Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] had [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the researchers re-imaged the same area , they found they had created small groups of three atoms , arranged in a triangle , which appeared higher than their neighbours . |
| 2 | Ukraine ( except in the formerly Habsburg part ) and Macedonia showed no signs of wanting to break away until the USSR and Yugoslavia had been destroyed by other hands , and they found they had to take some action in self-defence . |
| 3 | They found they had to aid each other to achieve coupling , or they would slip apart to achieve nothing . |
| 4 | The round-up took two weeks and the army found it had to move 232 elephants . |
| 5 | The Cathars believed you had to forgo earthly pleasures . |
| 6 | The inquest heard doctors believed they had followed usual procedures . |
| 7 | During a five-day smog in the Ruhr area of West Germany in January 1985 the authorities believed they had achieved overall emission reductions of about 30 per cent , including 14 per cent of sulphur dioxide from power stations and 40–50 per cent of oxides of nitrogen from traffic ( Lubkert , 1989 ) . |
| 8 | The children themselves appeared , and after a second summer spent playing at the M's farm , and becoming ‘ socialised ’ by contact with that family , it seemed they had made some progress . |
| 9 | Bums believed he had answered political demand : ‘ The people are really … satisfied with the new constitution they have gained ’ , he told the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association , adding , ‘ It is no good trying to hurry the Africans . ’ |
| 10 | Although self educated he had written many books and papers on science , philosophy and religion . |
| 11 | It seemed he had lost all interest in that too . |
| 12 | He admitted fondling his ex-girlfriend 's daughter , but Social services assumed it had accurred 5 years before and his own children were n't in danger . |
| 13 | Heather hit the headlines last week when we revealed she had dumped several pairs of her husband 's old socks , only to learn later he had hidden £500 in the sole of one . |
| 14 | And then you got You had to go three times a week ? |
| 15 | I had thought it all through ; I reckoned I had covered all possibilities . |
| 16 | Mr Goldring claimed she had injected one baby with potassium . |
| 17 | Mrs Theresa Briscoe , a widow with a farm within 500 yards of the mine told the Irish Times that since the mine opened she had lost four horses and some fifty cattle and sheep to lead poisoning . |
| 18 | A post-mortem examination showed he had suffered internal injuries , said a spokesman . |
| 19 | At night , at certain seasons , it glowed like fire , sometimes it seemed but the portal of a well-lighted hall ; and one old stone-breaker declared he had heard wonderful music issuing therefrom , the like of which he had never heard before ; while on one occasion he had seen troops of gaily-dressed elfins repairing thither , some on foot and some in carriages , and they all went into this mysterious hall . |
| 20 | A FRESH row brewed last night over the contentious Channel Tunnel rail link through the south-east of England after the Labour Party claimed it had obtained full details of the route . |
| 21 | Transport costs cut into that favourable balance ; the Company reckoned it had to sell Indian cotton textiles at 2½ to 3 times their Indian price to cover costs , and dividends were not normally above 7 or 8 per cent a year . |
| 22 | Rain guessed what had caused such changes : the realization that her talent did not stretch very far ; the passing of a way of life which had been so thrilling ; impending old age with few friends , little money and no certainty of a roof over her head . |
| 23 | Later we discovered she had hit some obstruction and lost an engine — hence her strange behaviour . |
| 24 | From this , Mrs Lamport discovered she had misread one name and her researches into Mrs Piggott were scrapped while she took up the new challenge in the name of Mrs Pigou , a theatre-goer of French origin . |
| 25 | He had been unpopular in the city since an inquiry in 1321 which led to the curbing of the city 's liberties ; the citizens had probably helped Mortimer to escape from the Tower , and Froissart , who was a Hainaulter himself and may have written on good authority , said that even before Isabella landed she had received secret assurances of support from them . |
| 26 | Anyway , they all sensed they had to make this work . |
| 27 | PENSIONER Charlie Hill was celebrating a £180 fruit-machine win yesterday when he heard he had scooped another £2 million-plus on the pools . |
| 28 | But when he heard what had happened that morning his face darkened and he turned angrily on Sam . |
| 29 | But then I decided I had broken enough hands tonight . |
| 30 | But I met a man on the road to the other village — I 've pursued them over the mountain from Keswick and you know the road divides two ways — and he swore they had come this way . ’ |