Example sentences of "had [vb pp] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Fincara had filled that space , brought her spells into the centre of his mind , and he was aware of nothing else . |
| 2 | When he had filled that side , he turned the page over and continued to make notes , completely disregarding the pencil sketch that had been begun . |
| 3 | Promises of more schools and hospitals were regarded sceptically by peasants whom bitter experience had taught that talk of better times always meant worse . |
| 4 | The women who sat beside a single basket of herbs , or wild mushrooms they had gathered that morning in the dew , high in the hills , were tanned so dark they might have washed in walnut juice . |
| 5 | Damning her weakness , as rebellion started to stir , she damned her circumstances too that had provoked that weakness . |
| 6 | However , the Germans had foreseen that possibility and they quickly extended their occupation of Italy . |
| 7 | Strange , Gina thought , how much their two countries had in common and how little she had realised that element of kinship before . |
| 8 | ’ You know things may change a little today , ’ the uncomfortable but professional PR had explained that morning . |
| 9 | he had a way with him and he was , got on very well with Mr and er he told us afterwards that erm the whole trouble was that the children 's baths had leaked that morning |
| 10 | I noticed that Aunt Louise could thread her needle without too much trouble and even write a few letters , but I had heard that sight is often impaired by poor health , and prided myself that this improvement might be due to good food and peace of mind . |
| 11 | He had heard that expression before . |
| 12 | Now although the only known brother of Æthelred named Edmund died in the early 970s , when Thietmar of Merseburg describes events in England in 1016 he tells how , after a battle in which Edmund was killed , the Danes fled from before London because they had heard that help was on the way from Edmund 's brother Æthelstan and the Britannis . |
| 13 | Simon said , and it was the first time she had heard that name . |
| 14 | I had heard that name before , and searched my memory to discover its associations . |
| 15 | I had remembered where I had heard that name before . |
| 16 | I had heard that voice before in an alleyway in London . |
| 17 | They caught him unprepared , before he could blank out his mind , making him remember the last time he had heard that sort of ringing , last Sunday . |
| 18 | The court had heard that Guppy would not give details of one account in Austria because publicity might ‘ compromise ’ someone else . |
| 19 | She had heard that term before . |
| 20 | I had heard that light from distant galaxies was shifted toward the red end of the spectrum and this was supposed to indicate that the universe was expanding . |
| 21 | What added considerably to this worried mother 's concern was a letter she had received that morning . |
| 22 | Piggott had sensed that disaster was imminent , taking desperate looks over his shoulder as Mr Brooks started to stumble — shooting his partner head first to the ground at 40mph . |
| 23 | White and anxious , she said : Yes , she had given that bag to her daughter , and it had contained such chocolates . |
| 24 | As John Stalker ( 1988 ) pointed out when he retired from the service , he had made the transition and had joined that group of persons pejoratively known to the police as ‘ civilians ’ . |
| 25 | It was the eleventh or perhaps only the tenth time I had fallen that morning . |
| 26 | Events there were taking much the same course as they had in Portugal , and as Mark had resolved that problem in double quick time , he was considered the best man to deal with this new problem situation . |
| 27 | Barrio had stood unsuccessfully for the governorship of Chihuahua in 1986 , and claimed that Fernando Baeza Melendez of the PRI had won that election fraudulently . |
| 28 | Other scenes had clouded that weekend . |
| 29 | To the man who had solved that problem , a statue stood in one of the main squares . |
| 30 | Bill had expected that question , but he could not prevent there coming across his inward eye the memory of the grubby calendar in Onyx 's kitchen , with the new red ring round Thursday the twenty-ninth . |