Example sentences of "[that] had [vb pp] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | According to G.B.S. the last thing of importance that had happened in this agricultural community was , perhaps , the Flood . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Johnson remained relatively unimpressed , even by a glimpse of snow that had persisted to this , the first day of September . |
| 5 | 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 . |