Example sentences of "that had [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , you you 've got to extend the route , well of course you 've got to put up , trolley poles every for about forty yards and then of course there was two lengths of trolley wire that had to go because as you know trolley buses used to have two arms , positive and negative supply and er , of course the bus had to come back er alongside the premiu the outward route , it come on , so you had four wires up there and the cost of copper wire was terrific so the motor buses were developed and we expenim experimented with the buses on , on extensions mainly but when the extensions were finished we then begradged because trolley wires were then beginning to wear out , rather than replace them they would convert a trolley route into a bus route , and erm because the erm , there was a lot of people hated to see the demise of the trolley buses because they were so clean and silent and the buses came , you got the deal sloke and lumbering of the old engines , that a lot of people hated to see the trolley buses go but cos that was the , the reason that they went . |
| 2 | I went along to the surgery of Rother Valley MP Peter Hardy , who was resident in one of the safest Labour seats in the country , and despite all that had gone before he was able to say , ‘ This has nothing to do with the people around here — it all happens in London ’ . |
| 3 | But within three years all that had gone as well . |
| 4 | Her teeth gritted together to stop herself screaming , she rocked backwards and forwards like a child , oblivious to the drizzle that had begun while she 'd been in the kitchen with Gwen as disjointed sentences jostled in her brain for supremacy . |
| 5 | If was for service to the monarchy , however , that he was made the first Earl Ashburnham in 1730 ; for a family that had begun as modest farmers in the medieval Weald , this was no mean achievement . |
| 6 | As he ran , his senses remained alert to the night around him , to ensure he did not run slap into any other hunting parties like the one that had intervened when he was dealing with Grant . |
| 7 | The images of 20 towns and cities were measured on 12 dimensions that had emerged as relevant during preliminary work . |
| 8 | The first was the division that had existed since at least 1948 on the extent to which coordination and integration should entail a formal abrogation by states of some of their national sovereignty . |
| 9 | Yet I felt at last I had straightened out the time that had buckled when I lost all my writing . |
| 10 | Then the drifting cloud that had massed before the rising sun parted , and a single shaft of direct light leaped through the east window , setting the rose tracery ablaze with glowing colours , and flew like a lance from end to end of the church , calling out of shadow the strong , slender ribs that patterned the vault with great starry flowers , turning the roofrib to gold , and glittering in the curls of all the singing cherubim on the painted bosses . |
| 11 | And Merrill did n't want to think of Luke and that hollow , unsatisfied feeling that had followed when she 'd seen him drive away last night . |
| 12 | She was still in shock from the assault and everything that had followed when that evening she went on impulse and rang Rosemary 's doorbell . |
| 13 | The nine years that had elapsed since she last stood on this spot could have been a dream . |
| 14 | They dived down from out of the sun to the south and in view of the short space of time that had elapsed since the aircraft had landed it is almost certain that the enemy aircraft must have seen the Sunderland in the air . |
| 15 | On that day we scrutinised all the temporary folders in the box and noted the time that had elapsed since the proper notes had been requested . |
| 16 | His beatification aroused criticism from some Catholics not only because of the relatively short time that had elapsed since his death , but also because of what they claimed was the right-wing content of his views . |
| 17 | Lightning forked across the black belly of the clouds , and the rock that had moved as I was negotiating the bend had disappeared into the gorge below , the torrent running smooth as it lipped the broken edge of the old roadway . |
| 18 | My mother enquired after Ras Tafari 's wife and family , especially after his eldest son , Asfa Wossen , who as a baby at the time of the battle of Sagale had sheltered with us in the Legation ; then they spoke of mutual friends , and recalled events that had occurred while we were in Abyssinia . |
| 19 | Owing to the delays that had occurred since the marketing studies were made in 1983 and because of the attractiveness of the finished scheme , it was found that considerably higher prices could be obtained for the flats than had been originally foreseen . |
| 20 | In his electoral address of February 1985 Gorbachev returned to the European theme , regretting the loss of impetus that had occurred since the signature of the Helsinki Final Act ten years earlier and expressing the hope that West Europeans would not allow ‘ our common home ’ to be converted into a testing-ground for American doctrines of ‘ limited ’ nuclear war . |
| 21 | Some kind of garbled nonsense over the phone about something that had happened while you were robbing the place . ’ |
| 22 | Then , at last feeling fairly safe , she allowed herself to sink into the nearest chair , totally drained by everything that had happened since she had woken up this morning . |
| 23 | He chose a piece of smooth parchment and began to write down everything that had happened since he first went to the Springall mansion . |
| 24 | Perching on the remains of a brick wall , she tried to go back over everything that had happened since Leo had arrived . |
| 25 | He would go and see him as soon as they got back to school and tell him everything that had happened since he had come to the school . |
| 26 | What he had just said , if that was what he had said , was as frightening as anything else that had happened since my dad died . |
| 27 | Rachel flopped exhausted into the long white sofa and wrote a long letter to Jenny , pouring her heart out for the first time in three weeks , telling her everything that had happened since she left . |
| 28 | I was trying to get away , but she started telling me everything she knew about Kobolds , everything that had happened when she 'd flown one , everything that had happened when somebody she knew had flown one , everything that had happened whenever anyone had flown one . |
| 29 | I was trying to get away , but she started telling me everything she knew about Kobolds , everything that had happened when she 'd flown one , everything that had happened when somebody she knew had flown one , everything that had happened whenever anyone had flown one . |
| 30 | Would she and Stephen be sitting just as they were now and be suddenly unable to remember anything that had happened because nothing would have been real ? |