Example sentences of "[noun pl] that had [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | As emperor , Augustus gave financial compensation and some booty back , though it must be said that such acts of generosity were inspired less by guilt than by political revenge against cities that had supported his rival , Mark Antony : the returned booty was Antony 's plunder . |
| 2 | Mr Izetbegovic , a Muslim , also called on President Milosevic of Serbia to ‘ stop the terror in Bosnia ’ by ordering the removal of all paramilitary groups that had invaded his republic and clashed with forces loyal to Bosnia . |
| 3 | Irony seldom works in print and this blunt appraisal of the troubles that had beset his friend was made to Nancy Collins and published in Rolling Stone some fifteen years after the Tate murders at Polanski 's rented home in Beverly Hills in August 1969 . |
| 4 | There were only phantom traces of the lacerations that had made his face scarlet ; and no hint in his motion of any bodily harm . |
| 5 | For the Nov. 16 poll against Democrat Edwin Edwards , Duke 's campaign emphasized the themes that had promoted his rapid political rise : opposition to affirmative action , to high taxes , to crime , and to a welfare system which , he said , encouraged mothers to have more babies just to increase their benefits . |
| 6 | Had n't much the same thing happened to her father , hints and innuendoes that had ruined his life ? |
| 7 | Sharing a glass of whisky with him in his Montpelier Square home , you were liable to be quizzed about theories of antibody formation , David Bohm 's work , or any one of 101 other topical issues that had caught his attention . |
| 8 | The cows that had made his father 's fortune grazed on huge pastures on the large family estate in Schleswig-Holstein . |