Example sentences of "[that] had [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Took a walk in the fields saw an old wood stile taken away from a favourite spot which it had occupied all my life the posts were overgrown with Ivy & it seemed so akin to nature & the spot where it stood as tho it had taken it on lease for an undisturbed existance it hurt me to see it was gone for my affections claims a friendship with such things but nothing is lasting in this world last year Langley Bush was destroyd an old white thorn that had stood for more than a century full of fame the gipsies shepherds & herdmen all had their tales of its history & it will be long ere its memory is forgotten . |
| 2 | If we did n't know that terrible things like war had happened , or why they had happened , it would be so easy for us as a country to continue with the same policies that had led to these mistakes in the past . |
| 3 | At the same time , a nasty backward glance , a creeping suspicion suggested a consultation with Anderson might have been a wise idea before taking the practical action that had ended in such discouraging disaster … |
| 4 | For many of the committed , for many of the organizers , the issue was n't peace , it was war : victorious war for Vietnam 's National Liberation Front , and class war on the bourgeoisie — a word that had faded from much of the left in the long years of ‘ The British road to socialism ’ . |
| 5 | I found the paintings quite difficult to understand , but could appreciate the intricate designs , and the tremendous amount of fine work that had gone into each one . |
| 6 | The design and planning that had gone into these places was minimal . |
| 7 | It was a Port Salut that had gone through all its stages this time . |
| 8 | The chill that had gone for these brief seconds settled again . |
| 9 | He scooped a handful of marble out of a bannister as if it were plasticine , and briefly enjoyed the traces of the many fingers that had brushed over this patch of cold stone down the years . |
| 10 | And his notes for the course on lyric ( prepared in the spring of 1869 ) show him devoting ten times more space to the dithyramb , of which next to nothing had survived from antiquity , than to the epinician , the kind immortalized by Pindar and the only kind that had survived in any bulk . " |
| 11 | It was as if some authoritative being had decided that from that moment the names that had applied to such objects as soap , cheese , tree or book were to be exchanged for others , and all signs of delight registered by temper tantrums . |
| 12 | Die-hard conservatism represented a continuation of the fears and anxieties that had surfaced in those most respectable publications , The Times and the Morning Post , with their debates over the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the Cause of World Unrest , at the end of the war . |
| 13 | Her eyes strayed to the card that she still held in her hand and she almost started as she saw , written in plain bold print , a name that had featured with such regularity recently in the headlines of the business section of the local newspaper that she could not fail to recognise it . |
| 14 | In spite of falling into bed feeling wide awake and convinced she would be awake for hours , she must have fallen into a deep sleep that had lasted for all of ten minutes ! |
| 15 | Answer guide : The point here is that at the date of the balance sheet the business did not own the asset nor had it any right to its use as all that had happened at that date was an order had been placed which could easily be cancelled . |
| 16 | Phyllis enjoyed telling all that had happened for some days . |
| 17 | It was a very happy meeting , as we caught up on all that had happened since those distant Bideford days . |
| 18 | According to G.B.S. the last thing of importance that had happened in this agricultural community was , perhaps , the Flood . |
| 19 | The deed of release furthermore had not been induced by any misrepresentation , so it was a complete bar to any claims by the companies concerning anything that had happened before that agreement took effect . |
| 20 | At 1st April 1991 , the date of the latest actuarial valuation , the market value of the main UK scheme 's assets was £277.4 million , the actuarial value of which represented 141% of the liability for benefits that had accrued to that date making full allowance for future salary and pension increases and after taking into account benefit changes introduced as of 1st April 1991 . |
| 21 | Many before me , I thought , had been shot by arrows in ancient woodland and faced their mortality in places that had looked like this before man started killing man . |
| 22 | On their left was the old gate house guarding the main entrance to the Park from the road Many was the carriage and pair that had galloped through that archway . |
| 23 | If the galactic potential were oblate and axisymmetric , the relevant closed orbits would be circular orbits in the equatorial plane of the potential , and a disk of gas that had settled to such orbits would conform to the conventional picture of the galactic disk . |
| 24 | We would then spend a few moments sharing any relevant and deep intuition that had come to any of us , and it was remarkable to see what a full and varied message the daily passage gave us . |
| 25 | Johnson remained relatively unimpressed , even by a glimpse of snow that had persisted to this , the first day of September . |
| 26 | Melts that had frozen within this subconscious lithosphere would enrich it in the same elements that are enriched in the crust , so it has not been possible to distinguish between these theories . |