Example sentences of "[adj] the [noun prp] had [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at the end of Day three the RAF had won again putting them level with the French at the top of the table … |
| 2 | By the end of 1992 the BMJ had received about 4350 papers and 3500 letters for publication during the year ( exact data are not available because this editorial was written before Christmas ) . |
| 3 | In 1961 and 1962 the USSR had provided virtually all of Cuba 's oil imports and had purchased just under half of its sugar crop ( Gouré and Rothenberg : 1975 , p. 52 ) . |
| 4 | In 1966 the Beatles had given up touring , a practice that had consumed their lives ever since they 'd been catapulted into celebrity in 1963 . |
| 5 | Moynihan said that between 1974 and 1988 the USA had given more than $80,000,000 in aid towards opium eradication in Myanma " to absolutely no avail " . |
| 6 | Both the Paviours had come out to greet their guest , Stephen Paviour long and sad and constrained as ever , Lesley eager and young and welcoming . |
| 7 | In October 1990 the WEU had come out strongly against a proposal by the EC Council of ( Foreign ) Ministers that the EC 's Treaty of Rome should be amended to incorporate Article 5 of the Brussels Treaty establishing the WEU , so that the EC should effectively control the WEU . |