Example sentences of "and [noun] that had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went to bed in her own room , still full of pictures and possessions that had belonged to a previous and vanished Phoebe . |
| 2 | By dint of some speedy alterations by Taheb 's dressmaker , Huy was able to wear a kilt and shirt that had belonged to Taheb 's late husband , his friend Amotju . |
| 3 | In 1933 it first appeared in its present format , accompanied by the slim one-volume Supplement which added quotations , words , and meanings that had come to the editors ' attention after the publication of the relevant part of the Dictionary . |
| 4 | Their lifestyles focused on the social networks around the pubs and clubs that had emerged in the wake of Gay Liberation . |
| 5 | As she increasingly mover her imagery towards precisely controlled representationalism , away from the apparent spontaneity that distinguished her non-representational work of the 1910s and early 1920s , she denied much of the sustained expressiveness and inventiveness that had made her formative work singular among that of her American contemporaries . |
| 6 | Although administered by a council , which met three times a year to review policy , it had undergone none of the post-war modernization and investment that had rescued the rest of the farming industry from the crippling effects of war . |
| 7 | The early 1860s had witnessed the culmination of the great modernising transformation of the criminal justice system in Britain : away from the reliance on hanging , whipping and transportation that had dominated the ‘ Bloody Code ’ inherited from the eighteenth century , towards an essentially novel emphasis on the reformation of character through the discipline of the penitentiary . |
| 8 | Chesarynth washed , stuffed her torn and dirty hospital gown into the recycling chute and stole another , even brushed her hair ( she checked again ; no tower growing through her skull yet ) and then had to find a place to hide the dead leaves and twigs that had cascaded from the tangles . |
| 9 | They almost all wanted to stay at the fabulous old Hotel Mamounia , a place of wonderful gardens and lakes that had achieved fame when Winston Churchill came to paint there in the fifties . |
| 10 | An interference effect was indeed apparent at the start of the final stage ( Fig. 4.7 ) and did not differ in magnitude between subjects that had received their aversive training in the same context as that used for the test and subjects that had received aversive training in a different context . |
| 11 | Die-hard conservatism represented a continuation of the fears and anxieties that had surfaced in those most respectable publications , The Times and the Morning Post , with their debates over the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the Cause of World Unrest , at the end of the war . |
| 12 | But perhaps , by telling him of it she might break through the shell of quiet self-sufficiency and recollection that had kept her at bay since his return from Student Cross . |
| 13 | Elizabeth Mowbray , faced with the conflicts and uncertainties that had beleaguered the court during the weeks following Edward the Fourth 's death , had made plans to return with Anne and Joan to Framlingham until the tumult had died down . |
| 14 | The links between England and Scotland that had held the nation together for nearly 300 years would be endangered by a premature move to Scottish home rule that had not been thoroughly debated , Mr Major said yesterday . |
| 15 | THE LINKS between England and Scotland that had held the nation together for nearly 300 years would be endangered by a premature move to Scottish home rule that had not been thoroughly debated , Mr Major said yesterday . |
| 16 | The chill of fear and loneliness that had penetrated her very bones was suddenly consumed by the fury that engulfed her like a wave . |
| 17 | The talks proceeded quickly , without the complex formulae on frequencies and capacity that had characterized the Chicago talks . |
| 18 | Viva Hate ! feels implausibly fresh : the music 's breathing again , free of a certain stuffiness and laboriousness that had set in seemingly irreversibly in The Smiths ' twilight period . |
| 19 | Helen , however , was still imprisoned in the fears and longings that had marked her life during the first years of puberty and was obsessed with the idea that she would never marry and have children . |
| 20 | ‘ Rock faces were being eroded and plants that had taken millions of years to establish themselves were being destroyed almost literally overnight , ’ the fount of wisdom continues . |
| 21 | With a sigh she knew that in the morning when the people returned they would bring with them the rivalries and ill-feeling that had spoiled everything . |
| 22 | The patient , domestic acts performed in this country of fogs and mists that had made English murderers the doyens of the civilized globe . |
| 23 | The answer was close now and the minutes remaining before it was revealed to her were harder to bear than the days and weeks that had gone before . |
| 24 | The humiliation and jealousy that had surfaced in her did n't abate in the weeks ahead , and the prospect of the friends ' provincial tour together made her behave like a vixen . |
| 25 | Having discovered where Gabriel slept , he poked about in the hollow of the pageant cart , gathering up the tributes and luxuries that had found their way down into the dark . |
| 26 | Anthony Cronin felt that the Bohemia and anarchy that had prevailed during the war afterwards vanished and the purpose of the area altered . |
| 27 | It was the association of hot springs and helium that had made him think that there could be something to Chatterjee 's idea after all , and maybe to the claims by Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 28 | The idea had arisen for Frank through his location and questions that had come up about muons ; Sakharov had been developing fusion in secret and picked up the notion because he would have been on the lookout for any papers about fusion , of whatever sort . |
| 29 | The duchess , recalling her own upbringing amidst a lively brood of brothers and sisters , recognized this , and was gratified by the devotion and closeness that had grown up between the girls . |
| 30 | Field studies would become scientific by adopting the techniques of measurement and quantification that had proved so effective in the ‘ hard sciences ’ . |