Example sentences of "[vb past] that [pron] [adv] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour was utilised more efficiently , and as well as being mindful of his employer 's interests , Barratt demonstrated that he also had a care for his workmen . |
| 2 | It seemed to me that it was not only natural but positive : it demonstrated that he still had a relationship with God . |
| 3 | They often came into conflict with the local Transport Committees , formed from the local branches of the main transport unions , who correctly maintained that they alone had the right to issue permits for the movement of essential items which would otherwise have been held up in the dispute . |
| 4 | I myself did not know anything about this and having checked with Gillyan Ford and all Publicity Assistants , found that they too had had no previous indication of the requirement to scan adverts . |
| 5 | The tone controls really are sensitive and , being used to the somewhat reluctant EQ on my own amplifier , I found that I only had to move the X-Amp 's a few degrees before the sound began to change radically . |
| 6 | Corman called ‘ It 's a wrap ’ on Friday evening , and realized that he still had almost forty-eight hours ' usage left on the warehouse and sets he had rented for The Raven . |
| 7 | he looked down at the two hands locked onto his arm and then at the small man hurrying on ahead , and realized that he still had his chaperons , and once again they were not of his own choosing … |
| 8 | When she told her friends about it ( ‘ My dears , he took a garden vegetable and changed it into a bird in front of my eyes ! ’ ) , her friends realized that she also had a wonderful imagination . |
| 9 | He realized that she already had fans , but the others were almost certainly complete wankers . |
| 10 | When she looked up the mountainside , as if searching for help there , I realized that she still had fear of me , little knowing the true state of affairs , and felt herself like an animal in a trap . |
| 11 | Frau Nordern agreed that he probably had been . |
| 12 | Suddenly the section of the audience that was laughing at Italian children flinging spaghetti realised that everyone else had fallen silent . |
| 13 | It was only then that he realised that he simply had n't been driving it fast enough . |
| 14 | Yet she realised that she also had a strong need for security . |
| 15 | I went out and bought a remedy , thinking it was an infection , but when I got home I realised that she actually had a piece of red coloured gravel stuck inside her mouth , so that she could n't close it properly . |
| 16 | She realised that she still had fifteen minutes before the meeting was due to start and on an impulse she rang Paul . |
| 17 | His grandmother had slumped into a heap but when Asik tried to lift her head he realised that she too had died . |
| 18 | Out of the blue , the Scotland midfield schemer Don Masson , who had missed a penalty in the game against Peru , approached McLeod and admitted that he too had taken the banned drug . |
| 19 | We looked , and though we never said so , we believed that we alone had seen these things , that they had never been seen before . |
| 20 | He was reluctant , because he believed that he personally had ejected the Shah and that his standing was now so great that he could face down Khomeini alone . |
| 21 | He said that he respected the views of his colleagues at SO , but added that they obviously had taken their decision on the information they had , while the SSO was still in the process of getting information from the management about the proposal . |
| 22 | One person spent illicit hours at Saatchi 's designing our logo ; WTN allowed a lot of things to go through the system — printing , photocopying , artwork ; Gina got the entire staff of her office converted to the cause within weeks and it seemed that everyone else had done the same : soon members ' colleagues , friends and relatives were all helping out . |
| 23 | With my feet frozen to the floor , I followed the red lights in the sky until they both disappeared and the two loud bangs which followed signified that they too had come down heavily somewhere . |
| 24 | As he passed the bank next door he noticed that it too had a side passage , but this one was decked out with tiles and had painted walls . |
| 25 | and as he turned Marcus noticed that he too had a loose thread on his shirt . |
| 26 | President Carlos Saúl Menem , whose popularity had waned in July due to financial scandals involving his relatives and political aides [ see p. 38335 ] , stated that he now had a national mandate to seek the widest political consensus to deepen the government 's economic programme . |
| 27 | However , the Tsar broke his promise to share power and stated that he still had overall power . |
| 28 | Eliot 's letter of 22 October confirmed that he still had not received details from the Club ; but he understandably felt that while he could accept our invitation to tea , he ought to reserve his position about dinner . |
| 29 | Behind her , Tom Hanks 's happy face showed that he too had backed Grye to win . |
| 30 | Lothar replied that he simply had a skin complaint that could be cleared up in a few days . |