Example sentences of "[that] had [adv] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | She replayed in her mind every detail of the night before , every provocative movement that had unconsciously invited him to make love to her . |
2 | She gave her friend a significant glance and then clamped her lips together , in a parody of someone who was not going to say whatever it was that had just crossed her mind . |
3 | This was the plea of a young Eritrean boy as he was being dragged back to the plane that had just brought him to the UK , when in September 1990 , he and his sister were denied access to the asylum procedure . |
4 | My brain began to overheat at the sheer scale of the disaster that had just overtaken me . |
5 | Right now there was more danger in the strange , yielding weakness that had just taken her by surprise . |
6 | As their lips met , she knew in a flash that this kiss of love was even more wonderful than the words that had just thrilled her . |
7 | Though nothing had altered , somehow the fall had shattered the ice that had temporarily walled her up . |
8 | This case concerned a man who set up in competition with the business that had previously employed him . |
9 | Against all the odds , it had proved to be a happy and companionable day , Ross 's unusually calm , friendly manner towards her having released much of the stresses and strains that had previously left her feeling so tense and nervous . |
10 | The cultural field expands thus to such a point that it bursts through the barriers that had previously contained it as only a de-limited field . |
11 | On the other hand , Memet had been to public school , so that had probably finished him off … |
12 | Cadfael had been awake and afield more than an hour by then , for want of a quiet mind , and had filled in the time by ranging along the bushy edges of his peasefields and the shore of the mill pond to gather the white blossoms of the blackthorn , just out of the bud and at their best for infusing , to make a gentle purge for the old men in the infirmary , who could no longer take the strenuous exercise that had formerly kept their bodies in good trim . |
13 | They had dropped out of the human chain of ancestors and descendants that had formerly bound them all together . |
14 | Mary was a sharp-eyed Brownie , and she had noticed the wheel-marks left in the muddy lane by the estate-car that had nearly knocked her down . |
15 | I think erm er I know there has been some discussion of I I about er and I put er , in this report I think all the documentation that the ministers and ministers that had already seen it and I 've explained that the big issue is that er the URC , I think a weekly account o ah of all other informations has er , worked out very on the basis of five thousand and I was been tugging you pay your car off to get that and . |
16 | Then everything was movement , sensation , and she could no longer laugh or speak or do anything but be carried along by a force greater than anything she had ever known before , a force that took them to the heavens to touch the stars that had already decided their destiny . |
17 | He was alone at the centre of driving lines of grey and wet , and only a will that had already taken him across wide seas and a wider continent drove him forward . |
18 | His first-rate performances — in Hotel in New Hampshire , and as a retarded man in Square Dance — were largely unhonoured , and his many other movies were n't hot , Worse , he had to scrabble out from a confusion of drink , drugs and sexual adventure that had finally landed him in the tabloids and the jokebooks . |
19 | For Guido , she realised , had only been the catalyst that had finally forced her to confront her true feelings for Arnie . |
20 | After much investigation , he discovered that it was n't a British resident at all , but a Russian bird that must somehow have been blown off course from its migratory route during the hurricane-force storms of the previous year — the storms that had immediately preceded its arrival in our village car park . |
21 | So , even if bitten or scratched by a cat that had somehow smeared its teeth or claws with infected blood from its sores , the human victim would still not be able to pick up the disease . |
22 | Carrie agreed it was an item that had completely slipped her memory , but Tom was already speaking again . |
23 | His wizened features twisted back into the snarl that had so characterized his time as General . |
24 | Theda felt the flame lick at her loins , and the lassitude that had so possessed her was gone . |
25 | It was not until the middle of May that I discovered what it was that had so stimulated my friend . |
26 | Next , in the order in which she would need them , were her flannel petticoats , her cotton bodice and frilled drawers , her black woollen stockings , her long boned stays and the combinations that had so irritated her skin when she was small . |
27 | Dusk was falling swiftly , as it always does in the tropics , and the silence that had so impressed me by daylight suddenly became noisy with the night life of the jungly-type trees in the mountains behind-the bull frogs , strange bird cries , the never-ending background of the cicadas . |
28 | None of the thoughts that had so oppressed her came into her mind . |
29 | He swung back again to the imputation of idleness that had so hurt him . |
30 | Some of the hard , heavy weight in her heart that had so wearied her seemed to lighten its burden as she gave up fighting him and , more importantly , herself . |