Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had guessed by that time that , since he had n't yet stated why he 'd waited an hour to see her , he was saving what he 'd come to tell her until they were inside her flat . |
| 2 | They carried the body to the brake compartment and carried on their journey ; others had jumped from that bridge and there would be more . |
| 3 | We were greatly influenced by the work of the FMS and some of us had collaborated with that organization back in 1968 during the teachers ' massive strike . |
| 4 | Not surprisingly , it was among the southern , pastoral peoples that social stratification had developed by that time , so that the label ‘ feudal ’ is attached , for instance , to the Buryat Mongols and the Tatars . |
| 5 | Wishart thought back to what he had heard about that fateful night at the banquet . |
| 6 | He had heard of that brand of peculiarity before . |
| 7 | No doubt that was due to the ticking off she had received from that strict harridan of a teacher at the small private school in Kensington . |
| 8 | " Just think of Dr Livingstone , " chided Eva , who knew he had travelled through that area . |
| 9 | And yesterday it emerged that Britain 's inflation rate of 4.1pc had fallen below that of Germany for the first time in 25 years . |
| 10 | The defeat brought home in the most devastating fashion just how far the Empire 's development had fallen behind that of her Great Power rivals in the West . |
| 11 | At 1st April 1991 , the date of the latest actuarial valuation , the market value of the main UK scheme 's assets was £277.4 million , the actuarial value of which represented 141% of the liability for benefits that had accrued to that date making full allowance for future salary and pension increases and after taking into account benefit changes introduced as of 1st April 1991 . |
| 12 | These were the words she had longed to hear , the ones she had wished for that day at the Trevi Fountain . |
| 13 | He had sat in that locked room talking , therapist and patient both , had talked it over and over . |
| 14 | Never in the entire two years she 'd known him had he inspired in her such a hopeless rage of jealousy as she 'd experienced when Guido had looked at that girl . |
| 15 | It was Harriet Shakespeare who had looked like that . |
| 16 | She was beginning to think he had a way of entering her thoughts and her memory , because she had looked like that when they had made their final move — tall , slender , leggy . |
| 17 | The sky was dark and threatening and Felipe had looked like that as he 'd left the house . |
| 18 | Petur Beron on Dec. 3 announced his intention to resign as chair of the UDF co-ordinating council ( he had succeeded to that post after Zhelev had resigned it in August upon being elected President ) . |
| 19 | There were several little alleyways that he might have used and they had a man watching each one ; but then in the end he approached from the other side , not through the bazaar at all but along through the streets , the way they themselves had come on that previous visit . |
| 20 | ‘ The thought that he had come to that state of despair would break my heart . ’ |
| 21 | It is necessary I had come to that view for me , at that time it was necessary for me to contact one of the duty Chief Officers and on this occasion it was the Assistant Chief Constable Mr , so I made contact with him . |
| 22 | Of course it would turn out that the dead girl was merely someone Jerome Fanshawe had come across that weekend and who had taken his fancy . |
| 23 | Ahmed had come from that dizzy town to boast that he had seen a bad strange girl leaving Marie Claire 's house and had shouted and thrown stones at her . |
| 24 | The bar had an entrance from another street and he had come in that way , threading between the tables , offering his goods , but with most of his attention on her . |
| 25 | The props people said they had n't touched it ; it had come like that from the place of hiring . |
| 26 | Even her first husband she had regained from that dreadful hinterland of marsh and bog and storm cloud : and now they were good friends , she and Edgar , in the sunlight , harmlessly friends , and on some subjects ( the National Health Service , the pathology of multiple murderers , the ethics of reporting violent crime ) had struck up alliances that excluded , that increasingly and dramatically excluded , her husband Charles . |
| 27 | On their left was the old gate house guarding the main entrance to the Park from the road Many was the carriage and pair that had galloped through that archway . |
| 28 | Meeting Milan Kucan , the Slovenian President , on July 23 , Jovic issued a severe warning against precipitate action ; he added , however , that any republic would be entitled to request the right of secession from the SFRY provided its people had voted to that effect , and that the final decision would rest with the SFRY Assembly , which would consult the views of all other republics . |
| 29 | If the new rates had applied to that year they would have wiped out the interest and still left £5.67 to pay ! |
| 30 | It would have been far better if majority voting had applied in that instance . |