Example sentences of "the [noun] [conj] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Raybestos also attacked the competence and motivation of the experts that had supported the residents : |
| 2 | To know the meaning of the weakness that had sapped the strength from her limbs when she had seen him half stripped earlier ? |
| 3 | Theda slipped unobtrusively into the house , which seemed unnaturally quiet after the hurricane that had driven her out of it . |
| 4 | The apparent rarity of balances in the sixth century emphasises the change that had taken place , especially in Kent . |
| 5 | He 'd seen the change that had come over Chantal since the news that Philippe was still alive . |
| 6 | The women at the corner-shop remarked upon the change that had come over him , and could not account for it . |
| 7 | Accountants Marks Bloom had audited the accounts and had issued an unqualified opinion on them . |
| 8 | However , the handover of powers brought the institutions that had evolved from the old workhouses into the hands of authorities that could more effectively bring them up to date . |
| 9 | Or was it the heavy rain slapping against the windows , the wind 's eerie message as it whistled down the chimney and flickered at the flames that had begun to lick about the new-laid logs ? |
| 10 | The distant Tower showed no mark of the flames that had consumed its upper floors . |
| 11 | By this time I had joined the Scouts and had reached the dizzy heights of Patrol Leader . |
| 12 | Blue Leader , Lt. ‘ Jimmie ’ Gardner ( who had previously flown on attachment to the RAF and had claimed five victories whilst with Sqn.Ldr . |
| 13 | But Mike was hurting too much already from the blow that had split his nose ; he 'd never been hit that hard . |
| 14 | Unlike the discussions that had taken place twenty years earlier , the wide and vague principle of state maintenance of children was superseded by more precise details and exposition . |
| 15 | Not the gentle swaying to the tide that had lulled her to sleep last night but a definite purposeful movement . |
| 16 | He coveted the throne and had done so for a long time . |
| 17 | Members had organised sponsored walks , lunches and other events to raise the money and had planted an oak tree at Kings Pond to mark the achievement , and recognition of their 25th birthday . |
| 18 | There , he had presided over a society only slightly less diverse than that of the Caucasus and had fostered its development without trespassing dangerously on local sensibilities . |
| 19 | During his years at Oxford , he had spent part of his vacations in France , but those relatively short periods had given him no idea of the chaos that had prevailed since his father 's death . |
| 20 | The events discredited the Government and fuelled the discontent that had created the civil rights movement in the first place . |
| 21 | He knew the man in charge of the case and had asked ( as head of the TAS ) to be kept in touch with developments . |
| 22 | As I crouched in the slit trench in the semi-darkness I could hear the odd British shell that had been intended for the Germans but had dropped short in the orchard explode with a terrific roar close at hand , causing a shower of dirt to fall from the roof of the trench . |
| 23 | Raffaella and her elder brother had had to flee to the mountains after some unspecified trouble with the Germans and had joined a local band of partisans . |
| 24 | In November 1964 Johnson won the Presidential election by a landslide , and promised that the ‘ Great Society ’ would wage war on domestic poverty , on the racism that had triggered both the civil rights movement and the riots in Harlem that summer , and , if necessary , on the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam and the North Vietnamese government as well . |
| 25 | He says they picked it up on the radar and had to take evasive action . |
| 26 | The X-rays that had proved so offensive and shown up that considerable blob had been taken more than three weeks previously . |
| 27 | Mother and Leo had been seasick for the duration of the crossing and had lain inert on deck-chairs . |
| 28 | She had of course questioned the decision that had left her heiress to Tara , while Fergus , so indisputably a leader , so plainly possessing the natural authority Grainne believed she lacked , was relegated to the command of the Fiana . |
| 29 | When the projectile that had escaped turned up in the mud all was explained : it was a 4.5mm , low-power ammunition for a small pistol . |
| 30 | There was no space in here for the literature that had brightened his being and not enough light between these walls for fairytale merchants brought to life in old romances . |