Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] that it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the ‘ 19th ’ all prizes were presented by Captain , Danny Sproull where everyone agreed that it had been an enjoyable outing . |
| 2 | It deliberately switched off its mind to me , to make me think that it had died . ’ |
| 3 | But later , I realized that it had been quite good for me and stopped me getting big-headed . |
| 4 | The boys and I agreed that it had all been so worthwhile . |
| 5 | I finally got one job offer , but when I turned up to work I found that it had been a mistake . |
| 6 | I thought for two days that the machine had swallowed it and it was only on the monday morning on the way to the bank that I found that it had miraculousloy reappeared in my wallet again . |
| 7 | I recollect that it had happened before to the team 's predecessors , practically on the same spot . |
| 8 | I stipulated that it had to be different from mine . |
| 9 | ‘ I was very upset when I discovered that it had gone : it was a terrible shock . |
| 10 | I have been fearfully worried , but I felt that it had to come . |
| 11 | But in doing so I 'd be telling her that I knew that it had happened and therefore that Simon had talked to me . |
| 12 | Then I saw that it had a light on the top and the crest of Kent Fire Brigade on the driver 's door . |
| 13 | ‘ But I understood that it had been arranged that one of us was to go into each room . ’ |
| 14 | I have never been able to identify the photographer Alec Roberts ' establishment , but I think that it had a balcony . |
| 15 | From Robert 's description of the place I presume that it had once been an attic , for it was small , the ceiling sloped , and there was no window set into the wall . |
| 16 | ‘ From Robert 's description of the place , ’ he read , ‘ I presume that it had once been an attic , for it was small , the ceiling sloped , and there was no window set into the wall . ’ |
| 17 | When I reached my flat on the ground floor of a huge house in a quiet road off Putney Hill , I reflected that it had been , to put it very mildly , a somewhat taxing day . |
| 18 | The original detentions had been undertaken without the approval of the government , which admitted that it had failed to exert its authority over rebellious troops in the Agadez region who had taken the law into their own hands . |
| 19 | The shareholders of the holding company entered into a shareholders ' agreement which stated that it had precedence over the Articles of Association , and clause 3 of that agreement provided that " no further share capital shall be created or issued in the company … without the written consent of each of the parties hereto " . |
| 20 | The African colony to which he returned was regarded by the British government as ‘ advanced ’ — in African terms — which meant that it had made a start on the road to self-government ; however , the Colonial Office reckoned that the goal was still distant . |
| 21 | This result she attributed to the very short duration of persistence of the icon , which meant that it had faded before the cue could be utilised to sample selectively . |
| 22 | There was silence , no regular chug-chug-chug of the working generator , which meant that it had to have stalled . |
| 23 | I was glad then that he did not know the subject of the talk I had just given at the conference — the possibility that space-time was finite but had no boundary , which means that it had no beginning , no moment of Creation . |
| 24 | When built 1622 was equipped with continuous stepboards , which means that it had two stepboards per side to allow for entry from ground level . |
| 25 | But The Sun thought that ‘ the meeting was a bogus one , if it was held at all ’ , further alleging that this clandestine organisation ( which said that it had met in secrecy because it feared Hooligan reprisals ) was a put-up job by someone in the pay of The Daily Telegraph . |
| 26 | She realised that it had been deliberately left open to add to her humiliation . |
| 27 | She was trembling with anger and tiredness , her legs a little unsteady from the effect of the aquavit , as she realised that it had begun to rain again . |
| 28 | Nor could she recollect that it had ever been suggested they should do so . |
| 29 | Lucy also saw the plan Doreen had in mind , but she doubted that it had much to do with married couples in search of outdoor adventure . |
| 30 | When she came to pay for the bill , she found that it had already been paid . |