Example sentences of "that had [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Blake , the MI6 officer who had been secretary of the committee that had planned Operation Gold in 1953 had joined MI6 shortly after the war . |
| 2 | It defined itself sharply against a dilapidated Modernism that had denied knowledge and flirted with radical scepticism . |
| 3 | Doyle had known Jack Stone before the bank job that had sent Stone to earth , and it was Ray Doyle , not Bodie , who Stone ‘ trusted ’ , as much as he could ever trust anyone . |
| 4 | Only a handful of people , it had been established , had been near enough to the leading car of the funicular to have been able to give it the fatal extra push that had sent Woodleigh and Jilly Jonathan tumbling down the steep hillside . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's no need to cover yourself up — certainly not for my benefit , ’ he 'd drawled in a tone that had sent shivers quivering frantically up and down her spine . |
| 6 | With the same instinct that had sent Bishop Jon , he noted , to pare his nails and perfect the glossy ring of his tonsure , he on the eve of battle came cleansed from a hot bath : the ritual laugardagr observed once a week by his fore-fathers , of which the other Bishop John in far-off Bremen would so have disapproved . |
| 7 | He did not conspire against the regime , but in February 1659 he and other London republicans presented Richard Cromwell 's Parliament with the same subversive petition that had led Oliver Cromwell to dissolve his last Parliament a year earlier . |
| 8 | While it published scorching critiques of the diplomacy that had led Britain into war , MacDonald insisted that ‘ whatever our views may be on the origins of the war , we must go through with it . ’ |
| 9 | To many the Report failed to take account of the lack of homogeneity among LDCs and overlooked various NICs that had achieved success through capitalism , i.e. private enterprise . |
| 10 | They almost all wanted to stay at the fabulous old Hotel Mamounia , a place of wonderful gardens and lakes that had achieved fame when Winston Churchill came to paint there in the fifties . |
| 11 | The man who made the invitation was very like his father , but without the vitality that had distinguished Marius Steen . |
| 12 | In part this was due to the public-sector controls on investment , but it was also because of the natural priorities that had operated year after year inside British Rail . |
| 13 | The confusion that had overcome Bernice earlier returned . |
| 14 | He never ceased to wonder at the irony of expecting miracles from a reliquary in which her bones had once lain for only three days and nights , before being returned reverently to her native Welsh earth ; and even more to be wondered at , the infinite mercy that had transmitted grace through all those miles between , forgiven the presence of a sorry human sinner in the coffin she had quitted , and let the radiance of miracle remain invisibly about her altar , unpredictable , accessible , a shade wanton in where it gave and where it denied , as the stuff of miracles is liable to be , at least to the human view . |
| 15 | During the countless terrifying minutes before she managed to wriggle free and scramble off the bench , Isabel neither knew nor cared whether it was she or his fever that had caused fitzAlan 's loss of consciousness . |
| 16 | None of these articles referred to the activities of the Parents ' Rights Group , to the joblessness and homelessness that had caused lesbians and gays to seek support from councils in the first place , to the findings of the Gay Teenage Group survey about the intimidation and isolation of lesbian and gay teenagers in state schools , to the menace of fundamentalism — or to any other feature of our oppression . |
| 17 | Although several of them had been made by Luke himself , some of the others featured the voice that had caused Folly so much unnecessary grief . |
| 18 | Robert 's real worry was that he could not understand what it was that had caused offence . |
| 19 | The picture that had caused Mr Brownlow 's excitement was taken down from the wall , and was not mentioned again . |
| 20 | Twelve patients completed the food excluson arm of the study and continued to avoid the foods that had caused symptoms . |
| 21 | It had been worship of him that had aroused Michael 's interest in boxing . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's all I 've got in life , ’ her mother replied , with that wide and tolerant , devious and undefeatable smile that had enslaved Lee when she was a child . |
| 23 | They finally halted in a rough copse of thorn that had lopsided boulders scattered about it and was sheltered from the wind by the long shoulder of a hill . |
| 24 | It was this that had precipitated Charley 's act of violence towards Rose , whom he had grabbed as she parked her car , forcing her to drive to the van . |
| 25 | A final question was asked about the barriers that had prevented companies exporting to Japan or that had inhibited them from improving performance . |
| 26 | Before unveiling the official plaque , Ian Wood made specific comment on the Trade & Industry Select Committee 's report that had prevented Tim Eggar attending the opening , since it would significantly affect all the industries gathered there on the day . |
| 27 | Small shot one sheep half-paralysed by septicaemia , and brought in seven ewes that had lost lambs or fallen ill . |
| 28 | In terms of regional differences , East Anglia reported the highest proportion of companies that had raised R&D spending , and the southwest of England the lowest . |
| 29 | He seemed quite to have lost the preoccupied air that had troubled Hazel the night before . |
| 30 | Dependency theorists , therefore , were still trying to answer the question that had troubled Marxists since the turn of the century , namely ‘ can capitalism develop the Third World ? ’ |