Example sentences of "that it [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BIIBA wanted a stay of execution on Fimbra 's plans and thought that it had gained such a deal when its chairman , David Palmer , met Fimbra chairman Lord Elton . |
| 2 | The government announced on June 4 that it had freed all remaining former South Vietnamese officials held in re-education camps , thereby fulfilling a key condition for the normalization of relations with the USA . |
| 3 | Army losses were given officially as 178 dead ; the LTTE acknowledged that it had lost some 500 fighters , whereas the government claimed over 2,000 Tigers killed in the battle to Aug. 3 , and a further 500 in " mopping-up operations " in the succeeding days . |
| 4 | Overall , it could by the end of the transitional phase claim that it had changed the basis of economic competition by removing many restrictive practices and that it had eased some of the pain of economic decline by its policies towards those aging coal and steel plants that were coming to the end of a useful life . |
| 5 | There was another reason , of course , but he was not prepared to admit even to himself that it had played any part in his decision . |
| 6 | How could she tell this impossible Dane that for some wild , unaccountable moment the previous evening , when his mouth had joined with hers , she 'd imagined they shared a mutual attraction so powerful that it had overridden any man-made measurement of time or propriety ? |
| 7 | MacDonald told him that if he had tried to stop it , there would have been a riot , and that it had required all his influence to prevent his followers from singing the ‘ Red Flag ’ in the House of Commons itself on the night the Baldwin Government fell . |
| 8 | The latter denied that it had issued any such weapon and the policemen , backed by courageous superiors , charged the man who fired the shots with attempted murder and both men with illegal possession of the weapon . |
| 9 | It did n't matter that it had taken such a long time . |
| 10 | Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all . |
| 11 | The connections were , of course , the Red Army : after 18 months of disastrous and brutal reforms , carried out in an overly reckless spirit because the PDPA leaders believed the Russians would always bale them out , Moscow decided in late 1979 that it had had enough . |
| 12 | The Vietnamese government had always maintained that it had returned all US POWs to the US government shortly after the signing of the Paris peace agreements in 1973 . |
| 13 | It had grown so wild and unruly that it threatened to smother all the flowers . |
| 14 | He says that it seemed to take more than half an hour . |
| 15 | It is hard to believe that it intended to withhold that protection in all cases where a jury might think that the place in question was not necessary or desirable or where the authorities could not by evidence justify their policies to a jury 's satisfaction . |
| 16 | She had the feeling that it wanted to reach some sort of understanding with her , to tell her something in its rough , mute animal way . |
| 17 | I think we 're entitled to ask if Nottinghamshire faces those problems , what is peculiar about Leicestershire that it did face those problems but all of a sudden it does n't face those problems . |