Example sentences of "who had [vb pp] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it 's glossy cream and pale blue and beautiful , but I find myself looking out of the window at the broken slats of the fence between our house and the next , and understanding very well why canals and tulips and windmills and clear blue Dutch skies had been important to the woman who had stood in that kitchen before me . |
| 2 | People who had lived in that great rambling fortress of a house for generations , treating him as one of them — and he a carter 's son from the depths of the country ! |
| 3 | While one can not always rely on Taskopruzade for precision in regard to dates , nor for that matter even in regard to the reigns in which various events occurred , as has been seen , it is hard to accept that he is in error by some twenty or twenty-five years , especially in a period close enough to his own to allow him access to people who had lived in that period . |
| 4 | It was Harriet Shakespeare who had looked like that . |
| 5 | Jumping probation and knowing where to get mace cannisters — yeah , I knew people who had graduated from that particular school of life . |
| 6 | But someone did , someone here did — someone who had overheard enough of the original plan ; someone who had sensed a wonderfully providential opportunity for himself , or for herself , and who had capitalised upon that opportunity . |