Example sentences of "that had [verb] [pron] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jilly Jonathan was pale but had calmed down after the bout of hysterical weeping that had overcome her once they had got her to the hotel . |
| 2 | They kept slipping away , as her father had already slipped away , with no more than a mumbled excuse , to jot down a line of verse that had presented itself while he stood in some abstraction . |
| 3 | He determined the fossils that were the key to the rock succession in the Southern Uplands , was for many years palaeontologist to the Scottish branch of the Geological Survey , and late in life wrote an important memoir on Carboniferous crustacea , a group that had fascinated him since he had searched rock pools for crabs with his father . |
| 4 | It was not the horrendous drop that had frightened her as she rode in the Land Rover . |
| 5 | Hands that had held her as he kissed her — Stop it ! she told herself . |
| 6 | Anyway because I were there with them you see he thought it were me that had got it and I says I have n't got it . |