Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dimas had reportedly clashed with the Prime Minister 's wife , Marika Mitsotakis , who had publicly reprimanded him for his behaviour towards Greek industrialists accompanying the official party . |
| 2 | Ms Nadia Comaneci was still performing on the long bar for Romania , but her gymnastic trainers had already defected to the US . |
| 3 | If the parties had not agreed on the naming of the appointing authority , or if the authority which |
| 4 | Four parties had previously collaborated with the SED within the National Front : ( i ) the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) which merged with the West German CDU on Oct. 1 [ see p. 37761 ] ; ( ii ) the Democratic Farmers ' Party of Germany ( DBD ) , whose chair , Günther Maleuda , resigned on June 25 and was temporarily replaced by Ulrich Junghanns pending a merger with the CDU ; ( iii ) the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany ( LDPD ) , which renamed itself the Liberal Democratic Party and joined the new League of Free Democrats in February 1990 and merged with the West German FDP in August [ see p. 37661 ] ; and ( iv ) the National Democratic Party of Germany ( NDPD ) which joined the League of Free Democrats in March [ see pp. 37260 ; 37302 ] . |
| 5 | True , she was getting a belly on her now , her neck had started to sag , but her attractions had always gone beyond the merely physical . |
| 6 | Therefore the process of the naturalisation of economic relationships had already begun before the transition period was embarked upon . |
| 7 | politically , too , despite tensions over Berlin and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 , the furore over the U2 incident when an American reconnaissance plane was shot down over the Soviet Union , and the shock of the Soviet lead in space exploration and technology , tensions between the two superpowers had not returned to the glacial levels of a decade earlier . |
| 8 | But as two months had already elapsed since the end of the previous contracts , this would mean that for some weeks the players would be getting more than the permitted £4 a week maximum . |
| 9 | By the time of the completion of the audit , over six months had already elapsed since the end of the year covered by these accounts . |
| 10 | A survey for the Welsh Consumers ' Council shows that 40pc of shoppers had never heard of the Government 's citizens ' charter despite publicity costing £350,000 . |
| 11 | The defendants had not relied on the clause but had reached a negotiated settlement in similar prior cases . |
| 12 | In former days this emotional moment could not arise because archbishops had little say in the choice of bishops and no say at all in the choice of their successor . |
| 13 | They said that Chen Zeming 's parents had previously written to the Supreme Court calling for a retrial of the two men and questioning the independence of the courts . |
| 14 | A FATAL accident inquiry at Ayr into the deaths of two schoolboy friends who drowned in a flooded quarry yesterday heard that the boys ’ parents had not known of the dangers . |
| 15 | The parents had all departed into the warehouse with Uncle Knacker to ‘ knock up a few looseboxes ’ . |
| 16 | These functions had previously come under the Treasury . |
| 17 | As David Griffiths ( 1970 ) points out , these two élite factions had not met since the notorious Bonnington Conference in 1948 when war between two views of drama educators was openly declared . |
| 18 | According to reports , Meneses had earlier worked with the Colombian police and the US Drug Enforcement Agency to capture Escobar and had recently reached a deal with the Cali cartel to provide protection and intelligence services . |
| 19 | He was dressed in traditional subfusc brown with a ragged sweater and a Viyella check shirt that his father must have handed down to him , and addressed Jack as if the status of professional golfers had not changed since the thirties . |
| 20 | The Northern Regional Strategy Team had commented on the relatively small rate of owner-occupation and planners had long whinged about the impact of the shortage of ‘ executive housing ’ on industrial development . |
| 21 | Pro-Chinese elements had traditionally convened in the Federation of Trade Unions and through complex webs of professional , social and business organizations . |
| 22 | If enthusiasts had not travelled from the Private Greens , the Provincial Bowling Association and especially , the Northern Ireland Bowling Association there would have been a sepulchral atmosphere about the whole thing . |
| 23 | On the question of Poland , Lenin accepted much of Rosa Luxemburg 's case that circumstances had qualitatively changed since the time of Marx — ‘ the restoration of Poland , prior to the fall of capitalism , is highly improbable , but it can not be asserted that it is absolutely impossible ’ . |
| 24 | Despite the fact that Gassendi and Boyle took care to find a place for God and the soul in their revivals of the theory , its adherents had perpetually to struggle against the undeniable fact that Epicurus had introduced it as a foundation for his explicit materialistic atheism . |
| 25 | The titles of my lectures had not changed since the early sixties : Bernini , Borromini , Carlo Fontana , Sculpture I and Sculpture II . |
| 26 | A few observers had already commented on the effectiveness of coaching for tests , a factor which was to lead to the first serious public disquiet over tests as measurement of innate , unalterable and asocial ability — although such comments were not yet thoroughly substantiated . |
| 27 | Many gins later , his guests had just come to the end of the petits fours when Wullie Robertson turned up , forcing his way into La Noblesse , looking like the wrath of God , or the son of some Pictish chieftain , and demanding , ‘ Hyacinth ! |
| 28 | The great double doors of the palace had been smashed inwards by a hammerblow from an American Civil War vintage sixty-five pounder naval gun , which the rebels had somehow recovered from the sunken Atlanta , transporting it on an ox-drawn cart since the wheels were missing from its carriage axles . |
| 29 | He 'd noticed that the geese had just arrived in the back fields . |
| 30 | An inspired guess was made that the failure of the seeds to germinate was because its seeds had not passed through the gut of the dodo ( Raphus cucullatus ) , extinct since 1681 . |