Example sentences of "[conj] had [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I NEVER ever went to a gig or had even heard of the term ‘ gig ’ before I joined the band , ’ says the little girl who owns pop 's most exquisite voice . |
| 2 | If the Justice of the Forest discovered that a wood was without a woodward , or that a woodward had not taken the oath or had not appeared at the Forest Eyre to be sworn , or neglected his duty , or committed trespasses in the forest , the wood in question was seized for the king , but the owner was usually allowed to recover it on payment of a fine . |
| 3 | The Spanish Civil War was producing a stronger antagonism to Fascism and the National Government than had previously existed in the Opposition . |
| 4 | It was the attempt by the men to boycott these employers , energetically undertaken , that had eventually led to the collapse , through debt , of the Northern District Board ( the predecessor of the STA ) in 1847. " - In later years several of the STA 's " forward movements " , that is claims for higher pay or shorter hours , began in Edinburgh . |
| 5 | If the disaffiliated Party were to prosper it would have to attract those that had previously turned to the Communist Party . |
| 6 | The trucks thumped heavily past , one by one , with slow inevitable movement , as she stood insignificantly trapped between the jolting black waggons and the hedge ; then they curved away towards the coppice where the withered oak leaves dropped noiselessly , while the birds , pulling at the scarlet hips beside the track , made off into the dusk that had already crept into the spinney ( 4 ) . |
| 7 | For example , he did not treat the Punic wars as repetitions of events that had already occurred in the past and would occur again in the future . |
| 8 | Swallowing hard the consultant patiently suggested that he contact hotel reception for help ; an idea that had n't occurred to the businessman . |
| 9 | This was a great age of Catholic history and the importance of the Council can only be appreciated if the strength of the Church it triggered into a spiral of reform — a strength that had steadily grown beneath the surface in the pontificate of Pius XII — is well appreciated . |
| 10 | Horse-racing , a sport that had largely remained in the hands of the aristocracy and which was the object of criticism from bourgeois ideologues and socialists alike , grew rapidly in popularity . |
| 11 | It is not going too far to suggest that it was the fame of Chaplin that first allowed many intellectuals to even broach the subject of film and certainly he brought back the possibility of ‘ slumming it ’ that had rather disappeared since the days of music-hall . |
| 12 | The membership of the Commission comprised four members from each of Greece and Turkey , and three members from States that had not participated in the First World War . |
| 13 | To obtain a correct view of the ulcer and stigmata of recent bleeding , the lesions were gently washed to remove blood that had not adhered to the lesions . |
| 14 | Furthermore , even the archaic powers that had not started from the position of being nation-states were forced to compete ; the Tsars thrust their reach eastwards to block the British advance in Asia , to stop the other Europeans in China , and finally to try to halt the westward movement of Japan . |
| 15 | After a short time , some of the braver members of the group drew up their courage to watch West Germany v The United Arab Emirates on the portable black and white that had mysteriously disappeared from the bedroom of 43a St. Clements and reappeared in the canteen room of the Family Centre . |
| 16 | There was no fire there , now , no sign of life , nor of the spirit that had once shrieked at the local folk who had emerged from the fortress demesne to loot and honour the dead : Four black-robed women and one man , robed in grey , a greybeard : he had understood the mythology of stone . |
| 17 | There was the weighted velvet curtain that had once hung in the Star Theatre , now fixed to a huge rod with rings so large that Frankie could slip them over his arms like bangles . |
| 18 | Thus emboldened , Sotheby 's issued their 1 April catalogue to a chorus of disapproval , the most jolting being a letter from Toronto doctor Morton Shulman , who was something of an authority on Schlossmuseum Gotha , having acquired a seventeenth-century clock that had once belonged to the museum . |
| 19 | Outside the circle a few mounds and stones were all that remained of the huddle of huts that had once crowded under the broch 's protection . |
| 20 | The radical attack on señorios came from Aragon and Valencia where the confusion between rent payment and feudal dues was most marked and where the lords had transferred to their Christian subjects the obligations that had once rested on the moriscos . |
| 21 | Everyone agrees it was the most monstrous wave that had ever appeared on the North Shore . |
| 22 | But the ship in which I had arrived in Brobdingnag was the first that had ever come near the coast . |
| 23 | ‘ Do n't you think that had more to do with the World Council of nations assuming power and nationalising religion … ? ’ |
| 24 | But it was the news pages that had really gone off the rails . |
| 25 | She had been totally engrossed in her thoughts , but her body must have switched on to autodrive because she had managed to eat the food on her plate without really tasting it , and had probably contributed to the conversation without even being aware of what she was saying . |
| 26 | The teacher was aware of Prestel and word processing and had previously discussed with the librarian possible uses by her department . |
| 27 | Chattopadhyay had served as a Minister under Indira Gandhi in the 1970s ; following the November 1989 Lok Sabha elections he had unsuccessfully called for the resignation of Rajiv Gandhi as Congress ( I ) leader and had eventually resigned from the party . |
| 28 | But he was badly informed again and had n't calculated for the Americans . |
| 29 | And she believed the whales would remain at Laspi Bay at least for the summer , and had not heard of the widely criticised plans to take them on a travelling display . |
| 30 | Our advice , from solicitors and counsel , remained steadfast : that , in their view , the banks had clearly lost money through their own negligence and had not relied on the company accounts at all . |