Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 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 .
3 That night she was woken by the most terrible screams that she had ever heard .
4 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 .
5 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 . ’
6 But as he left , Billy Ray , 31 , indicated to fans that he had only two finger-lickin' minutes to spare .
7 Y oh yes it gave us advantage to the extent that we 'd someone b behind us to fight for any , any er grievances that we had .
8 Mr Nigel Rudd , chairman of Williams , said the company had received categorical assurances from the Barclay brothers that they had no intention of making an offer .
9 On Nov. 21 President Najibullah confirmed during a press conference at the UN 's Geneva offices that he had held talks with " prominent personalities of the opposition side " on a " political solution " to end 12 years of civil war .
10 He spun the radio tuner at random , to leave no evidence for prying eyes that he had been listening to a foreign station .
11 Within a month Wilson saw with her own eyes that she had been right .
12 Staring at him , into blue , blue eyes that she had once found so attractive , she shook her head tiredly .
13 He could tell by her eyes that she had closed her mind to him .
14 And in , certainly in the two cases that I 've just mentioned , those were the key worries that they had ; but I would hazard a guess and say those are the exceptions to the rule .
15 They were really the first nudes that he had done since Jane Birkin posed topless in the Sixties .
16 I can … ’ but the words were stopped in him and he seemed to suffocate and gasp with the sense of a power beyond the Cages that he had sensed briefly before .
17 It was to cut his ties that he had begun , from the earliest days , to sign his work ‘ Vincent ’ , following the practice of his adored Rembrandt , and making the excuse then that foreigners would have difficulty pronouncing his surname .
18 What Labour needs above all is the network of working-class activists , sympathisers and supporters that it had in workplaces and on housing estates even as recently as 20 years ago .
19 Winnie Mandela told supporters that she had been found guilty by the media .
20 In September 1989 Chadli announced the postponement of local elections , originally scheduled for December , following complaints from the opposition parties that they had not had enough time to prepare for them .
21 So , they could n't get it into their heads that you had to sit on the floor .
22 The industry wanted to be able to use the funds that it had generated to invest in youth training .
23 Yet some of the people concerned would be people I was at school with ; and in any case it would cal 1 upon questions and allegiances that I had continuously pushed into the rear recesses of my mind .
24 A good place to begin is with the goals that you had reached about two weeks before you went on holiday .
25 It was to get away from such intrusions that he had come to Larksoken .
26 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , wife of the Ambassador to the Sublime Porte in Constantinople , was so impressed with the results of this folk practice by the Sultan 's Greek subjects that she had her children treated and introduced fashionable society to its advantages in 1721 ; as much for the protection of complexion as for the preservation of health .
27 Well being Milton , and being very thorough , he gives us long lists , of course , of dozens of possible subjects that he had in mind , but he seems to have taken the King Arthur story very seriously .
28 I kept myself very busy anyway erm in various erm hobbies that I had .
29 In her haste to get away , she must have bundled up the documents and ledgers that she had been working on and brought them back with her .
30 I saw the formation of the Black Workers ' Group and the concessions that we had won as a lever or a rolling stone which would have a knock-on effect .
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