Example sentences of "[adj] that [pron] had [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was clear that they had not given the subject much thought , nor did they feel there was any need to . |
| 2 | Although Glasgow District Council ( GDC ) supported Heatfest , they made it clear that they had not the resources to implement any radical outcome . |
| 3 | But he was to find no lasting romance again and , as the years went by , it became clear that he had not lost his love for Gabrielle . |
| 4 | Defries had made it clear that she had n't abandoned her intention to destroy the heart of the Spinward Corporation , even at the sacrifice of her own life , and Bernice stayed alongside her at least partly to prevent her doing something rash . |
| 5 | As we watched the train 's shadows turn and fold on the snowy shore , it became clear that she had not forgotten the stories which made this much more than a stark inland sea stretching as far as the eye can follow . |
| 6 | It was clear that she had not expected to find him in the room . |
| 7 | It was clear that she had not yet made her point . |
| 8 | When Greg returned with the snowball , Margaret Seymour-Strachey had shifted her position so as to be better shielded from the rest of the Saloon Bar , and it was clear that she had not managed to get control over herself , for she was now sobbing away quietly . |
| 9 | Of course , you did make it clear that I had n't disturbed a lovers ’ tryst out there by the lake , so I 'm curious to know what did send you rushing through the grounds in such a state of agitation ? ’ |
| 10 | Lawrence was elected British president , and discharged his difficult task with a calmness , courtesy , and firmness which won universal approval , even from the defendants , the soldiers among whom thought that their problems were appreciated by one who had gained the DSO as a gunner officer in World War I. Praise was also given by the British alternate judge , Sir Norman ( later first Baron ) Birkett [ q.v. ] , who was secretly resentful that he had not been chosen for the post . |
| 11 | At first , she was afraid that he had not turned up because he was not waiting , as he had promised , by Mr Bishop 's kiosk . |
| 12 | I felt foolish that I had n't been prepared for the fact that his skin would be so bad or his teeth so deteriorated . |
| 13 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 14 | Damn you , she wanted to say , suddenly hating him as she hated realising that while he had watched her reading from the Palmer & Pearson file that night — she had been oblivious that she had n't been wearing her spectacles — but not so him ! |
| 15 | There was a shoe in the flowerbed that I had n't known about . |
| 16 | Since Freemantle had to walk within a few yards of Leapor 's door whenever she approached Brackley from Hinton , it is perhaps odd that they had not met at least in passing . |
| 17 | It was odd that he had n't thought about that but immediately it came back to him , the name of the exchange , though Hilbert 's phone had been disconnected . |
| 18 | Odd that he had n't noticed how long the fingers were or with what apparent gentleness they had taped the plastic bags over the girl 's hand to preserve , as he had tonelessly explained , conscientious in his role of instructor , any evidence under the fingernails . |
| 19 | Certainly she had seen something moving in the forest that day on Ridgery Steep , something fairly large , something white , and Allen had failed to see it ; but then it was possible that he had not looked in the right spot at the right moment and that his failure to see it was an accident . |
| 20 | She 'd been so engrossed that she had n't heard him come in . |
| 21 | It was absurd that she had n't guessed straightaway and absurd that he should be standing in a telephone booth somewhere , talking about a queue forming . |
| 22 | Ludens had found space and time , amid his new sensations , to feel very sorry that he had not gone to see Franca when she had , so unusually , as he realised just afterwards , invited him . |
| 23 | I discussed my feelings with the woman in question and I slept with her , but I deeply regretted it later on and was sorry that I had n't weighed up the consequences more thoroughly beforehand . |
| 24 | I remembered I 'd had nothing to eat or drink before leaving the house , and thought how awful that I had n't even made Toby a cup of tea before obeying my impulse to run . |
| 25 | Anne felt guilty that she had not attempted to see Kathleen after Ella 's injury . |
| 26 | She felt guilty that she had not yet been to visit Miss Grimes in her bed-sitting room somewhere off the Finchley Road , really within easy distance of where she lived , so there was really no excuse . |
| 27 | It was as though she had died again , only it was worse , and he felt guilty that he had n't wept properly when she 'd really died . |
| 28 | Dad was very upset that she had n't confided in us . |
| 29 | By the end of the ceremony she was so upset that she had n't the nerve to go to the house with the small party of mourners , and caught a train straight back to London . |
| 30 | The DYP and the SHP both argued that the President had exceeded his constitutional powers in his policy-making ; some Cabinet ministers claimed in February 1991 that they had not been kept informed of Özal 's decision-making over coalition forces operating from Turkish bases . |