Example sentences of "[that] had [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The white Mercedes bus that had waited at the end of the line for the red-shirted storm-troopers left twenty minutes after the attack started . |
| 2 | He looked lovingly at the paints and brushes and swallowed a pain that had risen at the back of his throat . |
| 3 | Leila settled to tell him the story of Nathan 's condition and all that had happened at the farm , with certain omissions . |
| 4 | She could see Ana , though , and the face that had drooped at the idea of these visitors was now having great difficulty in not breaking into wide smiles . |
| 5 | Perhaps part of the fascination of movies has always been that they trigger off so many memories but what is interesting about so much film-making in the 1920s is that movies are so closely associated with that age of the masses that had come at the end of one century and the beginning of another . |