Example sentences of "that [pron] had [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know whether David would agree , but my experience as a teacher was that I certainly encountered , I realize now , in my teaching career , children with dyslexia and yet no-one had told me , in my training , anything about this condition and I do n't think I was in a position until later , in a sense , to recognise that I had seen children with this difficulty . |
| 2 | ‘ After the death of Sicelo I decided to meet with a lawyer and asked him to put down on record that I had taken part in a film . |
| 3 | He seemed to have forgotten , but perhaps he had n't , that I had read English at Oxford . |
| 4 | But first I want to say how sorry I am that I had to send Dawn to you instead of coming myself as I promised . |
| 5 | ‘ At the time , he thought — no , it was almost as if he was hoping — that someone had pushed Klein off the cliff . |
| 6 | In the pause that followed , she noticed that someone had hung peanuts on a thread for the birds ; the empty shells looked like shrivelled skulls hung to frighten evil spirits . |
| 7 | Max made us nail everything so that nobody had to put reverb on anything to cover up a mistake . |
| 8 | But her annoyance returned when Jenny came in a little while later and told her that she had asked Matthew to dinner . |
| 9 | It was for him that she had raised Luke to be the man he was . |
| 10 | Miss E was horrified , and ashamed that she had accepted wine from a man she did not know . |
| 11 | The Empress would receive word that she had made contact with Rainald , which would stay her vindictive hand for a while . |
| 12 | She was arrested when she flew back to Britain in tears last week , protesting that she had made arrangements with a neighbour to look after Gemma , a pupil at a stage school . |
| 13 | She was indicted on Nov. 21 and on Dec. 6 pleaded not guilty in a Baltimore federal court to charges that she had embezzled $5,600,000 in funds from the HUD and that she had made false statements to the government . |
| 14 | She tells us that she had studied scripture from childhood , and had been drawn to the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation at the age of fifteen , in 1636 . |
| 15 | President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro announced on Sept. 11 that she had vetoed part of a draft property bill approved by the National Assembly on Aug. 23 , which she claimed was unconstitutional . |
| 16 | Broadcast on November 23rd , 1982 , the Play for Today , ‘ John David ’ was meticulously balanced in its depiction of the true life dilemma facing the author of the play , Paula Milne , on discovering that she had given birth to a child with Down 's Syndrome . |
| 17 | Looking at her emaciated body , it was a miracle that she had given birth to him in the first place . |
| 18 | I wanted to ask whether she thought her own life unwasted and whether the fact that she had given birth to me was sufficient justification for it . |
| 19 | In a series of radio interviews on May 8 Annie Murphy revealed that she and Casey had embarked on a love affair in Ireland in 1973 and that she had given birth to his child two years later . |
| 20 | Since she was sixteen she had experienced life , and none of it had been good , except that she had given birth to a daughter and also that she had found out what love was , but had experienced the painful futility of it . |
| 21 | Giles 's motive in telling her of his expectations was so transparent that she had lost interest in him . |
| 22 | She felt that she had lost control of her own life and that decisions were being made for her , not by her . |
| 23 | The story actually started when Kylie admitted that she had lost weight after joining Neighbours because of the gruelling schedules that the series demanded . |
| 24 | She claimed that she had surrendered possession of Bigorre to Edward I in England by word of mouth , but without prejudice to her rights . |
| 25 | It turned out that she had had palpitations in the past but had forgotten about them . |
| 26 | It was unfortunate for Mary that she had to raise enthusiasm in new members of staff and there was no INSET teachers ' group and no support team . |
| 27 | What Mickey did not know was that Mrs Moon was so concerned about the loss of her pension book that she had offered £1,000,000 to anyone who found it ! |
| 28 | On her way back to the surgery , Sophie glanced at her watch and realised with a start that she had left Joanna on her own for nearly two hours . |
| 29 | For a while there was no conversation and Lydia began to regret that she had put Finn in a bad mood , since usually he was prepared to entertain when she was not . |
| 30 | But McLean said that she had put mud on Mrs McMullen 's face to try and stop the bleeding , something she had seen done in films . |