Example sentences of "[noun sg] that had [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , a nasty backward glance , a creeping suspicion suggested a consultation with Anderson might have been a wise idea before taking the practical action that had ended in such discouraging disaster … |
| 2 | Quite the opposite to the calm peacefulness that had existed in Heymouth prior to the flood . |
| 3 | Formulation of Labour Government policies to support the Third Pillar — the projection and protection of British interests overseas — needed least reorientation of traditional British military thinking that had evolved from three centuries of global geo-political experience . |
| 4 | Picking up the card that had come with them , she read : |
| 5 | I think there will be a huge sigh of relief that the axe that had hung over people 's heads from December through 'til now has gone . |
| 6 | This patient also had a serum gastrin concentration that had increased from 710 to 1550 pmol/l . |
| 7 | He smiled then , lightening the tension that had grown between them . |
| 8 | With the milled edge of the coin he chipped at the red-brown crust that had formed between the lower lip of the cap of the bolt and the metal sheet plate of the carriage flooring . |
| 9 | In translating the original constant price figure for the department that had appeared in the public expenditure White Paper into the new cash limit figure , the Treasury estimated the likely price and wage increases for the year ahead . |
| 10 | He was aware that it was trite , but the alternative was to express the scepticism that had grown inside him in the intervening days . |
| 11 | Yet , judging by the earnest discussions going on around her , the melancholy theme seemed to have had the effect of switching everyone 's thoughts away from the actual tragedy that had happened in their midst . |
| 12 | No , not entirely , Alice thought , remembering Jules 's reference to the gossip that had circulated among the staff at the salon . |
| 13 | As she crossed the street towards the far corner by the church entrance , the young woman was careful to step over the littering of prawn shells and orange peel , fish tails and broken heads of artichoke that had accumulated in the numerous depressions afforded by the badly laid cobbles . |
| 14 | Lotus had another go at four-wheel drive the following year , this time with gas turbine power The dramatically wedged-shaped 56B was a development of the car that had come within a whisker of tinning the 1968 Indy 500 . |
| 15 | The wind surged around the little car , streaking past across the expanse of long brown grass still flattened from the snow that had lain on it over the winter . |
| 16 | Johnson remained relatively unimpressed , even by a glimpse of snow that had persisted to this , the first day of September . |
| 17 | Quite deliberately , she summoned the memory of the anguish of six years ago , the job she loved summarily barred to her and her Communications course sacrificed ; and she dwelt especially on the dilemma that had torn at her then , the agonising conflict between her obstinate determination to pursue an uninterrupted career in radio at a time when there were no positions to be had in Johannesburg but possibilities in Durban , and a heart-wrenching reluctance to leave her parents alone when advanced emphysema was shortening her father 's life so cruelly . |
| 18 | The immediate post-war period again provided the optimism that had existed in 1920 , and the farm worker appeared to be poised for the first time to achieve equality of pay and status with workers in other industries . |
| 19 | Since these armies could not break through , the crucial sphere of activity became the gap that had developed between Kluck 's and Bulow 's armies , and which the Germans had no reserves to fill . |
| 20 | She could make all the speeches she would like Tommaso to make , a hundred times over , and yet his awkwardness under her mother 's severity filled her full of pity too , and her chivalrous love returned to warm her and fortify her , suturing the cut that had opened in her earlier at his muteness the night before . |
| 21 | The reason for this was the bright point of light that had popped into existence a few feet from his eyes . |
| 22 | He asked about several crimes of violence that had happened in south-east Antrim and Beattie told him that he knew nothing about any of them . |
| 23 | He walked another half-mile until he reached an archway that had chiselled in the stone above it : KINGS COLLEGE . |
| 24 | She could n't bear the rift that had come between her and the aunt who had always understood and helped her ; who had so many times stood between her and her mother as faithful friend wanting the best for them both and who was now so alienated from her . |
| 25 | The last of the boxes were being transferred from the back of the truck now , carried by men who sweated under the effort despite the chill wind that had come with the onset of the night . |
| 26 | The friendship that had lived between Sarah and myself was over . |
| 27 | it was agencies like Christian Aid that had lobbied for the inclusion of Development Education in the National Curriculum . |
| 28 | She was wearing a halter dress the colour of flame that had wilted in the first hour . |
| 29 | Sharpe shook the bundle loose to reveal that it was a dark blue woollen cloak lined with scarlet silk , a luxury that had belonged to Lucille 's husband . |
| 30 | Lord Charles Beresford continued his campaign against the Admiralty that had originated in his personal feud with Admiral Fisher , and he made the most of Churchill 's unhappy relations with his admirals . |