Example sentences of "[noun] that [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then all of a sudden these strange people started coming out of record companies who were involved in the video end of it and deciding this is what we should do with that song and sort of you know these were songs that we had planned and recorded and and all of a sudden these people were changing them . |
| 2 | But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder . |
| 3 | Looking back on that moment , it had often occurred to Shiona that it had marked the path that their future relationship was to take . |
| 4 | Mr Delors abandoned a semi-social engagement in Watford to return to Brussels after a brief visit to Oxford , with accusations ringing in his ears that he had sabotaged the talks . |
| 5 | From over George 's shoulder stared the portrait of a general whose handling of an attack in the South African war had caused so many casualties to his own brigade that he had immediately been promoted away to see if he could do the same thing with divisions and corps . |
| 6 | Tim was quite taken with that big card that he had for his birthday |
| 7 | The haste with which Adobe urged Sun to ink the contract — Ybarra says he was was collecting signatures late into the evening out at Sun 's Mountain View headquarters — is thought to have alienated Sun 's SunPics print division which apparently wanted no part of a deal that it had been told of only days beforehand ( UX No 405 ) . |
| 8 | That night she was woken by the most terrible screams that she had ever heard . |
| 9 | On many occasions in our study we found a sharp contrast between the professionals ' perception that a high degree of consensus had been reached and the parents ' perception that they had agreed to a course of action because they saw no other real choice , particularly if the urgent needs of the child and other family members were to be quickly met . |
| 10 | She kept telling Ivan that she had to leave , and he kept telling her that he was a great lover although his prick was only six inches long . |
| 11 | The walk there took only about ten minutes and she thought that even with the frightening weakness in her legs that she had discovered the first time she got out of bed she ought to manage that distance . |
| 12 | Harold MacMillan , Prime Minister , might still be saying to the electorate that they had never had it so good — which was true in terms of the change-round from post-war reconstruction , wartime destruction , and the days of depression ; but to someone of Leonard 's background , from Canada , the place was a bore . |
| 13 | It was then that I conceived the idea of getting a few fans that he had in those days to walk around the television company with placards saying Lets Be Fair To The Long Hairs , which did get press publicity , and in the end , the producer relented and he did his first TV show . ’ |
| 14 | But as he left , Billy Ray , 31 , indicated to fans that he had only two finger-lickin' minutes to spare . |
| 15 | By fortunate chance , often a major factor in war , Hawke , on the afternoon of 16 November , learned from a victualling ship which was returning empty from taking supplies to the blockading force that it had sighted the French fleet the previous day . |
| 16 | Well before 1330 the Angevin Empire had ceased to be the dynamic and significant political force that it had been in the mid and late twelfth century . |
| 17 | Doyle climbed into the car carrying the doll that the girl had been painting , and the ring that they had argued about . |
| 18 | Jean Campbell , in 1817 , was an uneducated deaf person without any speech who could only write the initials of her name in reverse order , eg. C.J. She was an unmarried woman who had three children by different men , one of whom at the time of her arrest in April 1817 had been living with her as a common law husband but who had a few days earlier taken off the ring that he had given to her and which she wore on her finger in the fashion of a married woman , and had left home . |
| 19 | Can I have my ring back and then Christopher can go and look for the ring that he had on his head , he had a wooden one on his head , do you remember ? |
| 20 | Touche Ross announced on Tuesday that it had formed a new international firm , Deloitte Ross Tohmatsu ( DRT ) without Deloitte UK . |
| 21 | A bedroom that she had known for at least ten of her seventeen years . |
| 22 | She had gestured towards the bedroom that he had shown her shortly before . |
| 23 | He was irritated by a piece of smut on her cheek and started to wipe it off , and then pretended he had been stroking her , because he saw her distress at an emotion that she had guessed with her usual impossible correctness . |
| 24 | Young wheat especially , so pure and tender , woke in him the same emotion that he had when observing the face of a sleeping baby . |
| 25 | Service of documents Lex Service plc v Johns ; CA ( Glidewell , Balcombe LJJ ) ; 22 Aug 1989 The evidence of the defendant that he had not received documents sent by a recorded delivery service and apparently received by some other person was not contrary evidence for the purpose of contradicting the statutory provision for deemed service under s 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 . |
| 26 | In practice it would be almost impossible to disprove a claim by the defendant that he had a licence but had lost it and had forgotten from which local taxation office it had been issued . |
| 27 | The next year Meehan wrote to Beltrami that he had heard on the prison grapevine that Waddell 's accomplice at Ayr was a well-known Glasgow villain named William ( ‘ Tank ’ ) McGuinness , a vicious little man with a long record that included violence . |
| 28 | He could smell jasmine , garlic , turpentine , and , closing his eyes , he could cling to the illusion that nothing had changed . |
| 29 | Yet it was as though that night , in the moonlight , in the silence , as though even the work , the months of steady labour , had only been an illusion , only the dream of work , the dream of progress , and I had not even begun and never would begin , though at different moments in my life I might have had the illusion that I had begun and even , perhaps , finished . |
| 30 | The illusion that I had and perhaps many others had in the early seventies was that somehow we could reach a blissful state where all tensions and anxieties would not be there and we would be sexually , as well as emotionally , free . |