Example sentences of "[conj] had [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blake suspected that he was not the first person who had asked himself that question or had come to the same irrational conclusion . |
| 2 | But on the North American mainland , colonies had been affected very little by the earlier wars among European countries ; except for the brief clash that had led to the Dutch loss of New Amsterdam the colonies had fought only with ill-armed Indians and had won their little wars without help from England . |
| 3 | In 1926 an agreement ( the Athens Agreement ) was concluded between Greece and Turkey to settle various difficulties that had arisen under the 1923 Lausanne Peace Treaty . |
| 4 | In the prosecution of the war , the Left discovered far greater opportunities for political advance than any that had arisen from the anti-war struggles of the 1930s . |
| 5 | After a week of fighting , the war that had begun with a thunderous high-tech blitzkrieg in the skies over Baghdad had not yet delivered visible proof of victory . |
| 6 | And while she was having a whisky and eating a piece of cake at eleven o'clock , in a hapless impulse to demonstrate and somehow fix her freebooting mood — though she saw the irrationality of it on a day that had begun with a clear insight that at least she would try to equal his thinness even if she could never hope to achieve the frugality of his expectations — just as she was leaving the last part of the cake , she would think of a better way to write the note . |
| 7 | Now in a short time he would be gone , and the era that had begun in the 1960S with the triumvirate of Harold Wilson , George Brown and myself would be at an end . |
| 8 | In the long wake of a critical career that had begun in the 1930s avowedly in imitation of Richards and Empson and which ended with his death at the age of 83 , his final achievement of style was above all to create , for a time , a compelling image of himself . |
| 9 | They looked what they were : creatures , Spirits of Trees , that had emerged from the ancient Wolfwood from a long , long sleep and who were alive and alert and completely without pity towards their enemies … |
| 10 | He displayed perfectly that contradiction of attitude ( or ‘ supreme paradox ’ , as Phillipson puts it ) in ‘ expert ’ thinking on old age that had emerged by the 1940s — on the one hand portraying the elderly as a disastrous burden on society ( men over the age of 65 and women ova 60 had formed 6.2 per cent of the British population in 1901 , an estimated 12.0 per cent in 1941 , and would be 20.8 per cent in 1971 ) , yet on the other hand , paying lip-service to their status as an exceptionally deserving group : ‘ Provision made for age must be satisfactory ; otherwise great numbers may suffer . |
| 11 | It was swollen with the heavy rain that had fallen during the last few days , and it looked fierce and dark . |
| 12 | Nervously , he stepped into the room and walked around , crunching the broken plaster that had fallen from the crumbling ceiling . |
| 13 | As she crossed the street towards the far corner by the church entrance , the young woman was careful to step over the littering of prawn shells and orange peel , fish tails and broken heads of artichoke that had accumulated in the numerous depressions afforded by the badly laid cobbles . |
| 14 | A world that had hoped for the old uprightness , not for the collective cowardice of Colonel John Stephenson and his spineless masters on the International Cricket Council . |
| 15 | Both the Board of Education and Ministry of Health were acutely sensitive on this issue , given the controversy that had raged in the 1930s over the issue of child malnutrition and ill health . |
| 16 | For all that they were wrapped in fog , the revolver that had appeared in a gloved hand was all too visible to Sergeant Joe . |
| 17 | In translating the original constant price figure for the department that had appeared in the public expenditure White Paper into the new cash limit figure , the Treasury estimated the likely price and wage increases for the year ahead . |
| 18 | On the morning of Tuesday , 3 April 1934 , at 7.40 a.m. , the workers marched into the yard to the skirl of the pipes and began to clean away the rust and the nests of rooks that had appeared in the giant skeleton of the hull as it lay neglected during years of depression . |
| 19 | It was a song she 'd heard many times in the past , one that had stayed in the popular charts for months . |
| 20 | In the first letter , dated 4 March 1991 , reference was made to the fluid and confused situation that had followed upon the successful coup : |
| 21 | Competition was further boosted with the lifting of exchange controls in 1979 , and by 1981 the competition that had grown within the monetary sector spilled over to confront building societies as banks moved into mortgage lending . |
| 22 | With the milled edge of the coin he chipped at the red-brown crust that had formed between the lower lip of the cap of the bolt and the metal sheet plate of the carriage flooring . |
| 23 | Black pretended not to overhear , but mused at the private world of women and the bond that had formed between the two . |
| 24 | The eventual collapse of the adjustable peg system came about as a result of intensification of the pressures that had developed during the 1960s . |
| 25 | Stenhouse 's proposal was in marked contrast , not only to Hoyle 's , but , for different reasons , to the tradition of curriculum development that had developed in the 1960s , both in the UK and the USA . |
| 26 | Though some of the original contributions by Sir George Grove [ q.v. ] were still retained , Blom was able to take account of the huge expansion of musical scholarship and history that had occurred during the preceding quarter of a century . |
| 27 | The number of duodenal ulcer episodes that had occurred during the previous two years was noted . |
| 28 | The Brett-Jones Report , eleven years later , reiterated and reinforced the principal points of the Wells and Eve Reports , and recognised the enormous changes that had occurred in the intervening years . |
| 29 | Denholm was surrounded by an almost palpable aura of aristocratic exhaustion that had disturbed and irritated Talbot in the early stage of their acquaintanceship , a feeling that had lasted for no more than half an hour . |
| 30 | Mr Prescott , who was given a rousing reception after his election to Labour 's national executive earlier this week , condemned Paul Channon , the former Secretary of State for Transport , for refusing to accept that government policies had played a part in the series of transport disasters that had occured over the last two years . |