Example sentences of "that had [vb pp] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Course and the bomb gone on the broke the winches and that , and that had gone so far , you know , that timber , that has crushed the timber all , more or less all together . |
| 2 | But in their determination to score , the team lost the tactical balance that had served so well before . |
| 3 | Its introduction into British schools for the deaf , first by the Rev. Thomas Arnold at Northampton in 1868 then by Mr. William Van Praagh at 11 , Fitzroy Square , London in 1872 , rapidly spread , especially after 1880 , until it came to be both detested and feared by leading deaf people everywhere who saw that it could — and indeed as it did — seriously damage the systems of education that had served so well since the growth of deaf education . |
| 4 | In 1806 , Napoleon made the most of his victories by imitating the Caesars and decreeing that a great monument should be set up in honour of the Great Army that had done so well . |
| 5 | Suggestion scheme secretary said : ‘ Suggestions are dealt with anonymously by a panel , so they were unaware that had done so well ’ . |
| 6 | was a fish that had jumped too far from the water . |
| 7 | To them , the Kenneth Williams voices and the Kenneth Williams faces , the flared nostrils and that snide look that had become as much a trademark as the ‘ stop messing about ’ sounds on radio were instantly recognizable . |
| 8 | The images were still as clear as the rain that had fallen so dispiritedly on the mourners as they stood at one side of the grave while the rector had intoned the fateful words . |
| 9 | This was worse — to have him apologise for something that had felt so right , so wonderful . |
| 10 | Clothes that had hung well now fell shapelessly like charity hand-outs . |
| 11 | She was difficult to disguise , being tall and strikingly blonde with a face that had appeared too often in newspapers and smart magazines . |
| 12 | You know it seemed to be that we had a working rule that had functioned reasonably well over the years and all of a sudden he was tearing up various paragraphs that did n't suit him , and altering bits you know and changing them round just to suit the company , and all to our disadvantage . |
| 13 | It was an elderly couple that had lived there before , retired . |
| 14 | His whole body spoke a subtle language of command ; something that had developed quite naturally and unconsciously during the long years of his rule . |
| 15 | Her beautiful jet hair that had moved so provocatively on the yacht that night hung limp and lifeless at the side of her ashen cheeks . |
| 16 | What happens then is that faith runs up against an awkward question or a scornful dismissal , and suddenly everything that had seemed so unmistakably certain , meaningful , true , collapses like a balloon leaving the remnants of faith limp and deflated . |
| 17 | The water that had seemed so bitingly refreshing only moments ago was already feeling like a strait-jacket of ice tangling around Charity 's speedily numbing limbs . |
| 18 | The strokes came in the form of the 303X mainframe family , announced in 1977 , which hurt the residual values of 370 and 370-compatible mainframes leased by Itel … followed by the 1979 announcement of the 4300 series that destroyed the remaining hopes of lessors like Itel that had bet too heavily on the lasting value of older computers . |
| 19 | In the car , on the homeward journey , Cassie found herself reflecting , as she glanced covertly at his profile and at the thin hands lightly gripping the steering wheel … those same brown and capable hands that had figured so prominently in her earlier fantasies … that he would make the perfect lover , if it were n't for his apparent indifference to women ; and perhaps , also , to having sex ; although this last was only an assumption . |
| 20 | He arrived with a Radio Shack hand-held computer phone dialler and a two-speed microcassette recorder for Coleman to use with the code that had worked so successfully before , based on a standard telephone touch-tone pad . |
| 21 | The curtains looked like spring , but a spring that had happened somewhere else : all green shoots and rainfall and blossom . |
| 22 | It was funny , Graham thought ; the party seemed so long ago , but the memory was more fresh and real for him than things that had happened even just last week . |
| 23 | She felt for all the world as if she 'd had a hangover — an event that had happened exactly once in her well-ordered life . |
| 24 | The import of the Mallion lines could be considered the most beneficial thing that had happened so far in the breed . |
| 25 | Gilberto 's next words had shaken Zen more than anything that had happened so far . |
| 26 | It was because all that had happened so often that the baby was coming . |
| 27 | Municipal workers were dousing the remnants of the street fires that had burned so brightly the night before . |
| 28 | The Holy Week that had passed so harshly for the children in Sea House had passed less fearfully in Dynmouth itself . |
| 29 | It was on the market and it was a grand gesture by the owner — one that was much appreciated by the parents of the nine children , and by the Action Committee that had come together so promptly to support them . |