Example sentences of "[noun prp] that had [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Now that Jack Kuehler has persuaded Louis Gerstner to let him go in August — we should have pointed out in yesterday 's issue that he reached retirement age last year and only stayed on because he was pressed to stick around awhiles longer by John Akers , returnee and vice-chairman Paul Rizzo gets additional powers , at least temporarily : four parts of IBM that had reported to Kuehler — its semiconductor , software , AS/400 and personal systems operations — will report to Rizzo . |
| 3 | Another problem arose in 1916 , which can not easily be explained without reference to the proposed ‘ Home Rule ’ in Ireland that had developed under the government of Asquith which introduced the Home Rule Act 1914 . |
| 4 | It was a Port Salut that had gone through all its stages this time . |
| 5 | Soon after its talks with Wells Fargo fell through , Security Pacific announced that it was cutting back its international operations , once a big growth area , because of bad loans in Britain and Australia that had contributed to a $230m fourth-quarter loss . |
| 6 | On their first afternoon together , following an after-lunch stroll around the flower beds , the man was astonished to see Noddy leap a five foot dry-stone wall , and take off in hot pursuit of a clapped-out Morris Marina that had spluttered up the lane by the foot of the garden . |
| 7 | The donations of Pepin ( 754 ) and Charlemagne ( 774 ) gave the popes the area of central Italy that had fallen to the Lombards , together with the former exarchate of Ravenna and the provinces of Venice and Istria . |
| 8 | At Tain the ancient stones in the graveyard above the railway line looked in as I ate an apple bought in Ness in Lewis that had come from Spain . |
| 9 | For in her heart she trusted the powers of Callanish that had spoken to her and she believed the day would come when he would go free . |
| 10 | Brockway was writing in the context of a prison population for England and Wales that had declined by two-thirds over the previous fifty years . |