Example sentences of "[coord] had [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I NEVER ever went to a gig or had even heard of the term ‘ gig ’ before I joined the band , ’ says the little girl who owns pop 's most exquisite voice . |
| 2 | If the Justice of the Forest discovered that a wood was without a woodward , or that a woodward had not taken the oath or had not appeared at the Forest Eyre to be sworn , or neglected his duty , or committed trespasses in the forest , the wood in question was seized for the king , but the owner was usually allowed to recover it on payment of a fine . |
| 3 | She had been totally engrossed in her thoughts , but her body must have switched on to autodrive because she had managed to eat the food on her plate without really tasting it , and had probably contributed to the conversation without even being aware of what she was saying . |
| 4 | The teacher was aware of Prestel and word processing and had previously discussed with the librarian possible uses by her department . |
| 5 | Chattopadhyay had served as a Minister under Indira Gandhi in the 1970s ; following the November 1989 Lok Sabha elections he had unsuccessfully called for the resignation of Rajiv Gandhi as Congress ( I ) leader and had eventually resigned from the party . |
| 6 | But he was badly informed again and had n't calculated for the Americans . |
| 7 | And she believed the whales would remain at Laspi Bay at least for the summer , and had not heard of the widely criticised plans to take them on a travelling display . |
| 8 | Our advice , from solicitors and counsel , remained steadfast : that , in their view , the banks had clearly lost money through their own negligence and had not relied on the company accounts at all . |
| 9 | The Roman politicians of the post-Gracchan period Posidonius admired were those who had shown moderation and had not yielded to the rapacity of the equestrian class , men like Rutilius Rufus or Lucius Sempronius Asellio , a benefactor of Sicily ( Diod. 37.5 ; 8 ) . |
| 10 | He had raised his concerns with Minister of Law and Order Hernus Kriel and with Adriaan Vlok , the Minister of Correctional Services , Housing and Works , and had also written to the State President three times , but decided to publicize his fears in the Johannesburg Sunday Times after the death earlier in the month of a 19-year-old youth , whose fatal injuries were consistent with eye-witness evidence of police torture . |
| 11 | He had done a reasonable amount of pilot work , firing for some of the older shunt link drivers and had also fired on the local ‘ pick-up ’ , but this at last was the real thing . |
| 12 | We had driven back to the village and had just turned off the road on to the In Salah track . |
| 13 | He walked slowly back to his gallery-duties , by this time in the afternoon virtually non-existent — and had just got to the top of the stairs when he saw Gooseneck advancing towards him carrying a large package . |
| 14 | ‘ We were singing There was a Princess Long Ago and had just got to the last verse , ‘ Now everybody 's happy now ’ , when the headmistress came in and said the King had died . |
| 15 | Within a few years it had 200 local groups , had organized the first London rally against nuclear power ( in 1977 ) , and had effectively intervened in the debate about British nuclear policy . |
| 16 | Part of the misconception arose because the bones of early humans have often been found with bones of other animals , and it was simplistically assumed that this showed that they had killed and eaten other animals , and had later died amid the remains of previous meals . |
| 17 | Thus it seemed that physics was more mature then chemistry , and had already left behind the stage of effervescent and explosive progress in which that science was still so visibly engaged . |
| 18 | She began to landscape the fantasy garden in her mind and had soon forgotten about the slight ache in her hips that came from having her legs curled to one side , and the uncomfortable weave of the wickerwork pressing into the soft skin on the underside of her forearms . |
| 19 | Off we went the next day and had nearly got to the shop when Dad spotted a relief officer . |
| 20 | Dissanayake had competed with Premadasa for the ruling United National Party 's nomination as presidential candidate in 1988 ( as had Lalith Athulathmudali , now transferred from Agriculture to Education ) , and had subsequently differed with the President on such issues as the handling of the withdrawal of Indian troops from Sri Lanka . |
| 21 | Yet here , on the verge of the Lowlands , most of the gentry had hedged their bets ; some had even entertained the Butcher as he progressed triumphally from one massacre to the next and had then bought over the gutted glens and stocked them with the great sheep . |
| 22 | It looked like he had n't washed for months , and had deliberately slept in the worst hovels every night . |
| 23 | They seemed to know when the tragedy of the previous night had occurred , and had maybe come to the theatre in such numbers in the vague hope that they might get a repeat showing . |
| 24 | He was not often given words to speak , and had only to sit in the shade of his massive wings and stare into the middle distance and drift in his imagination to the four corners of the sky . |
| 25 | One day she had plucked up enough courage to look through the doorway , and had almost choked on the clouds of swirling dust . |
| 26 | Couple of tight turns and had almost turned inside the 109 when it made off . |
| 27 | She had called it ‘ Death in the Buildings ’ , and had based it not only on the tragedy she had witnessed , but had also written of the temptation for young girls to make money by selling themselves than by working long hours for poor pay , and had followed that by writing of women 's disabilities in a world where care in childbirth was minimal , and how only the kindness of humane doctors made it possible for them to have any skilled treatment at all . |
| 28 | On Saturday May 18th she had gone to spend the weekend with an unnamed boy friend in Brighton , but had not returned to the clinic . |
| 29 | Jim Lilico , principal environmental health officer for Darlington Council , said the authority was aware of the fly tipping on the British Rail owned land , but had not known about the dead animals . |
| 30 | But had any worked in the laboratory ? |