Example sentences of "[that] [pron] had [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Thank you to the person who arrived unknowingly on my doorstep and gave me a really sympathetic cuddle while I cried for 10 minutes ( ? ) in relief that I had misunderstood the doctor . |
| 3 | After what seemed an eternity , and was well over two hours , I felt the marsh ground underfoot change to shingle and knew that I had reached the shore . |
| 4 | He even seemed slightly grateful that I had raised the matter . |
| 5 | I was shaking so much that I had to lift the kettle with two hands when I staggered down the yard . |
| 6 | This noticeboard had already played a significant part in my life : nearly thirty years before then it had displayed the result of my own first degree ( second-class honours ) ; a few years later had come the perfunctory notice saying my doctoral thesis had been accepted by the college ; and shortly after that an even briefer note to the effect that I had joined the teaching staff . |
| 7 | I realised , to my embarrassment , that I had eaten the equivalent of exactly half a cake . |
| 8 | I thought I 'd either holed my shot or that I had missed the green as well . ’ |
| 9 | Winding down I gave a firm strike only to find that I had missed the take , I was gutted . |
| 10 | He wished to reassure himself , no doubt , that I had survived the night . ’ |
| 11 | The hon. Gentleman made a totally false comparison before he made the totally false allegation that I had misled the House . |
| 12 | I said , more 's the pity and that I had seen the term both in the Petit Larousse Moderne and the Figaro Littéraire . |
| 13 | After that , I thought my support could perhaps be less , that I had done the work . |
| 14 | Unwisely , I let Dana see my drafts of these poems , and at once I could sense his disapproval , his jealousy even , that I had written the poems myself . |
| 15 | ‘ I decided that I had to put the headmaster in a position to answer and it was this problem that worried me most — more than the outrageous charges against myself and the effect on my family . |
| 16 | Reg used every opportunity to take swipes at me and constantly implied that I had lost the confidence of everybody involved with the club . |
| 17 | I cast back and suddenly found that I had hooked the bird , which had been feeding avidly , dipping and swooping over the water . |
| 18 | I do n't think she knew the crochet lady and I 'm sure neither knew that I had perfected the art of correcting typescript undetectably ! |
| 19 | It was then that some international misunderstanding arose , because the President of South Africa was at the race too and a rumour got around that I had engineered the trip to talk with the South Africans , which of course was not true . |
| 20 | Had interview with housing official who stated that I had to transfer the tenancy from my wife 's name to mine and then something would be done within a week . |
| 21 | If I should cry , trying to express the inexpressible , that I had walked the wind with archangels , she would have been worried and annoyed ; and if I had gone on to say that I had forfeited those heights and lived now in an unremitting shadowless glare of exposure in a runnel of Hell , she would have feared for my mental health . |
| 22 | It was not for some years after we had separated that I had to face the fact that the deepest part of one 's being is always inaccessible to another , and that only when we are lost in passion , eager above all else for our own gratification — yet unconscious that this is the case — that we ignore the gulf , forget that we are strangers . |
| 23 | And how it was that I had rediscovered the gift in pubescence , as if prompted by my burgeoning sexuality . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ I forgot to sign the card index that I had administered the drug and I could not order more because it was a Sunday . ’ |
| 25 | Now I have been in this business for a long time , and I was at that conference , and I have to say that I had forgotten the resolution until I was reading things again in preparing for this talk . |
| 26 | I wish that I had found the Opposition 's citizens charter a little more convincing , but half the ideas that they put forward in their citizens charter , as a spoiling exercise to the Government 's , were already in operation and the other half were vague promises and side-stepping some of the problems that have been created by Labour-controlled local authorities up and down the country . |
| 27 | I believe now the driver — I did n't see who it was — was checking that I had left the pub . |
| 28 | Now that I had left the college dormitory I used to look fearfully from rime to time out of my window , expecting to see that gang of fascist students coming to beat me up . |
| 29 | Indeed , the fact that he did not refer her to a different psychiatrist convinced me for a long time that I had misconstrued the situation . |
| 30 | I told an uninterested reception clerk that I had to catch the boat train ( let them look for me in Calais , I thought . |