Example sentences of "that had [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pavement beside Alen Glen 's was smashed and a Corporation junction box that had stood outside Jackson 's Dog House in Dundas Street lay up a close . |
| 2 | The surprise announcement of British entry into the Exchange Rate Mechanism appeared to have solved , at least in the short term , the long-standing divisions in the party and government over the correct approach to Europe — divisions that had contributed to Lawson 's resignation a year earlier . |
| 3 | The coloured numbers that had flashed into life all across the face of tomorrow-land vanished again . |
| 4 | All he had given her was bodily joy , and a life that had ended in pain , among strangers . |
| 5 | The tale of the Leash woman was one of the Society 's lesser shames : a catalogue of accidents that had ended in tragedy . |
| 6 | The light of hope that had flickered in Tubby 's eyes died and he shook his head wearily . |
| 7 | Shortly after the official opening ceremony a collection of no less than 11 Norseman floatplanes that had gathered at Red Lake , started-up , taxied around Howey Bay , took-off ( a tremendous effect as the sound of 11 Pratt and Whitney R–134s revving at full power reverberated around the bay ) and performed a series of fly-bys and overshoots over the bay in salute of CF–DRD and the weekend events . |
| 8 | By the middle years of the nineteenth century many an estate village remained impervious to Dissent , whereas the new settlements that had gathered round textile mills , collieries or canal-heads were markedly Nonconformist in character . |
| 9 | The fishing fleets that had gone to Newfoundland since early in the century indicated another possible area for settlement , and Gilbert lost his life in 1583 on the way back from inspecting the prospects for a colony there . |
| 10 | ‘ I have got the fire in my belly again — that had gone at Wimbledon and I think they knew that . |
| 11 | It exposed the moral dangers of the mechanistic philosophy that had begun with Bacon and had fuelled humankind 's drive for dominance over Nature . |
| 12 | The sweat that had begun in anticipation of what she might encounter in the street now ran in fear of her mother 's rage ; Nunzia 's eyes had gone hard and wrinkled like black olive pips when Rosa had produced the plover , and she had clucked impatiently with her tongue when Rosa lied and said her grandfather had shot it and presented it to her . |
| 13 | The war that had begun in August 1914 had thrown an intolerable burden upon the industry of the Russian Empire . |
| 14 | That was welcomed by the organisations that had campaigned for non-payment . |
| 15 | The face that had paled with fright and shock had now flushed . |
| 16 | The cells were stimulated with peptides that had bound to HLA-B53 in the HLA assembly assay , each at 25μM , pooled as follows : cp6 , cp6.1 , cp6.2 , sh1 , sh6 ; and ls6 , tr15 , tr16 and tr20 . |
| 17 | The reason for this was the bright point of light that had popped into existence a few feet from his eyes . |
| 18 | The arrival of the atheist Bolsheviks as the new élite merely accentuated the cultural schism between the peasantry and the ruling strata that had existed since Peter the Great 's reign . |
| 19 | Quite the opposite to the calm peacefulness that had existed in Heymouth prior to the flood . |
| 20 | In 1974-75 , the last Labour Government spent £1,425 million in real terms at 1991-92 prices ; by 1978-79 , that had fallen to £918 million . |
| 21 | The Society prospered , although at its 1852 annual public tea it could hardly hold a Christmas cheese and wine party members were saddened by the numbers that had fallen from grace once the hay and corn harvests had been collected . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Despite the time that had elapsed from Schuman 's original declaration to ratification , the ECSC succeeded in escaping from the drawing board relatively easily . |
| 24 | The friendship that had lived between Sarah and myself was over . |
| 25 | There was a story about an oil tanker that had veered off course and steamed right through Heaven Sound . |
| 26 | But more compelling were her dark expressive eyes , eyes that had widened with shock on seeing Tyler there , eyes that might have spoken to him of anger but instead had betrayed something much deeper , and far more dangerous . |
| 27 | Northamptonshire 's rural footwear centres were very different in character from the county 's estate villages but they were unlike the new Victorian settlements that had grown alongside coal mines , iron foundries and quarries . |
| 28 | In any event , he consoled himself , nothing could be worse for Katherine than the situation that had developed at home . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Thin sections of the first and third molars allowed him to demonstrate in roughly half the skeletons the residual lesions of sunlight deficiency rickets that had developed between infancy and age ten . |