Example sentences of "[that] [pron] had [verb] [det] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I was pleased to be able to announce that I had followed many of their therapies , but fearfully expressed my alarm and disappointment that having religiously performed my visualizations , cancer may have returned by the back door . |
| 2 | ‘ It was for you that I had to leave that hotel suite and not return until daylight . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I put it back , convinced that I had broken some serious law , hoping no one had noticed . |
| 5 | K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I felt that I had seen this movie before . |
| 9 | I leafed through the newspapers , glad that I had done those interviews . |
| 10 | And I also thought that I had conquered that Greek half of me . |
| 11 | There was one field in particular that I had made some good finds on and I had searched this piece of land time and time again . |
| 12 | And that 's a bit like that erm the teaching skills that I had to do that time when I was on the course . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | I had picked for this exercise a place that I had visited many years before. , but to which I had never returned . |
| 16 | Something of the casual innocence of the picture may be lost when I tell you that I had to hunt this particular combination of light for two days before obtaining the shot I wanted ! |
| 17 | When I reached Ostend at midday on 16th there was no ticket but only a message to the effect that I had to buy another one . |
| 18 | Then I was showered with the realisation that I had spent half a working day thinking these thoughts , during which time , if I had put a foot wrong , I would have immediately proved , to some people 's satisfaction , the innate unsuitability of women for this kind of work ; and that clinched it ; and I wrote the letter and confirmed the complaint . |
| 19 | They were happy , I think , that I had found such a good friend , and did everything they could to make him feel at home . |
| 20 | All I could remember of my first visit was that I had found several items , including a Tudor buckle . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It was meant to be a jocular observation but even as I said it I knew that I had transgressed some important Gyggle taboo . |
| 23 | You yourself were good enough to say that I had earned some leave , and I want to take it . " |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The amounts of exercise I did meant that I had to eat more than my father ! |
| 26 | I felt that I had to make some sort of social effort so I swung my legs off the bed and sat sheepishly on the edge . |
| 27 | I wished for the first time that I had taken that knife and turned it on Nour and let his blood . |
| 28 | It was ironic in retrospect that I had to travel half way round the globe to get to know working class men from my own back yard . |
| 29 | I was ill , but he did n't know actually that I had used that method . |
| 30 | I had two , and then Gabriel was an accident , and somehow the thought that he was an accident was so insulting to me that I had to have some more , to prove that he was n't . |