Example sentences of "had [verb] in the past [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , the baby 's wishes had tended in the past to be suspect , and the mother had been expected to look for some non-permissible motive behind them , in the form either of dangerous ( probably erotic ) impulses or of a rebellious determination to dominate the mother-in either case , constant control of the child was called for , and only the baby who had submitted himself completely to the mother 's control could be called a good baby . |
| 2 | Also , despite what had occurred in the past between them , SHe needed Cab so badly now it hurt more than the bruises in hir belly . |
| 3 | The fundamental answer to the ‘ boy labour problem ’ , however , lay in state action to prohibit employers from exploiting juvenile labour , just as the State had acted in the past in ‘ the case of children and women ’ . |
| 4 | Bull had worked in the past on a joint US/Canadian High Altitude Research Project ( HARP ) , which had examined the possibility of firing missiles and rockets into space using a giant gun . |
| 5 | In brief , both Lanfranc and Anselm were living in a time when the ancient consensus of local testimony , which had sufficed in the past for most matters of faith and practice , was being subordinated to more formal legal and rational procedures . |