Example sentences of "[conj] had [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It went against all biological sense to suggest that the receptors and the elaborate physiological adaptations which they set in motion had no purpose , or had evolved in response to taking opium . |
| 2 | Although some strikes went ahead , the estimated 30,000 Russian workers in 18 enterprises who stopped work on May 21 were fewer than had participated in strikes for Russian minority rights in August 1989 [ see pp. 36854-55 ] . |
| 3 | The sweat that had begun in anticipation of what she might encounter in the street now ran in fear of her mother 's rage ; Nunzia 's eyes had gone hard and wrinkled like black olive pips when Rosa had produced the plover , and she had clucked impatiently with her tongue when Rosa lied and said her grandfather had shot it and presented it to her . |
| 4 | The cells were stimulated with peptides that had bound to HLA-B53 in the HLA assembly assay , each at 25μM , pooled as follows : cp6 , cp6.1 , cp6.2 , sh1 , sh6 ; and ls6 , tr15 , tr16 and tr20 . |
| 5 | But more compelling were her dark expressive eyes , eyes that had widened with shock on seeing Tyler there , eyes that might have spoken to him of anger but instead had betrayed something much deeper , and far more dangerous . |
| 6 | This showed how very different everything was from the situation that had developed in England over the course of centuries , and colonial developments always gave Englishmen the idea that they were moving into empty land and seeing what could be made out of it . |
| 7 | The sense of panic about over-population that had swept across England in the late sixteenth century , and had made emigration look like the answer to problems of poverty and disorder , had died down and there were even suggestions that a substantial population helped economic expansion . |
| 8 | An analysis of isolates from 210 patients attending regional clinics in Edinburgh and Manchester between 1986 and 1992 showed that the main cause of increased isolations of P cepacia from 1989 was the emergence of an epidemic strain that had spread between patients in both clinics . |
| 9 | At least to that branch of it that had rooted at Edendale in Southland , NZ , where it was now summer . |
| 10 | In his Sonnets Shakespeare achieved the rather remarkable feat of turning to new and individual ends a genre that had flourished throughout Europe for several centuries and was in effect beginning to die at the time when he wrote , in the mid 1590s . |
| 11 | After that , everything changed and everything that had seemed to Dot to be all right disappeared . |
| 12 | It was one of the things that had disappeared from Renascia towards the end and it gave Fenella an odd , rather out-of-balance feeling to see dawn light again . |
| 13 | Rose told him everything that had happened to Oliver since then . |
| 14 | Two British men were being questioned after being arrested when the tablets were found on Saturday concealed in holdalls in a Peugeot estate that had arrived in Dover by ferry from Calais . |
| 15 | Two British men were being questioned after being arrested when the tablets were found on Saturday concealed in holdalls in a Peugeot estate that had arrived in Dover by ferry from Calais . |
| 16 | The level of funding was sufficient to cover 100 per cent of the benefits that had accrued to members after allowing for expected future pay increases . |
| 17 | IT WAS with great shock that we heard the sad news that had died in hospital on Friday , May 21 , only a few weeks before he was due to retire . |
| 18 | During the Second World War Dall was one of a dozen experts called to Farnborough to examine the wreckage of a V2 rocket that had crashed in Sweden on a test flight . |
| 19 | In May and June 1945 de Gaulle clashed with the Americans over the presence of French troops in Alpine regions that had belonged to Italy before the war . |
| 20 | After the Tower Report was published in February 1987 , and the PROF notes revealed that had passed by computer between the characters , the basement became home to a band of five-o'clock-shadowed Boy Scouts delighting in their own secrecy . |
| 21 | They were on exactly the same wavelength as Massim d'Azeglio who said , after Italy had been politically unified : ‘ We have made Italy , now we have to make Italians ’ , that is out of the inhabitants of the peninsula who had all sorts of identities , but not one based on a language they did not speak , and a state that had come into existence over their heads . |
| 22 | Its ultimate objective would be the establishment of a ‘ genuinely democratic and self-governing social organism ’ in place of the authoritarian and bureaucratic system that had come into existence in the Stalinist years . |
| 23 | " I do wish I had a Naughty Friend , " Nicandra spoke from the bottom of her heart as she lagged her way back to Dada and the sofa , bringing the red leather-bound book that had lain on top of other red leather-bound books piled one above the other on the lower shelf of a mahogany whatnot . |
| 24 | The boys were with Mrs Titcombe and young Thomas reported that his father was concerned about Rhoda and had gone in search of her . |
| 25 | I had left Jamaica when I was seven years of age and had lived in England for nineteen years . |
| 26 | They had moved together and had stood in front of a monument , seemingly absorbed . |
| 27 | On the real occasion , Comfort had arrived back from the river and had stood in front of them both , her blonde hair a mass of tangled curls , each curl spangled with water . |
| 28 | Armitage suggested that the shortfall for fiscal 1990 was $96,000,000 and had arisen from cuts in Bush 's aid request imposed by Congress , whereas Manglapus claimed that the true figure , based on the estimated cost of other " unfulfilled promises " , was $222,580,000 . |
| 29 | This Commission had undertaken an immensely detailed study of poverty and poor relief and had ended in conflict between the majority of its members and a minority composed of Beatrice Webb , George Lansbury , Frances Chandler and the Rev. Russell Wakefield , Dean of Norwich . |
| 30 | Another German atrocity was the execution by firing squad , in 1915 , of Nurse Edith Cavell , who had been matron of a Belgian Hospital in Brussells since 1907 , and had stayed on duty despite the German invasion of that country , and who had been accused by the Germans , of assisting British , French and Belgian soldiers to escape captivity . |