Example sentences of "[that] had [adv] [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That Fran had no intention of doing just that had only just struck him , and he did n't like it one little bit ! |
| 2 | The group found themselves part of a movement called ‘ Shambling ’ , which was largely a reaction to the po-faced stance of goth that had only just entered its coffin . |
| 3 | We allowed our gaze to wander south until it lighted upon the bulk of Ancohuma 's eastern slopes , a face we knew nothing of on a mountain that had only just entered our lives . |
| 4 | And yes , I suddenly recollected the image of the small shining triangle of a Stanley blade being passed out of the driver 's cabin : an image that had only momentarily concerned me . |
| 5 | The Picture that had so nearly secured its hold faded from the refracting blankness in the instant it took Harry to realize what it was that Kingdom wanted from him . |
| 6 | She saw his mouth , the mouth that had so nearly covered hers , curve into a provocative smile . |
| 7 | With that homely air of perplexed affection that had so long endeared her to Louisa 's heart , she gave voice to a remaining consideration . |
| 8 | Folly stared unseeing at the crumpled sheets , as if the bed that had so recently harboured their ecstasy might now prove the anodyne to pain . |
| 9 | Bruckner was 39 and in the process of shaking the dust off a provincial career that had so far brought him distinction only as an organist and as a craftsman-composer of the old school . |
| 10 | And try as she might she could not detach her eyes from the object on the table that had so totally winded her . |
| 11 | Flailing at the air where he 'd been , she struck out at the switch to turn off the PA that had suddenly inexplicably turned itself on . |
| 12 | Flailing at the air where he 'd been , she struck out at the switch to turn off the PA that had suddenly inexplicably turned itself on . |
| 13 | Fergus sprawled in the cafeteria banquette and said the challenge was to deconstruct something that had apparently already deconstructed itself , since the book was about a painting that turned out to be nothing but a chaotic mass of brush-strokes . |