Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [that] [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is worth remembering that , when Indira asked Rajiv to go into politics after his elder brother 's death in 1980 , he put out a statement saying that he had no such intention . |
| 32 | Despite further negative publicity while in prison Barry had emerged from his period of incarceration claiming that he had undergone a religious rebirth . |
| 33 | However , in April 1988 Teo , along with eight other original " conspirators " , issued a public statement claiming that they had been coerced into making their televised confessions [ see p. 36353 ] . |
| 34 | there was a letter in the Gazette seeing that they had er the petrol had gone up and |
| 35 | Sally-Anne , her heart thudding in the strangest way when he asked her this , as though he had said something much more intimate , and then suddenly understanding by the ambiguous way in which he had spoken that he had offered her other games than chess , and his wicked expression betraying that he had seen her confusion , flushed , and he added softly , so that Matey could not hear him , ‘ Come , McAllister , give me your answer — you surely wish to please the Master in every way possible , ’ the last bit in a fake American accent so bad that she laughed out loud . |
| 36 | One day a child came home from Sunday School declaring that he had just been hearing about how Moses crossed the Red Sea with tanks and Bailey bridges . |
| 37 | On Friday the boss called the boy into his office noticing that he had only felled one tree . |
| 38 | They also persuaded him to sign a declaration stating that he had been cautioned , which enabled them to obtain a set of fingerprints . |
| 39 | David was in a state at that time saying that he had signed these things years ago and wanted to get out . |
| 40 | It is the equivalent of a British government refusing to appear for questions in the House saying that it had been elected and therefore did not need to defend its decisions before parliament . |
| 41 | In April , the French and the Scots embarked on a polite exchange of congratulatory diplomatic compliments , with the French claiming that they had attacked Boulogne only for the sake of the Scots . |
| 42 | She was clearly terrified of her family discovering that she had written to me . |