Example sentences of "that it [verb] [vb pp] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There was another reason , of course , but he was not prepared to admit even to himself that it had played any part in his decision .
2 Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all .
3 The Vietnamese government had always maintained that it had returned all US POWs to the US government shortly after the signing of the Paris peace agreements in 1973 .
4 ICL says this upward trend is continuing and that it has gained another 1% in 1992 .
5 One of the interesting aspects of the executive search business is that it has enabled some people , who have not been truly successful at other careers they have undertaken , to be more than successful in executive search .
6 That is a very considerable prize but it has been painful to achieve and I am unsurprised that it has caused some disruption .
7 The smell of a dead coral is not easily forgotten — if your leather coral 's odour makes you fee nauseous it 's safe to assume that it has departed this life , and to throw it out .
8 It will soon give a ‘ bleep ’ to let you know that it has added another con to your growing pile , another contribution to that bulging pocket that will soon hold your double helping of pocketmoney …
9 I 'm hoping that it has worked this time .
10 They do n't realise that it has taken many years to bring the town up to the standard it is now .
11 It may even claim that it has had more complaints of bias from the Labour Party .
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