Example sentences of "[conj] had [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Manuel had quietly melted away , perhaps to leave the stage clear for Andy , perhaps to grieve alone at the cruel injustice that had robbed him of the top prize . |
| 4 | She was grotesquely dressed in what I took to be nothing more than the two sheets that had covered her on the bench , clumsily knotted about her vast frame ; perhaps because of that , there was something poignant in those androgynous movements parodying grace . |
| 5 | It was quite ruined thanks to the filthy water that had covered it during the flood . |
| 6 | On the contrary , the miners ' wives seemed desperate to keep the spirit that had seen them through the long months , the solidarity and friendship and , above all , the feeling that together they could do something to change the world and make it a better place , not only for themselves , but for all those suffering injustice . |
| 7 | That afternoon , various incidents that had puzzled me at the time , became clear to me . |
| 8 | Double world light-middleweight champion , Diane Bell , showed no sign of the back injury that had sidelined her for the past month . |
| 9 | It was just this power and seriousness that had fascinated her in the first place . |
| 10 | When they ignore the whole idea of pandering to a European market , they can be quite good , as in Tarkovsky 's Italian-funded productions , where he just carried on making the same film that had obsessed him for the past 30 years , only a bit more slowly . |
| 11 | Again his mind was clouded by the heresy that had struck him after the first night in Taunton . |
| 12 | The police car that had followed him to the Windorah was still parked across the road . |
| 13 | Mary was certain that it was the same estate-car that had swept her into the ditch . |
| 14 | Running back down the avenue , daffodil leaves yellowing on its verges , young beech leaves playing with the light overhead , Nicandra felt purged of the morning 's unfortunate happenings : of all of them except the thrust of horror that had pierced her before the death of a lamb . |
| 15 | It had been Intelligence 's own Self Inflicted Wound that had lifted him from the status of a policeman to that of a ranking diplomat . |
| 16 | He had served twenty-four years in the US House of Representatives , including nine as Minority Leader of the Republicans , and it was Ford 's popularity on both sides of the aisle that had brought him to the presidency . |
| 17 | It was her deep sorrow and unhappiness at the tragic accident that had brought them to the United States , together with all the fraught , highly charged tension of having to be in Ross 's company for any length of time , which had taken its toll of her already precariously weak reserves of strength . |
| 18 | It was pretty much like the cab of the truck that had brought them from the Store . |
| 19 | Would Eve be furious if Mother Francis heard the whole story of the lies , the unhappiness and the circumstances that had brought her to the other side of the city and now into a hospital bed ? |
| 20 | The following unusual use of to provides further confirmation of this : ( 25 ) She waited , Kate Croy , for her father to come in , but he kept her unconscionably , and there were moments at which she showed herself , in the glass over the mantel , a face positively pale with the irritation that had brought her to the point of going away without sight of him . |
| 21 | He explained about the legend and the Monument and the meteorite that had brought it in the first place . |
| 22 | ‘ Survival of the — ’ Jamie drew his breath in sharply and pulled the stick so hard he almost fell off his stool , but he managed to dodge the darting yellow bolts that had driven him into the corner of the screen' — nastiest . ’ |
| 23 | The same sight would confront him that had confronted him for the past fifteen years . |
| 24 | They were the same officers that had arrested me for the charge I was on . |
| 25 | At once , he could see that it was the same monstrous nightmare that had attacked them in the basement . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And then he knew what it was that had tapped him on the shoulder . |
| 28 | Holly coming back to the bench after an hour 's walk that had taken him to the ski jump where the young people gathered to watch the first of the winter 's athletes propel themselves into the dizzy air flows . |
| 29 | The Chinese have given just enough support to the allies to bring themselves back into favour with the western governments , particularly America 's , that had spurned them after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 . |
| 30 | Dexter guessed she was starting to share the same nagging sense of depression that had afflicted him since the end of the interview with Parkin . |