Example sentences of "that [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 31 | They would really believe that I had gone completely mad . |
| 32 | As I settled down in the straw-filled barn that I had left a few moments ago in search of food , I looked around at the now sleeping Frenchman , stretched out in the straw . |
| 33 | Very enjoyable indeed , after the very rough fare that I had become used to living in the slit trench . |
| 34 | I suppose I had been given a sense of the evil of cinema by my strict Methodist grandparents , who were visibly shocked when once I confessed that I had been to see a film on Sunday . |
| 35 | Before that I had never known that human beings could do such things to others , but after that I knew . |
| 36 | As soon as I set foot in there , I knew that I had to be involved somehow . |
| 37 | It was down at Riverside that I had what you might call my first ‘ exotic ’ sexual experience . |
| 38 | There was the same combination that I had seen before : collected in groups that seemed threatening because you were not part of them , and between these bright areas black , empty alleys full of odd forebodings . |
| 39 | Pleased , that is , until I discovered that I had forgotten to bring the tea bags — the subsequent ‘ Well , why did n't you bring them then 's , ‘ Why is it always my fault 's reminded me of the Quentin Crisp line that marriage was impossible for him because he could not have tolerated an endless succession of mornings when the first words he heard were , ‘ And another thing ’ — and that there were no birds . |
| 40 | So taken was I with this vision of perfect Iceland that I did not realise that I had walked into a skua colony , not , that is , until one fearless great skua hit me . |
| 41 | I wish , silently , that I had my Trangia . |
| 42 | But I told him that I had lost a lot of money but had gained a lot of things . |
| 43 | I discussed my feelings with the woman in question and I slept with her , but I deeply regretted it later on and was sorry that I had n't weighed up the consequences more thoroughly beforehand . |
| 44 | He seemed so pleased with himself that I could n't help saying that I should mind them very much myself but that I had no objection to his wearing them — a view which I believed surprised him . |
| 45 | The fact that I had so little self-control seemed to be irritating him ever so slightly . |
| 46 | Had interview with housing official who stated that I had to transfer the tenancy from my wife 's name to mine and then something would be done within a week . |
| 47 | My mental health has deteriorated to such an extent that I had to be admitted to hospital and am currently on sedation . |
| 48 | Remember that I had always intended to leave spare key with the Twills next door but never got round to it . |
| 49 | I realised , to my embarrassment , that I had eaten the equivalent of exactly half a cake . |
| 50 | Perhaps my basic thoughts were externalized by reading Crime and Punishment by Dostoievsky , and realizing that I had a basic Napoleonic complex . |
| 51 | 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 . ’ |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | It was for this reason that I had Zowie because I could see how he was with children . |
| 54 | I think it 's hard to be honest with yourself about certain things and I wanted to think that I had no part in the grandiosity of MainMan and a lot of the bad things about MainMan . |
| 55 | I told you , I think , that I had met Jennifer first , some time ago . ’ |
| 56 | Now it was that I had a chance of discarding or of adapting to my own purpose the fine words and infinite variety of constructions which I had formerly admired from afar off and imitated in fairly cold blood . |
| 57 | As I came down into Salisbury that day I knew for the first time that I had been happy . |
| 58 | The fact is that I had never seen it , or known what I was seeing , until that day : … |
| 59 | On hearing that I had a place among successful candidates I was excited with pleasure . |
| 60 | Suffice it , that I had a few moments of fanciful pleasure . |