Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone has heard that the mustard giants make their money from the amount of the condiment that is left on the sides of our plates . |
| 2 | Someone has said that the assets of Hampshire Bus were worth $ 2 million . |
| 3 | This had occurred to me , but I 'd hoped that the attack had been random . |
| 4 | Er now it 's it 's rather interesting er as an aside , I 'd heard that the Central African mounted police were trying to hire young men of er er at least sound mind and probably tough body . |
| 5 | I 'd resolved that the next woman I let into my life would be chosen with my mind and my heart — not my eyes and my libido ! ’ |
| 6 | I gave her the number and hung up feeling baulked of my escape , almost as if I 'd expected that the thing could be done now , tonight . |
| 7 | Though I 'd learned that the black abaya dropped the temperature by degrees , and though I 'd worn both veil and coat at various odd times , such as in storms , or in the desert heat , the sight of a European woman in such an outfit on an ordinary day in a compound or town would be more than anyone , including myself , could take . |
| 8 | I had imagined that the coast would be largely cliff-bound , but in fact cliffs suitable for sea-birds are not common except around the far northern headlands . |
| 9 | From Dennis 's drunken hints that memorable evening in Ramillies Drive I had gathered that the reason for this was Karen 's sterility , so I was somewhat surprised to find her going on the offensive . |
| 10 | ‘ At 42 , with seven children , I had decided that the Goodrich Company would probably be my ‘ home ’ for the rest of my working life . |
| 11 | When I designed the L.game it seemed obvious from the rules I had written that the pieces could be picked up and placed anywhere on the board . |
| 12 | From the success so far , I had to conclude that the parental mucus was merely a dietary supplement and that Green Chromides can be reared in the same manner as the majority of cichlids . |
| 13 | I also recognised that I was expected to take responsibility for the interpretation of the utterance , exploring a wide range of contextual assumptions ( about hospitals , illness , operations , and convalescence ) and deriving a wide range of contextual implications — not only a wider range than I would have derived had the newsreader just produced [ 14b ] , but a wider range than I would have derived if I had realised that the speaker was talking about the pound . |
| 14 | I had hoped that the facts would make themselves so apparent that the motive could emerge in its own good time — but it 's not looking that way at all . |
| 15 | While uneasy about the more dubious aspects of the Treaty , I had hoped that the miserable imprisonment of zoo animals and the wretched conditions of livestock ( particularly live exports ) would be things of the past once the Treaty was ratified . |
| 16 | I had hoped that the hon. Gentleman was going to say whether he was in favour of the Liberal Democrats ' position that there should not be a Secretary of State and on Labour 's position that there should be . |
| 17 | I had hoped that the allegations of fraud might make our path easier on this one , but the Admiral himself admits that there really is no legal transgression that he can yet point to . |
| 18 | Despite his reputation and the general theory that doctors were impervious to tears because they saw so many shed , I had noticed that the way our men reacted to weeping females depended mainly on their ages . |
| 19 | I had said that the world in 1984 will not be much like that in Orwell 's novel . |
| 20 | I had noted that the Handbook called Juliaca ‘ lawless ’ . |
| 21 | I had heard that the lasses used to beat you up when you first got in and that the lesbians used to grab hold of you and that there was loads of violence and everything . |
| 22 | On the first part of the question , events moved so rapidly in Dublin last night that by the time that I had heard that the Minister had been appointed , I gather that he had also resigned . |
| 23 | I am part Welsh and part Scot , and I had understood that the argument was that Wales and Scotland are nations and therefore entitled to a different national system . |
| 24 | ‘ I had read that the knitters in Shetland Isles make all their beautiful Fair Isle garments ‘ in the round ’ — this is hand knitting , of course . |
| 25 | I had read that the knitters in the Shetland Isles make all their beautiful Fair Isle garments ‘ in the round ’ — this is hand knitting of course . |
| 26 | Again I had read that the flooding of the rivers and the drop in water temperature in the rainy season is a trigger for the breeding to start . |
| 27 | Proud until I took the tools from the display card and then pride turned to disappointment for I had expected that the tools would be scaled down versions of Dad 's but the saw was just a piece of tin stamped out — it would n't cut paper and the hammer was similarly made . |
| 28 | I had thought that the ghastly images of that awful day had been burned forever in the minds of anyone who saw them . |
| 29 | In the afternoon I had thought that the only important thing was that I was alive , now I wished that I was dead . |
| 30 | I had thought that the one good thing about being posted to a permanent , that is a pre-war , RAF Station , was that at least the Waaf quarters should consist of solid , brickbuilt barracks and not the Nissen huts which had been my home so far . |