Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a month I had lived in an open tent , a hundred yards from the nearest human being , and from dawn to dusk had wandered through the jungles , and on several occasions had disguised myself as a woman and cut grass in places where no local inhabitant dared to go . |
| 2 | Admission into the complex followed a similar pattern to that I had seen in the English prisons : searches , registration , allocation , different coloured uniforms for the various categories of prisoner , etc . |
| 3 | M. Chaillot was by now unexpectedly by my side , opening a huge satin-covered box of chocolates of the cream-filled variety I had seen in the local shop . |
| 4 | I was confused and still worried that there might be horses and that I had not changed my bloomers which were wet from where I had fallen in the icy fish . |
| 5 | In 1984 I had run in a makeshift team against the projected Olympic foursome . |
| 6 | By the time I had replaced the telephone in its cradle I had realized in a sudden , terrifying swoop of misery that I was in genuine danger . |
| 7 | The first day I got back to work , my foreman asked me what I had gained in the last twelve weeks . |
| 8 | He was of Italian stock , as was the proprietor of a blues recording studio I had met in the Deep South of America . |
| 9 | Nye Bevan I had met in the 1950s — again through George Wigg — and had come to know almost intimately . |
| 10 | Although I had tarried in the Happy Isles for well over an hour , the actual handjob was the work of a moment — forty-five seconds , I 'd say . |
| 11 | What sins , what meannesses , what grave errors I had committed in the previous ten years had been forgiven me . |
| 12 | I sat in the armchair and was entertained by the funniest and most unorthodox brand of humour I had experienced in the short time in which I had graced the Earth with my presence . |
| 13 | For eight years I had revelled in the dual careers of journalism and broadcasting , between 1929 and 1937 , and these years coincided with the ‘ boom to bust ’ period , winding up with the deepest depression of the century . |
| 14 | Already I had put in a formal application to Gladstone Murray for a producer 's post with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , and Ernie Bushnell suggested I submit a programme script for consideration . |
| 15 | I turned to find that somebody had capsized in the shallowest part of the river . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , several governments which had participated in the US-led coalition against Iraq now sought to assure Iran that there was no plan to exclude it from post-war regional security arrangements . |
| 17 | The relaxed air which had reigned in the warm little living room of Rose Cottage seemed suddenly to have evaporated . |
| 18 | There were clear regional and local distinctions , with their variable impact on economic prosperity , which imposed themselves upon the income , cultural and status divisions which had emerged in the nineteenth century and persisted into the twentieth . |
| 19 | In order to decide what to include in the questionnaire we drew first of all on issues which had emerged in the two case studies . |
| 20 | Formalizing a consensus which had emerged in the previous month [ see p. 38937 ] , the foreign ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) , meeting in Oslo , Norway , on June 4 , reached agreement on the alliance 's future role in international peacekeeping operations , notably in support of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) . |
| 21 | Kissinger even hoped to make 1973 the ‘ Year of Europe ’ in which the Atlantic alliance could be restored to full health , ending the distrust between America and Europe which had developed in the 1960s . |
| 22 | Sheila Cunningham , of Norfolk North , said the present system was unfair and perpetuated the elective dictatorship which had developed in the 1980s . |
| 23 | Berkeley 's philosophy marks the turn of the tide against the world picture which had developed in the seventeenth century , and which had reached one of its classical expositions in Locke 's Essay . |
| 24 | the rain which had threatened in a previous scene |
| 25 | Vitor frowned up at the scattering of cloud which had appeared in the clear blue sky . |
| 26 | These images came to her from the metal engravings of the conquest of Libya which had appeared in the illustrated journals ; she did not remember the different countries of the Italian empire in question , for all of Africa — Libya , Somalia , Eritrea alike — beat out a rhythm of adventure and spoils and heroism . |
| 27 | It was a long report of the inquest on Melanie Gandell which had appeared in the Daily Telegraph . |
| 28 | Repayment in full of Romania 's foreign debt , which had peaked in the early 1980s at more than US$11,000 million , had been a priority of the Ceausescu regime in its last years and had been accomplished by April 1989 [ see p. 36622 ] . |
| 29 | Thus the atoll , which had existed in the last interglacial , reformed in the Post-glacial period ( Fig. 8.35C ) . |
| 30 | It was reported in February 1990 that victims of nuclear testing in the islands , which had ended in the 1950s , would receive $45,000,000 in compensation from the USA . |