Example sentences of "[that] [pron] had [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | My personal and spiritual growth expanded into every area of my life , twenty-four hours a day , seven days a week , as I came to live more consciously in each and every moment — knowing that I had created that moment , and that it was an opportunity to grow . |
2 | Benjamin , however , squeezed me by the wrist and I followed him , taking some consolation in the fact that I had hidden two knives , three spoons and a small silver plate used for sweetmeats inside my jerkin . |
3 | And as it looked like Sasser had told Hurley something about me , Control passed the word that I had handled some contract work for the Defense Department in the past , just minor stuff , but that it was all finished now . |
4 | I went through the drill that I had taught many times to my students , and with a little sideslip brought John 's creation back to earth . |
5 | I felt that I had seen this movie before . |
6 | I leafed through the newspapers , glad that I had done those interviews . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | I recall that I had written another broadside in reply to an article in The Student Vanguard by Rayner Heppenstall , then a communist , called ‘ T. S. Eliot : sign of the times ’ . |
9 | I had picked for this exercise a place that I had visited many years before. , but to which I had never returned . |
10 | As I made the turn and dive I realised that I had lost lateral control and the wing " roll and dive " was increasing alarmingly . |
11 | I worked out that I had walked thirty-two miles the previous day and night . |
12 | Capron had lent me the gun , and suggested the ploy of telling Graham that I had found new evidence that would clear his name of the allegations that he was a Soviet agent . |
13 | All I could remember of my first visit was that I had found several items , including a Tudor buckle . |
14 | Little did the other helpers know that I had had real experience in the world of commerce outside . |
15 | I was just six then , and while Blyth knew that I had had some sort of little accident when I was much younger I certainly seemed to him to be a lot more able-bodied that he was . |
16 | I was not in the least keen , but when it became clear to me that my intervention would be frowned upon only slightly by my television clients , added to the fact that I had established good relations with George Elvin , the ACTT 's general secretary , it seemed to me that there might be some sense in intervening . |
17 | You yourself were good enough to say that I had earned some leave , and I want to take it . " |
18 | My conviction on this count was based on the fact that I had researched this area very well and knew that there was nothing on record . |
19 | I wished for the first time that I had taken that knife and turned it on Nour and let his blood . |
20 | She wanted me to accompany her but I hung back , afraid that she 'd find out that I had taken two lumps of coal , and Dad had gone out , so he was not there to protect me . |
21 | I was ill , but he did n't know actually that I had used that method . |
22 | And I knew that I had shown some ability to fight my comer . |
23 | After the first week I came to the reluctant conclusion that Charlie Trumper was n't going to be pleased that I had sacrificed ten pounds of our money — six of his and four of mine — just to appease my female vanity . |
24 | For all the absence of Bakerthink in the classroom , it would be misleading to suggest that nobody had taken any notice of the Education Reform Act . |
25 | She decided that she had done enough research ; it was time to start detailed plotting of her novel . |
26 | He , the laibon , was not so sad because he believed that she had caused many upsets . |
27 | Or that she had drunk one glass too many ? |
28 | With the light of morning she just could n't allow herself to believe , as she fully had last night after his phone call , that she had blown all chance of an interview , and Fabia sipped her coffee and wondered — how ? |
29 | The landlord was aware of the fact that she had made that application but , notwithstanding that , on 4 December 1989 he applied for execution . |
30 | She told us that she had made several visits to the London Zoo and so was familiar with the appearance of modern apes . |