Example sentences of "that he had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authorities denied that his arrest in 1987 was solely because he had met pro-North Korean people in Japan and claimed that he had acted on North Korean orders to collect documents on South Korean opposition groups , and to infiltrate dissent groups in order to create social unrest . |
| 2 | They also stated that he had received funds from North Korea . |
| 3 | In them he took ‘ every opportunity of recommending a rational method of study ’ , and incidentally inculcating his views of sound critical taste ; it would have been a brave student who dared to admire Carlo Maratta , after hearing that he had : |
| 4 | David listened and frankly avowed that he had not been conscious of all these grand ideas . |
| 5 | A romantic orphan , though , who was able to accept that he had caused his brother to suffer . |
| 6 | Some good thing had been voiced , and Wilde had remarked that he wished that he had said it — and was then told : . |
| 7 | Levi explains that he had amused himself by writing a ‘ Western ’ and that he had wanted to write a hopeful book . |
| 8 | Levi explains that he had amused himself by writing a ‘ Western ’ and that he had wanted to write a hopeful book . |
| 9 | There can be no doubt that he had an ear for what such people have to say for themselves . |
| 10 | The husband of the cleaning woman had been a soldier , and she had said that he had had no choice but to obey his orders to shoot Jews . |
| 11 | The grounds were that he had used up his grant entitlement in qualifying to be a teacher . |
| 12 | And Goldberg , pushing the hair out of his eyes and wiping his face at the same time with his sleeve , pushed away the typewriter , pulled the pad towards him , seized the felt-tip pen , and wrote : He later admitted that he had merely said between seventeen and eighteen as a manner of speaking . |
| 13 | The point is , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that he had spent his life seeking her out , yet left his feet to do the dirty work . |
| 14 | From the yet more gloomy expression on his normally lugubrious face it was evident that he had resigned himself to her companionship at least as far as his hotel perched up far above the sea . |
| 15 | It was only when it shut with a rusty creak that he realized that he had company . |
| 16 | I ran down to meet him , but when I got there I saw that he had narrow eyes and a mean mouth and I did n't like him one bit . |
| 17 | The affair lasted about three weeks then he broke it off and confessed to Sarah that he had been seeing someone else . |
| 18 | Needless to say the revelations made by John Stalker ( 1988 ) were also less than welcome to the service , and all around I heard my contemporaries condemn the fact that he had gone public . |
| 19 | Inevitably , I noted these criticisms were rarely in relation to what he had said ( few had actually read the book ) , but rather were expressions of shocked outrage that he had failed to keep silent and say nothing at all . |
| 20 | Indeed , the fact that he had apparently used an editor from a Manchester newspaper for some of his purposes was latched onto and quoted as a sign that he was ‘ suspect ’ and ‘ disloyal ’ . |
| 21 | During my early career , for instance , when one of the shift was caught and sentenced for a string of burglaries , the others skirted around their implicit knowledge that ‘ there but for the grace of God goes everyone ’ , and comforted themselves by recalling ( with the aid of the hindsight-ometer ) that he had ‘ never been a real polis … always been a bit of a loner , something of an outsider … ’ |
| 22 | His name was Martin and what had happened that he had let Lucy go ? |
| 23 | He spent many hours of darkness , sweating lightly in spite or the autumn and early winter cold , wishing some of his replies unsaid , and wishing above all that he had said anything at all after the examiner 's last remark . |
| 24 | His neck and shoulders gradually became so stiff that he had to turn in one piece from the waist up . |
| 25 | ‘ I could get anyone under the spell , ’ he says , adding that he had hypnotised their maid ( as Breavman had in The Favourite Game ) and feared that he had driven her insane by it ! |
| 26 | ‘ I could get anyone under the spell , ’ he says , adding that he had hypnotised their maid ( as Breavman had in The Favourite Game ) and feared that he had driven her insane by it ! |
| 27 | Another was that he had been elected to the Students ' Council at his school , Westmount High , and to its Board of Publishers . |
| 28 | Physics realised 67 per cent ; History a promising 77 per cent ; and Mathematics was strongest of all , with an average of 77 per cent over three subjects : algebra I and II at 72 per cent and 80 per cent , geometry at 86 per cent and trigonometry at 70 per cent ; ( he admitted to us that he had opted for the latter at school , because it enabled him to evade Latin ! ) . |
| 29 | Looking around at the suffocating power of the Roman Catholic Church and the less humane churches of Protestantism , he found that he had nowhere else to go ; they had no answers for this situation either . |
| 30 | ( It will be remembered that he had studied drama at McGill , and the plays of Britain 's ‘ angry young men ’ had made waves in Canada . ) |