Example sentences of "that they had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that they had scarcely met for twenty years was immaterial and the bond between school fellows and fellow expatriates seemed stronger than ties of blood . |
| 2 | The Private Secretary , a dark , stocky man a couple of years McLeish 's junior , greeted him , observing cautiously that they had surely met at Francesca Wilson 's house ? |
| 3 | The Iranian authorities countered that they had repeatedly asked the Turkish government to present evidence for such claims . |
| 4 | They no longer felt , as they had previously , that there was unlimited time or that things would unfold and develop along the lines that they had unconsciously assumed they would . |
| 5 | There had always been a feeling of pre-destination with Richard and now that they had both suffered so much it seemed stronger than ever . |
| 6 | He had meant to point out to John le Grant that they had both engaged in extremely rough play at Trebizond , and if he chose to carry out another war contract , he was not doing it blindfold . |
| 7 | The defendants admitted that they had both been drinking heavily on the night of the offences . |
| 8 | She could n't remember whether the stories were true or not , but she thought dimly that they had both hoped they were . |
| 9 | Dutifully she and Luke followed Anna and Sam through the house ; they discovered that they had both visited it several times in the past . |
| 10 | By their preaching and writing , the apostles showed that they had finally grasped Jesus ' point that the Bible 's main practical purpose is to draw people to himself as their Saviour . |
| 11 | Jenna did n't know if he meant that they had finally arrived after a long journey or if he was reliving his youth here , claiming his past again . |
| 12 | Initially , some progress appeared to have been made at the Jakarta meeting when Sihanouk and Hun Sen announced that they had finally agreed on a compromise formula on the issue of the SNC chair ( Sihanouk as chair , Hun Sen as vice-chair ) . |
| 13 | It was true that they had mostly been forgotten , left unappreciated . |
| 14 | The fact that they had mostly borrowed to modernise their economies and communications infrastructures in order to be able to participate more effectively in the global economy merely added piquancy to their plight . |
| 15 | Critical examination by the most reliable of tests and measurements , usually showed that they had little if any action greater than that of placebos , or that their effects on performance were deleterious rather than beneficial . |
| 16 | In the late 1980s , the Japanese , with their own US plants producing so many cars that they had little need to import more , and with voluntary quotas unfilled , decided to reclassify light commercial vehicles as cars . |
| 17 | It turned out that they had instead invested in an airline which never took off , a college that had no students , and a luxury yacht . |
| 18 | The Prussian government passed legislation designed to Germanise landholdings in the border districts , but these laws were so badly framed and so crudely implemented that they had exactly the reverse effect from that intended . |
| 19 | Peking officials now seek to excuse the June atrocities by claiming — all too credibly — that they had neither the resources nor the expertise to cope with the escalating civil disorder culminating in the Tiananmen Square assault . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , with repeated French insinuations that they had neither the means nor the intention of reconquering Vietnam , it obviously came as a shock to the US to discover that this was exactly what France seemed to have in mind . |
| 21 | However , the majority of teachers who were interviewed claimed that they had not done anything different from what they would have done were they not being observed , but that they had probably prepared lessons more carefully and thought things through more . |
| 22 | The pens had the ordinary steel nibs and it was essential that they had just the right amount of ink on them or blots resulted . |
| 23 | He kept forgetting they would write it down : he seems to have thought — most of the time — that they had just turned up for a friendly drink . |
| 24 | A great many crocodile tears were shed , for , since Unionists had such an elevated view of the principle of leadership , they were unable to accept that they had just driven their own leader from office . |
| 25 | She realised that they had just joined the main motorway heading north-west out of London . |
| 26 | Christopher Trickie and his Wife … told Mogg that the French people had taken the plan of their House , and that They had also taken the plan of all the places round that part of the Country , that a Brook runs in the front of Trickie 's House and the French people inquired of Trickie wether the Brook was Navigable to the Sea , and upon being informed by Trickie that It was not , they were afterwards seen examining the Brook quite down to the Sea . |
| 27 | Now , having strutted their stuff so successfully in the business arena , the Taiwanese want to show their arch-rivals — Japan and South Korea — that they had also better watch out when it comes to rugby and September 's Asian Rugby Football Tournament in Seoul . |
| 28 | They emphatically denied on Feb. 7 an unofficial report that they had also agreed to sell 350 T-72 tanks to Israel . |
| 29 | We learnt later that they had also advised her neighbours to take out a summons against her for noise nuisance . |
| 30 | Owen himself rather enjoyed the views but he had been a little surprised to learn that they had also drawn the Prince . |