Example sentences of "that things had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then when it was realized that things had taken a turn for the worse and somebody was going to get killed the vicar stepped in and bought them all ice-creams . |
| 2 | ‘ You may have thought that things had gotten to be as bad as they could get , but Mr Koons ' show proves you were wrong , ’ wrote one particularly shrill reviewer . |
| 3 | But as he turned , the dirt in his mouth , she could see that things had gone too far . |
| 4 | Mair interviewed a clutch of former BR executives who claimed they had been made redundant for pressing their inquiries too closely , and the understandably defensive chairman of British Rail 's Parcels Board , Gordon Pettitt , who admitted that things had gone wrong but could n't see what all the fuss was about . |
| 5 | I do n't know how long it was that things had been going badly for them but I do know there were problems . |
| 6 | For all that , it did not seem to Karelius that things had gone too badly . |
| 7 | It was clear that things had improved considerably in recent weeks and that this could be seen as a consequence of her having taken the tablets . |
| 8 | The moment I got back I realized that things had changed . |
| 9 | And they had , over and over again , so many times that no one except me seemed to remember that things had ever been different . |
| 10 | If anyone were to ask whether the cottage was for sale or rent , Mother Francis was always ready with a helpless shrug of the shoulders to say that things had n't been fully sorted out yet , but that it was in Eve 's name and nothing could be done until she was twenty-one . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's not a bad man , ’ the girl said , and there was a slight tremble in her voice ; she knew that things had gone wrong for her father , and that there would soon be a time of parting . |
| 12 | But there , too , I found that things had changed . |
| 13 | Jazzbeaux had been out of it for most of the fighting , but she could tell from the leavings that things had got serious . |
| 14 | ‘ Always knew you were one of me mates , ’ said Archie , highly gratified that things had suddenly been made easy for him . |
| 15 | At that point , General Waheed decided that things had gone far enough , and stepped in . |
| 16 | Honest Tories confess that things had become distinctly worse than normal , even allowing for the grumps of mid-term recession and by-election rebuff . |
| 17 | There were those in Parliament who felt that things had already gone too far , despite the Home Secretary 's reassurances that it was too soon for legislation . |
| 18 | ‘ They recommended it to the Department of Employment but were told that things had been tightened up because of a Bulgarian footballer who was signed by Ipswich Town and then found to have less international caps than at first thought . |
| 19 | Mostly , Defries thought that things had improved since the break-out . |
| 20 | I had never been as stubborn or single-minded about anything else , or as insistent that things had to be a certain way . |
| 21 | The truth is that things had reached the stage where manufacturers had no more cloth left to cut — hence the race to convince more users to buy more features than they may need . |
| 22 | The impression that things had got worse was inescapable . |
| 23 | Most political scientists quickly came to argue that things had gone badly wrong : some groups were too powerful and the system as a whole was seen as out of control so that there was an overload of demands on government . |
| 24 | It er gone on its side but erm , I da I would n't say that things had deteriorated that much . |
| 25 | Was it perhaps since Sir John Merchiston 's death that things had been allowed to slide to this pass ? |
| 26 | It was then that things had gone badly wrong . |
| 27 | He was very soon to be forced to face the fact that things had moved on since 1939 . |
| 28 | Most people agreed that things had gone a bit far when he told the Church , in 1982 , to ‘ Face north-west whenever possible . ’ |
| 29 | He agreed that this advice had been good but said that things had now gone too far . |
| 30 | Even the order to shut the main castle doors was more of a sop to the khthons than an acknowledgement that things had gone terribly wrong . |