Example sentences of "that [pron] had [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the treaties with the States-General of 1654 and 1667 the English government succeeded in having its claims accepted by its rival ; and so sensible a man as Sir William Temple felt that nothing had ever given him greater pleasure than forcing the Dutch to give way once more on this point in the peace negotiations of 1674 . |
| 2 | The general opinion was yes , but certain it was that no-one had ever seen her . |
| 3 | I did not expect another career , since I felt that I had already had one , but in the event I found not only that , but a fascinating path through life that my original naval calling could not possibly have produced . |
| 4 | I realized that I had completely forgotten what he sounded like . |
| 5 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
| 6 | Because I would think it 's that I had n't given you the |
| 7 | I could feel him right outside , but it bothered me that I had n't done anything . |
| 8 | Except that I had n't seen him since he lay on his camp-bed and watched me sleeping naked with his beloved wife , the woman I 'd always characterized to him as ‘ sister ’ . |
| 9 | to you on the phone that I had not seen the job and that I said yes alright knowing I had n't seen the job , also that you knew that I had n't seen it and if I did n't agree with it , then I was gon na change it , and I 've changed it ! |
| 10 | Now it seemed fortunate that I had n't ; just as it seemed , though still obscurely , fortunate that I had n't lost my head in other ways when I wrote to her . |
| 11 | Ven uttered , and to her delight confessed , ‘ Well , there was that occasion when , after being disturbed by thoughts of you all night , I rang you at your hotel the next morning in the hope that I had n't disturbed you . ’ |
| 12 | So the first opportunity I had I left Bradley 's and went back to the Lock so it 'd been war direction , war service we asked and it counted as me service with the Lock , that I had n't interrupted me service being as I was directed so that 's how I say I had fifty years at the Lock . |
| 13 | I admit I remembered then , but I did n't tell you because it would have sounded daft that I had n't told you before . |
| 14 | So , Paul was worried that I had n't put it in straight were n't you Paul ? |
| 15 | I was tempted to call it a day there and then , pull over and have a kip , but my stomach reminded me that I had n't thrown it a bone since the ploughman 's at lunch-time , and it had been quite an eventful day . |
| 16 | Never mind that I had n't remembered my birthday either . |
| 17 | There was something enthralling about this scene , the three girls in the circle of insect-laden light , so that I had n't wondered what she was doing and only now did I realise that the girl was a fortune-teller . |
| 18 | ‘ When I die , ’ she said , ‘ you can tell him from me that I had n't forgotten him . |
| 19 | That I had n't forgotten he was my own flesh and blood , but that sometimes you owe more to strangers . |
| 20 | The first thought that came to me was that I had n't got my clean bloomers on . |
| 21 | Rather , I felt a strange exaltation that our brief married life together — consisting of but a few short leaves — had been of such ravishing sweetness , and that I had not spoiled it as I had spoiled things over two years before . |
| 22 | I told her what she expected to hear — that I had not done anything much . |
| 23 | When I was pregnant , and we did not have this constantly changing situation of togetherness and separation , my husband complained that I had not noticed him kissing me goodbye in the morning — I was starting to take him for granted after only a few months without going to the mikva ! |
| 24 | Suddenly I realised that I had not heard it before but read it before — word for word in the article that the Secretary of State for Education and Science wrote last Friday in The Times Educational Supplement . |
| 25 | However , shortly before the List 's publication , I received a visit from Harold Evans , then the editor of the Sunday Times , who came to breakfast and rather slyly asked if I had seen it ; to which I replied that I had not seen it and knew nothing of its contents . |
| 26 | It occurred to me that I should perhaps wait for my daughter Sophie outside her school , to make sure she understood that I had not abandoned her , had merely left Lou for a man who loved me and would make me happy ; that things would presently calm down , and as soon as Hugo and I had sorted things out a little and established our new home she could join us . |
| 27 | I was confused and still worried that there might be horses and that I had not changed my bloomers which were wet from where I had fallen in the icy fish . |
| 28 | It had just crossed my mind that I had not had my boots off since the evening of the 4th June and it was now 8th June . |
| 29 | But it annoyed me that I had not got them worked out already . |
| 30 | ‘ Indeed , but for my brother 's tears , his reproaches that I had not drawn my sword , I would have dismissed the whole affair as a nightmare . ’ |