Example sentences of "that [pron] [noun] have [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Word had come that my husband had arrived in Abu Dhabi . |
| 2 | He told me that my grandfather had fought in the Mutiny , and that Mrs Inglis , daughter of my great-grandfather Chelmsford , had been in Lucknow through the siege , where her husband commanded the troops . |
| 3 | Naturally , my father would have felt this loss keenly ; but to make matters worse the usual comfort a father has in these situations — that is , the notion that his son gave his life gloriously for king and country — was sullied by the fact that my brother had perished in a particularly infamous manoeuvre . |
| 4 | Only about one quarter claim that it has been used for INSET purposes in their schools and even fewer claim that its use has resulted in any changes . |
| 5 | Erm , the phone call rang , and it was the , the wife saying that her husband had died in his sleep that night . |
| 6 | I think now that her predominance has done in justice to lesser things in my life , as indeed it may still do . |
| 7 | She bit her lip and kept her peace , and even made them cups of tea with the same grace that her mother had demonstrated in the dark hours of the night . |
| 8 | Archbishop Ralph 's eloquent letter to the pope had had no effect ; St Augustine 's was throwing off the restraints that their neighbours had succeeded in imposing on them in the past ; and York was poised for a final victory in the matter of the primacy . |
| 9 | Several unions , conscious that their membership had fallen in recent years and looking round for new areas of recruitment , homed in on " non-standard " workers . |
| 10 | Accusations that one group had stolen ideas from the other were soon flying ; Jones showed notebooks of his investigations going back to 1986 and cited a paper written in 1985 ; for their part Fleischmann and Pons insisted that their effort had begun in 1985 , all of which added to the perception that the fusion claims were important and the patents worth fighting for . |
| 11 | The company denied Greenpeace 's claim that the chemicals were carcinogenic ( cancer-causing ) and also that their misuse had resulted in the contamination of food supplies in importing countries . |
| 12 | In Derbyshire , the farmers who replied that their expectations had changed in the past five years were those whose sons had returned to the farm in that time . |
| 13 | In a heated debate in parliament , most of the deputies concerned denied the allegation , arguing variously that their names had appeared in StB files by mistake , as a result of blackmail or as part of an attempt to frame them . |
| 14 | He found that his feet had cramped in a clench of anguish . |
| 15 | Is my right hon. Friend aware of the dismay that his proposals have caused in Wales ? |
| 16 | During the party leadership contest much emphasis had been placed in the media on the fact that Major had not had the advantage of a privileged home background or education , that his father had once been a trapeze artist , that his family had lived in a flat in Brixton in South London , and that he had left school at 16 and been unemployed for some time . |
| 17 | Yeremi Valence reported that his meal had swum in foetid swamps beneath a blue sun . |
| 18 | Taking account of the full literary context of the Monk 's Tale in the Canterbury Tales , it seems that the real disappointment of the Monk 's performance comes from the contrast between his character as a narrator as revealed by his tale and the presuppositions that his appearance has created in the Host and apparently in " Chaucer " . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , Colin and Wendy Parry , of Great Sankey , Warrington , saw hopes for their son Tim snatched away with the news that his condition has deteriorated in the intensive care unit of Liverpool 's Walton neurosurgical centre . |
| 20 | Is the Prime Minister aware that his claim to have reined in the ambitions of our partners is a vain boast that bears no relation to reality , and that going into Maastricht we had a Community of 12 and coming out we had a Community of 11 and a half ? |
| 21 | There were other letters , tied together also , old letters that his mother had written in 1954 , and in a stained buff envelope there were some his father had written to her . |
| 22 | A woman answered and she agreed that his mother had lived in Penzance . |
| 23 | So it seems to me that what Williamson has shown in one particular case is clear evidence of punctuation , but no reasons at all that I can see for supposing that the mechanism of change was any other which Darwin described over a hundred years ago . |
| 24 | The public is awakening to the fact that our Government has blundered in its treatment of Eastern affairs . ’ |
| 25 | It is remarkable that our Ministers have failed in their responsibilities , claiming that European Community law prevents them from acting . |
| 26 | To get the divorce you have to show that your wife has behaved in such a way that you ‘ can not reasonably be expected ’ to live with her . |
| 27 | The fact that your fish has doubled in size since you bought it should speak for itself . |