Example sentences of "[that] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly , the notes referred to money and medicines that had been sent by the family but not received in the prison . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Paolo Uccello would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting , if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective , for , although these are ingenious and good in their way , yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time , fatigues nature , clogs the mind with difficulties , and frequently renders it sterile where it had previously been fertile and facile . |
| 4 | There were other things that had to be reconciled , and we hear presently of ‘ a role of inherent superiority which came to me from outside , from the servants among others . |
| 5 | The leg that had stopped the newspaper had borne me up . |
| 6 | The Comet was listed after the damage had been done , and with the Prospect Inn it was necessary to itemise all the things that had not changed , since the superficial impression of change was predominant . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Only a handful of people , it had been established , had been near enough to the leading car of the funicular to have been able to give it the fatal extra push that had sent Woodleigh and Jilly Jonathan tumbling down the steep hillside . |
| 9 | ‘ Nonsense , Peter , ’ his wife pounced down on him as if he were a hound that had misbehaved . |
| 10 | In previous years the competition cakes had been auctioned off to benefit the Belltower Restoration Fund — and that had been the intention this year , too — but there would be no bidders , now . |
| 11 | She gave him a little push and , in a daze , he followed Dorothy and one or two of the others up the stairs to the room that had been and still seemed to be Bunty 's . |
| 12 | Henry confessed it was something that had n't crossed his mind before . |
| 13 | ‘ And those that had the Normandy pudding , ’ said Detective Constable Bewman , ‘ had the wine sauce that went with it . ’ |
| 14 | The nearest thing to a conjuring trick was the new bell-push that had been fitted under the carpet for Mrs Iverson . ’ |
| 15 | I was silent for a moment , trying desperately hard to remember events that had happened only a few minutes earlier . |
| 16 | There was a church just to the north of there that had a reputation for being helpful towards homeless people — I 'd try my luck there . |
| 17 | My next call was to the company that had been holding some of my things in storage , just to warn them that I was coming round . |
| 18 | And she recalled her favourite Hans Andersen fairytale , the one that had brought her time and again to tears . |
| 19 | Jay 's rainbow wings fluttered around a sun-sparkling river that had become her life , where she had been moping by an old canal full of dead shopping trolleys for years . |
| 20 | The hearth was drifted up with cinders that had been left uncleared when today 's fire was lit . |
| 21 | Each man was struggling to fill the hollow that had opened inside him , to bridge it over with some kind of reasonable structure while saying nothing about it as though afraid it might crumble if it was exposed to the light . |
| 22 | Prized most of all was the collection of classical poetry — from John Donne to Robert Browning — which enhanced the Hebraic and Yiddish verse that had been with him from the first . |
| 23 | Over dinner that evening I told Anne everything that had happened . |
| 24 | It was the music that had brought me in from the hall where I had been lying . |
| 25 | Here we were on swings in small parks , our hair that had been blonded by the African sun now turning dark , as if another person was emerging , slowly , day by day , and with it our accents changed too , so that we spoke in multiple mangled voices as we moved endlessly , six times , seven times , eight , nine times through different versions of Englishness . |
| 26 | I am sure that had nothing to do with her withdrawal but the way she did it raised more questions than it answered . |
| 27 | It is an interesting thought that had John Ellicott not donated one of his magnificent clocks to mark his benefaction , the greed of a contract thief nearly 250 years later would have never taken place — and my humble tribute to this great gentleman , philanthropist and scientist , would never have been built . |
| 28 | The shape of the legs was formed to make sure that each face that had a rail joint was at right angles to the rail which reduces the time and effort needed for angled joints . |
| 29 | Catering that had been so under threat in the later seventies suddenly attracted new importance ; indeed , the single Manchester Pullman that looked almost certain to be a casualty of further standardisation in the eighties was joined by a bevy of Pullmans if only Pullman service on HSTs and Mark 3s . |
| 30 | Enthusiasts were less surprised that much of that investment went sour through design faults and technical failures , and grieved that so little thought was given to the simple , old fashioned matter of looking out , the deprivation of forward and backward view that had encouraged so much travel on the first generation of multiple units allegedly being due to the unions not liking the public seeing their men at work . |