Example sentences of "that [pers pn] had [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course he was n't always there because frequently there were notes from his mother to say that he had earache or something , but later on I realized , of course , that those notes had been faked , the same as the notes that I had sent to school from my mother several generations before that . |
| 2 | From the look on her face you 'd think that I had confessed to a desire to murder her family and steal all her money . |
| 3 | Will the Minister cast his mind back to the letter that he wrote to me last October — a soothing reply to the representations that I had made to him — pointing out that the Salford careers service , which covers my constituency , had forecast a shortfall of between 400 and 450 YTS places ? |
| 4 | Fortunately those of my friends who knew me before were only amused by this foolish description and there was no general resentment of my peerage , which could properly have been attributed to many services that I had given to the government — of both colours . |
| 5 | I wished that I had written to the two women about Donald 's death , and that I was not now obliged to tell them of it . |
| 6 | Andrew agreed , and told Service that I had gone to China and was engaged in broadcasting work there . |
| 7 | I told them that I was British , that I had gone to Stuttgart under the British flag . |
| 8 | I think I must have expressed dissatisfaction with the ‘ Poetry and Propaganda ’ article , because , like others that I had submitted to him up to that point , it was never to appear . |
| 9 | It happened that I had come to ‘ cut and sew ’ necklines in class . |
| 10 | I told him that I was English , an ex-paratrooper and that I had come to be a legionnaire . |
| 11 | After the fish had settled in for a few days , one that I had thought to be a male showed signs of filling eggs , and developed a bright yellow patch on her belly . |
| 12 | It was only as the girl grew older and she realized that her mother was simply mouthing words and had no intention whatsoever of carrying out her threat that she had begun to be able to relax and enjoy what was left of her childhood . |
| 13 | He would not report her fate to the Police , and he could divert enquiries by saying that she had gone to friends in the country . |
| 14 | as if to lure her husband into a false sense of security , she pretended in the following year that she had gone to America and had hired a secretary , called Daisy Miller , to answer her correspondence in her absence : but she herself was Daisy Miller . |
| 15 | He began to suspect that she had gone to Glasgow . |
| 16 | Many of the protesters , together with much of the black press , attempted to publicise the jogger 's name and to vilify her character , claiming variously that she had never been attacked , that she had been raped by her white boyfriend , or that she had gone to the park in search of sexual adventure . |
| 17 | Would n't Veronica think it suspicious that she had gone to the lengths of calling two days running ? |
| 18 | The wife stated that she had succumbed to undue pressure from her husband to sign the documents and that he had misrepresented their effect , in that she had believed that the security was limited to £60,000 and would last for only three weeks . |
| 19 | The paratroopers claimed that she had consented to everything . |
| 20 | Since the marks on Mary 's body were not necessarily inconsistent with Thornton 's claim that she had consented to sexual intercourse , and since the times on the morning in question when Thornton was seen walking home to Bromwich suggested he could not have been with her when she met her death , the jury found him not guilty . |
| 21 | Knew that she had warmed to him , that she wanted to ease his grief , and for a dangerous few seconds he thought he would cry . |
| 22 | He had shown her round the parish with such an enthusiasm for its social and ethnic diversity that she had warmed to him and , when offered the curacy , accepted . |
| 23 | For all the thought that she had given to his ordinary life , Johnny could have been a milkman , for all she cared , or an Insurance broker working in the City , whose daily brush with danger was in trying to cross the road . |
| 24 | It had been a rough race and Kelly had been glad that she had elected to be among the leaders throughout . |
| 25 | She was clearly terrified of her family discovering that she had written to me . |
| 26 | She did n't want the fact that she had written to me to be discovered , and perhaps be seen by her parents as another act of disobedience , causing another row . |
| 27 | DONATION — Pauline was pleased to report that she had written to the National Westminster Bank Sponsorship and Community Affairs Dept. and received a donation of £500 to the Society . |
| 28 | It was quite simply that she had wanted to be with him . |
| 29 | Fabia had no idea if Lubor knew that she had travelled to Prague with his employer last Sunday . |
| 30 | She could see that she had got to it at last . |