Example sentences of "the [noun] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great anger had heated up , one of Robertson 's new windows had been shattered by a stone , and the womenfolk had made a move to drag the teacher out and throw him in the river . |
| 2 | All the sheep were on lower ground where they could be reached by men on horseback , and the womenfolk had laid in stocks of flour and yeast , so that there was no shortage of food . |
| 3 | Some of the womenfolk had turned away , unable to look . |
| 4 | However , prior to the Paras going in , The Prudes had proved a completely distinctive and revelatory experience . |
| 5 | They were glad to see it , as they had packed some food in one of the suitcases , and directly the porter had gone they set about preparing a meal . |
| 6 | Charlotte booked into a hotel in the centre of Boston and hunted down the telephone directory in her room as soon as the porter had left . |
| 7 | The porter had stayed almost half an hour — presumably dismantling and re-constructing a perfectly healthy tap — and by the time he had left , it was true , she 'd felt far more relaxed . |
| 8 | Indeed , the French envoy de Craon knew more , claiming the Prince had told him about Lady Eleanor 's death long before the porter had even reached Woodstock . |
| 9 | Then , her heart in her mouth , she went into the pub , located the public call box in the lobby and dialled the number the porter had given her . |
| 10 | He said the activities had ‘ gone too far ’ and such behaviour was not in the interest of ‘ stability , unity and the four modemisations ’ . |
| 11 | Mr Lightman said that at the time of the libel trial the defence had no idea that this payment had been made . |
| 12 | It looked as if the defence had made its point . |
| 13 | Mr Nichol demanded : ‘ Who leaked this report before we in the defence had a chance to see it ? ’ |
| 14 | The allegation of the defence had to be met and properly dealt with , so the matter would be returned to the justices for them to look at the circumstances and come to a proper determination after they had heard further evidence . |
| 15 | ( 3 ) That since it could not be said that the jury would inevitably have convicted the defendant if before the trial the defence had been given the statement of the deceased 's husband and the two statements of her sister , if the jury had properly been directed with regard to evidence as to the defendant 's previous good character , and if they had received guidance from the judge on their problem concerning the evidence , the proviso to section 14(1) of the Judicature ( Appellate Jurisdiction ) Act could not be applied to uphold the conviction ; and that , accordingly , the case would be remitted to the Court of Appeal of Jamaica with the direction that it should quash the conviction and either enter a verdict of acquittal or order a new trial , whichever it considered proper in the interests of justice ( post , p. 169C–D , G–H ) . |
| 16 | The case against the defendant was indeed a strong one and for that reason their Lordships would not be prepared simply to recommend that an acquittal be ordered , but they do not feel able to say that the jury would inevitably have convicted , if the defence had been furnished in advance with the three statements in question and if the jury had received the accepted direction on evidence as to character and guidance from the trial judge on the problem , whatever it was , indicated when they first returned to court . |
| 17 | The assistant recorder was right to find , as he did , that the allegations of agency set out in the defence had not been made out . |
| 18 | As a result , I reacted in front of the jury in a way which may have made them think that , in fact , the defence had nothing to lose by disclosure of the statement . |
| 19 | One day he reported that the defence had claimed that partisan warfare was contrary to the Hague Convention , that the Germans therefore had every right to take reprisals against the partisans , and that any excesses on their part were explained if not justified by their horror of what the partisans did . |
| 20 | On Oct. 15 , 1989 , a controversial retrial of 15 Islamic extremists ( who had been associates of Bouiali-see above ) was abandoned after the defence had successfully argued that a regional court was not competent to try their case following the Supreme Court 's refusal to do so . |
| 21 | Although the defence had demanded the release of extracts from Reagan 's diaries as a means of circumventing the memory lapses suffered by the former President , Reagan had cited executive privilege in order to resist the move [ see pp. 37240-41 ] . |
| 22 | Bush hailed the verdict as a " victory against the drug lords " but Noriega 's chief attorney Frank Rubino , promising lengthy appeals , stated that it had been a political case ; the defence had effectively been prevented from treating it as such , and the judge had instructed the jury on April 3 not to consider any political aspects of the case . |
| 23 | At Southwark Crown Court , he said it was a fraud against the Inland Revenue involving unpaid corporation tax and not , as the defence had claimed , a swindle perpetrated abroad by others against Japanese tax authorities . |
| 24 | While the others seemed still obsessed with the catastrophe of 1870 , Pétain was assiduously and pragmatically studying more recent campaigns such as the Boer War and the RussoJapanese War of 1905 , where the defence had given so good an account of itself . |
| 25 | The response had been massive strikes in the public sector . |
| 26 | The purchaser will not necessarily wish to be paid as if the income had been taxed . |
| 27 | Thus , if in the year 1992/93 the income was £100 and the trustees paid the basic rate of tax because the income had a UK source of £25 and the additional rate of tax of £10 the amount of income available at the end of 1993 is £65 . |
| 28 | So they do n't use up all the prot all the neutrons that the uranium had . |
| 29 | He said hundreds of thousands of jobs and lives had been destroyed while the Premier had done nothing but watch it happen . |
| 30 | Mr Smith said when the Premier had been quizzed about poverty in Britain recently he had snapped back : ‘ What poverty ? ’ |