Example sentences of "[det] [conj] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was this that had prevented me from resting half a day here or there , from starting late in the morning and from stopping early in the evening . |
| 2 | It was this that had caused the shin injury , pushing me on when I could have taken things more slowly . |
| 3 | It was this that had precipitated Charley 's act of violence towards Rose , whom he had grabbed as she parked her car , forcing her to drive to the van . |
| 4 | Since the only source of energy in the building is electricity , it was this that had to heat the water . |
| 5 | and she 's had to go and buy some that had gone , and I says well I , she says it 's just burning it up that fire |
| 6 | In the end , ten republics — including some that had declared independence — agreed a joint statement which indicated that a loose union would be established based on Russia and the Central Asian republics , and that around it there would be a ‘ common economic space ’ that would include most if not all of the republics that had been part of the USSR . |
| 7 | Much of its business was concerned with continuing statutes that would otherwise lapse , repealing some that had become irksome , or modifying others which had revealed weaknesses in operation . |
| 8 | A few of Richard 's toys were there as well , and some that had belonged to Kate . |
| 9 | Item — somehow de Craon was involved in all this and had bribed the unwitting Father Reynard . |
| 10 | At the time we had not understood why the team leader had refused this and had asked for referrals to be made directly to her . |
| 11 | I had , in fact , noticed this and had reported it , asking that the board should be moved at once in case the impression was given that the house was about to be demolished . |
| 12 | The Moore came over all giddy at this and had to have a sit down . |
| 13 | The two species treated each other with the distant friendliness of creatures who could , at a pinch , eat one another but had decided not to . |
| 14 | And it was the woman had cast him off ; she knew him well enough already to realise how much that had hurt his pride . |
| 15 | Even then he had not liked to look into it too much but had kept his eyes on the ground or straight ahead of him because the wood was the kind of place you saw in story-book illustrations or even in your dreams and out of which things were liable to come creeping . |
| 16 | She had stopped undertaking her usual tasks within the home , was eating very little and had taken to her bed a few days previously and had not re-emerged . |
| 17 | that if had relinquished all his responsibility regarding the mortgage and so on and signed it over to you , then you could have turned round and say alright that 's it , I 'm going to sell the house |
| 18 | But only , as the last time she had done that and had kissed the child , to be told , ‘ You have a nice mouth , Mammy ; Daddy 's mouth is wet . ’ |
| 19 | And when she protested she never lay like that and had proceeded to demonstrate how she did lie , crossing her legs and pulling her knees up , she had let out a high squeal when the side of Sister Mary 's hard hand came across her knees in a whacking thump . |
| 20 | Although some strikes went ahead , the estimated 30,000 Russian workers in 18 enterprises who stopped work on May 21 were fewer than had participated in strikes for Russian minority rights in August 1989 [ see pp. 36854-55 ] . |
| 21 | Since they did not understand what the Sign of the Cross meant or the meaning of Our Father , he had started with a simple explanation of these and had told them how important it was to start praying together . |
| 22 | There were two children aged nine and seven and the father was determined to involve them as much as possible in talking about all that had gone on . |
| 23 | Similarly , the hero of The Prelude is taken from the ‘ educational processes ’ of the Lake District , Cambridge and so on , which take up the first half of the poem , and engages with society and history in the conflicts of the French Revolution ; the Revolution is not to be taken as a purely fortuitous occurrence , but the main event of the time , that which separates off the Modern Age from all that had gone before . |
| 24 | But within three years all that had gone as well . |
| 25 | The long weekend also gave me time to myself to rest and ponder on all that had gone and was to come . |
| 26 | I went along to the surgery of Rother Valley MP Peter Hardy , who was resident in one of the safest Labour seats in the country , and despite all that had gone before he was able to say , ‘ This has nothing to do with the people around here — it all happens in London ’ . |
| 27 | They were trying too hard to make this weekend a fitting finale to their affair , to match or recapture all that had gone before — to make a memory to cherish . |
| 28 | Their loss — again to Lord Wyatt — was , at this point , worse than all that had gone before . |
| 29 | we replied that our only object was to secure a Government on such lines and with such a prospect of stability that it might reasonably be expected to be capable of carrying on the war ; that in our opinion his Government , weakened by the resignations of Lloyd George and Bonar Law and by all that had gone on during the past weeks , offered no such prospect and we answered the question therefore with a perfectly definite negative . |
| 30 | Just what Preston wanted , in his current state of vulnerability , with every nerve raw from the break-up of his marriage and all that had contributed to it . |