Example sentences of "[vb -s] [that] had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon thereafter the force lines untwisted — rather like a tangle of elastic bands that had suddenly been released — and matters progressed as normal until , after a further 11 years … |
| 2 | The need for speed meant that the training packs were based on information drafts that had not yet been passed by Parliament , let alone checked , so inevitably errors crept in . |
| 3 | In 1954 , for example , Galton and Simpson created Hancock 's Half Hour on radio : satirical playlets about the pale squalor of outer-suburban life that launched a series of tiny exercises in comic realism to replace the music-hall turns that had once dominated the BBC Light Programme : an earthy , irreverent spirit of realistic comedy translated into visual terms in 1960 , when Granada TV started Coronation Street as a comic reflection , for mass audiences , of back-street life in the urban North . |
| 4 | And that in modernity ( probably Giddens is clearest in this statement ) social actors can take cognizance of , and reflect rationally on , rules that had previously been only implicit for them . |
| 5 | Against all the odds , it had proved to be a happy and companionable day , Ross 's unusually calm , friendly manner towards her having released much of the stresses and strains that had previously left her feeling so tense and nervous . |
| 6 | Studies using these stimuli demonstrated further properties of visual system celts that had not been previously identified ( Enroth-Cugell and Robson 1966 ) . |
| 7 | It was an interesting walk , past once-grand Victorian houses divided into flats , past ruined buildings with caved-in roofs , past grey monumental ‘ British rule ’ edifices now put to various purposes and past modern office blocks that had already become decrepit . |
| 8 | Fourteen-year-olds with kids and thick mascara , slim with strange fat faces that had not lived , but had overseen , screaming and crying , the birth of offspring from the trunk below . |
| 9 | The Americans , called on to prove their sincerity , could only do so in terms of the number of Hawks and TOWs that had already been shipped . |