Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( God , or the Deity , existed because somebody had had to work out the mathematics in the first place . ) |
| 2 | In the meantime various troubles had flared up throughout the world -America had become involved in Korea ; France was involved in both Algiers ( who were seeking independence ) and Indo-China ; whilst Britain became involved in retaliation against the Egyptian government which had threatened to take over the Suez Canal . |
| 3 | The restoration of the monarchy , he said , would bring back the communism and anarchy which had threatened to take over the country before the Civil War . |
| 4 | Just before that vote Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats , the junior coalition partner , had reached agreement on tax reforms which had been the subject of three months of negotiation and which had threatened to bring down the government . |
| 5 | The whole bar was up on its feet to watch even before she had finished laying down the opening phrases ; by the time she was into the full fury of the aria , with its demanding coloratura decorations , its elaborate breathing technique and its famous placing of the pauses , we were all applauding and whistling . |
| 6 | Before she had finished hanging out the clothes , there was a glorious double rainbow across the sky . |
| 7 | When she had finished hanging out the washing , before she went for the weekly shop at SavaCentre , Sara applied her lipstick , and around her throat she squirted the toilet water which she had had for three years and never before used . |
| 8 | She had no idea how he knew Kattina was in police custody , or that she had agreed to take over the job . |
| 9 | The truth of the matter was that even before she had agreed to take over the club she had been plagued more and more by a feeling that she had done all she could do in the music business . |
| 10 | ‘ So Miss Morgan would have got the lion 's share of the other two hundred thousand even if she had agreed to break up the trust ? |
| 11 | It had been painful to watch her struggle for her self-respect , but she had managed to ward off the threatened nervous breakdown . |
| 12 | In April 1945 , Truman 's government played host to representatives from 50 countries at San Francisco who had met to draw up the Charter for the United Nations . |
| 13 | The hijackers , who had threatened to blow up the aircraft , surrendered to Thai authorities in the early hours of Oct. 7 ; none of the 79 passengers or four crew was injured . |
| 14 | Staff who had tried to buy out the company to keep it working say they 're devastated . |
| 15 | As a favour to the Presbyterians and other religious leaders who had helped bring about the restoration , some were made king 's chaplains , including Dr. Calamy , Dr. Manton , Richard Baxter and nine others . |
| 16 | The next day , Beaverbrook ( who , with Amery , had been among those who had helped bring down the Lloyd George coalition in 1922 ) ‘ strongly urged ’ Amery ‘ to work closely with Hailsham both to keep the positive campaign going and decide when the critical moment should come for putting an end to the Coalition ’ . |
| 17 | Most of them looked cold and miserable , and they were the men who had bought meals there when they could afford to do so , men who had helped build up the business . |
| 18 | Yet there was also a genuine upsurge of religious feeling , of anger and hatred towards the infidels who had dared seize back the ‘ holy earth ’ so dearly bought with the blood of the First Crusade . |
| 19 | The artillery officer wondered why no one had thought to blow up the bridge which crossed the River Sambre in the centre of the town , but he supposed there must be fords close to Charleroi which would have made the destruction of the fine stone bridge into a futile and even petulant gesture . |
| 20 | They had threatened to blow up the plane unless their demands for the release of political prisoners were met , but the deadline of 6pm passed without incident . |
| 21 | He had planned to hold up the cash desk of an Oxford Street store . |
| 22 | MacArthur maintained that the moves he had taken to break up the large banks would prevent a repetition of the devious methods formerly used to provide a subsidy for Japanese textile exports . |
| 23 | Six inches of concrete , luckily not too dense , had been used to top off whatever he had used to fill in the excavation . |
| 24 | He had offered to top up the money he had given her before by another twenty pounds and she had accepted with polite reluctance . |
| 25 | Mick Houghton , who also works for the fashionable label Blast First , was asked why he had agreed to take on The Wedding Present . |
| 26 | He had failed to win back the support of the MRP . |
| 27 | He had a number of scenes reshot because he did n't like the way he looked in the original scenes , and by the time he had finished hacking up the picture , it was a complete mess . |
| 28 | It was not only because of its convenient position and its many sheltering solitudes that he had chosen to watch out the night here . |