Example sentences of "[adj] had [verb] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cavalry , seeing that the French had captured the bridge with an insolent ease , turned to follow the foot soldiers . |
| 2 | Years later , Acheson agreed in an interview that the French had blackmailed the US in Vietnam . |
| 3 | By the turn , this had become the pattern of the round . |
| 4 | John Hume is an example ; he had become prominent in the credit union movement and from this had taken the leadership of the University for Derry Action Committee . |
| 5 | The third was the confusion between rights and remedies evident in the alleged requirement of a superadded duty to act judicially as a requirement of certiorari , and the way that this had stilted the development of natural justice . |
| 6 | This had opened the way for landlords to profit from the programme . |
| 7 | The Party had modified its opposition to the Government 's rearmament programme and the Left felt that this had inhibited the campaign against Chamberlain . |
| 8 | Loyalists said this had reduced the flow of photographs to them . |
| 9 | This had reduced the workforce by 53,800 , or 2 per cent , from last year , strapping many key industries . |
| 10 | At that time the settlement of Cape Town , which had been just a small staging post on the voyage between the Netherlands and the East Indies , was beginning to grow , but although the English had occupied the Cape in 1806 , the white population remained mainly Dutch until the arrival of many new settlers from Britain in 1820 . |
| 11 | The English had removed the head of a king as early as 1649 , and the Glorious Revolution of 1688 could be interpreted as an example of Rousseau 's ‘ general will ’ of the people triumphing over the Divine Right of Kings . |
| 12 | Between 1692 and 1747 the British had defeated the French at sea a number of times , but these battles could not eliminate the possibility that the French fleet would come out of port at a time of its own choosing and assist attacks on British colonies or an invasion of the British Isles . |
| 13 | Henry V had given the war with France a new twist . |
| 14 | A few had attended the courses on the handling of paperwork . |
| 15 | He had been a pupil back in the days of Gurney and Hamilton , and in 1867 had won the Prizes in Greek , Latin , English , and Mathematics . |
| 16 | Somebody very distinguished had played the part in the last London production . |
| 17 | During the NATO summit in Rome [ see pp. 38600-01 ] Romania had made known its willingness to co-operate with NATO , and on Oct. 30 had announced the renegotiation of its friendship treaty with the Soviet Union . |
| 18 | Some had served the parish in the past , others were from the local Deanery . |
| 19 | A tiny pile of dust debris was collected beside his knee , and some had stained the material of his grey trousers . |
| 20 | It 's thought the 92 year old had left the gas on … when she went to make a cup of tea the kitchen went up . |
| 21 | It 's thought the 92 year old had left the gas on … when she went to make a cup of tea the kitchen went up . |
| 22 | As the launch and the bows of the sinking yacht were now almost level it took only a few seconds to transfer the six survivors — another had joined the group of five that Talbot had seen — aboard the launch . |
| 23 | ‘ So answer my question , ’ he urged after the waiter had poured their wine and another had placed the tapas in the centre of the table . |
| 24 | Although it was estimated that a further 2,000 more police would be needed to cope with rapidly rising crime ( 40,000 more crimes were reported in 1989 compared with 1988 , and there were 100,000 unsolved cases ) , an estimated 3,540 had left the force for more lucrative jobs as security guards . |
| 25 | This was a contentious issue , since the British , French and the Dutch had every intention of returning to their former territories , not comprehending the extent to which the Japanese had forced the pace of change . |
| 26 | The government 's state-of-the-nation report on Feb. 10 had acknowledged the achievements of 1989-91 , but also the present critical state of the economy . |
| 27 | Pope Clement III had repossessed the city in 1188 and made the senate his vassals , but Pope Celestine III , an Orsini , had been more or less confined to the city . |
| 28 | Thus , although Mary 's first House of Commons readily accepted the restoration of Catholic doctrine and liturgy , it initially refused to repeal the Henrician anti-papal legislation , and it delayed the reconciliation with Rome until Pope Julius III had secured the future of secularized ecclesiastical property by guaranteeing the rights of existing lay holders . |
| 29 | Henry III had set the pattern by endowing the future Edward I with Gascony in 1254 . |
| 30 | Even more did she rely on the guidance of Sir Keith Joseph , another rebel against the Heath interlude , whose speeches in 1974 first traced the clear lines of monetarism and market strategy which by 1979 had become the orthodoxy in many Conservative circles . |