Example sentences of "[that] [pron] had [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Queen commending his work , not only for the pains therein taken , said that nothing had given her so great delectation . |
| 2 | I was afraid that everyone had lost their voices , er , it 's good to have a , a question . |
| 3 | When he was satisfied that he was all right and that no-one had heard him , he picked up the brown bag and moved into the safety of the trees . |
| 4 | They told chairman Michael Croucher that it was only by accident they had heard of the proposals and they were concerned that no-one had told them . |
| 5 | But she knew all the same that no-one had thought she might leave the tent which seemed warm now and dense with the presence of Antoine — Only he 's dead now , is n't he ? |
| 6 | That did the trick — ‘ Of course , ’ recalls the director , ‘ I did n't show him that I had cut my hand in the process . ’ |
| 7 | If Robert came to you and said in his gentle , somehow caressingly placid voice that I had admitted or confessed to him in ‘ obvious distress ’ that I had pushed my penis up between the hired legs of more than one hundred and fifty tarts ( including three on one single day , or two on one single bed ) then you would probably believe him . |
| 8 | My exposure to the energy and subtle abilities of my Subud brothers in Java had so ignited my optimism and sense of wonder concerning our hidden natures that I had wangled my way into Lancaster University 's Department of Comparative Religion to write a doctorate on transformational consciousness , in a field which was later to be referred to as psycho-anthropology . |
| 9 | ‘ I was under the impression that I had explained it to you . |
| 10 | The very existence of the flood — the fact that I had invited it into my awareness — showed that I had emotional ‘ work ’ to do . |
| 11 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
| 12 | But it wo n't be that much because I 've been out of things for the last year and before that I had shut my eyes anyway . |
| 13 | That she had lied to me , that my father had been betrayed by Mills and that I had avenged her husband 's memory . |
| 14 | It did not matter that I had rejected my father 's ways , that I had become a marine and was as poor as a church mouse while McIllvanney had become a rich man ; the stench of privilege still clung to me and McIllvanney loved to discomfort me because of it . |
| 15 | I said almost nothing in the letter ; only that I 'd thought about her once or twice , that I had discovered what ‘ the waiting-room ’ meant ; and that she was to write back only if she really wanted to , I 'd quite understand if she did n't . |
| 16 | Of course the main thing about the shoes was that I had to wear them all the time . |
| 17 | I kept telling myself that I had killed her — had killed her as surely as if my own hands had sent her plunging down into the muddy waters of the Thames . |
| 18 | But this time the girl was dead , and I knew that I had killed her . ’ |
| 19 | I knew it did me good to be reminded of how much I loathed the suburbs , and that I had to continue my journey into London and a new life , ensuring I got away from people and streets like this . |
| 20 | It did n't help that I had to call my father ‘ uncle ’ and Eric and Paul ‘ cousins ’ ; this was my father 's idea of trying to fool the policeman about my parentage in case Diggs did any asking around and discovered that I did n't exist officially . |
| 21 | My driver was under the impression that I had instructed him to break the world land-speed record . |
| 22 | She did n't realise , you see , that I had followed them , that I had seen them here together — and knew what they were planning . |
| 23 | Once I realized I loved her and that she loved me it became clear that I had to leave my wife . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm really very sorry that I had to leave you with my mother . |
| 25 | When the evidence that I had confirmed it all ! |
| 26 | But the main thing , after all , was that I had sent nothing abroad , although some diplomat friends had offered to do this for me . |
| 27 | " I 'm sorry , Ms. Easterbrook , that I had to ask you to come up before we were able to remove Dr. Lorrimer 's body . |
| 28 | I told her who I was , and that I had met her father . |
| 29 | This is when I came to suspect that I had missed something of importance . |
| 30 | The thought that I had crushed something out of his life was a disquieting one . |