Example sentences of "and that [pron] had [prep] " in BNC.

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1 A fierce aunt shocked me by telling me shyness is a form of rudeness and selfishness , and that I had to be the first to talk to two people .
2 But then , having exhausted his recollections of the circumstances of his writing the paper , he switched to more personal matters and enquired carefully how I was getting on in a way that made me reel that my mission had been worthwhile and that I had by no means wasted his morning .
3 If so , it was impatience of a singular kind — not just the feeling that he had something important to contribute , but the certainty that France ( and the whole world ) was on the verge of a colossal crisis and that he had to be ready .
4 Only later did it emerge that the Germans had supported his candidature for the post of High Commissioner in Danzig , and that he had since 1920 been on very friendly terms with Baron Ernst von Wiesäker , the head of the political section of the German Foreign Office .
5 The vet said that nothing could be done to save her and that she had to be put down .
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