Example sentences of "that [pron] had [verb] [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 | Luke states that everyone had to go to their home town to be registered . |
| 5 | In Genesis 50 , and more tentatively in 45 also , discoveries were made about forgiveness that no-one had seen in Genesis before . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I felt that I had progressed from just wanting to ‘ be gay ’ to being ‘ Black and gay ’ . |
| 8 | He had written a book called Stilfragen on the history of the acanthus motif , and that I had studied as a student . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Sir , It is a sad reflection on the high street banks ' attitude to their customers that I had to rely on FARMERS WEEKLY for financial information vital to the overall profitability of my farming business . |
| 11 | to actually create the right learning environment for them , there were a thousand little details that I had to attend to , like had I planned my lesson right , was I progressing in the right way round the classroom , had I remembered to chase up certain people 's homework , and stuff . |
| 12 | To me she represented all that I had imagined of the bygone days of sail . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | And the two things that I had noticed on the first day were still left hanging there … |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Food was short and for two days I was kept running round trying to buy up supplies , with the result that I had to retire to bed with blistered feet . |
| 17 | Although it would be mad to claim that I felt happy , my first feeling was one of cheer that I had escaped from prison . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Eventually I accepted that I had to leave without my baby . |
| 20 | and financial circumstances and erm , this was something of course that I had to leave to the people who were working got himself another job . |
| 21 | It was with deep regret that I had to leave for home later that evening . |
| 22 | Except that I had to live with the aftermath . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | When Phil Collins came on , his jacket had such wide shoulders that I had to lean to one side to see the monitor TV set which the producer uses to scribble messages to me . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |