Example sentences of "of [noun pl] that [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pope John , it is said , ‘ had not envisaged the possibility of rejection and expected a rapid and painless vote in favour of projects that he had read through and welcomed with full approval ’ ( Ratzinger Report , 1985 , p. 41 ) . |
| 2 | In the days since her visit to me , her mind had become so used to the idea of walking in the vicinity of birds that it had seemed quite a natural thing to do . |
| 3 | He was only clear about the classification as he worked through the foundations of his pragmatism and metaphysics in the 1890s , but it represents the systematization of a set of views that he had been groping towards since the 1860s . |
| 4 | Again , yes , but not the sort of clubs that she had in mind . |
| 5 | A lot of clients that I had when |
| 6 | While visiting his house , Gould 's ever-watchful eye was drawn to a large collection of watercolours painted by Sturt of parrots that he had collected on his various excursions . |
| 7 | The kind of problems that they had . |
| 8 | When he had been given to Uncle Farmborough to be his heir and to look after him in his old age , he was considered fortunate — but how could a child reconcile itself to such a strange state of affairs that he had been given away , to the fact that his own father and mother , brother and sister , lived quite near in the village but , as it were , in a different camp ? |
| 9 | After 1986 parliamentary concern shifted towards the security service or MI5 , particularly because of allegations that it had been involved in attempts to smear elected politicians during the 1970s . |
| 10 | On Aug. 15 , 1990 , Martin Kirchner , general secretary of the CDU , was suspended from office as a result of allegations that he had been one of the most senior paid informers of the Stasi . |
| 11 | The CDU Minister President of Baden-Württemberg , Lothar Späth , resigned in January 1991 because of allegations that he had improperly accepted favours from businessmen [ see p. 37966 ] . |
| 12 | The longest and costliest criminal trial in US history ended on Jan. 18 when Raymond Buckey and his mother , Peggy McMartin Buckey , were acquitted of charges that they had sexually molested children at their family-owned kindergarten in Los Angeles , California . |
| 13 | Margaret , Louis IX 's queen , was the sister of Eleanor , queen of England , and maintained the closest connection with both Henry III and Edward I. In January 1262 , for instance , one of Henry III 's proctors at Paris , Pierre de Limoges , wrote to Walter de Merton , chancellor of England , to tell him that Queen Margaret was so occupied in the business of negotiations that she had no time to write to him . |
| 14 | We 're also taking another four hundred thousand out of budgets that we had for planned improvements in staffing as well . |
| 15 | And er never shoes they were always boots , did n't have sort of half shoes it was always a pair of boots that you had . |
| 16 | WHEN CHRIS OWEN , Head of Natural History Publications at the Natural History Museum , published a painting of mosses that I had done for the National Museum of Wales , I had no idea that it would lead to a further and more exciting job offer , so a call out of the blue from Chris was a welcome surprise . |