Example sentences of "that [pron] had [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | amazed that I had returned at all , and |
| 2 | Rachel relaxed , grateful , and gave her usual careful consideration to the matters before the meeting ; calmly ploughing through the minutiae and bureaucratic red tape of museum management , making the sort of useful contributions that she had made at any such meeting in the last twenty years . |
| 3 | Henry Tyler would not have described her as a happy woman , but afterward he could not say that she had seemed at all unwell . |
| 4 | That she had slept at all was an encouraging sign that the contamination was fading . |
| 5 | I think that er one of the things that we had to examine at national level er and this was done erm after I became a full time officer , erm there 'd usually be a procedure in the national agreement er whereby first of all if we registered failure to agree at domestic level , erm with the management , the next stage was to draw in the district secretary . |
| 6 | The steps led downwards , there were crumbling stone walls , so that they had to clutch at narrow ropes sunk into the wall at intervals . |
| 7 | They lit the candles they had brought and made their way along a passage which led out of the chamber , gazing wordlessly — he could n't remember that they had spoken at all while in there — at the arched limestone walls , at the tunnels that from time to time branched from this central artery , once into a wide gallery whose egress had been blocked by a fall of stone . |
| 8 | It was something that it had happened at all . |
| 9 | However , it was clear from the Special Commissioner 's decision that he had looked at all the evidence and asked himself whether in view of that evidence it had been reasonable for the inspector to form the view he had taken . |
| 10 | It was in fact the first time in his life that he had looked at any woman . |
| 11 | Miriam could hardly believe that he had spoken at last . |