Example sentences of "and [that] [pron] had [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 When he was satisfied that he was all right and that no-one had heard him , he picked up the brown bag and moved into the safety of the trees .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Germans and Hungarians would be eligible for restitution , under legislation to be worked out by the Czech and Slovak parliaments , provided that they had not been " transferred abroad " in 1945 and that they had proclaimed themselves Czechoslovak citizens .
5 According to second-hand reports of the conversation Krishchaty said that the body was lying on the ground at about 8,250m and that they had passed it two or three times .
6 The judge went on to say that they had notices of committal and that they had removed themselves from the jurisdiction .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 No matter that it had been police business , and that someone had to do it , he had personally selected Phyllis Henley yesterday .
10 I told her who I was , and that I had met her father .
11 That she had lied to me , that my father had been betrayed by Mills and that I had avenged her husband 's memory .
12 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 .
13 The reader who has survived so far may recall that during my wartime service in the Navy I had nursed a great curiosity about the enemy we rarely saw , and that I had promised myself that at some time in the future I would find out more about them , the ships they had fought in and the sort of people they were .
14 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 .
15 What was striking was that the women artists were reshaping an inherited iconographic language and that it had become theirs to stake out as their own : the language of the body .
16 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 .
17 Frank claimed that he had not known that Gobie was running a prostitution service from Frank 's apartment on Capitol Hill and that he had dismissed him upon learning of it .
18 It was only when the colours gave way to plain gold before subsiding into diminishing fountains of silver that she realised she had moved closer to Rune , seeking instinctive protection against the sharp noise of the exploding rockets and that he had gathered her to his strong male body , pinning her to his side by the power of his arm , his hand firmly pressed against her waist .
19 Contemporary reaction to this magnificent poem is typified by a critic in The Monthly Review in 1763 who thought he knew that Smart was forbidden the use of writing materials in the asylum and that he had written it ‘ with the end of a key , upon the wainscot ’ .
20 We called at the cottage at night , and found he was very ill , and it was not till the factor assured him he was joking , and that he had swallowed none other than the best of whiskey , that he rose from bed , and Donald was himself again .
21 Thus , for example , when meeting the TUC General Council in January 1942 he warned that he could not put money towards the elderly ‘ at the cost of the children ’ and that he had to give them ‘ fair treatment without ruining the country ’ .
22 It was all very well to remind herself that she and William were individuals who gloried in their independence , and that he had said nothing about getting in touch or when he would be back .
23 I had to keep reminding myself that the plans we 'd had were n't just a dream and that he had loved me .
24 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 .
25 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 !
26 In those early months he had wanted her to know the magnitude of what he had done and that he had done it for her .
27 It never occurred to him that the story was questionable , that Wainfleet had deliberately published something he did not totally believe and that he had done it in retaliation for being humiliated .
28 It was very hard indeed to believe she had walked in there with a wolf creature and that he had drawn her down onto the forest floor and made love to her …
29 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 .
30 Her mother had once remarked that it was her opinion that Harry had actually caused Nathan 's idiocy in a fit of temper soon after he was born , and through whispered gossip over the years she had guessed that Tristram had become the focus of conflict between his parents and that he had found it increasingly necessary to defend both Nathan and his mother against his father 's violent outbursts of temper .
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