Example sentences of "that had [verb] [art] [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 | Furthermore , the Polish nobility that had led the national movement in Marx 's time had yielded power in Poland to a new rising capitalist class and settled for privileges guaranteed by the Tsar . |
| 4 | But now , looking at the lined , self-knowing expression of this consummate dissembler , Harry found it easier to believe he had merely staged a performance , an expert and convincing charade that had achieved the desired result . |
| 5 | On May 18 1988 , Computergram Number 931 reported that IBM was seeking retroactive royalties from any company that had cloned the Personal Computer * * * the Open Software Foundation was revealed with seven sponsors * * * |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Erdle indicated the book that had caused the recent controversy , still clutched in Melissa 's hand ; now , he was smiling , openly taunting Gebrec . |
| 8 | Lin Foh looked shocked as Cowley stated the unstatable , heavily implying that Lin Foh was not a welcome presence in England , after the coup that had ousted the ruling junta two months before . |
| 9 | Employment and people alike began a southward drift , partially reversing the redistribution in favour of the coalfields that had characterized the Industrial Revolution . |
| 10 | There is no more of the profound serenity that had characterized the Greek spirit in its greatest period , and , above all , in the sixth century , which had produced the ( religious ) movement of the mysteries , tragedy , and ( the " religious " philosophers , ) Pythagoras and Heraclitus . |
| 11 | The very house that had sheltered the entire community during the great storm in 1756 , when waves spumed right across the island and lightning struck the Mull , causing a massive rockfall , and the steep cliffs . |
| 12 | The enemy picquet that had ambushed the French vanguard was hurrying to the shelter of the wood , but some of them had left their retreat too late and the Dragoons caught them . |
| 13 | In Western minds the period is associated with the saga of Antony and Cleopatra , but for ordinary Egyptians at the time , one of the greatest legacies was the introduction of Christianity which came to replace the worship of the river and a panoply of associated gods that had characterised the religious life of the pharaonic age . |
| 14 | ( Subscribers to the ‘ cock-up ’ theory of history will be interested to learn that the framers of the American constitution were much impressed by Montesquieu 's idea that it was the separation of powers in Britain that had enabled the British to maintain their freedom from tyranny . |
| 15 | From 1968 onwards Nicaragua was repeatedly referred to in the Reports of the Court to the General Assembly as a State that had accepted the compulsory jurisdiction of the Court , and the United Nations Secretariat had made similar listings . |
| 16 | AFTER SEVEN years of perfecting an original and incisive style of investigative journalism in the provinces , I relished the opportunity to move to the big city and expose the callous greed and avarice that had poisoned the cynical entertainment industry for so long . |
| 17 | in my eyes like , was more professional than the one that had done the new one ! |
| 18 | I was hypnot-ized by the knowing way this eleven-year-old blurted out so unfeelingly a tragedy that had paralysed an entire family . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Mr Kerr added that none of the companies that had received the irregular payments had been required to repay money . |
| 21 | The lighting down here was bright , the surroundings that depressing blend of streaked concrete walls and painted metal fittings that had become the principal feature of late twentieth-century gothic . |
| 22 | He found the two armoured personnel carriers that had made the four-track trails , four Jeeps , five cross-country motor bikes and two army trucks in the first hangar . |
| 23 | It was a bright , crisp dawn , and Doyle was hopeful of a bright , crisp day , without rain , and without the freezing winds that had made the previous days so miserable and debilitating . |
| 24 | They turned to look up at the hastily nailed boards that had replaced the shattered windows . |
| 25 | Without chapter 11 , if a firm were shut down and its assets sold off , the spoils would go first to senior creditors — banks and others that had lent the firm money . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | They formed galleries , which seemed so regular they might have been the honeycombed nestings of some breed of super-lice that had reached an advanced accommodation with their host . |
| 28 | The events discredited the Government and fuelled the discontent that had created the civil rights movement in the first place . |
| 29 | If Nature had replaced God as the power that had created the human race , the message derived from the new world view was still the same as far as most people were concerned . |
| 30 | The cloud was a white , heavier-than-air gas , that had formed a definite surface layer ; the buildings were the tops of stacked containers . |