Example sentences of "that [noun prp] [noun prp] had [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clavell says that King Rat had freed him to write about the Far East . |
| 2 | Bert ran then , faster than he had ever run before and , dragging the lifeless form on to the sand , he put into practice all that Arnold Spence had taught him , swiftly , efficiently and with complete self-confidence . |
| 3 | All that Mother Benedicta had taught her , and every ounce of self-discipline dinned into her by Sister Beatrice , flew to the four winds . |
| 4 | Miss Logan halted , initially in surprise , for it appeared that Miss Fergusson had lost her footing on a little stretch of solid rock which should have afforded no peril . |
| 5 | Talked vaguely about work — she did n't know what — that Miss Tunstall had hinted she was going to do . ’ |
| 6 | The ancient servitor , who drove with a slack rein and a sublime disregard of the pot-holes , seemed to take it as a personal affront that Miss Kyte had kept him waiting for more than two hours . |
| 7 | Turning , she beheld Araminta at the head of the stairs , and remembered that Miss Merchiston had instructed her to go down to her parlour when she had left her mother . |
| 8 | It was a good thing that Edward Morris had given her another order which he had insisted on paying for in advance . |
| 9 | Brenda suddenly remembered something else that Mrs. Mallett had told her , that the motorist who had killed his daughter had been acquitted because the scientist had crumbled under the cross-examination ; something to do with the analysis of chips of paint found on the road which matched the suspect 's car . |
| 10 | She seemed pulled out , elongated by it , so that her shoes , her new bronze slippers with rosettes on the toes that Aunt Emily had said she must keep hidden at all times if possible since legs and feet were highly indecent , seemed far further away than the five and a half feet she knew separated them from the crown of her head . |
| 11 | In the bedroom she had done everything that Tom Horrocks had bidden her , reflexively , without panic ; yet she had known herself for the first time up against the frailty of the human organism — ; the mess of it , the degradation . |
| 12 | She remembered coming back into the office after spending the morning talking to a woman who had started her own cosmetics business in her kitchen , and the pink message slip on her desk , saying that Matthew Prescott had called her . |
| 13 | As far as I am aware , there was good feeling between the candidates during the election , and I was somewhat surprised to read in Susan Crosland 's splendid biography of her husband that Roy Hattersley had told him I was angry that he was standing , and that he must give me his support before the first ballot or I would have no interest in him . |
| 14 | He did not know that Mme Bluot had asked me not to walk in that direction ( ‘ It is a street so disreputable , madame , it could lead a child astray . ’ ) , |
| 15 | When Michel Rocard was replaced by Edith Cresson on 15 May 1991 , his official letter of resignation made it clear that President Mitterrand had asked him to resign , even though the constitution does not give him the right ( the President is responsible for ‘ nominating ’ the Prime Minister and for approving the Cabinet , but not for dismissing him ) . |
| 16 | " After five days of bad food and bad stomach , the king was not inclined to be suspicious of someone who said that Prince Rainbow had sent him to make him better . |
| 17 | She had left Anne , fur-clad and ostensibly reading a book of hours that Prince Richard had given her , on a stone seat near the entrance to the rose-garden . |
| 18 | And he had a mental image of Mary Moxton pacing the sparsely furnished room that Uncle Titch had given her , on the floor above the café , alone with her troubles . |
| 19 | On 10 December 1939 he remarked ominously that Andre Chamson had informed him that " a storm was brewing in Aragon 's mind " By 5 February 1940 , in the grip of a persecution complex , he was voicing fears that his resignation from the party would be publicly perceived as an act of treachery that had finally laid bare his " inner soul " . |
| 20 | She moved her limbs away from the valley in the middle of the bed and remembered , with pleasure , that Mr Sargent had promised her a swimming lesson . |
| 21 | I felt proud that Mr Rochester had trusted me with the story of his past life . |
| 22 | Mr Sugar also claimed that Mr Venables had told him before he was sacked as chief executive last month that he was prepared to embark on a ‘ suicide mission ’ , even if it meant he finished up broke . |
| 23 | ‘ What 's in here ? ’ said Lee , opening the door of the room that Mrs Wright had taken him into , to see the birds ' eggs . |
| 24 | It was when Peggy had come back firmly , stating that it was n't , that it was only the beginning , that Mrs Funnell had told her definitely which side she was on . |
| 25 | Instead she decided to wander round the house , looking into some of the hundred rooms that Mrs Medlock had told her about . |
| 26 | Lyall , who like the 42-year-old McGiven had his career cut short by injury at West Ham , groomed McGiven in the way that Ron Greenwood had groomed him on the coaching ladder . |
| 27 | ‘ I heard from a third party that Billy Bingham had left me out because of indiscipline , but there was nothing said at the time and he has not spoken to me since . ’ |
| 28 | She wrote to her brother saying that Dr. Yeats had avoided her and evidently resented her visiting . |
| 29 | He had not realised that Lord Cumbermound had recognised him . |
| 30 | When he returned to the room downstairs , he picked up a book that Lord Henry had lent him . |