Example sentences of "[verb] that [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was very annoyed over the whole business this end , when it transpired that nobody had any information on the subject either . |
| 2 | It also transpired that he had done virtually no mathematics . |
| 3 | It transpired that he had been sleeping rough for weeks and that his last known address was a Salvation Army hostel 100 miles away . |
| 4 | It transpired that he had been scouting at the Festival . |
| 5 | It transpired that it had been syphoned off into private businesses . |
| 6 | It transpired that she had also been one of a party at the Hall the same day . |
| 7 | The Bishop finished by praying that what had been discussed would become an apostolic thrust of the diocese . |
| 8 | Her heart sank at the sight of fresh blood on the bandage , but she set about unwinding the strip of linen , praying that she had not opened up fitzAlan 's wound too badly in her frantic efforts to escape . |
| 9 | Since those days I have sometimes wished that I had been able to record on tape the conversations I had with Gilbert Harding , who was an intellectual . |
| 10 | I 've often wished that I had stayed on and tried for university , but I was n't keen , and my family was n't the sort to encourage it . |
| 11 | If you have ever wished that you had a third hand to make notes we have the answer . |
| 12 | Azerbaijan 's Minister of the Interior , Iskender Khamidov , left for Nakhichevan to hold talks over the issue , denying that there had been a conflict . |
| 13 | And erm , it s it seems to be an entirely er rational position for any public politician , for instance , Mrs Thatcher before the seventy-nine election , denying that she had any plans to double V A T , or Mr Major denying some of the plans for raising taxes that we 've come up with , or indeed denying plans to privatise the forestry commission . |
| 14 | Paul wanted to retch , and at the same time felt his member thrusting against his clothes ; there was no denying that he had wanted this , when all was said , for a long time . |
| 15 | After demonstrations outside his home and threats to his life , Tshisekedi refused the position , denying that he had agreed to take it at a secret meeting with the President . |
| 16 | By Nov. 20 Mahdi Mohammed was reported to be massing reinforcements in Warsheik , about 60 km north of Mogadishu , and had placed a satellite telephone call to the British Broadcasting Corporation denying that he had been ousted . |
| 17 | While emphatically denying that he had acted improperly — Richardson claimed that his resignation was motivated by the desire to avoid damaging the ALP 's prospects in the next federal elections , due by mid-1993 — he admitted meeting Symons in his Senate office , writing a reference for him , and telephoning Amata Kabua , President of the Marshall Islands , after Symons was arrested . |
| 18 | Mars-Jones J in Palacath Ltd v Flanagan [ 1985 ] 2 All ER 161 decided that a surveyor was not immune without specifically denying that he had acted as a quasi-arbitrator . |
| 19 | Last night there was more evidence of the couple 's unhappiness when it was disclosed that they had a furious row at Balmoral shortly before the ‘ love tapes ’ were published . |
| 20 | The Halifax , Britain 's biggest building society , also disclosed that it had set aside a £20m provision against its loans to the collapsed London docklands developer Kentish Property Group . |
| 21 | But in the immediate wake of the October 19 crash , IBM 's most serious rival , Comdisco , disclosed that it had lost $100m in a business that had nothing to do with its main occupation of leasing and trading IBM equipment . |
| 22 | Eventually , on Feb. 25 , the Israeli Foreign Ministry disclosed that it had formally requested additional US military aid worth US$1,000 million to offset defence costs incurred as a result of the crisis . |
| 23 | The doubts about Mr Lamont 's survival grew after it was disclosed that he had withdrawn from the panel on BBC TV 's Question Time programme tomorrow , with Mr Clarke replacing him . |
| 24 | An Italian engineer recently arrested in connection with the supergun affair disclosed that he had been employed by SRC associate company ATI to co-ordinate production of supergun parts in Italy , Switzerland and the UK . |
| 25 | Deputy Minister of the Interior Juan Carlos Mazzón was also dismissed on Jan. 15 after Noticias magazine disclosed that he had served nine months of a three-year prison sentence imposed in 1981 for fraud . |
| 26 | It was the only object , apart from the books , which reflected a personal taste ; Dalgliesh hardly supposed that it had been provided by a Government agency . |
| 27 | No official reason was given for McCreath and Winter leaving , but rumours suggest that they had tired of their peripheral roles within the band set-up . |
| 28 | Lothar 's marriage , and some of his activities in 833 – 4 , suggest that he had designs of his own on Neustria . |
| 29 | Neil Holden , Hambro Clearing 's finance director , adds that they had to put in ‘ quite a lot of effort gathering the data . |
| 30 | Mr Lawrence adds that he had no industry network and little background experience on which to base decisions , so he spends a lot of time getting to know people in the industry . |