Example sentences of "that had [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wore a dark grey hat taken from the store on her last day as owner , and that was 17 years ago , and a plain grey scarf round her throat , and leather gloves that had stood a long test of time . |
| 2 | He was joking , half flirting , stirring an intimacy between them that had sent a flickering response , like warm fingers , down Ronni 's spine . |
| 3 | The other eye had been closed for most of the fight by a left hook that had caused a large amount of swelling both above and below the brow . |
| 4 | It is typical of how an older horseman who had in his possession most of the ancient secrets , was able to deal with a situation that had baffled a younger man . |
| 5 | John O'Connor has described how , following up what was a Zanuck initiative , a Warner Bros team had eventually produced I am a Fugitive , a film that outspokenly denounced the Southern chain-gang system by using a true story that had received a great deal of publicity , the studio 's gamble on topicality really paying off when the real-life subject of the story was actually rearrested just a few months after the film 's release . |
| 6 | Take-off time arrived and the oil temperatures were still somewhat below the criteria , but I opened the throttles and very shortly the tail was up and I was heading down the short runway into a brisk headwind , pointing straight for the little pub outside the camp that had become a second home for us . |
| 7 | They ran for the shelter of a large chunk of dislodged temple that had fallen a few metres away . |
| 8 | I could not see the ravine and its bald cliff edges on account of the trees and shrubs that had reached a confident maturity despite long years of unprotected infancy and adolescence . |
| 9 | The cloud was a white , heavier-than-air gas , that had formed a definite surface layer ; the buildings were the tops of stacked containers . |
| 10 | In France , the one country that had developed a strong tradition of vernacular opera with its own different aesthetic , it needed only a visit of an Italian company playing a repertoire of opere buffe to spark off one of the most celebrated of musical civil wars , the querelle des bouffons , a war which was renewed a quarter of a century later when the pro-Italian faction set up Piccinni in rivalry with the now gallicized Gluck . |
| 11 | He did refer to the fact that , if the trial proceeded , witnesses would be giving evidence about things that had occurred a long time ago and said that he did ‘ not think that is a position which is salvaged or saved by reason of the fact that there are in being notebooks , that there are in being witness statements . ’ |
| 12 | Why , on cold winter nights like this , they might even briefly rue the desire that had brought a howling babe between themselves and sleep . |
| 13 | House Martins nest in many villages and some larger towns and in 1971 three pairs were found nesting 1.2km. from the site of a gas works that had closed a few months previously . |
| 14 | Egyptian liberals noted with disapproval that a group of clerics at the Al-Azhar Islamic university on the previous week that had issued a public criticism of Fudah for hostility to Islam . |
| 15 | They reminded Lucien of something that had happened a long time ago , but he could n't remember what . |
| 16 | Suddenly recalling an incident that had happened a few months previously , she gave a small , twisted smile . |
| 17 | It was cold but not too cold , and dammit , I had caught four fish with hardly any effort ; fish that had taken a big crust with a savage bite that suggested they were very hungry . |
| 18 | One teacher showed a brief extract from a historical film that had proved a great box office success . |
| 19 | The ‘ Grandstand ’ television cameras had taken a break from horse-racing and cricket to record the closing holes of an event that had captured a good deal of public interest . |
| 20 | They chose B , the block that had shared a common label with A. Grice 's experiments , using adult subjects and a classical conditioning procedure , generated equivalent results . |
| 21 | And there was the erm there was a top called the window breaker , and it was a special top that had got a long stem on it and a big round like a mushroom , it was like a mushroom almost . |
| 22 | Not historic buildings , except for his last home at Schloss Solitude , outside Stuttgart , but elderly , ordinary , slightly shabby houses , planned and built in an earlier age , that had acquired a comfortable individuality in occupation by previous occupants , and lent themselves to his own way of living and working . |
| 23 | He found a graze that had oozed a small crust of blood into the thick hair , almost dry now . |