Example sentences of "that [pron] had [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had written a book called Stilfragen on the history of the acanthus motif , and that I had studied as a student . |
| 2 | Not until I was out in the open countryside again , reassured by the songs of the birds and the murmur of streams did I feel that I had emerged from a dream and rejoined the familiar twentieth century . |
| 3 | In the morning I explained to Diana and Mary that I had to go on a journey , and would be away for several days . |
| 4 | He said he did n't want to see my baby , and that I had to go into a home for unmarried mothers . |
| 5 | It rekindles memories of those old-fashioned Hollywood romances of the Thirties and Forties that I had seen as a child . |
| 6 | From the look on her face you 'd think that I had confessed to a desire to murder her family and steal all her money . |
| 7 | I later realized that I had posed during a crucial period , and the tiny bronzes that resulted ( for that size prevailed ) continue daily to touch me . |
| 8 | So taken was I with this vision of perfect Iceland that I did not realise that I had walked into a skua colony , not , that is , until one fearless great skua hit me . |
| 9 | I knew then that I had walked into a situation from which there would be no escape . |
| 10 | 1 was attracted by another that I had discussed on a visit to Europe : certain branded drugs would not be prescribed at all when entirely adequate substitute generic drugs existed . |
| 11 | The only problem with the job was that I had to work on a lot of Saturdays , which naturally interfered with my athletics , though the company were quite generous in giving me time off . |
| 12 | As an adult in Panama I have stepped aside and contemplated the New World equivalent of the driver ants that I had feared as a child in Africa , flowing by me like a crackling river , and I can testify to the strangeness and wonder . |
| 13 | Knowing that I had to start at a new school in the city , with new people and new teachers , I began to worry all over again . |
| 14 | And I saw a dear little shed that someone had made into a craft shop , and the woman said no one had been in for ages , and was n't she pleased to see me … ’ |
| 15 | Some of Harvard 's clients reneged on their agreements to sell when the price climbed , making ridiculous claims , like that the dog had chewed up the allotment letter , or that somebody had sold as a practical joke . |
| 16 | Aszal refused to leave her until , he says , at 1 a.m. they were told that she had to go to a detention centre where men were not allowed . |
| 17 | But she heard herself saying , still in shrewish style , that on the contrary there was n't any time in the morning , that she had to go to a psychoanalytical conference in the Metropole Hotel with a bunch of Japanese in the morning , that she wanted to talk now , that he could n't just announce that he wanted to get divorced and then decide he was too tired to talk about it . |
| 18 | She replied that she had lived in a small group of about 10 people : she indicated the number by holding up both hands with the fingers spread . |
| 19 | It seemed to her now that she had lived in a dream . |
| 20 | She has been the guardian of this wishing tree in the English churchyard since anyone alive can remember , though before that , the rumour was that she had lived in a wild state , before the islands were properly civilised . |
| 21 | To her great relief , however , Fabia subsequently discovered that she had asked for a quite delicious meal of venison with bacon , mushrooms and tomatoes . |
| 22 | It turned out that she had gone for a hill walk on her own with an agreed pick up point by him in the car . |
| 23 | She had seen this money before , of course , and still had a little collection of it that she had made as a child , yet it was disconcerting to reflect that Johnny would use it as part of his everyday life . |
| 24 | It was true also that she gave English lessons and that she had applied for a full-time job as an English teacher in a small private school . |
| 25 | It seemed to Tallis that she had smouldered for a long time before finally the fire had taken hold . |
| 26 | It was suggested that she hated the wet and dreary Balmoral holidays , that she suffered from anorexia , that she had quarrelled with a number of the Prince 's household and staff , that she was only interested in clothes , that she was a lover of discotheques and neglected her husband . |
| 27 | It was impossible to do anything except admit something that she had known for a very long time . |
| 28 | Their mother , pale as the highland moon that she had known as a child , slept like a ghost embroidered on smoke . |
| 29 | She could play the heroine 's scenes from a score of films or recite long passages from the Holy Bible that she had learned as a child . |
| 30 | as if the kiss he had forced from her had been forgotten , he released her and swivelled , abruptly leaving her so that she had to follow like a servant at his heels . |