Example sentences of "that had [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She replayed in her mind every detail of the night before , every provocative movement that had unconsciously invited him to make love to her . |
| 2 | She gave her friend a significant glance and then clamped her lips together , in a parody of someone who was not going to say whatever it was that had just crossed her mind . |
| 3 | This was the plea of a young Eritrean boy as he was being dragged back to the plane that had just brought him to the UK , when in September 1990 , he and his sister were denied access to the asylum procedure . |
| 4 | My brain began to overheat at the sheer scale of the disaster that had just overtaken me . |
| 5 | Right now there was more danger in the strange , yielding weakness that had just taken her by surprise . |
| 6 | As their lips met , she knew in a flash that this kiss of love was even more wonderful than the words that had just thrilled her . |
| 7 | Though nothing had altered , somehow the fall had shattered the ice that had temporarily walled her up . |
| 8 | This case concerned a man who set up in competition with the business that had previously employed him . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The cultural field expands thus to such a point that it bursts through the barriers that had previously contained it as only a de-limited field . |
| 11 | On the other hand , Memet had been to public school , so that had probably finished him off … |
| 12 | Cadfael had been awake and afield more than an hour by then , for want of a quiet mind , and had filled in the time by ranging along the bushy edges of his peasefields and the shore of the mill pond to gather the white blossoms of the blackthorn , just out of the bud and at their best for infusing , to make a gentle purge for the old men in the infirmary , who could no longer take the strenuous exercise that had formerly kept their bodies in good trim . |
| 13 | They had dropped out of the human chain of ancestors and descendants that had formerly bound them all together . |
| 14 | Mary was a sharp-eyed Brownie , and she had noticed the wheel-marks left in the muddy lane by the estate-car that had nearly knocked her down . |
| 15 | I think erm er I know there has been some discussion of I I about er and I put er , in this report I think all the documentation that the ministers and ministers that had already seen it and I 've explained that the big issue is that er the URC , I think a weekly account o ah of all other informations has er , worked out very on the basis of five thousand and I was been tugging you pay your car off to get that and . |
| 16 | Then everything was movement , sensation , and she could no longer laugh or speak or do anything but be carried along by a force greater than anything she had ever known before , a force that took them to the heavens to touch the stars that had already decided their destiny . |
| 17 | He was alone at the centre of driving lines of grey and wet , and only a will that had already taken him across wide seas and a wider continent drove him forward . |
| 18 | His first-rate performances — in Hotel in New Hampshire , and as a retarded man in Square Dance — were largely unhonoured , and his many other movies were n't hot , Worse , he had to scrabble out from a confusion of drink , drugs and sexual adventure that had finally landed him in the tabloids and the jokebooks . |
| 19 | For Guido , she realised , had only been the catalyst that had finally forced her to confront her true feelings for Arnie . |
| 20 | Eventually she rejected all the samples and chose one off a shade card , that had n't cost anything . |
| 21 | You said er , I told , I told him I was fed up with the General Secretary of this union that had n't given us any backing and you said sorry Phil , but I 'm not the General Secretary . |
| 22 | There were five boats moored to the shored-up bank , all with names beginning Duke , hung with bright blue fenders that had n't saved them from long scratches and stains . |
| 23 | Henry confessed it was something that had n't crossed his mind before . |
| 24 | After much investigation , he discovered that it was n't a British resident at all , but a Russian bird that must somehow have been blown off course from its migratory route during the hurricane-force storms of the previous year — the storms that had immediately preceded its arrival in our village car park . |
| 25 | Even that had not touched her . |
| 26 | In 1793 the first Republican French ambassador received a rapturous welcome when he arrived off Seraglio Point , his ship flying the Ottoman , Republican French and American colours , ‘ and those of a few other powers that had not sullied their arms in the impious league of tyrants ’ . |
| 27 | So , even if bitten or scratched by a cat that had somehow smeared its teeth or claws with infected blood from its sores , the human victim would still not be able to pick up the disease . |
| 28 | Carrie agreed it was an item that had completely slipped her memory , but Tom was already speaking again . |
| 29 | His wizened features twisted back into the snarl that had so characterized his time as General . |
| 30 | Theda felt the flame lick at her loins , and the lassitude that had so possessed her was gone . |