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 .
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