Example sentences of "[noun pl] that had [vb pp] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had expected to have to batter his way laboriously through the months that had separated them , as through the stockade of a castle into which he must break by force of arms . |
| 2 | In their personal lives there had been parallels that had drawn them close and formed a bond between them ; not least the loss of both their wives some ten years back . |
| 3 | From the beginning of their history , the amphibians were hunters , preying on the worms , insects and other invertebrates that had preceded them on to the land . |
| 4 | The draughts that had drawn them when politely caged , were now either depleted or charged to fury . |
| 5 | Later redefinition of the goal as ‘ providing transportation ’ removed the blinkers that had prevented them from realizing that cars were made largely in Detroit but had to be received in good condition in every State , and that driving them to their destination was expensive . |
| 6 | It reached a point where a number of people 's art collections began to be more valuable than the businesses that had allowed them to buy in the first place . ’ |
| 7 | All the problems that had beset them from that first moment their eyes had met in the courtyard on the day of her arrival had vanished , it seemed , giving way to the greater power of one fact — now they were lovers . |
| 8 | Their shapes gave off no tremor or threat , more a priestly absorption in the radar of the appetites that had brought them there . |
| 9 | Most studies focus on school achievement , but this may be misleading because there is evidence to suggest that Afro-Caribbean and Asian students are more likely than white students to stay on in further education and some do manage to obtain academic qualifications that had eluded them at school ( Craft and Craft , 1983 ) , while one investigation suggests that young black people in inner city areas had gained better academic qualifications than white youth in the same areas ( Roberts , Duggan and Noble , 1983 ) , a finding borne out more generally by some other studies ( Brown , 1984 ) . |
| 10 | When , in the way women will , Groa railed against the Fates that had allowed them to live all this time in golden security and now seemed to have left them , Thorfinn was amused , but not sympathetic . |
| 11 | Why did it hurt to learn that it had been the machinations of others that had brought them together this time ? |
| 12 | Two hundred yards away a group of about fifteen seladang were visible , the calves frisking and sporting around the cows that had borne them . |