing took over the running of Abbey Mill , yet another in a succession of local mills that he had either owned or worked . |
| 10 | Professedly an architect , though ‘ of his architectural doings , nothing was clearly known , except that he had never designed or built anything ’ , Pecksniff |
| 11 | A lance-corporal who wrote the following letter was more unlucky : ‘ Last Sunday when I was in church , the preacher actually thanked God that He had graciously protected and safeguarded the Führer . |
| 12 | The yield was the lowest that he had ever experienced but the price was the highest , which resulted in the best return ever from the crop . |