Example sentences of "that [pron] had [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I could hear Nell 's voice announcing calmly that everyone had time for another drink . |
2 | As I checked in at Baghdad airport , I found that I had 100kg of excess baggage . |
3 | But I believe she always felt that I had leadership potential and that one day I would have great responsibility . " |
4 | Her description of my flat is one that I had difficulty in recognising : ‘ We were greeted at the door by Arnold 's housekeeper , Miss Roberts . |
5 | yeah it might be , I do n't know , I think usually Roy does that but I think Dave 's doing it this year or something erm er that tends to be , that tended to be something that I had difficulty with as a student because again you could n't just sort of find one book that , that covered the lecture course |
6 | To such a degree that I had hold of P C . |
7 | It was quite a shock to be told that I had Cancer and that I needed an operation as soon as possible . |
8 | I knew that I had money . |
9 | I told her that I had been involved in one of the IRA attacks when I had been blown up in the Brighton Bomb , and that I had friends and colleagues who had been badly hurt or killed . |
10 | And I was fortunate in that I had friends — musical and artistic — who knew so much more about these subjects than I did , and enjoyed sharing their knowledge with me . |
11 | It was for this reason that I had Zowie because I could see how he was with children . |
12 | A dietitian suggested that I had milk shakes with raw eggs to build me up , yet , the Bristol diet denied both ingredients . |
13 | I lied about everything : the size , style and location of my home ; the possessions and social pursuits of my parents ; and I even omitted to mention that I had sisters who went to ‘ inferior ’ schools . |
14 | I must admit that I had doubts about Swansea 's pack at the beginning of the season . |
15 | I remember that I had piano lessons there you see and dancing lessons there . |
16 | well erm , sort of in that erm , I was asked to come and do this talk , and so I , I organise to make sure that I had access to some of Gaugin 's work and then to write poems about it , erm , so , erm , only in as much as that it was a waiting to hear this talk , but a lot of my work is through commissions and so I find myself writing about things that I perhaps do n't have any interest in particularly , erm , or I find actually in a waiting , asked to write about anything is quite er exciting and actually using my skill I think it should be , as a writer I should really be able to write about everything . |
17 | She resented the fact that I had children of my own and that I was n't as desperate to have them as she was . |
18 | That evening I had my first meal since leaving England eighteen hours before ; by the time the pizza , chicken stew and garlicked beans arrived from the kitchen they were cold , but I was so hungry that I had seconds , which amazed Alex . |
19 | The fact that I had people to speak for me at the trial and that I was doing community work did n't appear to mean much to them . |
20 | I gave thanks that I had time and energy to simply enjoy and absorb . |
21 | I wish that I had time to go into the matter in more detail , because the proposals in the Bill are seriously flawed . |
22 | I wish that I had time to go more deeply into the Government 's failure to tackle the root causes of crime in our communities , but suffice it to say that neither unemployment nor lack of a decent home is an excuse for crime . |
23 | ‘ Brrr , ’ I said , shaking my head and pretending to myself that I had dogs jowls . |
24 | One slight advantage of all this was that nobody had time to consider the fate of L Detachment . |
25 | Often in the past he had tried to keep her in bed in the morning , but always she had pushed off his sleep-drugged advances with a brusque reminder that she had work to do , stubbornly shutting her mind to the tenderness of a few hours before . |
26 | Did you also know that she had connections with the Dublin and London criminal underworlds ? |
27 | The problem with this was that although Dawn was interested in the chick , once she was airborne she also realised that she had freedom and that 's very attractive , too ! |
28 | Salha was a woman of strong , open and reassuring character whose links with the women of nearly every household in Huaiwiri through her own daughters and her mother 's sisters ' descent in the women 's line ensured that she had influence in all households . |
29 | She suddenly wished that she had Finn here so that she could tell him a few more home truths . |
30 | He did n't say it nastily , he just said that they were all saying that she had thunder thighs , he did n't say I thought , I mean him personally . |