Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [pron] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then all of a sudden these strange people started coming out of record companies who were involved in the video end of it and deciding this is what we should do with that song and sort of you know these were songs that we had planned and recorded and and all of a sudden these people were changing them . |
| 2 | Mr Delors abandoned a semi-social engagement in Watford to return to Brussels after a brief visit to Oxford , with accusations ringing in his ears that he had sabotaged the talks . |
| 3 | The walk there took only about ten minutes and she thought that even with the frightening weakness in her legs that she had discovered the first time she got out of bed she ought to manage that distance . |
| 4 | On Nov. 21 President Najibullah confirmed during a press conference at the UN 's Geneva offices that he had held talks with " prominent personalities of the opposition side " on a " political solution " to end 12 years of civil war . |
| 5 | He could tell by her eyes that she had closed her mind to him . |
| 6 | They were really the first nudes that he had done since Jane Birkin posed topless in the Sixties . |
| 7 | I can … ’ but the words were stopped in him and he seemed to suffocate and gasp with the sense of a power beyond the Cages that he had sensed briefly before . |
| 8 | It was to cut his ties that he had begun , from the earliest days , to sign his work ‘ Vincent ’ , following the practice of his adored Rembrandt , and making the excuse then that foreigners would have difficulty pronouncing his surname . |
| 9 | So , they could n't get it into their heads that you had to sit on the floor . |
| 10 | The industry wanted to be able to use the funds that it had generated to invest in youth training . |
| 11 | A good place to begin is with the goals that you had reached about two weeks before you went on holiday . |
| 12 | It was to get away from such intrusions that he had come to Larksoken . |
| 13 | I saw the formation of the Black Workers ' Group and the concessions that we had won as a lever or a rolling stone which would have a knock-on effect . |
| 14 | A really great scholar , he had a unique opportunity to develop his abilities , because Biscop had brought back to Jarrow some 200 to 300 antique books that he had managed to acquire in southern Italy . |
| 15 | In grateful thanks that you had come . |
| 16 | Thomas 's house , which he could barely keep up , was run mostly on the income from a small chain of modern toy shops that he had built up for his wife over the years . |
| 17 | The pressure of population caused much less concern in the Welsh Border counties where there was still sufficient land available to allow poor immigrants to erect cottages on the wastes and to claim common rights to go with the few acres that they had cleared from the woods or the moors . |
| 18 | Those were the words that I had written for Antoinette ! |
| 19 | She went to sit on the sofa , and there she dreamed of Johnny , tenderly and with affection ; she thought of the words that he had said , and they made a warm spot , infinitely sweet , deep inside her where it could not be touched ; for just an hour or two , she began to believe that she truly loved him . |
| 20 | When some part of his mind prompted the words that he had heard so often , boyish fancy , his inside actually jerked in protest . |
| 21 | Last time I met him , he said that words attributed to him in the House had not been words that he had uttered . |
| 22 | Then the world seemed to be going round and he was falling down and someone was running from a distance , one of the Keepers , in a grey uniform and with a fat pale face that filled him with such fear that he began to cry out in Hebrew words that he had forgotten he knew . |
| 23 | Mozart worked with the commonplace musical fabric of his time , the prescribed structures , instrumental combinations , harmonic progressions and melodic formulae that he had absorbed as a child , and from which a Salieri and hundreds like him fashioned polite , two-dimensional drawing-room music suitable for the delectation or titillation of many a jaded aristocratic ear . |
| 24 | When Phil Collins came on , his jacket had such wide shoulders that I had to lean to one side to see the monitor TV set which the producer uses to scribble messages to me . |
| 25 | Dad always said that he wanted me to seize all the opportunities that he had missed . |
| 26 | Both Nicolae and Elena constantly emphasized in their speeches that they had sprung from the common people and therefore shared their hopes and sufferings . |
| 27 | Irrespective of the certainties or ambiguities in the roles that it had begun to develop , the CNAA was also — as a policy instrument — incomplete . |
| 28 | In my statement to the House of 15 January , I explained th steps that I had taken to improve the first five environmentally sensitive areas designated in 1987 , my plans for reviewing this year those ESAs designated in 1988 , including any boundary adjustments , and my timetable for designating a further 12 areas this year and in 1993 . |
| 29 | Analysts suggested that Celli 's announcement was intended to counter the May 11 claim by opposition deputies and AD dissidents that they had collected more than 100 signatures from congressmen in favour of reducing the current term of President Carlos Andres Pérez and that of the legislature by one year ( to four years ) , and also in favour of the use of the referendum as a permanent formula to guarantee the public 's participation in political affairs . |
| 30 | Posters advertising Knock pilgrimages that I had seen nearly always mentioned ‘ matchmaking ’ as part of the attractions . |