Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] [that] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goodnight says Steve Jobs had promised him that the NeXT boxes would sell in serious numbers , but now admits that that particular offering ‘ is n't making us any money . ’ |
| 2 | People who had persuaded him that the only safe time to take out the dog was after the hours of darkness , when you were only likely to meet George ‘ Let's Get Rabbits ’ Grover . |
| 3 | He told us that he expected to be posted to the front at some time in the next few weeks but he would still be home by Christmas ; an officer had told him that the bloody Huns would have been sent packing long before then . |
| 4 | And one of the oil men to whom he had been talking at that seminar in Florence had told him that the Chinese enterprise zone ( Shenzhen ) , just over the border from Hong Kong , was still working . |
| 5 | If he had told me that the first half was going to be crap , I would n't have bothered to watch it in the first place . |
| 6 | Mother Francis had told her that the bold Eve had n't written or telephoned , and that all the Sisters were dying to hear from her . |
| 7 | Nkomo had convinced him that the black and white people in South Africa are inter-dependent , that bitterness clouds honest thought , and that what is needed is a God-led , non-racial ideology . |
| 8 | She had convinced herself that the intense impact which Vitor d'Arcos had once had on her had been a much exaggerated memory , the figment of an overheated imagination . |
| 9 | McLeish had to remind himself that the dead girl behind them would have felt none of this dank chill . |
| 10 | Alastair Croall , Earlston club secretary , said last night the SRU had informed them that the only appeal was to the union 's annual general meeting in June . |
| 11 | Alastair Croall , Earlston club secretary , said last night the SRU had informed them that the only appeal was to the union 's annual general meeting in June . |
| 12 | After all it had been Bliss who had warned him that Nadirpur was embroiled with the Pessarane Behesht , Bliss who had informed him that the real cargo was arms . |