Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] [pron] had [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Outside the court , Pearlberg revealed that Crawford was the actor but claimed that he had invested only 60,000 . |
| 32 | In a secret interview before his capture Abenina claimed that he had brought together the forces of Gregorio " Gringo " Honasan , the officer cashiered for his part in an earlier coup attempt in 1987 , and groups led by a Marcos loyalist , Brig. -Gen . |
| 33 | He reckoned that he had built so many locomotives in his time that it was no longer necessary to undertake normal design work . |
| 34 | The industrial investment group replied that it had employed both Korn/Ferry and Russell Reynolds , but wrote that although the type of firm used depended essentially on their need , ‘ our experience is that in our opinion we receive better service from smaller , local firms for positions which do not have an international content to the job ’ . |
| 35 | He was non-committal , and she was surprised and relieved that he had agreed so swiftly . |
| 36 | Subsequent estimates indicated that it had spilt around 70,000 tons of its cargo . |
| 37 | ( None of his books indicated that he had spent so much of his life in America . ) |
| 38 | Hammond had a brush with the Commonwealth 's accounts committee in 1651 , but protested that he had accounted fully and properly for all the sums which he had received in all the three armies in which he had served ; he pointed out that his account from July 1649 on was with the army in Scotland , where by this time George Monck ( later first Duke of Albemarle , q.v. ) had succeeded him as lieutenant-general of the ordnance . |
| 39 | It is hard to think that Anselm did not feel some indignation on reading these words , which implied that he had read too much into Urban II's decree , and that Paschal had not himself been present when those words were spoken . |
| 40 | He had seen it hundreds of times on the faces of people who fancied that they had said too much to him , opened their hearts too wide . |
| 41 | They were too alike , ’ and when Maggie began to cry Rose 's mother saw that she had pressed too hard . |
| 42 | A branch of the great plane tree had come down in the wind and as he ran back towards the Cages he saw that it had fallen right across the path where moments before he had been standing . |
| 43 | Huy saw that he had pressed too hard , too fast . |
| 44 | He laughed scornfully , but she saw that he had gone very pale . |
| 45 | Gibeau felt that we had had too easy a time of it at Canjuers and for the last three days introduced a new punishment . |
| 46 | Some felt that they had mellowed already and that they were n't so active as they had been before . |
| 47 | In 1908 George Lansbury admonished working class men for not practising the economic equality at home that they preached in public , and noted that men who gave their wives 10/ to 12/ out of 30/ to 35/ felt that they had done enough . |
| 48 | The teacher used a stick to repeatedly tap or prod pupils whenever he felt that they had spoken too loudly or obscenely . |
| 49 | Afterwards his men felt that he had waited too long before baling out . |
| 50 | He felt that he had given enough . |
| 51 | He felt that he had seen more than enough of Mr Yarrow . |
| 52 | Sadleir felt that he had done enough and wished to return to the coast . |
| 53 | It was not Gandhi 's intention when he originally decided to fast to exert moral coercion on the mill-owners , since coercion in any form was contrary to the aims of satyāgraha , yet despite the unexpected result of his fast Gandhi still felt that he had acted correctly in the circumstances.m The experience did not prevent him either from using fasts as a form of satyāgraha on other occasions with similar results . |
| 54 | They climbed in , and no talk was made as they journeyed down Bath Street towards the Exchange ; , evidently Mrs Heatherton felt that she had done all that was required of her . |
| 55 | She felt that she had changed entirely since it was written , and chiefly during the three days since she had been in London . |
| 56 | Some of them had a memory of metal , of bronze heads , and shields and tools : when they came upon the hulk of a wrecked ship on one of the cays of Oualie , they found rusted nails and coopers ' bands and knew that they had remembered right something the islands had never known . |
| 57 | I knew that he had given about 4,000 volumes , but I had kept this information to myself . |
| 58 | Years later he wrote to his mistress that while he wove an aesthetic about Kuchuk Hanem he knew that he had vanished completely from her memory . |
| 59 | The pale mask of her face fended him off , incredulous , but the bright creature within , so long coffined and mute , knew that she had heard aright . |
| 60 | She knew that she had come home . |