Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] have [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as she reached the club , as soon as she was back in the public eye , she would have to switch on the false persona that had carried her through the past week . |
| 2 | That weeping was his weeping ; the grief that had overwhelmed him for so long . |
| 3 | Was it some insensitivity in his nature that had failed to respond to the nuances of the relationship , some obtuseness of perception that had prevented him from seeing , as it still prevented him from understanding ? |
| 4 | It was as if there was something out there — or perhaps several somethings — struggling to break free of a force that had held them for a very long time . |
| 5 | Industry was geared up , under Lend Lease , to produce the armaments that would defeat Hitler , and also pull the country finally and forever out of the stagnation that had crippled it for a decade . |
| 6 | ‘ The City is certainly more inclined to look kindly on the film trade than before , and thus a considerable weight that has handicapped us in the past is removed ’ , remarked John Maxwell , as he launched British International Pictures ( BIP ) as a public company with interests in production , exhibition and distribution . |
| 7 | The police car that had followed him to the Windorah was still parked across the road . |
| 8 | Part of her , that stubborn , spirited side , the side that had got her into this mess in the first place , would n't let her give up , back out and admit that Luke Denner and his sexuality were more than she could handle . |
| 9 | He paid her a small allowance , as she , as a married woman , was no longer eligible for the grant that had supported her at university . |
| 10 | They could be joint bottom tomorrow if things go wrong and I know all about the Forest jinx that has haunted them in recent years . |
| 11 | She also told him that it was prayer that had brought him to her . |
| 12 | It was pretty much like the cab of the truck that had brought them from the Store . |
| 13 | Most of the money for the campaign has come from the central government and the United Nations , but it seems to be Marxist enthusiasm that has put it to good use . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The reforms deserve something better than the babble that has followed them from birth . |
| 16 | The one sentence that had pleased me in her unfastidious and not very delicate letter was the last of all — that simple ‘ Write care of Ann . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He condemns the monk : at the same time as he acknowledges the monk 's ingenuity that has provided him with his sexual reward : This monk does not suffer the retributive poetic justice that is so frequently met with by lecherous clerics in the French fabliaux . |
| 19 | They have whetted a lust for sensationalism that has turned us into a nation of accident watchers . |
| 20 | The scene that had sent her on her journey . |
| 21 | As a young man , it had been his recognition of the need for contemporary diction and contemporary imagery in poetry that had drawn him to sources as disparate as Baudelaire and John Davidson . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Quite plainly , having so recently finished the work that had absorbed him for almost two years , he was not yet back in the habit of eating lunch at a regular hour . |
| 24 | ‘ And it was my plan that has brought you to your heart 's desire . ’ |
| 25 | Again his mind was clouded by the heresy that had struck him after the first night in Taunton . |
| 26 | Our mountains have survived for millions of years , bearing witness to a history of violent , volcanic activity , glaciation and erosion , but ironically it 's the invention of the internal combustion engine and lightweight waterproof clothing that has put them under the most severe pressure yet . |
| 27 | He felt a touch of the animated earnestness that had carried him through so many meetings . |
| 28 | There had been anger as well at the cruel jest of fate that had brought her into love with her own brother . |
| 29 | Yet in their own terms they seem fairly content with their lives , and they do not rail against the fate that has left them with this role . |
| 30 | And the question that had troubled him in Nairobi swelled , until he stopped the car , wound down the window and with a curious naivete called : ‘ Please tell me : why are the children here hungry ? ’ |