Example sentences of "[adj] had [vb pp] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French had promised independence to Lebanon but — to Churchill 's deep concern — de Gaulle seemed intent on clinging to France 's colonial power . |
| 2 | Rebecque , in Braine-le-Comte , had news both from the Prussians and from Dornberg in Mons. The French had advanced north from Charleroi , but had turned eastwards to attack Blücher and had halted for the night at a village called Fleurus . |
| 3 | He had attacked the ‘ Gothic ’ school at the Institute in 1856 , and this had provoked replies from Scott and other supporters of the Gothic Revival in the columns of The Builder . |
| 4 | This had included work on docks in London and New York , on canals in Arizona , and railways in Hungary and India . |
| 5 | This had taken place at Cul Dreimne , now in County Sligo . |
| 6 | Manners retorted that this had taken place in February and Palmerston was in no position to criticize him for acting independently as he had heard that Palmerston himself had instructed the architect to prepare designs in a different style without consulting the House . |
| 7 | By the death of James I in 1625 the English had laid foundations for colonies in Virginia , in New England , and in some of the small West Indian islands that the Spaniards had not considered worth settling . |
| 8 | The British had added grounds for resentment as the cinema of their own country had been largely eclipsed by that of Hollywood . |
| 9 | They had had little time to socialise and some had lost contacts with friends and neighbours as a direct result of being in full-time employment . |
| 10 | Some had brought instructions for things they wanted from the bazaars . |
| 11 | 7/JG 26 had left Sicily for Taranto during this period , operating over southern Yugoslavia on 6th. , the day of the invasion of that country . |
| 12 | Supporters of Bruce were prepared to testify that Alexander III had appointed Bruce of Annandale as his successor ; but Balliol 's backers and some less committed nobles and clerics , fearful of civil war , invited Edward I of England to come and arbitrate . |
| 13 | Philip III had impris-oned Armagnac at Péronne for non-payment of the fine and Edward I wrote letters supporting him in September and November 1282 . |
| 14 | True , the great days of Frankish imperial expansion had ended a generation before ; but the 830s had seen campaigns against Bretons , Danes and Slavs . |
| 15 | Many had cast doubt on Hughes 's future following the arrival of Pounds 1.2 million Cantona from Leeds , but United 's hero confounded the doubters with his third goal in as many games . |
| 16 | Many had faced hostility from colleagues who were opposed to fundholding . |
| 17 | By December , 245,000 had fled from the West Bank and Gaza Strip across the Jordan , 116,000 had fled from the Golan further into Syria , and 11,000 had left Gaza for Egypt . |
| 18 | The chair of the Consultative Council was Redha Malek ( who in 1977 had become Minister of Information and Culture under President Boumedienne ) . |
| 19 | In May 1279 , Edward I had become count of Ponthieu , as well as duke of Aquitaine . |
| 20 | At an early age , Edward I had married Eleanor of Castile , and they had sixteen children ( nine died in infancy ) and they were devoted to each other . |
| 21 | Soon America was clamouring for the dollar to be let in : its burden of debt to oil-rich countries , which since the late 1990s had refused payment in dollars , had become too great . |
| 22 | Of the nine H pylori negative uraemic patients , two had oesophagitis and one had scattered petechiae in stomach and duodenum . |
| 23 | Three remembered having iron injections in childhood , two had received iron during pregnancy , and the other nine had taken courses of iron or folic acid , or both for many years . |
| 24 | Of the patients surveyed , 501 had received advice on contraceptives from a general practitioner and 102 from a community family planning clinic , and 163 had not received medical advice ( no information was available from three patients ) . |
| 25 | Amnesty International , whose first permitted mission to Sri Lanka since 1982 had taken place in June , published on Sept. 10 a report criticizing the security forces for thousands of killings , and for routinely murdering suspected Tamil guerrillas " with an almost total sense of immunity " . |
| 26 | Another 25,000-30,000 had sought refuge in Mali , where the government refused to recognize them as refugees . |
| 27 | Made on exceptional budgets of around £100,000 after Gaumont-British had arranged distribution through Fox , neither Jew Süss ( 1934 , Power in US ) nor The Tunnel ( 1936 , Transatlantic Tunnel in US ) had much to do with Britain . |
| 28 | Three remembered having iron injections in childhood , two had received iron during pregnancy , and the other nine had taken courses of iron or folic acid , or both for many years . |
| 29 | Site investigations for a new-town project to house a population of 380 000 had revealed marble with cavities buried beneath 50 metres of superficial deposits in an area recently reclaimed from the sea . |
| 30 | This was the Fifth ( or Sixth , according to one 's definition ) such Congress : most had taken place in Europe , but that preceding the Manchester meeting was held in New York in 1927 . |