Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.

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1 I had lived at the same place in Hampstead for over twenty years and so , as a sitting tenant , my rent was pretty cheap .
2 I had heard of the many mercy missions of the ruler 's private planes .
3 Where a road which bears all the marks of having been laid out by the enclosure commissioners makes , at longish intervals , a sudden right-angled bend , sometimes two bends in quick succession , one can be pretty certain that though it was planned by the commissioners it follows an even older line from one village to the next , a line which had deviated in the same way around the heads of medieval furlongs .
4 In all her short life Sally-Anne had never before encountered the squalor which she had seen in the few days since she had arrived in these poor streets in the hinterland between London Docks and Stepney .
5 Her lovely face came before his eyes and he thought how beautifully she had played on the few occasions she had come down here with him .
6 They hoped that the dynamic forces released by socialism would generate new wealth , enabling Britain to stride the world once more in a continuing and -equal partnership with the United States , rather than as the American satellite which she had become in the latter phases of the Second World War .
7 Molly spoke with quiet confidence as though she had become in the few hours since their arrival the owner of ‘ La Felicità ’ and the organizer of life in the house .
8 ‘ I wondered if she had gone through the same situation and if she had got into the car . ’
9 I wondered if she had gone through the same situation and if she had got into the car .
10 SHITO-RYU Hot on the heels of Funakoshi from Okinawa came Kenwa Mabuni , who had studied under the same master , but who also had two other teachers , named Itosu and Higaonna .
11 The new agency would be directed by Yuri Koptev , who had worked with the former Soviet military complex VPK , and would had a staff of 150 people .
12 Moreover , given the striking similarity between the seasons , octagonal arrangement from Chedworth and mosaic H from Woodchester ( Smith 1969 , 101 ) , it seems almost certain that the seasons mosaic was the product of craftsman who had worked at the latter site .
13 Marriage between a blood son and an adopted daughter who had nursed at the same breast would be incestuous , haram — forbidden .
14 The Czechoslovak Communist leader , Klement Gottwald , who had died in the same year as Stalin and was embalmed like him and Lenin , suffered the indignity of springing a leak , loosing fluid , and slowly decomposing .
15 All but one ( Marcin Swiecicki , Minister of Foreign Economic Co-operation ) of the ministers who had belonged to the former ruling Polish United Workers ' Party ( PUWP ) were replaced by Solidarity or Solidarity coalition party members by November 1990 [ see pp. 37621 ; 37841 ; for new government after presidential elections see pp. 37922 ; 37974 ] .
16 Nicholas Edwards at the Welsh Office , George Younger at the Scottish Office , and Mrs Thatcher herself had remained in the same posts since May 1979 .
17 They had descended on the former Jesuit college from all corners of the world representing a variety of organisations from the International Labour Organisation , through the Congress of South African Trades Unions , to the Asian Center for the Progress of Peoples , the cross-border American wo-men 's organisation Mujer á Mujer , and the London Hazards Centre .
18 The central event of the former 's pontificate can hardly fail to be seen as Humanae Vitae in 1968 , central because its publication marked a watershed separating the first years of enthusiasm , of an optimistic post-conciliar implementation in which Rome and leading Catholic theologians were still working more or less hand in hand ( as they had done in the latter years of the Council ) from the far more contestatory and unsure later period .
19 I noticed that when particularly struck by a drawing , his features would assume the same look of wide-eyed amazement that they had done in the latter rôle when Bottom wakes from his dream and begins the speech , ‘ I have had a most rare vision … ’
20 I noticed that when particularly struck by a drawing , his features would assume the same look of wide-eyed amazement that they had done in the latter rôle when Bottom wakes from his dream and begins the speech , ‘ I have had a most rare vision … ’ .
21 He had kept the same job , they had lived in the same house , they had rented the same seaside bungalow for a summer holiday , year in year out .
22 France and Germany established diplomatic relations with Bosnia-Hercegovina on Nov. 12-13 on the basis of the republic 's borders as they had existed within the former Yugoslavia .
23 The CDU parliamentary group had accused Gies ( who had headed the CDU list but had not won a direct seat in the October 1990 Landtag election ) of obliging three other CDU delegates to resign after that election by alleging that they had worked for the former East German " Stasi " security police .
24 In fact Major Wiseman 's letter preserves an inaccurate memory — not surprising after so long — of the actual circumstances , for it conflates the events of twelve days and relates them as if they had happened on the same night .
25 Hailing each other , they found that they had come to the same conclusion : that so far as they could tell , in the gloom and confusion , the night was theirs , the camp completely broken up , the enemy scattered and leaderless and unlikely to rally now .
26 But he was in a sense revivified : his heart withstood the weakening effect of his illnesses much better than it had done in the same period of the previous year , and this was the first winter for some time when he had not been forced to seek treatment in a clinic .
27 The office looked as if it had fallen under the same spell of passing time as Dexter , and been unoccupied for weeks rather than hours — the motes of dust , the grime of London gently settling on files , videotapes and yellowing newspapers .
28 At Abbotsfield itself he had lived in the same house as Kate for nearly a month .
29 He estimated that at that time the local wind had become steady at 15 to 20 mph from 300°M , which was less than that on previous occasions when he had operated from the same field .
30 Seb rode to where Noah Plunkett still sat on his sheepskin ‘ throne ’ , giving the impression he had remained in the same place since the wedding party began .
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