Example sentences of "that [pron] have [vb pp] " 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 Hoping that nothing had gone wrong with the course of her friend 's romance , she turned around on the piano stool as she heard hard , firm footsteps walking along the terrace .
3 She had decided to pretend that nothing had happened .
4 It might be thought that this was an essential part of the cuckoo 's deception — that by leaving the same number of eggs in the nest , the cuckoo might fool the host bird into thinking that nothing had happened .
5 The presenter said she could only recall a few people , and volunteered the story of David Parkin throwing a glass of wine at his wife and how she had watched Maggie Parkin stalk out of the room trying to pretend that nothing had happened .
6 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 .
7 But I I 'm I was rather disappointed that nothing had happened .
8 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 .
9 And then the moment had passed , and tall and tanned and fit in the sunshine she had walked down the green street with the gardens either side of her , and had known by an instinctive glance that her mother still lived there , that nothing had changed .
10 He could smell jasmine , garlic , turpentine , and , closing his eyes , he could cling to the illusion that nothing had changed .
11 It seemed that nothing had changed .
12 Yesterday he told the heads of such toffs ' schools as Eton and Marlborough that nothing had changed .
13 Plays about the fractured consciousness of working-class kids who had fought their way through the old class system , emerged on top , and still felt dissatisfied , still realizing that nothing had changed back where they came from , or where they had arrived .
14 Among serious writers and readers in the United States ( as distinct from shallow and modish Anglophiles mostly around New York ) , it is taken for granted that Pound 's caustic dismissal of us in 1929 was justified , and that nothing has happened in the forty-five years since to alter that picture significantly .
15 Writing of murder thus , in a thoroughly formal way , you can successfully establish two different things : that a murder has taken place and in consequence the story you are telling must be looked on as being of some weight , and that nothing has happened to arouse any revulsion in your readers .
16 " Are you sure that nothing has happened since the weekend ?
17 In some ways it is better to communicate with the client and say that nothing has happened , than not to communicate with the client because nothing has happened .
18 While Deng is doing his best to assure the world that nothing has changed , that China will push ahead with its reforms and will hold its door open for foreign business and investment , the post-Tiananmen purging of liberal intellectual elements and the new emphasis on ‘ political education ’ have enormously strengthened the position of the Communist Party 's hardline Marxists , led by Yang Shangkun , the president , and Li Peng , the prime minister .
19 Yet as you walk these hills you feel that nothing has changed .
20 They are all happy that nothing has changed .
21 May I inform him , as he has not answered my question , that the same careers service says that nothing has changed and that the same number of young people will not get YTS places , that many of them are fed up with turning up , only to be told that nothing is available and that the continued recession and closures mean that hundreds of them will have nothing to do ?
22 And how enervating , how disappointing , how absolutely … crushing to realise that nothing has changed — over the last few decades at least — and that for many women , their primary response is still to be beautiful rather than brainy .
23 In the meantime , it is likely that everyone had contracted the disease at some time or another in his or her life , and it proved fatal to those with the merest weakness whose bodies could not withstand its ravages .
24 It was clear that everyone had felt equally proprietorial about Philip .
25 The essential discovery , now that everyone had heard of Freud , was that guilt could be harnessed to salesmanship .
26 At 0810 he gathered his staff around him for the daily conference to discuss the day ahead , before taking the morning parade of those attending various courses at the school , to ensure that everyone had turned up for work .
27 I was afraid that everyone had lost their voices , er , it 's good to have a , a question .
28 In either event it would be assumed that everyone had perished .
29 I began to feel better now that everyone had forgotten the missing pie .
30 The air raids and gas attacks that everyone had feared did not take place but Anne and Sarah agreed that it was the small inconveniences of war that were hardest to bear .
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