Example sentences of "that [pers pn] had [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 My doctor had also prepared a report for the judge , about various medical problems which I hoped might be taken into consideration , along with the fact that I had for some time been re-building my life and now had very little to do with the lifestyle that brought me into contact with drugs .
2 You were n't of afraid of me but the accent that I had at that time .
3 Yes , yes , oh yes I 've well you know the fires on that I had in all the winter I 'm going to get on that today .
4 Except that I had in some way to justify myself .
5 He recalled tales about her , that she had at one time belonged to a respectable family of farmers ; unbelievable now , for she could certainly no longer be placed in that category .
6 And thus it was that she came to be , on that February evening , poised at the very crown of the hill in Kensington Gardens , looking down the hill , with her back to Bayswater and home and trembling with the fear that she had at last grown up .
7 Blanche was happy as she walked out , confident at the end of the afternoon that she had at last found an explanation for Tatyana Nowak 's suicide , and the first direct link between a particular human being and the murder .
8 rock and roll You know that tape that you had with all the rock and roll 's greatest hits .
9 Cos , on , on the tape that we had at that party we were
10 We 're also taking another four hundred thousand out of budgets that we had for planned improvements in staffing as well .
11 But that has been in the past and that was a thing that we had for several years had A level plays actually on the stage am I correct ?
12 On his last sortie to an Italian target , of all places , he sustained tremendous flak damage which rather belied the sort of opinion that we had of Italian flak .
13 That 's based on the same number of colour photographs that we had in last year 's annual report .
14 But that was the doctoring that we had in those days .
15 Plus the rebate that we had from that project .
16 On one occasion , when time had been scheduled in a departmental meeting for discussion of my questions , ten out of twelve members of staff present indicated that they had at one time or another received complaints from girls ( usually in the third or fourth year ) about the male bias of their overall literary ‘ diet ’ .
17 Now when I tell you about lodging houses , we had four registered lodging houses in Ipswich that they had at that time .
18 It pandered to their inflated notion of their own importance ; and the restiveness of the working class during this early phase of Russian industrialization gave them renewed hope that they had at last found a willing instrument for their revolutionary dreams .
19 I do n't know if anyone wants to put anything into the pool of things that , points that we raised and er or a general feeling that they had after that meeting .
20 The surviving corner showed that it had at some stage been thickened to 7½ft or possibly , as the plan suggests , extended to form a buttress or column base .
21 If only he knew that looking after his dogs had made her feel that she had just the smallest stake in his life , that it had in some measure comforted her for his absence .
22 Only later did it emerge that the Germans had supported his candidature for the post of High Commissioner in Danzig , and that he had since 1920 been on very friendly terms with Baron Ernst von Wiesäker , the head of the political section of the German Foreign Office .
23 Surere could not disappear in the way that he had without powerful help .
24 ‘ No evidence that he had at all .
25 For some time now he had been certain that he had at last evolved a diction appropriate both to the requirements of classical epic and to the subtleties of the alchemical process .
26 ‘ Yes , she does look better , ’ replied Melissa , thinking that the return of Rodney 's jacket must have convinced Eleanor that he had at last been eliminated from police enquiries .
27 That he had on previous occasions overcome his antipathy to women is suggested by remarks he made to others .
28 and any way went down and answer it and I could hear him talking , erm , you remember he bought this aeroplane back from Americ erm from Australia , this one of and it was Australian Air Force one that he had on Australian 's , erm came back and stayed in England for a little while and then he went back to Australia , just killed himself .
29 R. A. Butler , one of the Conservative Party 's chief spokesmen on foreign affairs , stated in the House of Commons on 27 February 1947 that he had for some time regarded Korea ‘ as perhaps the greatest danger spot for peace in the Far East ’ .
30 On the other , I felt that he had after all taken a sort of liking for me .
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