Example sentences of "[adv] had [vb pp] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the morning on which Morse was addressing his audience in Bath , and stripping away the deceptions and the half-truths which hitherto had veiled the naked truth of the case , there was much activity at the Trout Inn , a fine riverside hostelry set between the weir and the Godstow Lock in the village of Wolvercote , only a couple of miles out on the western side of North Oxford . |
| 2 | One US daily had found the previous year that claims about Iran 's original Fao offensive were contradictory and that ‘ neither assertion can be confirmed ’ . |
| 3 | A red lens in ormolu casing was clamped over his left eye , and perhaps had replaced the original jelly organ . |
| 4 | Instead she had leant even more on him and he just could n't take it , so had chosen the easy way out . |
| 5 | To Leonard , who long had felt the masterful power of passion — when the guests become tyrants — Layton 's honesty was as refreshing as his candour was liberating . |
| 6 | Up on the flank of the Down the rabbits ' shadows were lying long across the thymy ground and the beeches on Ridgery Edge high above had caught the flat sun on their lettuce-green leaves . |
| 7 | In such circumstances what the doctors can not do is to conclude that if the patient still had had the necessary capacity in the changed situation he would have reversed his decision . |
| 8 | Results announced on Oct. 6 showed that 35 seats had been taken by outspoken critics of the government , described by the Washington Post as " drawn from a diverse group of Islamists , secular liberals and traditional politicians " , 15 of whom were said to be from districts which traditionally had supported the ruling family . |
| 9 | This marked a significant departure from previous foreign policy priorities which traditionally had made the Soviet Union the first place to be visited by a new Prime Minister . |
| 10 | This noticeboard had already played a significant part in my life : nearly thirty years before then it had displayed the result of my own first degree ( second-class honours ) ; a few years later had come the perfunctory notice saying my doctoral thesis had been accepted by the college ; and shortly after that an even briefer note to the effect that I had joined the teaching staff . |
| 11 | if the way this discussion had worked out had got the strategic site policy on the table today as a discussion item , and if we were able to get clear that such a strategic site policy if it existed was in addition to the |
| 12 | They had done nothing to diminish Britain 's isolationist attitude , and simultaneously had confirmed the widespread belief that any British proposal was a wolf in sheep 's clothing . |
| 13 | Despair : he had , he really had thrown the whole bag in a bin . |
| 14 | And then had come the awful perception that Helen too was vulnerable ; he had seen her exposed , humiliated , disappointed . |
| 15 | Then had come the only question Bess Halidon was ever to ask about the incident . |
| 16 | Five floods at least had fertilised the Black Land since her departure in the Boat of the Night . |
| 17 | Indians and seringueiros alike had become the virtual slaves of the rubber barons and their descendants , who suppresed the indigenous people 's culture and kept the imported labourers in debt bondage . |
| 18 | But the pope , who two years earlier had confirmed the forged privilege guaranteeing the existence of the monastic community at Canterbury , warily told him to have the matter of the primacy discussed in a provincial council in the presence of a papal legate . |
| 19 | This is the same room where Jesus a few hours earlier had celebrated the last supper . |
| 20 | Peacock was indeed a director of the Bank of England ; but he was also the partner in Baring 's who two years earlier had succeeded the late Lord Revelstoke as adviser on the King 's private finances . |
| 21 | Most of the men who earlier had transformed the small areas of carpet beside the emergency exits into makeshift mosques now sported neckties — the most blatant symbol of Westernism . |
| 22 | Article 7 , which previously had defined the official role of organizations affiliated to the CPSU , was amended to read : " All political parties , social organizations and mass movements , in the exercise of the functions stipulated in their programmes and rules , operate within the framework of the Constitution and Soviet laws . " |
| 23 | As amended , Article 6 of the Constitution , which previously had enshrined the Communist Party as the " leading and guiding force in Soviet society and the nucleus of its political system " , now read : " The Communist Party of the Soviet Union , other political parties , trade unions , youth and other social organizations and mass movements participate in the formulation of the policy of the Soviet state and in the administration of state and social affairs through their representatives elected to the soviets of people 's deputies and in other ways . " |
| 24 | Popham Down was a 66–1 outsider for the 1967 Grand National — a decent price for a horse who three years previously had won the Scottish equivalent at Bogside — but his backers did not enjoy much of a run for their money . |
| 25 | It was not difficult to detect that his government was anxious and , if this word could ever be used about the placid Sir Alec Douglas-Home , was passionately anxious to obtain an agreement , just as Harold Wilson previously had had the same anxiety . |
| 26 | On the following day , however , a presidential commission investigating the role of the security forces during the November 1989 revolution published findings implicating Vacek , at that time Army Chief of Staff and First Deputy Defence Minister , in preparations by the Army high command to clamp down against the demonstrations which ultimately had overthrown the communist regime . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , ’ said Sendei , ‘ it looked like just about everybody else had had the same idea . |
| 28 | He wandered along the Charing Cross Road , trying to think what to do next , Galahad on hearing that someone else had found the Holy Grail , Knight Errant without an errand . |
| 29 | We ca n't know what would have happened if it had tried something else , nor ( and this is important ) what would have happened if someone else had tried the original solution . |
| 30 | On their tiny battery portable they too had seen the transatlantic moppet . |