Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Tim was quite taken with that big card that he had for his birthday |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Doyle climbed into the car carrying the doll that the girl had been painting , and the ring that they had argued about . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | A bedroom that she had known for at least ten of her seventeen years . |
| 13 | She had gestured towards the bedroom that he had shown her shortly before . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Young wheat especially , so pure and tender , woke in him the same emotion that he had when observing the face of a sleeping baby . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He could smell jasmine , garlic , turpentine , and , closing his eyes , he could cling to the illusion that nothing had changed . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It was whilst working my way through this , often writing in the column headings for several pages in advance to give myself the illusion that I had completed more than I actually had , that two important suspicions that had lain dormant for some time rose up and took on the aspect of horribly credible hypotheses . |
| 23 | Appreciation that he had provided her with the escape route she had so badly sought ? |
| 24 | Equally , in the case of John Main at Inverkeithing , he and his two fellow excisemen were threatened with the board 's displeasure in 1752 , when the collector of Bo'ness accepted , without any enquiry into the facts , an allegation that they had been guilty of excessive drinking and had thereby neglected their duties . |
| 25 | In Washington he is considered an ineffective legislator and not a nice man ( his latest scrape involved the allegation that he had sexually harassed a Peace Corps worker while on a jaunt to Africa ) . |
| 26 | President George Bush , responding formally for the first time on May 3 to a growing controversy , rejected as " sickening " the allegation that he had participated in a secret Paris meeting with Iranian officials in 1980 in order to reap electoral advantage by delaying the release of 52 US hostages held in Iran . |
| 27 | He declined to comment on the allegation that he had decided to leave in order to deflect a Justice Department inquiry into his finances . |
| 28 | Also on March 25 parties of the so-called " pro-democracy " alliance ( New Aspirations Party , Palang Dharma , Ekkaparb and the Democrats ) held a joint press conference and called into question the credibility of Narong as Prime Minister , in the light of a recent US State Department allegation that he had been denied a visa in mid-1991 because of his suspected ties with drug trafficking . |
| 29 | The hon. Gentleman made a totally false comparison before he made the totally false allegation that I had misled the House . |
| 30 | The allegation that there had been a military show of strength was flatly denied by Yakovlev on May 4 . |