Example sentences of "had [vb pp] that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alexei had guessed that the path of the conversation would lead eventually to this . |
| 2 | Almost certainly , she had guessed that the developments had something to do with Barney . |
| 3 | Although Darwin had guessed that the Galapagos birds originated from there , because the Galapagos were so young , it was not something of which he could be certain . |
| 4 | She had guessed that the reason was something to do with Jennifer for she had known that her sister had n't been well for some while and had been undergoing tests since experiencing stabbing pain in her right eye and numbness in her legs . |
| 5 | St Paul had taught that the powers that be were ordained of God , and it was generally held that all power , genuinely held , was God-given , that kings were of God 's choosing . |
| 6 | From Dennis 's drunken hints that memorable evening in Ramillies Drive I had gathered that the reason for this was Karen 's sterility , so I was somewhat surprised to find her going on the offensive . |
| 7 | Mobutu had intended that the Assembly , made up largely of members of his Mouvement populaire de la révolution ( MPR ) , should draft an alternative constitution to that proposed by the national conference in September [ see p. 39082-83 ] . |
| 8 | So the Collector had arranged that the giant Sikh , Hookum Singh , should be at his side in the most central part of the Residency ready to wield the Church bell which had been toppled from its tower earlier in the siege and which only he was strong enough to lift . |
| 9 | SAAB had estimated the costs and benefits of the line-out system and had calculated that the system would pay for itself within four years , with more than half of the savings coming from the increased production flexibility of the system and another 25 per cent coming from reduced labour turnover and absenteeism . |
| 10 | Kit Everard had calculated that the Rebecca made a sitting target ; she would draw the enemy and pin down some of the fighting men , on both sides . |
| 11 | Nansen , an excellent scientist , had realised that the polar ice drifted from east to west and reasoned that if he chose his entry point correctly the ice would tow his ship over the pole and release it near Canada . |
| 12 | By the time Charles landed , at Roscoff in Brittany , on 29 September 1746 , his brother Henry had returned to Paris and the French had realised that the Stuarts could be of no further use to them . |
| 13 | Ever since he could think at all he had realised that the class which exploited the worker in every country would fight to the last ditch for the sake of keeping the worker where he was and where he had been all his life . |
| 14 | The market was pleasantly stunned by the deal , since no-one had realised that the stake was worth anything like the sum agreed . |
| 15 | He had realised that the refinement of distress is that you are obliged to suffer not just for yourself , which is the easier part , but for others as well . |
| 16 | Then he had realised that the originator of the plot could just as easily have been Burun — intending all the time that it should fail — achieving at a stroke the removal of effective opposition , placing Artai in debt to the Merkuts for the security of his throne . |
| 17 | I also recognised that I was expected to take responsibility for the interpretation of the utterance , exploring a wide range of contextual assumptions ( about hospitals , illness , operations , and convalescence ) and deriving a wide range of contextual implications — not only a wider range than I would have derived had the newsreader just produced [ 14b ] , but a wider range than I would have derived if I had realised that the speaker was talking about the pound . |
| 18 | His grandfather had explained that the only true way to bake bread was to burn it black and then rasp off the burnt extremities with a coarse file . |
| 19 | The mother had pointed out that her daughter was under the legal age for sexual intercourse , but the high priest had explained that the order had its own calendar . |
| 20 | Whilst I had changed into my second set of wedding clothes Margaret had explained that the Remington-Harts had bought a country house in Downshurst in the last year . |
| 21 | He had explained that the amount of paperwork involved made it impracticable , but he was sure they had n't believed him . |
| 22 | In evidence earlier this week Lord Aldington , 75 , formerly Brigadier Toby Lowe , said the first he had heard that the men , women and children sent back from the British-occupied zone of Austria had been tortured and massacred was from Count Tolstoy in 1979 . |
| 23 | The court had heard that the baby died from terrible injuries including three skull fractures measuring 10 inches in total , two broken wrists and multiple bruising . |
| 24 | She had heard that the British ate fish and chips out of old newspapers , had seen it in films about the blitz . |
| 25 | At the same time , in Huddersfield , Chapman 's former colleague Dick Parker , who had heard that the Arsenal manager was ill , was on his way to the Leeds Road ground . |
| 26 | Corbett had heard that the Scots were a crude race but their cooks could have held their own with the best in Europe . |
| 27 | They told him they had heard that the doctor had managed to avoid them all by driving into the lamp post . |
| 28 | We had heard that the University library and the small library of the Burma Research Society had practically disappeared , so I visited second-hand bookshops to Pick up out-of-print books on Burma , and for the modest expenditure of one hundred pounds managed to gather a very good collection of standard books on Burma and Buddhism . |
| 29 | It had heard that the paper was planning to include an item on AIDS and demanded to be consulted . |
| 30 | He had heard that the Feds at Lockerbie had been good as gold , working at the pace required , picking up on every small detail provided by the forensic team at Farnborough , where the 747 had been reconstructed . |