Example sentences of "[that] [noun prp] had [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was angry that Bernard had gone too . |
| 2 | It was then that Chuck had carried out a quick examination of the unconscious Grant , to ascertain the extent of his injuries . |
| 3 | Havel also disclosed at the press conference that Czechoslovakia had exported over 1,000 tonnes of Semtex explosive to Libya in recent years under the previous regime ; by his reckoning , this meant that " world terrorism " would have enough Semtex " to last 150 years " . |
| 4 | DEC for its part disassociated itself from statements made by DEC VP of software engineering David Stone as well as its own PR people that DEC had decided not to pursue the OSF/1 path for MIPS . |
| 5 | Although unconfirmed at the time , rumours that DEC had struck up a deal with Auspex Systems Inc , the Santa Clara , California network server company that already counts IBM among its customers , have turned out to be correct ( UX No 384 ) . |
| 6 | The Manager was the next to leave , promising that his secretary could very quickly produce thirty photocopies of the brief questionnaire that Morse had roughed out : |
| 7 | Central to Lydon 's action was the allegation that McLaren had signed away the group 's future record royalties to Virgin in order to finance The Great Rock ‘ n ’ Roll Swindle . |
| 8 | The changes , which took immediate effect , resulted from an inquiry launched on April 22 , following the disclosure that Sununu had made more than 70 trips on military aircraft since April 1989 . |
| 9 | Or perhaps it was merely an accident that Marcus had picked up those utterances of his ancestors . |
| 10 | At the earlier hearing , Sheriff Reid had heard that Walters had dreamt up the fraud after a Jersey-based financier had failed to come up with cash to back market research for a new board game . |
| 11 | Franca was relieved that Alison had given up her guilty peepings and hintings and attempts at relevant conversation ; only now her calmness and at-homeness were proving equally maddening . |
| 12 | The final outfit was one that Alison had brought along with her . |
| 13 | What they failed to recognise was that Sarah had grown up . |
| 14 | Soon , however , it became clear that Cruikshank had promised more than he could deliver , and after two months of waiting , all hopes of Adscombe were given Up . |
| 15 | Erm , as we know , Bullitt was a member of the delegation and an intimate of , of Wilson , so the book is er co- authored , so in a sense we should know as we 're paying for , for all of it , because er , obviously , he relied on Bullitt to give him all this biographical information , and er , consequently what you see Freud doing in this in this book is , is er trawling through , as it were , the things that Bullitt told him , that , that Bullitt had found out , to erm , draw a kind of psy psychoanalytic portrait of Woodrow Wilson , that erm , tried to explain his problem , why did he not deliver the goods as it were . |
| 16 | When I went to the House I thought that Churchill had sat there , and Lloyd George and my hero Aneurin Bevan had sat there , and I felt quite humble . |
| 17 | Basically that David had moved out of Plaistow Grove to leave her on her own to die , to live with the fancy whore from America , and yet on other days , of course , I was perfectly lovely and would come and shop with her and do everything . |
| 18 | The next morning he was assured by the nurse that Ivan had slept peacefully and eaten a little breakfast . |
| 19 | Sure enough , it was just as the second , regurgitated blade appeared , dangling on a length of thread from Jim Rose 's mouth , that Richard had collided suddenly and rather violently with the floor of Strathclyde University Union 's level eight hall . |
| 20 | But we stuck with the same tune that Wally had come up with . |
| 21 | The administration pointed out that Cheney had referred specifically to " force structures , bases and weapons systems affecting the US-based military " , and had also said that " defence contracts would be terminated " . |
| 22 | It was the second time in successive World Cup ties that Leighton had let down his colleagues . |
| 23 | In my talk I mentioned a number of specific things that Scott had brought about for Scotland as the result of his friendship with George IV . |
| 24 | A report in the Financial Times of Feb. 19 claimed that ULFA had stepped up violent attacks in February and had proved itself very much intact despite a large Army presence in the state . |
| 25 | Charlie stared up at his mother 's framed photo that Becky had hung on the wall . |
| 26 | They felt they 'd been made fools of … and the ring is some sort of family heirloom and his father went on as if it was all Rick 's fault that Angy had made off with it . ’ |
| 27 | I could also see the rock that Neil had pointed out to me , still half out of water . |
| 28 | Several key portfolios in the national working committee ( NWC ) , the ANC 's " shadow cabinet " , were taken by a younger generation of ANC leaders , who were thought to believe that Mandela had assumed too much personal power since his release from prison . |
| 29 | Imagine , then , that Mandela had written down the story of his life , and that the manuscript was for sale . |
| 30 | Indeed , this week was the first time that Graf had joined up with Kohde-Kilsch since the Olympics . |