Example sentences of "[noun] had [vb pp] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast , palaeontology had increased over the same periods , from 14 to 25 , not quite doubling . |
| 2 | In their different ways both Tom and Emilia had alluded to the same experience ; and before that experience she was utterly virgin . |
| 3 | I felt a touch of the sinister that rules so many of the islands ; there was no reason to shiver in that warm spot , but I did , and experienced a slight sense of embarrassment , as though I had been intruding , thinking perhaps not of Tiare but of the great love all those years ago which had produced her : forty years ago when the water was cascading over the same cliff in just the same way as it had today , Princess Tiare 's mother and her lover had bathed in the same secret pool and later , perhaps , made love in the cave behind . |
| 4 | The brakes had gone at the same corner where he rolled last year . |
| 5 | This unprecedented discovery indicated one of two things : either at least four meteorites had fallen at the same place in Antarctica ( an event of vanishingly small statistical probability ) , or fragments of four meteorites , which had fallen at random on the interior ice sheet , had been carried to the Yamato Mountains site by ice motion . |
| 6 | His home had burned with the same anger that the men responsible had felt , the anger which Carrefour had striven to purge himself of . |
| 7 | Peter and Carol had lived in the same row of houses for 16 years . |
| 8 | There were unpaid bills , receipts and invoices , all spread around the large dog-eared ledger that Fred had used for the past-few years . |
| 9 | Meanwhile relations between Childebert and Guntram had soured over the latter 's treatment of lands once held by Sigibert . |
| 10 | For advanced economies , substantial changes had occurred over the latter half of the 1960s because of loss of comparative advantage in what had become basic technologies which could be mastered by low-income countries , together with changes in the nature of world demand and direct and indirect forms of trade barriers erected to protect domestic industry . |
| 11 | Twelve years ago , he said , President Ronald Reagan had stood at the same podium and said if the national debt were stacked in $1,000 bills , ‘ the stack would reach 67 miles into space . |
| 12 | She tried to remember what Mrs Hollidaye had said about the many different ways of being brave . |
| 13 | The 24-year-old buxom blonde who ‘ gave her favours freely to young village schoolboys ’ was told by Mr Justice Sheldon , ‘ If a man had behaved in the same way with girls of this age he would have ended up with a long prison sentence ’ . |
| 14 | The way he had misled her , Blanche thought , was heinous enough if his loyalty had lain with the same country . |
| 15 | Both sums were repaid , but by 1631 a further ‘ surplusage ’ of £12,000 had arisen on the latter account . |
| 16 | A similar incident had occurred at the same spot ten days earlier , though nobody was hurt then . |
| 17 | ( A similar attack had occurred on the same sub-prefecture in May 1985 — see p. 34927 . ) |
| 18 | When junior health minister Tim Yeo launched the Mansell report on services for people with learning difficulties with challenging behaviour a couple of months ago , he made the aside that perhaps his audience were wondering why there was need of such a report , given the work the King 's Fund had done in the same area over the years . |
| 19 | Her world had shrunk to the few things which still had interest for her . |
| 20 | ‘ We fast for them on their feast days ’ , Augustine had said of the few remaining pagans , ‘ so that they themselves might become the spectacle ’ . |
| 21 | ( However , Peter Burge , the former Australian batsman who was the ICC 's match referee throughout this series , said afterwards that there would have been time for one over if a wicket had fallen in the same Tufnell over . ) |
| 22 | ‘ And it looks as if Ivor had come to the same conclusion . |
| 23 | It seems that Kerr J at first instance had come to the same conclusion as Lord Denning via a public policy route . |
| 24 | Graham defended the decision on the grounds that Bolger and the French Prime Minister Michel Rocard had agreed during the latter 's visit to New Zealand in April 1991 that the Rainbow Warrior affair was closed . |
| 25 | Behind the garden were several acres of rough pasture , which Mr Coleby had bought at the same time as he bought the strip of wasteland that linked the pasture to Champney Road . |
| 26 | Two of his sisters and many of his relatives over three generations had died in the same way , indicating that the condition may be inherited . |
| 27 | The process of forming a government was slowed by numerous allegations that as many as 10 per cent of new deputies had worked for the former Ministry of State Security police ( " Stasi " ) as active informants . |
| 28 | Jekyll 's servant had received by the same post a letter similar to mine , and he was waiting for me with the locksmith . |
| 29 | Loretta and Bridget had belonged to the same women 's group several years before , a group which Tracey had nicknamed ‘ the coven ’ . |
| 30 | Because his rights as a tenant were protected and because in any case the university did n't wish to be seen turfing out an elderly man whose family had lived in the same cottage for five generations , we left him in peace and build around him , as it were , expecting him perhaps to move elsewhere or maybe to pass away . |