Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [vb pp] during the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A committee of professors , who were also our teachers , would judge us on the marks we had had during the past four years , especially this last year , and award diplomas accordingly . |
| 2 | In a wartime bulletin of 1942 , staff were advised to urge customers to bring their own receptacles for food shopping , as they had done during the Great War . |
| 3 | Early on , she demanded from each member a list of the people they had consulted during the previous three months . |
| 4 | They had met during the early months of the war at the home of Woodcock 's uncle , the Midland Bank manager Fred Elt who , though respectably employed , was something of a Bohemian in his fondness for mistresses and for paintings . |
| 5 | The group sessions , which ran for 90 minutes each week , opened with the clients discussing what they had eaten during the previous week . |
| 6 | Iris held it in front of her nose , showing the scratches and scuff marks it had collected during the nerve-racking passage to Fernand 's cave . |
| 7 | Her collarbone was ambushing her with surprise guerrilla raids of searing pain while her head was screaming revenge for the ordeals it had undergone during the past twelve hours . |
| 8 | Within the local community it had survived during the Middle Ages and even to a certain extent right up to the nineteenth century , in spite of a foreign overlay of feudal institutions coming from western and southern Europe . |
| 9 | It marked it out as a patriotic party , in contrast to the general image it had earned during the 1920s . |
| 10 | Government was particularly anxious that neither group should retain the relative economic dominance which it had acquired during the colonial period , and exchange rate management was one means by which this dominance could be restrained . |
| 11 | The time had come , Pravda argued , for a return to the essence of socialism , and for a break with the distorted form it had acquired during the 1930s and 1940s . |
| 12 | Only one Valence had returned , to die slowly of poisons he had absorbed during the long march . |
| 13 | Everything that he had written during the previous four years on the overriding need to oppose fascism , on the need to defend nation states through the creation of a Strong system of alliances based on collective security , and on the central role of the Soviet Union in promoting peace and stability , all was reduced to the level of absurdity by the Nazi-Soviet pact , the invasion of Poland and subsequently the war in Finland . |
| 14 | They had an agent , they said , who lived close to where he had lived during the short period after his return from Canada . |
| 15 | This was seen by some as an attempt to improve his image abroad after remarks which he had made during the presidential election campaign to the effect that he was " untainted " with Jewishness . |
| 16 | During the course of the 1929–31 government , MacDonald gradually appreciated that the hopes which he had entertained during the 1920s of eliminating the Liberals and winning over the whole of the progressive vote for the Labour party could not be achieved . |
| 17 | There was no hint of the troubling flirtatiousness which had confused her on earlier occasions , yet neither was his manner that of the ‘ matey , all good pals together ’ variety which he had adopted during the first weeks of their friendship . |
| 18 | Although Creggan had progressed northwards well he had slowed during the last day or two as he grew tired easily and rested by feeding off rubbish dumps he had seen where gulls and crows fed . |
| 19 | Charlie sat in the carriage of a train bound for Edinburgh and thought about the actions he had taken during the past four days . |
| 20 | As he had shown during the German occupation , there was no substitute for an early and accurate reading of the trajectory of events . |