Example sentences of "that had [vb pp] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It struck a devastating blow at the presidency as an institution and gave powerful new impetus to the collapse of trust in government that had begun some years previously . |
| 2 | But now all those Arab and Western powers that had invested such hopes in the plan will find it hard to sustain even a pretence that it remains a realistic proposal . |
| 3 | But now all those Arab and Western powers that had invested such hopes in the plan will find it hard to sustain even a pretence that it remains a realistic proposal . |
| 4 | And also , as he watched the boxer on the television , Boy began to think that there are two kinds of sex : the kind of sex where you say do this , do that , or you manoeuvre yourself into position for a particular kind of pleasure ; and then there is the other kind of sex , where you want not someone else 's body that had done those things the night before or the afternoon before . |
| 5 | Practice that had made these things second nature to the T'ang . |
| 6 | He was arraigned for heresy in 1457 , after publishing his The Repressor of Overmuch Blaming of the Clergy , ‘ A secular doctor of divinity , that had laboured many years to translate Holy Scripture into English , passing the bounds of divinity and of Christian belief . |