Example sentences of "[noun sg] the [noun] had [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quick as a flash the doctor had cut the cord , passed the child to Matilda Jenkins , and was stitching away at Sarah as if his own life depended on it . |
| 2 | To replenish the nursing stock the NHS had become the biggest public sector recruiter of qualified labour , taking one in three of female school leavers with between five " O " levels or GCSEs and two " A " levels . |
| 3 | In another entry the master had sent the porter for the medical officer at three o'clock in the morning to attend a single woman in childbirth . |
| 4 | Dionysius the Areopagite had adopted the name of St Paul 's first Greek convert . |
| 5 | By nightfall the Germans had taken the villages of Forges and Regneville and the important Height 265 on Goose Ridge ( Côte de l'Oie ) . |
| 6 | In panic the dealer had offloaded the stuff on to a willing client . |
| 7 | During the course of the election campaign the King had criticized the aims of the pro-democracy dissidents , claiming that it was only himself and the nobility who were keeping Tonga free from communism . |
| 8 | By the outbreak of the war the State had reorganised the railways into four companies where there had been 130 before ; nationally owned corporations had been created in broadcasting and air passenger transport ; a national grid for electricity supply had been created and a national supply industry organised ; agriculture had been rescued from the doldrums by regulation of its prices and quota systems ; while encouragement had been given to sometimes savage reductions of capacity in shipbuilding , textiles and mining . |
| 9 | Beyond the top of the sky was the place the Thing had called the universe . |
| 10 | Earlier in the day the House had rejected the budget drawn up by President George Bush by 335 votes to 89 , with 74 Republicans joining the Democratic majority in opposition to the proposal . |
| 11 | In the square the flower-sellers had lit the naphtha flares in the buckets set along the cobblestones . |
| 12 | Rumour had it that on a less poetic occasion the Emperor had visited the pavilion accompanied only by Mme Walewska , his current favourite , embarking in a small rowing boat and returning with the lady only after a considerable lapse of time . |
| 13 | For a while the authorities had replaced the Bunsen burners , test-tubes , textbooks and phials of chemicals which fell victim to the ravages of the undisciplined , but they had been forced to accept defeat . |
| 14 | At the London School of Economics the students had occupied the premises in February 1967 as their struggle intensified . |
| 15 | But Caldaire managing director Mike Widmer said last night the councils had short-changed the bus company over the concessionary fare scheme since 1989 . |
| 16 | On 27 April the Prime Minister , Harold Wilson , informed the House of Commons that on his advice The Queen had approved the dissolution of the Royal Commission . |
| 17 | Within a week the news had reached the United States , sparking off a campaign by Irish-born priest Father Sean McManus against the Blues . |
| 18 | In the previous week the manor had cut the time to the summit by five minutes , but this was still two minutes short of the performance of No 75069 in June . |
| 19 | Dreadlock Doom the jailer had discovered the loss of his prisoners and , cursing horribly , was running back to Mutton House . |
| 20 | But his claim the government had increased the provision for the Children Act in local authorities ' budgets by 14 per cent was greeted with derision from the floor . |
| 21 | In a city where public executions , duels , fights , magical feuds and strange events regularly punctuated the daily round the inhabitants had brought the profession of interested bystander to a peak of perfection . |
| 22 | During the first thirty-six years of the century the pope had taxed the English church to the tune of almost £450,000 , of which some £360,000 was earmarked for the king , a sum more than three times the amount produced in that time by direct royal taxation of the clergy . |
| 23 | Moreover , this may be why Æthelred 's charters sometimes take care to describe the legitimacy of the way the King had acquired the land being granted away . |
| 24 | On Friday , John Birt , director-general-designate , sent a message of congratulations to journalists in which he defended the way the BBC had handled the campaign . |
| 25 | Mr Mallard said he was also unhappy with the way the MoD had handled the matter after their son 's death . |
| 26 | Looking at the way the Commission had construed the rules , the House decided that the determination was a nullity . |
| 27 | The race is challenging enough in normal conditions , but this year the storms had turned the Wye into a torrent . |
| 28 | In the weeks of intense political feuding before the poll the hard-liners had accused the government and sections of the religious establishment , including the country 's spiritual leader , Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , of attempting to purge them from positions of influence . |
| 29 | But by the time the policeman had slipped the imposing piece of plastic back into its place and handed the wallet over with a ponderous , ‘ That seems to be in order , sir , ’ she had accepted the truth . |
| 30 | He was diverted during coffee by a thumb nail sketch of that fruitless expedition , but by the time the sommelier had visited the table with Cognac a second time , he was back to the great danger of ennui in the BEF , and 2nd Grenadiers ’ seven months in France spent cultivating a defensive mentality which could well be disastrous if hostilities ever broke out . |