Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] [pers pn] had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It transpired that she had also been one of a party at the Hall the same day . |
| 2 | The same was not true of the broader European Economic Community , which despite its wider brief demonstrated that it had both strength and flexibility . |
| 3 | Here , however , lay the crux of the matter , for the King of Prussia and his government maintained that they had never been officially associated with Leopold , whose activities were purely personal , and that the King was concerned with the matter only as head of the House of Hohenzollern . |
| 4 | This was challenged by one of the defendants who maintained that she had never been on stage in a state of total nudity , as the police present maintained . |
| 5 | Some hours after the alleged attack , Sharon McLean ran out of the Peace Gardens in Holt Street , near Wrexham police station , and pretended that she had just discovered the body , the jury was told . |
| 6 | They talked , and in course of it Paul mentioned that he had already sketched out plans for a second book ; the Professor had already informed Mr Lamprey of the first . |
| 7 | As we approached the river , the Trent , which had a bathing-place in the grounds , he mentioned that he had already had a dip and recommended it . |
| 8 | James mentioned that he had never understood why people went on strike until he became a wage-earner . |
| 9 | I found that I had far more anger in me than I ever realized . |
| 10 | Looking around at the suffocating power of the Roman Catholic Church and the less humane churches of Protestantism , he found that he had nowhere else to go ; they had no answers for this situation either . |
| 11 | She reached out for the time and found that she had over forty hours still to go before she met the contact again . |
| 12 | When she came to pay for the bill , she found that it had already been paid . |
| 13 | Tawell , who was deeply affronted that such a respectable businessman should be arrested on such a charge , exclaimed that he had never heard of Sara Hart , nor of Salt Hill , and he had definitely never been there . |
| 14 | Stirling felt this inferred that he had loosely prattled at a cocktail party , whereas the gatherings referred to were private dinner parties . |
| 15 | Altogether 149 respondents reported that they had never undertaken or funded any HIV prevention work specifically aimed at gay or bisexual men . |
| 16 | She reported that she had already removed , cleaned and returned them as she had caught some wool under one of them . |
| 17 | Mr B. P. reported that he had already lost 3 stone some time before but had stuck at 15 stone and was pleased when he started to lose again . |
| 18 | In a postscript Dr. Yeats reported that he had subsequently seen both Dr. Thackeray and Mr. Leech who had been together since he had been with them on the previous day . |
| 19 | Also I express surprise at the Labour leader 's volte face a short while ago in the press he reported that he had more important matters to think about , or discuss insofar as fox fox hunting was concerned or words to that effect . |
| 20 | Robinson paid tribute to Mrs Ash 's excellent housekeeping , and lamented that she had never become the Mother she was ideally suited to be . |
| 21 | Dicke and Peebles were preparing to look for this radiation when Penzias and Wilson heard about their work and realized that they had already found it . |
| 22 | He realized that he had just murmured something under his breath . |
| 23 | Perhaps , as Debré suggests , he realized that he had now become a prisoner of his own institutions , President de Gaulle instead of General de Gaulle . |
| 24 | Sullivan realized that he had almost no one to talk to , except , of course , Sullivan himself and Parsons . |
| 25 | I realized that I had completely forgotten what he sounded like . |
| 26 | ‘ No , just a friend , ’ I said too quickly , before I realized that she had almost certainly not been on duty when Sal was brought in . |
| 27 | As she looked down at this small collection of his personal belongings , she realized that she had never thought of him as having any reality beyond the few hours they had spent together at the cottage . |
| 28 | In the end , to draw matters to an unhappy conclusion they all agreed that it had probably been a bin liner . |
| 29 | The boys and I agreed that it had all been so worthwhile . |
| 30 | His critics agreed that he had sure grown with Alberta — just fatter and fatter ! |