Example sentences of "[that] had [verb] [pron] at " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He paid her a small allowance , as she , as a married woman , was no longer eligible for the grant that had supported her at university . |
| 3 | That afternoon , various incidents that had puzzled me at the time , became clear to me . |
| 4 | The darkness that had possessed her at once scattered into light , and the joy that replaced it was too powerful to contain . |
| 5 | The melancholy that had struck me at first was very much a part of his character . |
| 6 | ‘ Forgive me , ’ Alexandra said , feeling a recurring surge of the courage that had invaded her at Langley Dene , ‘ but I think — with respect , I think that everyone is making too much of my meeting Mr Swinton . |
| 7 | She had no intention of dancing another record with him ; Callum 's hands were far too slippery — in fact she was beginning to regret having anything to do with him at all ; the pleasant , confident smile that had greeted her at the beginning of the evening had now turned into a quite definite leer . |
| 8 | ‘ This is quite delicious , ’ she remarked to her host , and when he looked over at her quite affably , with no sign of the fury that had enveloped him at lunchtime , she felt that she could , and should , bring the matter into the open . |
| 9 | Most studies focus on school achievement , but this may be misleading because there is evidence to suggest that Afro-Caribbean and Asian students are more likely than white students to stay on in further education and some do manage to obtain academic qualifications that had eluded them at school ( Craft and Craft , 1983 ) , while one investigation suggests that young black people in inner city areas had gained better academic qualifications than white youth in the same areas ( Roberts , Duggan and Noble , 1983 ) , a finding borne out more generally by some other studies ( Brown , 1984 ) . |
| 10 | It was his soft eyes that had put her at ease the first time she met him , when she timidly knocked at his door just a few years ago , the evening when Fred employed a helper and found his future wife . |