Example sentences of "and [noun pl] that had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went to bed in her own room , still full of pictures and possessions that had belonged to a previous and vanished Phoebe . |
| 2 | In 1933 it first appeared in its present format , accompanied by the slim one-volume Supplement which added quotations , words , and meanings that had come to the editors ' attention after the publication of the relevant part of the Dictionary . |
| 3 | Their lifestyles focused on the social networks around the pubs and clubs that had emerged in the wake of Gay Liberation . |
| 4 | Chesarynth washed , stuffed her torn and dirty hospital gown into the recycling chute and stole another , even brushed her hair ( she checked again ; no tower growing through her skull yet ) and then had to find a place to hide the dead leaves and twigs that had cascaded from the tangles . |
| 5 | They almost all wanted to stay at the fabulous old Hotel Mamounia , a place of wonderful gardens and lakes that had achieved fame when Winston Churchill came to paint there in the fifties . |
| 6 | An interference effect was indeed apparent at the start of the final stage ( Fig. 4.7 ) and did not differ in magnitude between subjects that had received their aversive training in the same context as that used for the test and subjects that had received aversive training in a different context . |
| 7 | Die-hard conservatism represented a continuation of the fears and anxieties that had surfaced in those most respectable publications , The Times and the Morning Post , with their debates over the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the Cause of World Unrest , at the end of the war . |
| 8 | Elizabeth Mowbray , faced with the conflicts and uncertainties that had beleaguered the court during the weeks following Edward the Fourth 's death , had made plans to return with Anne and Joan to Framlingham until the tumult had died down . |
| 9 | Helen , however , was still imprisoned in the fears and longings that had marked her life during the first years of puberty and was obsessed with the idea that she would never marry and have children . |
| 10 | ‘ Rock faces were being eroded and plants that had taken millions of years to establish themselves were being destroyed almost literally overnight , ’ the fount of wisdom continues . |
| 11 | The patient , domestic acts performed in this country of fogs and mists that had made English murderers the doyens of the civilized globe . |
| 12 | The answer was close now and the minutes remaining before it was revealed to her were harder to bear than the days and weeks that had gone before . |
| 13 | Having discovered where Gabriel slept , he poked about in the hollow of the pageant cart , gathering up the tributes and luxuries that had found their way down into the dark . |
| 14 | The idea had arisen for Frank through his location and questions that had come up about muons ; Sakharov had been developing fusion in secret and picked up the notion because he would have been on the lookout for any papers about fusion , of whatever sort . |
| 15 | Had n't much the same thing happened to her father , hints and innuendoes that had ruined his life ? |
| 16 | It was not only the houses and buildings that were affected , there were also many cars and vans that had to stop their journeys and wait hoping the water start to drain away so they would be able to reach their destination . |
| 17 | There were long streaks of stickiness on the floor to which ash had stuck , glasses with remnants of drink , some with cigarette stubs disintegrating in them , some tipped over in puddles of booze , plates with remnants of food and cigarettes that had smouldered out among them . |
| 18 | They had checked similar seats that had been subjected to the rough and tumble of Metropolitan Police life , and ones that had supported over 70,000 miles , and they were all right as rain . |
| 19 | Without chapter 11 , if a firm were shut down and its assets sold off , the spoils would go first to senior creditors — banks and others that had lent the firm money . |
| 20 | I could not see the ravine and its bald cliff edges on account of the trees and shrubs that had reached a confident maturity despite long years of unprotected infancy and adolescence . |
| 21 | Taplin Green and Keeley — or their ghosts since none of those names now survived in the list of partners — had offices on the south side of New Square a corridor with an uneven floor under the carpeting and doorways that had subsided to odd angles . |