Example sentences of "had [verb] that [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had heard that they sold them in Clery 's , and that was only a few minutes from where the bus stopped when it went to Dublin . |
| 2 | She had sensed that he believed she had asked for the locket , that she was guilty of abusing his father 's generosity . |
| 3 | From an early age , Sara had sensed that she irritated him , by her presence , by the fact that she was there to remind him of his wife 's earlier marriage . |
| 4 | He had forgotten that he held it in his hand . |
| 5 | Their spirits had parted , and though their bodies stayed together for a while longer , it was the first time since they had met that they found it difficult to talk . |
| 6 | It had arrived quite quickly , and they had said that they thought she had a burst ulcer . |
| 7 | In taking her virginity he had taken away her power to convince any man of her innocence , even the man before her who had said that he loved her . |
| 8 | Once I had said that I found it a lot easier to speak to her . |
| 9 | She had known why Mr Evans had sent Hepzibah biscuits ; had known that he wanted her to spy , to keep her eyes open , and it seemed that without meaning to she had been doing just that ! |
| 10 | It was only after he had gone that they realized they had never asked his name or where he lived . |
| 11 | She was so ashamed of not remembering what had happened that she felt she must compensate him in some way , so she kissed his mouth and stroked his cheek . |
| 12 | After all that had happened she was still unable to betray Peter — in fact , it was because of all that had happened that she felt she could n't be the one to give away the details of his difficulties , especially not to Marc , now that she knew how things stood between them both . |
| 13 | Before he had fully conceived the idea of The Four Quartets , he had remarked that what drew him to Beethoven was that in these last works the composer did what he himself had sought to do in poetry — and may have actually done in ‘ forty or fifty lines ’ — namely to ‘ get beyond ’ that art . |
| 14 | He showed us the research he had begun in Pembrokeshire , and we were so amazed at what he had discovered that we encouraged him to continue all over Wales . |
| 15 | Not that I wish to say , he wrote , that everything is inevitable , on the contrary , I wish to assert emphatically that nothing is inevitable and nothing was inevitable , neither what I did nor what I thought , neither what I felt nor what I suffered , yet everything was necessary , a necessary beginning and necessary Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is misleading , since it was only after I had begun that I knew I had begun , while before I had begun , before the 27 July 1967 , there was no beginning , as there was no end , there was no time and there was no freedom from time , only endless cups of coffee , endless cups of tea , endless biscuits and endless bacon sandwiches . |
| 16 | She had to admit that he worried her a lot . |
| 17 | Many were still unframed and she had to admit that she loved them . |
| 18 | He had been seen in Wales by a DJ who had suggested that he look him up , should he ever come to the big city . |