Example sentences of "[that] [pron] had [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | In the evening , after a snack rather than a meal , I went up to the loft and used the telescope to take a distant look at the island , making sure that nothing had happened to it while I rested inside the house . |
2 | John Major , the Foreign Secretary , said in another BBC interview that nothing had changed since the EC Madrid summit last June : Britain would become a full member of the European Monetary System ( EMS ) when inflation fell to ‘ the approximate rate ’ of European competitors , and when France and Italy abolished exchange controls . |
3 | The essential discovery , now that everyone had heard of Freud , was that guilt could be harnessed to salesmanship . |
4 | In Genesis 50 , and more tentatively in 45 also , discoveries were made about forgiveness that no-one had seen in Genesis before . |
5 | There was nearly a mile of dense woodland at this point before the swampy ground began and it was over an hour before Crane returned saying that no-one had passed on that side . |
6 | I felt that I had progressed from just wanting to ‘ be gay ’ to being ‘ Black and gay ’ . |
7 | He had written a book called Stilfragen on the history of the acanthus motif , and that I had studied as a student . |
8 | Not until I was out in the open countryside again , reassured by the songs of the birds and the murmur of streams did I feel that I had emerged from a dream and rejoined the familiar twentieth century . |
9 | To me she represented all that I had imagined of the bygone days of sail . |
10 | I was still very pleased , however , when the statistician Ian Hodge told me at the end of the year that I had moved from being 156th in the world 100 metres ranking list in 1985 to 4th in 1986 ! |
11 | And the two things that I had noticed on the first day were still left hanging there … |
12 | I gave up the stiff white collars that I had worn at the advertising agency and was careful to wear plain ties ; but my suits were Burton 's at £10 a time . |
13 | Although it would be mad to claim that I felt happy , my first feeling was one of cheer that I had escaped from prison . |
14 | And against all sense and credibility I worked out that I had landed in the midst of what might be called a farmstead , Fraxilly-style . |
15 | Stopping to ask a local woman where I might find Dr Mareda , I discovered that I was speaking to his companion , Vera , and that I had stopped outside their front door . |
16 | One thing that I had grasped about the whole business was that we were going to live in a country area where there would be lots of wildlife , and I had heard of King Arthur , of course . |
17 | It was dark , I could n't make out their features , but I was terrified that I had jumped from the pot into the flames . |
18 | Of course he was n't always there because frequently there were notes from his mother to say that he had earache or something , but later on I realized , of course , that those notes had been faked , the same as the notes that I had sent to school from my mother several generations before that . |
19 | Mrs Sandison senior was sitting in the stern , complaining about the lack of rising fish , and the useless flies that I had mounted on her cast , when the trout grabbed . |
20 | Given that they had the ‘ weather works ’ that day in the shape of sleet , hail , wind and rain , whilst simultaneously a view of quite a lot of snow on Vesuvius , I was glad that I had stayed at home with a good book . |
21 | And it was perfect for me because a lot of the vibrato that I had developed over the years suddenly sounded more like me , because the vibrato bar was n't there taking up the slack and giving way every time I applied vibrato . |
22 | Petra surpassed anything that I had visualised in my kitchen fantasy-life . |
23 | I stayed for a while about twenty paces away from the platform barrier , numbed by the realization that I had fallen at the first hurdle . |
24 | It was not with my reason that I had fallen in love with him and come to live with him , but it was with my reason that I was going to leave him . |
25 | ‘ The first time I met her , while I was working for him , I think she knew that I had fallen in love with him and yet she was kinder to me than anyone I 've ever known . |
26 | It was sad for me that I had fallen in love with someone who did not love me , but it was not an experience I cared to repeat — for more and better reasons than the fear of pain . |
27 | He added , alarmingly , of the November shipment : ‘ I know that that is in my memory that I had heard of France being connected with such a thing . ’ |
28 | Largely forgotten until recently , Watson 's fine sun-dappled landscapes had elegant figure studies have begun to reappear in London galleries , including Richard Green , and Blamey was surprised that I had heard of him . |
29 | I just rea I mean I knew that I had heard of it then I realized . |
30 | He picked up one of those brown shiny golf-balls that I had seen at Pike 's and rolled it across the desk to me . |