Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] [pron] had [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also transpired that he had done virtually no mathematics . |
| 2 | For myself , I pretended that I had left home with full approval , inventing for myself a Harrogate doctor father , fleshing out an imaginary family … . |
| 3 | I found that I had become very tired and once again Boris said ‘ It 's time to go . ’ |
| 4 | I hated speaking to large groups of people and normally would have avoided it at all costs , but I found that I had thought so much about this that telling other people was a relief . |
| 5 | Due to the modifications that the Doctor had made to his own vintage car , Bessie , he found that he had forgotten just how slow the genuine article 's top speed was without intervention from superior technology . |
| 6 | We then realized that we had gone too far and lacked the critical mass to support the heavy selling effort involved , so we bought another company to fill out the range again . |
| 7 | At this juncture , I realized that I had driven close to the point where the boat had landed me the previous evening . |
| 8 | Far too late , Jessamy realised that she had tumbled straight into a trap . |
| 9 | She realised that she had become increasingly frustrated and dissatisfied with her life with Nicky … maybe even with Surrey … perhaps even with Maison de Levantière . |
| 10 | Towards the end of the war I realised that I had had both friends and enemies at Southern Command . |
| 11 | ‘ But I realised that I had spoken too soon , ’ he continued . |
| 12 | Labour organisation and activism was clearly still in its early stages : notwithstanding this , dictator General Leguia , who took power in July 1919 , announced that he had done so ’ not only to liquidate the old state of affairs , but also to detain the advance of Communism which , because it is premature among us , would produce dreadful consequences ' ( Skidmore and Smith : 1984 , p. 206 ) . |
| 13 | In the London , Ontario case , each of the three complainants admitted that they had participated willingly in the sexual relationship , so the accused 's solicitor argued that there was no evidence of a sexual assault . |
| 14 | The company admitted that they had done so to avoid paying the new higher taxes . |
| 15 | When he asked me if I played I admitted that I had done so but insisted that I really was very bad . |
| 16 | However , she admitted that she had felt very miserable for 3 or 4 months . |
| 17 | Though Glasgow Polytechnic required the support of the safety net , its vice-principal , John Phillips , argued that it had competed well when with its Queen 's College partner and emerged as one of Scotland 's leading three or four universities . |
| 18 | Becker 's case was notable because he was captured by the widely-circulated photographs , but he argued that he had intended only to fire a warning shot . |
| 19 | It was because the rebels believed that he had stashed away rather more cash abroad than might be necessary to pay his tuition fees that Doe met an end still more grisly than that of his Romanian guests . |
| 20 | Between them — or , more accurately , forming a triangle with them — is an eighth-magnitude star , named Sidus Ludovicianum in 1723 by courtiers of the Emperor Ludwig V , who believed that it had appeared suddenly . |
| 21 | The directors added that they had done so because ‘ this is the basis adopted in the accounts of the overseas subsidiaries ’ , and that the group accounts should be drawn up on the same basis in order to show a true and fair view . |
| 22 | Packages which checked your spelling , for example , in something you 've put on and very politely suggested that you may or may not have got a word quite correctly spelt that you had intended perhaps spelt one way , it came out as another way , and there must be an awful lot of work going on in this area . |
| 23 | They wished to kill and devour the father and then imagined that they had done so and felt guilty — is this what happened ? |
| 24 | In 1906 the Colonisation Commission estimated that it had brought over 14,000 German families to the east in the 20 years of its existence , and claimed to have removed over 40,000 Poles . |
| 25 | He stated that he had met too many people who had become mentally disturbed by playing about with ideas and activities which have done them deep emotional damage . |
| 26 | The photograph confirmed that he had changed almost nothing in the hotel . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , 12 members of the Cabinet did visit the shrine on Aug. 15 ( and at least three others had visited it earlier in the month ) , although most claimed that they had done so in a private capacity . |
| 28 | In the Ukrainian Supreme Soviet election , in which there were on average almost seven candidates for each of the 450 seats , Rukh won the majority of the Kiev seats , but its leaders claimed that it had performed badly in most rural areas because of obstruction and electoral malpractice by officials . |
| 29 | She claimed that she had invited both her daughter and Neha to go to Marbella with her but Neha was not ready to leave at the same time . |
| 30 | Although the prosecution claimed that she had stolen over $222,000,000 from the Filipino treasury , its case rested largely upon circumstantial evidence . |