Example sentences of "that had [verb] [prep] the [noun] " 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 | Iran was now in a poor state in the war , and was about to be wiped out as the Russian Army had been at Tannenberg in 1914 : a disaster that had led to the rise of the Bolsheviks . |
| 3 | Goleniewski had been in touch with the CIA since 1958 during which time he had passed on to them a considerable amount of information that had led to the arrest of several important spies . |
| 4 | But several of his supporters agreed with Mr John Patten , the former Home Affairs Minister , who spoke of the ‘ wicked , old-fashioned racism ’ that had led to the overturning of the 4,896 Tory majority and brought shame to the spa town . |
| 5 | In the case of the famine of 1921–2 , a sudden alteration in the agricultural setting deeply affected , not just the local peasantry , but all the other provinces of European Russia and the very basis of the economic and political calculations that had led to the introduction of the NEP in the first place . |
| 6 | Erm Mao was worried that as , i in the course of the , the latter stages of directive and the there had been abuses of the system by Party members and that had led to the Party getting a bad name with the peasants and the way to rectify that was to publish the Communist Party membership so everybody in the village would know who was a Communist Party member and they would be able to see , Mao believed , that on the whole Party members had behaved properly , they had n't exploited the situation for their own advantage and where they have they would be , there would be a with them to correct . |
| 7 | Chapman acknowledged the ‘ splendid support ’ that had rallied to the club , but he regarded the Elland Road spectators , in common with other Yorkshire crowds , as too partisan . |
| 8 | as if to match the tense atmosphere inside the car , the sun had disappeared behind some ominously black clouds that had crept over the horizon . |
| 9 | She had scarcely seen the Mercedes that had swung into the drive just as she 'd been about to go out , but by sheer instinct she had swerved to miss it , sparing only a glance in the mirror to tell her the other car was safe before speeding on her way again . |
| 10 | Wilcock had developed another interest too , one that had burgeoned on the Voice , a fascination with Andy Warhol 's factory , then turning out movies at the Factory by the dozen , and sucking in voyeurs , drifters , hopers , and no-hopers . |
| 11 | The only component that had faded from the picture was Captain Buck 's Special Interrogation Group , ‘ owing to difficulties in recruiting ’ ! |
| 12 | Body slick with sweat , despite the chill that had descended on the office block , Cardiff pushed the door open further , keeping the gun well in front of him . |
| 13 | It was a relief when a couple of minutes later , amidst the deafening silence that had descended on the room , Mrs Aitken poked her head round the door . |
| 14 | The heavy clouds that had gathered about the summit of Mont Blanc boiled from within . |
| 15 | In Sir Ernest Barker 's words , Maine ‘ was the tragic voice , sonorous behind the mask of Cassandra , which uttered the feelings that had gathered since the extension of the suffrage in 1867 ’ . |
| 16 | Then , slightly bemused , he lifted his head and stared round at the cheering crowd that had gathered in the doorway . |
| 17 | The sky was bright , the distant grumble of thunder died away and the sun shone , striking light off the puddles that had gathered from the downpour . |
| 18 | Louis 's aim was twofold : first , to cope with the tensions that had arisen from the implementation of ecclesiastical reforms , for instance by sending out missi to settle disputes between clergy and laymen over the appropriation of tithes ; and second , to tighten control of local government , for instance , by asking missi to draw up lists of all those liable for military service in each county . |
| 19 | The joint statement that had been issued by the two leaders at Geneva also addressed some of the issues that had arisen in the arms control negotiations . |
| 20 | The chosen organisation was a local authority that had participated in earlier developments , but this time the study examined the problems that had arisen in the Highways and the planning departments following the establishment of a common unit providing both with financial , administrative , personnel and computer support . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | As Bacci emerged through the blue fog that had collected near the door it occurred to the Captain that if Fusarri had been the normal sort of Substitute he would have had to go and report to him at his office , leaving his own smoke-free . |
| 24 | Oh , the patient looked a mess , but Kath had seen the enormous care that had gone into the alignment of each suture , the meticulous attention not only to the innumerable tiny little muscle fibres , nerves and blood vessels but to laughter lines and wrinkles to ensure that the tissues were realigned as closely as possible to their original position . |
| 25 | As well as giving him moral ascendancy over the rest of the company , driving himself to exhaustion might also cloud critical judgement , so that comments would be made on the effort that had gone into the show rather than on its quality . ) |
| 26 | No , not precisely I , I was a bit too young then , I , I remember all the songs about her Amy wonderful Amy and all those and oh and when she married Jim I was very much in but I could n't actually say I remembered her crashing at Walsall The erm you could , yeah , when I came home from work one Monday afternoon my nan said this eighty eight had gone over very low , and we , we heard that they 'd dropped this landmine this same aircraft had dropped this landmine that had gone under the gas holder at the gas works , in Road and the , they had some rescue workers from the A R P to get it out they never even bothered calling for the Royal Engineers , but the situation was that landmines used to come down on parachutes , and they used to slide into places which were inaccessible but anyway , they relied on the local Walsall A R P to get them out . |
| 27 | Er that had gone to the Q S for documentation or |
| 28 | Well , I 'd done that there , and that had gone by the time I went to the hospital and I thought brilliant ! |
| 29 | Around it , a dwarf cluster of irregular shapes outlined the village that had clung to the church for 800 years . |
| 30 | It not only covered ships passing to and fro through the Strait , but also included reports of Argentine air strikes , naval activity , including the sinking of the Belgrano , and even references to the British helicopter that had landed on the coast of the Magellan Strait almost opposite Punta Arenas , and had been destroyed by its pilot . |