Example sentences of "that had [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd felt a warmth go through her , as though he 'd reached out and touched her , an imaginary touch that had filled her with excitement . |
| 2 | And why should it hurt so much , be so unutterably wearisome , to say goodbye to death , to the dark passion that had consumed her ? |
| 3 | She had never really forgotten any of it , of course , how could she forget something that had consumed her so completely , even if it had lasted such a short time ? |
| 4 | Particularly because it was only now , when he was so close to her , that every cell of her body was reacting in some primordial , incomprehensible way to his nearness , to the sheer magnetic pull of his very commanding presence , that she had become aware of the fantasy that had consumed her . |
| 5 | The appalling hardship , primitive conditions , tremendous heat on the exposed rocky outcrop , and the omnipresent spice of danger which he encountered on his first experience of active service , appealed to the adventurous and the Spartan in Leslie , and salved the conscience that had irked him during his long training and frustrating inactivity at home . |
| 6 | The hatred that had motivated him for so long had inexplicably withered and died . |
| 7 | She 'd told herself that it had been self-respect , a dislike of casual sex , that had motivated her . |
| 8 | The scene that had sent her on her journey . |
| 9 | His caresses had urged her to a wild , uninhibited passion she 'd never known she possessed — but it was the love she felt for him that had sent her into such a breathtaking completion . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She stared back at him , unable to speak , terrified of betraying the slightest clue that might jolt his memory , but conscious of a heartfelt sense of gratitude for the fever that had kept her so busy during the morning hours . |
| 12 | Seeing the cramped , coffin-like quarters in which fifty men had to live , eat , sleep and fight , often in appalling weather for up to six weeks at a time and knowing how marginal were their chances of survival , I could n't help but admire the resolution that had kept them fighting , their morale undimmed , until the very end . |
| 13 | He was still sick and light-headed with the fever that had kept them so long immobilised at Cegidfa , and made the ride home such long-drawn discomfort to him ; but the sorry account he had to make of his stewardship weighed more heavily on his spirit than his wounds did on his body . |
| 14 | It was that kind of care that had kept him alive so long . |
| 15 | He drained it at a draught and threw it back , the dark mood that had kept him silent from Ivrigar falling away . |
| 16 | Or , perhaps , it had the meaning he had wanted it to have from the beginning : the meaning that had kept him out of coups led by others . |
| 17 | But that was before doctors switched off the ventilator that had kept him alive ever since he ran in terror from one IRA bomb into the full force of another . |
| 18 | I think we were both wanting to be free , to write our own work , yet we were afraid to relinquish the relationship that had kept us writing together so long . |
| 19 | They had slipped , right then , all unknowing , into an unconventional intimacy that had led them , he was convinced , to this present pass . |
| 20 | He looked unseeingly at the beautiful face across the table , hearing the echo of his quarrel with Francesca , feeling his mind still chuntering on in justification of the anger that had led him to cut off all possibility of their holiday next week . |
| 21 | Writing to his mother and father , he said he wanted to explain that it was n't extravagance that had led him to buy not one coat but two , and two pairs of trousers . |
| 22 | Maybe he 'd bitterly regretted the impulse that had led him to marry such a young girl — possibly the only rash decision of his well-ordered life . |
| 23 | Flaws that had led me to sign a contract for yet another coffee table book on the British hills . |
| 24 | His field was bio-improvements engineering , and he had been placed in charge of some hush-hush military project that had racked him up a rep as the Frankenstein of his generation . |
| 25 | He had needed to wind down after the spiralling tensions of the day , and once again he felt the company warmth and support that had sustained him through the day . |
| 26 | During the six years that followed his restoration , Louis put together again the coalition of ecclesiastical and secular support that had sustained him in the 820s . |
| 27 | Jilly Jonathan was pale but had calmed down after the bout of hysterical weeping that had overcome her once they had got her to the hotel . |
| 28 | Immediately angry , manipulated by these evidently false accusations ( like Coriolanus , Lear can not see that the whole purpose of them is to make him angry ) , Lear regrets the ‘ most small fault ’ that had caused him to disown Cordelia ( 275ff. ) , curses Goneril with appalling violence ( 284ff. ) , and sweeps off to Regan . |
| 29 | Yet even the gashes were not so ugly as the expensive boat that had caused them . |
| 30 | But they were kind : the man roused himself at my request to hammer a protruding nail in my shoe that had caused me discomfort , the woman interrupted her knitting to refill my pot of tea and make sure the meal was to my liking . |