Example sentences of "[vb pp] that [pron] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have all wished that we 'd had the perfect retort at some time , but most of us can only think of something smart about three days later . |
| 2 | I 've often wished that I had stayed on and tried for university , but I was n't keen , and my family was n't the sort to encourage it . |
| 3 | But in the immediate wake of the October 19 crash , IBM 's most serious rival , Comdisco , disclosed that it had lost $100m in a business that had nothing to do with its main occupation of leasing and trading IBM equipment . |
| 4 | The Halifax , Britain 's biggest building society , also disclosed that it had set aside a £20m provision against its loans to the collapsed London docklands developer Kentish Property Group . |
| 5 | Deputy Minister of the Interior Juan Carlos Mazzón was also dismissed on Jan. 15 after Noticias magazine disclosed that he had served nine months of a three-year prison sentence imposed in 1981 for fraud . |
| 6 | The doubts about Mr Lamont 's survival grew after it was disclosed that he had withdrawn from the panel on BBC TV 's Question Time programme tomorrow , with Mr Clarke replacing him . |
| 7 | Orchis is Greek for testicle , which is what the roots look like , and Lydia had told the company so , because Mrs Molesworth , gazing fondly and favourably on her husband , had divulged that he had bought her orchids on the recent occasion of their wedding anniversary . |
| 8 | During the summer , and I called into the hospital on several occasions and I was reminded that I had agreed to participate in the ‘ fun run ’ and I decided it would be a good publicity gimmick and improve my chances of sponsorship if I took along and pushed him around the 10 mile course . |
| 9 | I know that such experiences are often said to be the result of the individuals concerned having read a book or article or seen a film or television programme about the particular place and then having forgotten that they have done so . |
| 10 | Forgotten that she had thought she had seen someone moving around in the darkness . |
| 11 | I 'd forgotten that I 'd said that , and was , in any case , already regretting the admission . |
| 12 | Yeah and I 'd forgotten that I 'd spoken to her the other night |
| 13 | I 'd forgotten that I 'd agreed to meet her . |
| 14 | The Extraditables subsequently claimed that they had decided to spare her life but had been unable to prevent her murder from being carried out . |
| 15 | Gorbachev , in his response to the results , nonetheless claimed that they had received a mandate for the ‘ renewal and strengthening of the union state ’ and promised to press ahead with the conclusion of the union treaty and a new constitution . |
| 16 | Such changes would not have been inhibited necessarily by the teacher action , but none of the teachers I interviewed claimed that they had changed their methods to any great extent . |
| 17 | The group later claimed that they had released the two men . |
| 18 | The Iranian government had claimed that they had supplied information for the UN report on human rights in Iran , published in February , which noted the continuing use of torture and other abuses . |
| 19 | On summer evenings rowers on the lake have claimed that they have heard far below them through the still waters the sound of church bells tolling . |
| 20 | The company previously claimed that it had used biodegradable cardboard packaging since 1957 . |
| 21 | The ‘ vehicle ’ is footsteered and some have claimed that it has helped their gybing tremendously . |
| 22 | But a confidence trickster , who is being investigated by Scotland Yard , is believed to have claimed that she had hidden £500,000 abroad . |
| 23 | Apparently in an attempt to deny the accusation , Ahmed al-Zahrani reportedly claimed that he had given Maha Banat 500 Riyals for sexual favours . |
| 24 | The C.-in-C. of the Army , Gen. Hérard Abraham , was dismissed on July 2 but later claimed that he had retired " for personal reasons " . |
| 25 | It was claimed that he had confessed to spying for the US Central Intelligence Agency , but the US authorities had always denied that he had any official connections . |
| 26 | However , another fisherman later claimed that he had dredged up the same body a few months earlier and , in the process of trying to recover it , the head had come off in his hands . |
| 27 | It was claimed that he had pulled too long and too hard in a trial of forceps delivery and this had caused the plaintiff 's head to become wedged or stuck , resulting in asphyxia and brain damage . |
| 28 | It was claimed that he had purchased the Surrey manor of Woodmansterne from its tenant while litigation about the manor was pending in the Common Bench before him and his colleagues . |
| 29 | Clearly , there is an element of political value judgment in such decisions : in 1921 a judge held that reasonable citizens would not think less of a trade unionist if it were claimed that he had worked during a strike : some juries might reach a different decision today . |
| 30 | The same interests have dominated his 10 years at Westminster , and it is claimed that he has redistributed more than £60 million from the taxpayer to the poor by challenging the DHSS in test cases . |