Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The National Feder-ation of Professional Workers had already objected to the proposed constitutional reforms of the BUF and what they saw as plans for the suppression of Parliament , the imprisonment of opponents , and the establishment of a private army . |
| 32 | On the other hand , the middle classes would have been shocked and appalled if the workers had actually asked for the sort of life they themselves took for granted , and even more if they had looked like achieving it . |
| 33 | Before long English , French , Danish and Basque whale-hunters had all joined in the lucrative trade . |
| 34 | Mr Howell said the ‘ spaghetti junction ’ of organisations had partially stemmed from the economic regeneration funds pumped into the North-East . |
| 35 | The barrel stood beside the cauldron — a good measure of its fiery contents had already disappeared into the seething pot together with some peppermint herbs , firebalm , and certain other ingredients gathered by Gambo early that morning ( a good cook has his secrets , and Gambo had more than most ) . |
| 36 | Iraq categorically denied such reports , but they persisted in the West and one US news agency reported later in the day that Iraqi troops had actually crossed into the Kuwaiti-Saudi Neutral Zone . |
| 37 | The finds included several urns and glass vessels as well as stone and lead coffins ; some graves had even cut through the counterscarp bank of the town 's ditch , suggesting prolonged usage . |
| 38 | A large group of mourners had also gathered outside the 13th-century church of St Mary the Virgin in the Northamptonshire village of Great Brington . |
| 39 | But let us think about what would have happened if the Allies had not retaliated to the indiscriminate bombing of this country and the dive bombing tactics of the Luftwaffe on refugees on the continent . |
| 40 | Firstly , government officials had not gone into the implications for management committees . |
| 41 | At the end of May 1969 the Bank curtly announced that the banks had not complied with the earlier request for the attainment of the lower lending ceiling and that therefore the Bank intended to halve the rate of interest payable on special deposits for as long as the banks exceeded the lending ceiling . |
| 42 | By 1983 surveys had also begun in the Netherlands , France , Austria , Switzerland , Luxembourg and Italy , as well as in many Eastern European countries where short-range pollution involving sulphur dioxide and NOx was still a major problem . |
| 43 | And some teams had better go to the old barn . |
| 44 | These Pontian Greeks had originally lived on the southern coast of the Black Sea ( called Euxinos Pontos or Hospitable Sea in ancient Greek ) . |
| 45 | Equally , individual officers had over reacted to the disturbances with the over zealous use of dogs , truncheons and a number of unlawful weapons . |
| 46 | In his sermons the Chaplain of Cadets had only hinted at the existence of terrible ultimate anti-Gods which stalked the warp , seeking to spill through into the cosmos to corrupt precious reality — the antithesis of all that the Emperor stood for ; forces which Marines should pray that they never encountered . |
| 47 | If the goods had already perished at the time the contract was made , then section 6 is the appropriate section . |
| 48 | However , most research on home care problems had understandably focused on the dementia sufferers ’ informal supporters . |
| 49 | The success of the rural reforms had already faltered in the late 1980s as farmers found that competitive risk-taking generated losses as well as profits . |
| 50 | At the new master 's decree , today was to be a day of merrymaking : workers from his nearby shoe factory had been specially brought in by charabanc , and a syndicate of local industrialists had also gathered for the festivities . |
| 51 | Since 1952 his illustrations for plays had regularly appeared in the Radio Times where , as Rigby Graham has argued , Minton 's knowledge of costume , his sense of period and locale , made him invaluable . |
| 52 | For Rosebery , for Milner , even for Lloyd George , there had been temptation in coalition ever since the Boer War , but such dreams had never come into the political daylight . |
| 53 | A Section was camped in a knoll at the end of a spur near Nasuta and they built an observation point which was approached by a crawl through thickets before climbing a tree to a branch chair — the comfort of its armrests had more to do with the watcher keeping absolutely still than with his ease . |
| 54 | Wendell Harvey regarded his daughter thoughtfully as she rearranged the big vase of flowers one of the servants had just carried into the room . |
| 55 | Her features had not softened with the passing of almost three years ; if anything her face was more chiselled and her blue eyes harder . |
| 56 | At the final endoscopy , 934 ( 97.1% ) of the 962 patients whose duodenal ulcers had not healed at the two week endoscopy had taken their medication regularly , 15 ( 1.6% ) had taken medication irregularly , and information was lacking for 13 ( 1.4% ) patients . |
| 57 | Japanese bureaucrats had long argued against the extension of labour rights to state employees and MacArthur accepted their views in 1948 by depriving civil servants of the right to strike and to bargain collectively . |
| 58 | As Tower Hamlets had not consented to the proposed user Chetnik were prohibited during the material period from allowing the warehouses to be occupied . |
| 59 | Every twenty Roslavl' inhabitants had also to contribute to the support of one hungry child in the distant south-east , whilst every five peasant households had to help one hungry adult . |
| 60 | Most of the inhabitants had probably escaped into the night , and there had been little killing , although a number of women undoubtedly had been caught and forced to pay the price of conquest . |