Example sentences of "[adv] that he had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dillon and Mann L.JJ. held that he had erred in English domestic law , because he had misunderstood the Hoffmann-La Roche case as extending to local authorities a privilege which belonged to the Crown alone ; and furthermore that he had erred in Community law because , since it is the duty of the national court to ensure the legal protection which persons derive from the direct effect of provisions of Community law , it was necessary to require an undertaking in damages to protect any current right which Wickes might have , by virtue of article 30 , to open their doors for Sunday trading . |
| 2 | He realised suddenly that he had to go to the bathroom . |
| 3 | Yet each time that third line came round the tune seemed to gather itself up and find new energy from somewhere , and perhaps it did n't fall quite so far each time in the fourth , and Tabitha was captivated despite herself , watching the pretty man play and wondering how he would end it , how he could ever resolve the disagreement between the rush and the ebb , until she realized suddenly that he had , with a quiet , lilting little rill that ran up and then down and flicked its tail and was gone . |
| 4 | Having written a fairly scathing account of this approach in draft , I sent it to John Austin Baker ( as I have also sent my account of their work to Christian feminists whom I discuss in this book for comment ) only to receive a delightful letter from him which rescinded much that he had written , explained that he had been given the title , and essentially agreed with my criticism ! |
| 5 | On her return the mother had screamed aloud that he had killed the child . |
| 6 | Williamson felt he had a special bond with Hitler , and even at times imagined aloud that he had spoken to him on that fateful Christmas day . |
| 7 | The complainant need not show he was aggrieved on the date mentioned in the summons , it is enough that he had been aggrieved earlier , otherwise as Darling , J. pointed out in Hilton v Hopwood it would be virtually impossible for an individual to bring an action under s.99 . |
| 8 | Arthur watched him , pulled in his stomach , listened to the loudspeaker to hear how the performing dog was doing , and thought seriously enough that he had n't seen Fred so exhilarated since last August at Blackpool . |
| 9 | It was bad enough that he had this damn-fool obsession with programming — if he had got his priorities right in the first place , he and Emma might have made some headway . ’ |
| 10 | Was n't it enough that he had been so humiliated ? |
| 11 | Was n't it enough that he had violated her ? |
| 12 | If the tone was a little condescending she did not complain ; it was startling enough that he had brought himself to say it at all , and so he must have felt , for he coloured to the brows . |
| 13 | He once told Earl delightedly that he had spotted Abrams at an airport but Abrams ( perceptiveness not his strong suit ) had not spotted him , and that ‘ his tradecraft of observing was better than Elliott 's ’ Secret agents carried gadgets with which they could speak to headquarters from the most unlikely places ; once , at a party , North was said to have produced a scrambler-telephone from his briefcase , together with a half-eaten sandwich , and to have gone out into the garden to dial the house . |
| 14 | Empty house , chagrin perhaps that he had n't heeded her theme , loss of face with the TV company , negligent children ? |
| 15 | Nevertheless , no measures were taken against him at the Restoration , suggesting perhaps that he had not been a republican by choice and may have worked towards the return of Charles II . |
| 16 | ’ Perhaps it was the estrangement of Washington perhaps that he had n't expected Agnes at the Smithsonian but it had been a surprising thrill to see the familiar smile in the crowd . |
| 17 | An oil and gas businessman , down from New York , he was one of Littledale 's ‘ bloody types ’ ; so much so that he had celebrated his donation for weapons , to the dismay of Channell 's PR lady , by going to the Hay Adams and ordering steak tartare . |
| 18 | Richard Baxter said he was glad to part with all so that he had nothing left to be confiscated and that he could carry on preaching . |
| 19 | But in wartime everything was more difficult : building had ceased , building sites were closed and workmen were mobilized , so that he had no easy source of stone . |
| 20 | His family gave him control of his own finances again , so that he had to resume making budgetary decisions in his everyday life , such as choosing between a meal at Claridges or a physiotherapy session . |
| 21 | It seems that during the 18th century in the beautiful city of Cambridge , the leading livery stable was owned and operated by one Charles Hobson who had made a small fortune in renting cabs and carriages to the gentry , so much so that he had acquired that lovely house and property known as Anglesey Abbey for his country residence . |
| 22 | He wondered whether she had come alive again so that he had had to kill her once more . |
| 23 | And it had been there , about twenty minutes later , that Thiercelin had received his wound ; a shell splinter in the cheek , which looked worse than it was , bleeding profusely into his collar and tunic , so that he had been ordered back to the chateau to have it dressed . |
| 24 | He had taken the name of Varna from the name of the port from which he had sailed but he had lived his life in terror of deportation , a fear that had haunted him long after it had ceased to be a real threat , so that he had never been able to enjoy his son 's success , seeing it only as something which drew unwelcome attention to the Varna family . |
| 25 | A gentle breeze broke the absolute silence , moving the curtain so that he had to steady it with his hand . |
| 26 | Each of these was then further subdivided so that he had a total of thirty-eight — each group corresponding to one of the thirty-eight remedies which he subsequently discovered . |
| 27 | He should not have been ashamed of his grandfather , of course , but his upbringing had been pitiful , constantly on the march from one to another of a whole series of ‘ uncles ’ — there were several between his father and the solicitor — so that he had nothing stable in his life at all . |
| 28 | This had covered the blotter so that he had really only seen it for a short time . |
| 29 | Lewis was markedly less exclusive and less austere ; but he had once borrowed a copy of Eliot 's verse in 1926 from John Betjeman , then an unsatisfactory Oxford pupil , and it had enraged him — so much so that he had organised a cabal to write spoof verse in the Eliot manner to introduce into his quarterly Criterion . |
| 30 | George got financial support from Parliament for troops to defend his Electorate and they did well enough to maintain his position , but he could not establish in office the ministers he really wanted , who would have been committed to full-scale involvement in Germany , so that he had to put up with a government which was not completely devoted to fighting on the continent of Europe . |