Example sentences of "had [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had guessed that this place was a palace to her , and she wondered suddenly if she was a complete fool even to consider getting mixed up in his world , when it was so far removed from her own . |
| 2 | By the time the conferences actually began in December , it had realised that real interests were at stake . |
| 3 | By this time , politicians had realised that organised labour represented a bloc of votes , which could be very valuable to candidates . |
| 4 | Neither Julia nor I had realised that some delegates would be registering on the Saturday morning for the first time — we had n't covered this . |
| 5 | Years of dieting and exercise had banished that slight stodginess for ever ; now her body looked lithe and firm , yet still blessed with more curves than Paula 's had ever been , as much a denial of her years as her face . |
| 6 | He had heard that forty pounds a year had been paid for a girl to be looked after in the asylum of Dr Perfect in West Malling . |
| 7 | Where he might have been standing still had not the eagles lunged at him , as if moments before it fell they had sensed that some danger was there and had sought to protect him . |
| 8 | The Nation ( Bangkok ) reported on Jan. 30 that " two leading Western narcotics experts based in Thailand " had commented that these claims seemed exaggerated and that the military government had been doing little to try to reduce opium production since it seized power in 1988 . |
| 9 | When Autocover was originally negotiated the objective was to establish a scheme to cover the widest spectrum of the membership possible but we had to accept that all Insurance Companies would insist on excluding certain categories . |
| 10 | But I had to accept that this examination was far more important to them . |
| 11 | He had expected that any change in his routine would have been of his own making , not hers . |
| 12 | Marcus had shattered that soft innocence when he had turned on her like a rabid dog , snapping , destroying , infecting … |
| 13 | Senior ministers last night emphasised that the British position had remained unchanged since the Madrid summit , where they had stressed that adequate preparation had to be made long before stages II and III of the Delors plan could be settled . |
| 14 | Senior ministers last night emphasised that the British position had remained unchanged since the Madrid summit , where they had stressed that adequate preparation had to be made long before stages II and III of the Delors plan could be settled . |
| 15 | In its January report , the BLDC political subcommittee had recommended that all legislation be submitted to a two-tier voting system . |
| 16 | I caught the sense of victory in seeing the film of Henry V — just as I had supposed that all schools were like that of Goodbye Mr Chips , which I was taken to see in 1939 . |
| 17 | She had forgotten that many castles in Spain were now official hotels . |
| 18 | Aid donors had recently taken a tough stance in particular with the Sudanese government for preventing relief aircraft from reaching areas in the largely Christian south , where the civil war against the Sudanese People 's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) was at its height ; the Sudanese had claimed that such relief was being used to aid the rebels . |
| 19 | German businesses had claimed that German disposal laws — among the strictest in Europe — placed an unfair burden on firms struggling with recession and foreign competiton . |
| 20 | One day he reported that the defence had claimed that partisan warfare was contrary to the Hague Convention , that the Germans therefore had every right to take reprisals against the partisans , and that any excesses on their part were explained if not justified by their horror of what the partisans did . |
| 21 | Then , since this House in Thomas 's case had accepted that judicial review by way of certiorari did lie to the visitor at least to restrain an abusive process , they held that there was jurisdiction to correct errors of law since ‘ illegality ’ is one of the accepted heads of judicial review . |
| 22 | At a turn of the clockwork motor of the bulky camera , Leavitt had proclaimed that this submission to the seasons , to the rains , to the predations of lions , to the pasturing of cattle and all the placatory rituals that went with it , was unnecessary . |
| 23 | Maybe she would take up her art again , and when she had polished that rusty talent perhaps volunteer to teach handicapped children . |
| 24 | The government kept the army small in the past mostly because it had noticed that autocratic regimes with large armies are vulnerable to military coups . |
| 25 | A post-mortem on the body of Mr Friel had revealed that three stab wounds had penetrated the lungs and death had been caused by bleeding . |
| 26 | I had seen that ominous trembling of the limbs before and now the filly was beginning to sway a little . |
| 27 | But she knew she had seen that covetous look in his eyes as he had watched her . |
| 28 | After each film was seen subjects had to decide whether they had seen that precise film section before or not , making the response either ‘ Yes ’ or ‘ No ’ . |
| 29 | The diocese 's surveyors had said that 100-mph winds could topple it . |
| 30 | And only the previous week the head of the Irish College in Rome — a widely respected Monsignor had said that illegal resistance was the natural protection against immoral laws and that ‘ the Catholics of Ireland rightly disowned what force made them endure ’ . |