Example sentences of "[vb past] that [pron] had [vb pp] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Writing about this film thirty years later John Clellan Holmes recalled how as an adolescent he had been initiated into manhood by the momentary revelation of ‘ the soft , white trembling curve of Jean Harlow 's breast ’ , but even at the time Welford Beaton argued that it had succeeded at the box-office because more than any other picture we have had , it demonstrates that the true mission of the screen is to supply visual entertainment' . |
| 2 | The Turkish army claimed that it had killed at least 34 guerrillas in the operation in the Cudi Mountains of south-eastern Turkey , 50 km from the border with Iraq . |
| 3 | But even as the insult shaped itself in her larynx she discovered that she had smiled at him , openly , quickly , but unmistakably warm . |
| 4 | As they reached St Martin-in-the-Fields church the cheering was so loud he thought that they had arrived at St Paul 's and prepared to get out of the carriage . |
| 5 | Kopp testified that she had thought at the time that the information was based on " rumours from banking circles " . |