Example sentences of "[verb] that [pron] had [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would he know that she had failed him ? |
| 2 | ‘ I did not know that you had bought her a ring today , until we came back , ’ she said . |
| 3 | Did this man know that he had ruined our game , our happiness , everything we held dear ? |
| 4 | She would never let him know that he had broken her heart . |
| 5 | He let Turgenev know that he had enjoyed his Sportsman 's Sketches , but his interest in them probably derived from his love of hunting rather than from the fact that the stories cast aspersions on serfdom . |
| 6 | Orchis is Greek for testicle , which is what the roots look like , and Lydia had told the company so , because Mrs Molesworth , gazing fondly and favourably on her husband , had divulged that he had bought her orchids on the recent occasion of their wedding anniversary . |
| 7 | A romantic orphan , though , who was able to accept that he had caused his brother to suffer . |
| 8 | It gave her confidence a boost to know that she had spotted him , and it made her actions easy . |
| 9 | The television was switched on , Omi started a new piece of crochet-work , Herr Nordern abandoned his statistics , Frau Nordern her reports , and Paul , boldly and half-truthfully announcing that he had finished his homework , joined Erika on the sofa to watch a good thriller on West German television . |
| 10 | Forgotten that she had thought she had seen someone moving around in the darkness . |
| 11 | Such changes would not have been inhibited necessarily by the teacher action , but none of the teachers I interviewed claimed that they had changed their methods to any great extent . |
| 12 | Only then did Folly realise that she had left her purse behind . |
| 13 | She bit her lip , remembering that awful time when the news had come that he had lost his life in the fire that had demolished his holiday hotel — and how the tragedy , for her , had turned into a nightmare . |
| 14 | It came as a relief at this stage to find that I had got my sums right , and everything met where it ought ! |
| 15 | In her heart , Tallis had known that Scathach would not wait for her , but it still came as a shock to find that he had betrayed his word to her . |
| 16 | Years later , when I met , through Eliot 's sister-in-law , that charming , modest , retiring lady in Brooklyn , I was relieved to find that she had liked what I had written about her . |
| 17 | ‘ Barney 's as thrilled as I am , ’ Cara replied , revealing that she had phoned him as soon as she 'd read her mail . |
| 18 | Later I found that they had put me in prison because of my madness . |
| 19 | To his surprise Riven found that he had joined them , and Darmid 's sword was naked in his hand . |
| 20 | and found that he had hardened his views and was most obstructive and unhelpful . |
| 21 | When Liz came downstairs again to her party , after a ritual exchange ( how could her sister bear such intercourse ? how could it go on ? ) she found that she had lost her velocity . |
| 22 | We made enquiries and found that she had helped her mother to carry water every day in Bangladesh . |
| 23 | I never felt happy with it , and on two occasions found that it had worked its way down my arm and was loose around my wrist . |
| 24 | In their third session , Peter reported that he had had his annual pay increase and said , ‘ I think I 'm earning enough for Susie to stop working . |
| 25 | It is evident that the deputy head soon realised that he had set himself an enormous task , despite the fact that he decided to focus on the work of three ‘ target ’ pupils . |
| 26 | At this moment , as he was still wondering what to say to them , he suddenly realized that something had lightened his spirits . |
| 27 | It is in any case debatable whether the College could have survived in the face of such rapid growth in the private sector ; their lawsuits against usurping trade diminished once they realized that they had priced themselves out of the market and had little extra to offer than the trade apart from kudos and tradition . |
| 28 | After a while I realized that nobody had asked them if they wanted or needed to learn management skills . |
| 29 | Albert realized that he had forgotten his report , but trusted his memory to make it up . |
| 30 | But I realized that I had to do something pretty dramatic to avoid too serious an accident . |