Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] that [pers pn] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just for a moment she let her hand linger on his sleeve , then slowly withdrew it , wondering if she was glad or sorry that he had given her such an insight into what made him the man he was today . |
| 2 | Okay erm what I 'd like you to do now is I 'd like you to tell me what you think are the important things about fractions and anything important or interesting that you 've learnt this afternoon . |
| 3 | Sally was unsure whether to be pleased that Louise was including her or annoyed that she had called her fat . |
| 4 | Our visitor had little knowledge of the passions or indeed the psychology of small boys , for he casually admitted after a day or two that he had inscribed the Master 's name on the bat himself ! |
| 5 | ‘ T is more than likely that we 've got a party of Matilda 's soldiers after us . |
| 6 | I shall start by considering in section 4.3 some variables which are characteristic of Belfast English , but which seem to function at a somewhat higher level of generality than those that we have mentioned so far — as identity markers for the community as a whole rather than for internal differentiation within it . |
| 7 | Donna saw it in the rear-view mirror , convinced and elated that she 'd done it crippling damage . |
| 8 | His memory of her had been indistinct , a little French woman speaking only in soft whispers , so frail and quiet and hesitant that she had seemed almost transparent beside Cara , hardly there at all . |
| 9 | Feeling flustered and guilty that I had departed from my normal custom of never working on a pupil 's painting , I foolishly replied " Yes " . |
| 10 | For it is both sinful and shameful that you have laid this accusation against me , for I am an old woman , and lame . |
| 11 | In the control samples no one said the strain had lightened , five that it had remained the same , and six that it had worsened . |
| 12 | First he 'd been crazy enough to subdue her with a kiss which , though it had begun in anger , had aroused a need for her so hot and instant that it had stunned him more than her slap , and now this . |
| 13 | Both these , of course , also have underneath the pattern of the blueprint detective story and all that we have seen about that sort of book applies to the backgrounder , though perhaps with less rigour . |
| 14 | Beethoven learnt more from Haydn than from anyone , and all that he had made his own from that study is put to fascinating use here ; but the music is no reversion , and has its own lightness and gaiety . |
| 15 | and went straight through the garden and all the the time and all that he 'd spent and he went straight just through the garden and knocked her . |
| 16 | All the ones that she 'd got , that got low like Hannah and all that she 's phoned up first . |
| 17 | I do not want , wrote Harsnet , to try and trace this logic or to dwell , in these notes , on the nature and direction of my earlier work , especially , he wrote , as I have always held that any new work worth its salt should be essentially different from all that has gone before , all that others have done and all that you have done , just as the deeds of each new day must never simply repeat those of the previous day or days . |
| 18 | Bright stockings , and long hair , and trousers in untrouserlike colours like pink and lemon yellow , velvet jackets , loud voices and laughter , warned the staider citizens of Shorehaven that actors had arrived in their midst , an exotic flock of migrant birds whose fine plumage mocked the grey and tan and black that they had adopted as camouflage for the winter months . |
| 19 | It was as if all that we had done … had been a school and a preparation both for that first day in which I suddenly knew how to make one-step dry photographic process and for the following three years in which we made the very vivid dream into a solid reality . |
| 20 | The Fontanellatesi , like all Italians , felt happy ; happy that they had stood up to the Fascists , and happy that they had helped the escaped prisoners . |
| 21 | That evening , as we walked through the village that Eric had never seen on our way to the orphanage , I felt proud and happy that he had come back . |
| 22 | There are some notes where incomplete airframes have been listed and those that we have tagged ‘ Airworthy ’ indicate that the aircraft are known to have flown in recent years . |
| 23 | Slaughtermen in the UK need to be licensed ( although the requirements are often easily met and there are no statutory national standards ) and those that I have observed take a grim pride in doing the job with efficiency . |
| 24 | Miss E was horrified , and ashamed that she had accepted wine from a man she did not know . |
| 25 | Numbers are very small , and of course tabular data are only an extremely crude summary of a very complex range of feelings ; however ( excluding those whose attitudes were not known or impossible to summarise ) , it appears that three carers in the action samples felt the strain had lightened , four that it had remained the same and five that it had worsened . |
| 26 | Appalled at the dealer 's vulgarity and furious that he had changed the work , Modi told Chéron he was a cheapskate . |
| 27 | ‘ Instead of grabbing a tin of soup the book will say , ‘ Pick up a few carrots , a leek , chop them up and throw them in water , add a dash of cream , a few leaves of chervil , and you have something homely and delicious that you have made . ’ |
| 28 | Seeing that my daughter Anna has not availed herself of my advice touching the objectionable practice of going about with her arms bare to the elbows , my will is that , should she continue after my death this violation of the modesty of her sex , all goods , chattels , moneys , land , and other that I have devised to her for the maintenance of her future life shall pass to the oldest of the sons of my sister Caroline . |
| 29 | And then he was very er well now I 'm sorry after he 'd put all the hard work with me , he was very very annoyed and disappointed that I had let him down so . |
| 30 | Howard is relieved and pleased that his younger self could pass such a test ; to have been in his own company for fifteen minutes or more , and to have been so opaque and convincing that he 'd seemed to be like anyone else . |