Example sentences of "had [adv] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 And Fazal said : ‘ You had better not do that if the Mamur Zapt is about . ’
2 On the basis of the documentary evidence , then , it would appear that Molla Husrev still held the kadilik of Istanbul in Rajab 876 but had almost certainly left that office by Shawwal 877 .
3 Max has to establish a relationship with the soldiers : ‘ He had quite early realised that part of their life depended on their being left to do things by themselves and not being interfered with .
4 Like most others , he had never really trusted that Earl ; but this throwing in his lot with the English , while still Scots Chief Warden of the Marches , was a dire betrayal by any standards , and most menacing for Berwick , since as Warden he had overall authority for the town and port , if not the castle .
5 Now the name was not a famous one , the cloth merchant having lived his life in the comparative obscurity common to most of us , and my patient had never before visited that part of the country — and yet the details he unearthed coincided perfectly with the facts he had given me during his regression .
6 If he disliked Shakespeare , other than in joke , it was because he thought Shakespeare ( a true poet with a deep tap-root into old English stories and traditions ) had too often neglected that root for later and sillier interests .
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