Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The IMF had frozen co-operation with Poland during 1991 because the government had exceeded the agreed limits on inflation and the budget deficit [ see p . |
| 2 | Forest think they got an offside decision out of that but the whistle had er gone before that . |
| 3 | It was half past nine and the car had not arrived . |
| 4 | The Paris Exhibition of 1855 and the war had brought Britain and France into close contact . |
| 5 | They were all out for 93 but the game had to be abandoned with Much Wenlock on 33 for no wicket as rain continued to interrupt play . |
| 6 | Upon the facts the decision seems to have been correct so far as the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher goes , for all that the defendant had done was to plough up some forest land on which there had previously been no thistles but from which , for some unexplained reason , an immense crop of them sprang up in two successive years . |
| 7 | No one not in the profession would know for sure whether the assassin had accepted or refused the job ; and no one except the contact and , in this case , the client , would know for sure exactly who was responsible for the messy death of Seren Haminh , probably about fifty hours from now , when the hunger would be rising again and giving her a few hours to sleep the first ecstasy off . |
| 8 | If , however , the seller has been able to re-sell the goods elsewhere only at a loss ( i.e. for less than the buyer had agreed to pay ) the seller is entitled to deduct that loss from the refund . |
| 9 | If the seller is able to sell the goods elsewhere for more than the buyer had agreed to pay , the seller will in fact make a profit ( i.e. will be better off than if the buyer had fully paid the seller before going into liquidation ) . |
| 10 | Gallaghers bought the club for £1.25million in 1986 after the receiver had been called in . |
| 11 | One sample in seven contained residues in 1986 and the level had fallen to one sample in 20 in the first eight months of this year . |
| 12 | Ministers told those people in 1987-88 that the Government had got it right , but now , four years later , they say , ’ Sorry , we got it wrong . |
| 13 | Four other cases in table III were excluded from our analyses because they fell outside the period covered : cases 1–3 occurred before complete registration data were available , and case 14 occurred in 1991 after the decision had been taken to make 1990 the final year of the analysis . |
| 14 | Pre-tax profits tumbled to £44.8m from £70m in 1991 as the group had to pay exceptional redundancy and related costs of £9.2m . |
| 15 | Thus , at Great Houghton near Barnsley Sir Edward Rhodes built a chapel c. 1650 in his own grounds and Dissenting forms of worship were used there well into the eighteenth century , but it was reported at an archbishop 's visitation in 1743 that the family had returned to the Anglican fold and ‘ This Chapel is now united to the Church of England ’ . |
| 16 | But if Mansell was unhappy with life in general before the race had started , he was furious after it had ended . |
| 17 | Always a sickly woman , she expected to die in 1855 after a doctor had pronounced a disease of the heart to be fatal and quickly wrote her autobiography . |
| 18 | Chantler noted , however , in 1952 , that ‘ the current investment review has been even more fantastic than its predecessors if that were possible ’ , and it was not until 1953 that the Treasury had worked out a new system of investment control . |
| 19 | The king 's advisers decided in 1226 that the opportunity had arrived . |
| 20 | One had left Hungary in 1956 and the other had stayed . |
| 21 | He married Sarah Lomax in 1983 and the couple had two sons , Tom and Freddie , seven and five . |
| 22 | However , it was noted even in 1863 that the Charolais had certain features in common with Colling 's ideal Durham Shorthorn — a light head , fine skin , large hindquarters , straight back , well-fleshed limbs and barrel-shaped body — but the Charolais had stronger bones and limbs and was much hardier than the Durham ; it was traditionally raised on grass alone and was brought inside only in the depths of winter . |
| 23 | The FT-SE Index crashed nearly 14 points to 2691.7 but the fall had more to do with the Maastricht jitters than America 's new President . |
| 24 | Darren Grannell , 28 , of Lord Street , Latchford , Warrington and Lee Day , 22 , formerly of Warrington but now living in Weston-super-Mare , denied assaulting PC Roy Aspinall but changed their pleas to guilty after a trial had started . |
| 25 | In January 1326 Reynolds recorded that he had not convened a council of prelates and clergy since 1323 because the king had expressed his wish that none should meet without his consent , even though by canon law provincial synods should take place annually . |
| 26 | In striking down part of a 1983 law designed to shield rape victims from intrusive questioning about their past , the court ruled by seven to two that the law had rendered inadmissible evidence which could be essential to the constitutional right to the accused to receive a fair trial . |
| 27 | The Court ruled by 11 votes to two that the offence had been abolished by presidential decree in 1986 — when Aquino dismantled much of the coercive apparatus of former President Ferdinand Marcos shortly after taking power — but stated that the government could file charges of " simple rebellion " , a lesser offence which carried a lighter penalty of 12 years ' imprisonment . |
| 28 | The tradition referred to earlier that a surgeon had been required for the Empress , maintains that Garvine had to diagnose her illness without being allowed into her presence and that he treated her successfully . |
| 29 | Everybody in ‘ our town ’ feels indignant about the insult to the respected old gentleman , and a proposal gets off the ground to give a subscription dinner in his honour ; but finally ‘ we ’ think better of it , ‘ perhaps realizing at last that a man had , after all , been pulled by the nose , so there really was n't any cause for a celebration . ’ |
| 30 | The table above is taken from a Social Security Select Committee report which produced figures for 1988 that the Government had decided not to produce itself . |