Example sentences of "had [verb] in the past and " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the moment there is n't even a charging regulations came in the schools immediately cut back because it was a very definite barrier that was put up to prevent schools that prevented schools from from taking up that sort of er offer that they had done in the past and it 's a major problem . |
| 2 | The IMF had to intervene in the past and in the future it would be the European Monetary Institute . |
| 3 | We were disliked because of things that had happened in the past and we did n't need any motivation when we kept hearing that sort of talk . |
| 4 | Had it been , Bingham says , ‘ it seems likely that all concerned would have embarked on a group restructuring programme with a much fuller investigation and understanding of the malpractice which had existed in the past and of the level of support required , or that the bank would have been closed or would have collapsed there and then ’ . |
| 5 | I thought about all the books I had read in the past and remembered one in particular which I had enjoyed immensely . |
| 6 | Although many of them had starved in the past and were therefore well equipped to recognize starvation now that they had met it again . |