Example sentences of "that the [noun prp] had [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now he was into jazz because he 'd heard that the Yuppies had hijacked it after Clint Eastwood 's film on Charlie Parker , and had moved back a decade to the late ‘ forties . |
| 2 | If anyone had asked him , Peter would have said that the Mollands had invited him to spend the summer with them at Abbotsfield simply for the pleasure of his company . |
| 3 | Michoacán had witnessed months of demonstrations and protests by supporters of the Party of the Democratic Revolution ( PRD ) , who claimed that the PRI had cheated them of victory in the July 12 state elections [ see pp. 39000-01 ] . |
| 4 | The land in question was in that part of northern Zawiya which is called Mannaia , and it seems beyond doubt that the Mannaia had granted it to the Sanusi order in the 1870s . |
| 5 | The two men knew that the USSR had matched them in nuclear terms , believed that the Soviets could help to extricate America from the ‘ unwinnable ’ Vietnam war , and hoped to deal with Russia on rational , balance-of-power terms instead of the ideological rivalry of the past . |
| 6 | More than , Marenches said later that the Shah had told him , " I count on you always to tell me the disagreeable things that other people wo n't say . |