Example sentences of "this [verb] [that] [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there was a lady in the , in his congregation he preached to masses , to thousands and thousands of people , and she came to him , she was , she was annoyed , she was a rather er , well-to-do lady , and she was offended at this this preaching that she had to be born again , and that people had to have this new birth experience . |
| 2 | Stirling felt this inferred that he had loosely prattled at a cocktail party , whereas the gatherings referred to were private dinner parties . |
| 3 | This stipulated that they had to have no less than 100,000 members " with the signature and number of the election list for each one of them " . |
| 4 | Part of the misconception arose because the bones of early humans have often been found with bones of other animals , and it was simplistically assumed that this showed that they had killed and eaten other animals , and had later died amid the remains of previous meals . |
| 5 | This showed that he had not only been in the Catalina that had sighted the Bismarck but was actually piloting it and had taken avoiding action when the Bismarck opened fire . |
| 6 | This meant that they had now gained a tremendous advantage over the reptiles , even causing the extinction of many of them . |
| 7 | This meant that they had often moved to their present jobs away from their previous connections of kin and friends . |
| 8 | This meant that we had to find somewhere I could manage on my own and that was centrally located , because I could not walk far . |
| 9 | This meant that you had to type everything , including the definitions for forms and reports , making dBFast more primitive in this aspect even than dBASE III Plus ! |
| 10 | This meant that I had a variety of other ‘ close ones ’ to look after me , and a rota was instituted . |
| 11 | This meant that I had , from the beginning , to spend a lot of time with my family while Dawn was learning to sit on my fist . |
| 12 | I heard no more on the subject ; and if this meant that I had failed to persuade Eliot to devote precious time to reading the book , I was more relieved than otherwise . |
| 13 | Joseph Robinson was aware of what was good for business but he was also a man who prided himself on his love of sport : this meant that he had a responsibility to knowledge and experience . |
| 14 | The book was an abstract of a work which had not appeared , and which never did in the form envisaged ; this meant that it had no references or bibliography , and that in it Darwin wore his immense learning lightly . |
| 15 | Essentially , this meant that it had to operate like a company , with a capital structure and a requirement to deliver a return on capital employed , but with the ownership wholly in the hands of the British Government . |
| 16 | This means that they had had a heightened awareness of their own mortality more or less throughout the disability career . |
| 17 | Briefly , if the referee points his fingers this indicates that someone had done something wrong . |
| 18 | The F.C.C. interpreted this to mean that they had to inquire whether there was a successor in title and , if so , whether he qualified under article 4(1) ( b ) ( ii ) . |
| 19 | This suggests that he had bigger fish to fry — and indeed he had . |