Example sentences of "that [pron] had [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and financial circumstances and erm , this was something of course that I had to leave to the people who were working got himself another job . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Fortunately those of my friends who knew me before were only amused by this foolish description and there was no general resentment of my peerage , which could properly have been attributed to many services that I had given to the government — of both colours . |
| 4 | I wished that I had written to the two women about Donald 's death , and that I was not now obliged to tell them of it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Many of the protesters , together with much of the black press , attempted to publicise the jogger 's name and to vilify her character , claiming variously that she had never been attacked , that she had been raped by her white boyfriend , or that she had gone to the park in search of sexual adventure . |
| 8 | Would n't Veronica think it suspicious that she had gone to the lengths of calling two days running ? |
| 9 | DONATION — Pauline was pleased to report that she had written to the National Westminster Bank Sponsorship and Community Affairs Dept. and received a donation of £500 to the Society . |
| 10 | At first interview she said the strain of looking after her mother-in-law was considerable , that it was putting a strain on her marriage in that she and her husband were always quarrelling these days , and that she had got to the point when ‘ I feel I ca n't go on any longer ’ . |
| 11 | Mrs Laughton said that one of the reasons for Mrs Kemp 's suspension was that she had objected to the Social Work Department ignoring the decisions of the Children 's panel . |
| 12 | But had it not been to rid herself of her aura of wealth and privilege which had created her feeling that she was the darling of the gods — although the same gods knew how brutally they had treated her — that she had come to the East End to work , and to live as though she really needed to , and to survive on the pittance which she had earned , without bolting back again to luxury and comfort ? |
| 13 | He had been there since lunchtime , and it had been while she 'd watched him that she had come to the decision that she must go . |
| 14 | We discussed the present situation and the representations that we had made to the People 's Republic of China , and I reaffirmed the fact that I would continue to make such representations . |
| 15 | Going by past experience , there was a high probability that something had happened to the others , and her first instinct was to go and search for them . |
| 16 | ‘ Ven ! ’ she whispered , and was barely aware that they had moved to the darkened area of her bedroom . |
| 17 | During the study days , the patients were fully ambulatory and could follow their preferred daily routine except that they had to return to the laboratory for their meals . |
| 18 | The situation is very much easier today than even ten years ago when male/female roles were far more stereotyped and many couples felt that they had to conform to a set pattern for the sake of convention . |
| 19 | Girls who are very aware of parental disapproval may not feel able to take this step and also not want to run the risk of parents somehow finding out that they had gone to the doctor or the clinic . |
| 20 | In truth , there were those in the American camp who admitted that they had to bow to the Europeans where the Solheim Cup uniforms were concerned . |
| 21 | Hailing each other , they found that they had come to the same conclusion : that so far as they could tell , in the gloom and confusion , the night was theirs , the camp completely broken up , the enemy scattered and leaderless and unlikely to rally now . |
| 22 | Brian felt that they had come to the end of that day 's talk . |
| 23 | Mr Wilson said last night that they had talked to a lot of the villagers and were determined not to give in to the vandals . |
| 24 | On many occasions in our study we found a sharp contrast between the professionals ' perception that a high degree of consensus had been reached and the parents ' perception that they had agreed to a course of action because they saw no other real choice , particularly if the urgent needs of the child and other family members were to be quickly met . |
| 25 | Ali Bacher , managing director of South Africa 's United Cricket Board , said yesterday that they had recommended to the Indian Board of Control that a third umpire assist the standing umpire by viewing the replay in close calls . |
| 26 | So is the range of the gifts , which included not only items of direct utility to a church , such as the ecclesiastical vestments and bells received by St Cuthbert , but also objects whose chief characteristic was that they had belonged to the king , like Æthelstan 's cap and Edgar 's cloak . |
| 27 | Prior to 1952 , section 14 of the Summary Jurisdiction Act 1848 provided that justices ‘ shall convict … or make an order … , ’ i.e. that they had to come to a decision . |
| 28 | Thus , despite the threat that it had posed to the music industry , for six months from December 1976 to June 1977 , Punk Rock was quickly recuperated into a new kind of pop music that accurately reproduced the latest conditions of consumer capitalism . |
| 29 | Growing pressure from the government 's fundamentalist ally , the Jamaat-i-Islami , fuelled reports that it had contributed to the appointment on March 3 of Lt.-Gen. |
| 30 | But , much to her surprise , when the bread was baked and she took it out , she found that it had turned to a beautiful large loaf of the finest wheat flour . |