Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the Critique had been intended to rescue Marxism from the sclerosis of Stalinism , Sartre found that his theory of history , far from explaining what had gone wrong when the most radical political theory turned out in practice to be one of the most oppressive , had rather shown why it had necessarily happened that way . |
| 2 | At his own suggestion , Reg said Singh had personally removed that clause from my contract with his nail clippers . |
| 3 | They had all reached that stage following a crisis , which can often be more difficult than the crisis itself , when it is no longer a matter of one superhuman push , but husbanding resources for an indeterminately prolonged period of stress . |
| 4 | It had only sounded that way to his western ears — because the words had been Chinese ! |
| 5 | ‘ You 'll do , lass , though you had better keep that hood well down over your head . |
| 6 | It had to be possible , for someone else had obviously located that opening . |
| 7 | I remember an English don once coming to me at the end of a meeting , and saying that she had suddenly seen that evening in Jesus Christ the answer to the rather negative existentialist framework into which her life had been cast . |
| 8 | The beer he had already consumed that evening fogged his brain , and the brightness of the torches and the tall candles daggered his eyes . |
| 9 | This was an empty gesture as Suharto had already assumed that position . |
| 10 | The lights had already arrived that afternoon , the disco would be set up from ten o'clock tomorrow , and a small group of hostesses and security people would be due to arrive some time around three . |
| 11 | George had chosen to ask for Mr Nightingale because he had already established that connection . |
| 12 | But they had already spoken that morning , their plans drawn up ready to be activated . |
| 13 | He had already found that school pupils and students associated science with masculinity and arts with femininity ( or effeminacy ) : |
| 14 | Since she had not made that fact known to the seller , she lost the case . |
| 15 | If the birds or Australia had not received that degree of attention from the scientific ornithologist which their interest demanded ’ , he wrote in his preface to Mammals of Australia , ‘ I can assert , without fear of contradiction , that its highly curious and interesting Mammals have been still less investigated . |
| 16 | She was not fooled for an instant nor so cut off from news that she had not heard that war was in the air again . |
| 17 | I had not heard that theory advanced with such bravura before . |
| 18 | She had not eaten that day , she recalled , but still she was not hungry . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , it was , ’ Athelstan replied , though he remembered he had not asked that question himself at the time . |
| 20 | But things had not gone that way . |
| 21 | ( 3 ) … the court shall , on such an application , make such order as it thinks fit for restoring the position to what it would have been if the company had not given that preference . ’ |
| 22 | The court can make such order as it thinks fit to restore the position to what it would have been if the company had not given that preference . |
| 23 | He preferred to forget about those , or to pretend to himself that ‘ the real Marie ’ had not sent that bottle crashing into the wall by his head , or hunted him down in the darkness of the tunnels . |
| 24 | There were five informal carers who said at their first interviews they would prefer the dementia sufferer to be in an institution but who had not had that preference fulfilled a year later ( Table 5.6 : three in the action samples , two in control ; four in Ipswich , one in Newham ) . |
| 25 | He had not forgotten that Christian disapproved of gambling . |
| 26 | She had not known that weather like this existed . |
| 27 | He had not enjoyed that photo session either , but he disliked this even more . |
| 28 | A brother delivered up to death indeed , if another man had not taken that road before him . |
| 29 | The mother of one of the teenage victims said that ‘ although many Press reports had treated the case as a racial attack , the court had not taken that attitude and she felt that was correct ’ . |
| 30 | He himself had not needed that legitimation in 1958 , because of the special relationship that already existed between General de Gaulle and France . |