Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] that [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Defence Minister Moshe Arens had successfully argued that defence spending could not be reduced in the light of the ongoing Gulf crisis . |
| 2 | Iran , which had long contended that Gulf security should only involve the littoral states , greeted the declaration with great suspicion . |
| 3 | ‘ Our conclusion was based on a ( spoken presentation ) by people who had already decided that Kent Opera would lose its subsidy . ’ |
| 4 | Konrad Adenauer had already suggested that West Germany should be allowed the means to defend itself , and that the surest way of winning the population over to a massive commitment to democracy was to give it a stake in the responsibility of defending Western Europe . |
| 5 | Police evidence to the Lords ' Committee had already shown that parish vestry councils were generally incompetent , badly run and lacked the funds to embark on private prosecutions . |
| 6 | I had not felt that trade unionism had yet reached the accountancy profession , but it appears that Mr Marshall 's requests are akin to the worst excesses of the trade union movement . |
| 7 | He had not realised that Lord Cumbermound had recognised him . |
| 8 | Although shareholders in Hilton Mining afterwards contemplated legal action because the prospectus had not revealed that Allan Hilton , the chairman , had been a director of Hilton ( Products ) which went into voluntary liquidation , their real grievance was against Harvard 's selling techniques . |
| 9 | They had not realized that Dr Dunstaple had the support of the Royal College of Physicians … and felt distinctly aggrieved that they had not been told that such an august body disagreed with their own man . |
| 10 | I knew there would be some details that might fill in a few gaps and , indeed , I had not known that Mme G had kept in touch with Otto and that , prior to my arrival on the scene , he frequently drove over to Reine with tempting delicacies that Jean-Claude invariably refused to eat . |
| 11 | He took the scuffed leather document case off the seat beside him and banged the door shut with the violence of someone who had not learned that car doors do not need the same sort of treatment as those of railway carriages . |
| 12 | Face had just realized that Sir Epicure Manhom has erm seen Doll , which he should n't have done , and Manhom calls Face out and says stay Lungs . |
| 13 | It turned out to be Terry Wade who had just heard that Trev Proby had been arrested on a number of theft and extortion charges , and had been refused bail . |
| 14 | Beth had soon discovered that David Miller had many weaknesses , but the one that concerned her most , and gave her reason to fear for the future , was his blind love for and loyalty to the monster who had raised him . |
| 15 | He had always said that Rose Lacson , the woman he met in one of Manila 's finest hotels and brought back to live in a mansion that she designed , would inherit his iron-ore wealth . |
| 16 | She had also considered that Vaclav Trefusis would eventually get tired enough to stretch his authority and pull the plug anyway , listing his Dreamers as acceptable losses . |
| 17 | Announced in 1988 , the programme had originally envisaged that FGD technology would be fitted to six power stations . |
| 18 | Eve had n't known that Birdie Mac who ran the sweet shop had a man from Ballylee who had been calling for fifteen years , but she would n't leave her old mother and the man from Ballylee would n't come to Knockglen . |
| 19 | Eve had n't known that Mr Burns in the hardware shop was inclined to take to the drink or that Dr Johnson had a very bad temper and was heard shouting about God never putting a mouth into the world that he did n't feed . |
| 20 | He had even discovered that John Bohanna , their honorary secretary , shared his admiration for Robert Tressell 's classic novel , The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists . |
| 21 | The Bishop of Winchester then stated that the peers had unanimously agreed that Prince Edward should become king ‘ if the people would accept this decision of the prelates and magnates ’ . |
| 22 | Newcastle Crown Court had earlier heard that Robert Sartan suffers from acute schizophrenia . |
| 23 | The United States had earlier stated that US aid would depend on the elimination of anti-Semitism from the Romanian media . |
| 24 | Taylor had earlier alleged that Sierra Leone had allowed Sawyer 's government to send some 6,000-8,000 men for military training at two camps there . |
| 25 | I had quite forgotten that Mrs Bailes occasionally tethered him in the kennel at the entrance to discourage unwelcome visitors , and as I half lay against the wall , the blood thundering in my ears , I looked dully at the long coil of chain on the cobbles . |
| 26 | At 45 , a devoted parent , a fully paid-up citizen , supporter of village fêtes and officer of societies , one who has not been chastised , still less cautioned by a policeman for nearly 20 years , I had complacently reckoned that speed lust might , like other adolescent juices , have dried up within me . |