Example sentences of "that [pron] had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the treaties with the States-General of 1654 and 1667 the English government succeeded in having its claims accepted by its rival ; and so sensible a man as Sir William Temple felt that nothing had ever given him greater pleasure than forcing the Dutch to give way once more on this point in the peace negotiations of 1674 . |
| 2 | At Les Puces there was everything that everyone had ever thrown out : genuine , valuable antiques , odd shoes , false teeth , stuffed cats … more items than I knew existed . |
| 3 | Sean ( Hallam ) Blowers chips in : ‘ The brilliant thing about Backdraft was that no-one had actually done a film about firemen before . ’ |
| 4 | The general opinion was yes , but certain it was that no-one had ever seen her . |
| 5 | Very fortunately , for goldfinches and linnets , I soon discovered , happened to be two of the reserve 's commonest species and it would have been akin to rushing out to tell my neighbours back home that I had just seen a sparrow in the yard . |
| 6 | All of this was already mapped out in a very decent and proper piece of research that I had just written up . |
| 7 | From a letter to my mother dated 2 May , which has escaped destruction , it is clear that I had just written to Eliot explaining that I realized the undesirability of publication , unless indeed Rowse himself were prepared to give it his endorsement . |
| 8 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 9 | The second element was that I had just started working at the London School of Economics in October 1970 , which was exactly the same time as GLF started meeting there and LSE was in one of its periods of turmoil which involved me as someone working on the staff and excited me politically . |
| 10 | The fact is that I had already begun to give serious consideration to the possibility of doing away with Dennis Parsons . |
| 11 | This was despite the fact that I had already visited the Algerian Embassy to no effect after writing thirteen times . |
| 12 | I did not expect another career , since I felt that I had already had one , but in the event I found not only that , but a fascinating path through life that my original naval calling could not possibly have produced . |
| 13 | Back at home I did n't mention that I had barely escaped being branded as a melon thief ; but now , having ridden a bicycle , I realized that I would not be happy until I possessed one of my own . |
| 14 | I found myself , by a curious alchemy of eye and ear , wondering at things in Don Quixote and Brahms 's Second Symphony that I had neither noticed nor pondered before . |
| 15 | The meeting had been arranged with intense , frantic planning as to detail , with letters despatched by lawyers through couriers , paragraphs changed bo mutual request , assurances as to what I could say or not and , indeed , whether I could admit that I had even appeared on this day at the august offices of Olympia & York . |
| 16 | I was diagnosed as being asthmatic at the age of 48 , although on reflection I suspect that I had probably suffered mild intermittent symptoms in childhood . |
| 17 | Visualising the map again , I reckoned that I had probably hit the shore a little to the west of where I landed . |
| 18 | I realized that I had completely forgotten what he sounded like . |
| 19 | But I would wake up , startled and guilty , horrorstruck that I had somehow managed to allow myself to get out of control . |
| 20 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 21 | I thought about the chips that Mrs Phipps had spoken of and remembered that I had nearly choked on them once . |
| 22 | Of course … except that I had n't noticed this . |
| 23 | I had become so interested in a nice neat pattern that I had n't checked if I had found all the shapes . |
| 24 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
| 25 | Because I would think it 's that I had n't given you the |
| 26 | I did n't look at Bob ; did n't want to see his disapproval , all too wretchedly aware that I had n't done very well . |
| 27 | ‘ I try to keep the grey cells working , ’ I shouted back , more to reassure him that I had n't done a runner out of the kitchen window . |
| 28 | I could feel him right outside , but it bothered me that I had n't done anything . |
| 29 | I had told Ron , who was with me in Rome , that I had n't seen the point in attending the practice , but he had persuaded me that I ought to attend . |
| 30 | Except that I had n't seen him since he lay on his camp-bed and watched me sleeping naked with his beloved wife , the woman I 'd always characterized to him as ‘ sister ’ . |