Example sentences of "[that] had [verb] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was feeling perfectly relaxed , almost carefree , she reflected , a mood that had unfolded in the course of their journey . |
| 2 | Then , slightly bemused , he lifted his head and stared round at the cheering crowd that had gathered in the doorway . |
| 3 | When an appeal was proceeding in accordance with ss 31 , 50 , 52 and 54 , TMA 1970 , the taxpayer could not litigate a point of law that had arisen in the appeal . |
| 4 | In one fell swoop , Virgin had acquired that most elusive of qualities , ‘ street credibility ’ ; the company roster now boasted groups like Magazine , Penetration , the Members , the Skids — what was becoming known as New Wave , a marketing term used to denote almost any performer that had emerged in the aftermath of punk who did not spit in his audience 's eye . |
| 5 | Their lifestyles focused on the social networks around the pubs and clubs that had emerged in the wake of Gay Liberation . |
| 6 | Prior Robert put out a reverent hand to touch the tiny drift of loose petals , and the one bursting bud that had lodged in the spine . |
| 7 | There was no roof and the rain that had fallen in the night left dark stripes where it trickled down the greasy surface of the cows ' rumps . |
| 8 | Christine stared in fascination at the being that had appeared in the medlab before her . |
| 9 | The following were among the findings reported at a conference in Anchorage , Alaska : — brain damage in seals similar to that found in people who die from solvent abuse ; this would have disoriented the animals and affected basic physiological functions like breathing ; it is suspected that many seals drowned , but because dead seals sink an accurate assessment of deaths has not been possible ; — the disappearance of a group of killer whales that had lived in the sound , possibly also due to the " solvent abuse effect " ; — deaths among sea otters not only from hypothermia ( because oil stuck to their fur destroyed its insulating properties ) but from emphysema caused by breathing in toxic fumes and from liver and kidney damage caused by ingesting oil ; — failure to breed among many species of birds since the accident , either because of the death rate within colonies at the time ( in the case of guillemots ) or because continued exposure to oil-polluted food sources is preventing reproduction ; — death tolls of up to 40 per cent for eggs laid by salmon , herring and other fish , and deformities and withered muscles among fish that did hatch . |
| 10 | His feet splashed in the pools that had formed in the night . |
| 11 | Six years later he transferred to the Alma where he was so heavily into Methodism that he led those that had congregated in the bar to church . |
| 12 | On the questionnaire , we exhaustively listed the kinds of changes that had occurred in the case study schools and in the schools which we had earlier visited , and asked teachers whether any of these had occurred in their school . |
| 13 | The letter was from Bunny 's father , telling of a bomb that had exploded in the garden . |
| 14 | At Wickham 's prompting he painstakingly recalled everything that had happened in the pub that evening up to the time he missed the knife , and recited a list of names of customers who had been there . |
| 15 | We were disliked because of things that had happened in the past and we did n't need any motivation when we kept hearing that sort of talk . |
| 16 | Before she reached it , she wanted everything that had happened in the past finally to be put behind her . |
| 17 | He set off on a long rambling account of something that had happened in the bar that afternoon . |
| 18 | He walked another half-mile until he reached an archway that had chiselled in the stone above it : KINGS COLLEGE . |