Example sentences of "[coord] had [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It went against all biological sense to suggest that the receptors and the elaborate physiological adaptations which they set in motion had no purpose , or had evolved in response to taking opium . |
| 2 | The boys were with Mrs Titcombe and young Thomas reported that his father was concerned about Rhoda and had gone in search of her . |
| 3 | I had left Jamaica when I was seven years of age and had lived in England for nineteen years . |
| 4 | They had moved together and had stood in front of a monument , seemingly absorbed . |
| 5 | On the real occasion , Comfort had arrived back from the river and had stood in front of them both , her blonde hair a mass of tangled curls , each curl spangled with water . |
| 6 | Armitage suggested that the shortfall for fiscal 1990 was $96,000,000 and had arisen from cuts in Bush 's aid request imposed by Congress , whereas Manglapus claimed that the true figure , based on the estimated cost of other " unfulfilled promises " , was $222,580,000 . |
| 7 | This Commission had undertaken an immensely detailed study of poverty and poor relief and had ended in conflict between the majority of its members and a minority composed of Beatrice Webb , George Lansbury , Frances Chandler and the Rev. Russell Wakefield , Dean of Norwich . |
| 8 | Another German atrocity was the execution by firing squad , in 1915 , of Nurse Edith Cavell , who had been matron of a Belgian Hospital in Brussells since 1907 , and had stayed on duty despite the German invasion of that country , and who had been accused by the Germans , of assisting British , French and Belgian soldiers to escape captivity . |
| 9 | Fields had been born in America and had moved to Britain as a child . |
| 10 | Oyston had been brought up the son of a Durham miner and had moved to Blackpool with his parents when they went to open a boarding house . |
| 11 | She and her family had been in the States over a year now , and had moved from Boston to New York . |
| 12 | By the time Fred was 16 he was on the books of Aldershot and had played in friendlies against the Army and Clapton Orient . |
| 13 | Mr Hnatiuk had taken one look at the approaching Mrs Frizzell and had dived for cover into a knot of other businessmen . |
| 14 | They had tried a few in the Fahan Lodge Hotel after sailing back the night before , been seen off by two ugly English girls ( Morally ugly , said Rory — they would n't screw ) and had roared into Buncrana in the BMW and done the High Street bars . |
| 15 | He had helped Isobel sort out her father 's tangled financial affairs and had fallen in love with her quiet , fragile beauty . |
| 16 | Perhaps he 'd met her when she was pregnant , and had fallen in love with her ? |
| 17 | He had been a friend and ally of the president for many years and had served as chief of staff when Reagan was governor of California . |
| 18 | Hobson had been associated with the UN Trust Territory since 1963 , and had served in Belau until 1977 when he was transferred to Saipan ( Northern Marianas ) . |
| 19 | They had of course heard of the ‘ Vallar plan ’ , and had joined in discussions of it at various stages . |
| 20 | At the time we had not understood why the team leader had refused this and had asked for referrals to be made directly to her . |
| 21 | In the interval he seemed particularly cheerful and had asked for news about the Bishop 's Castle Railway |
| 22 | This failed to meet the demand for the forcible removal of the barricades , as advanced by the 7,000 white residents of the Chateauguay suburb adjacent to the Mercier bridge ( some of whom had regularly assembled during the siege to burn Mohawk effigies , and had participated in attacks on Indians fleeing the adjoining Kahnawake reservation ) . |
| 23 | He was sixty-eight years old and had suffered from cancer of the oesophagus for some time . |
| 24 | It was ten years since Eliot had been interested in Ecstasy and Dance Hypnosis among the American Indians , and had read in King about the lively ‘ moonlight dances ’ of Bushmen . |
| 25 | His close associate Klaus Barbie had been sentenced for crimes against humanity in 1987 [ see p. 35417 ] and had died in prison in 1991 [ see p. 38459 ] . |
| 26 | In addition to Newbury it centred on Reading and Abingdon , about which information is scanty , and had flourished at Wantage during the fifteenth century . |
| 27 | This was a vehicle with all mod cons at the rear of the bus , which I had followed many times and checked on its progress flying over the route ; oddly enough , on my last night in Mespot I was to sleep in the Imperial Airways rest fort at Rutbah Wells , I had refuelled there many times and had wondered with awe at the vast ugly route-flying Imperial aircraft — Handley Page HP42s — and even more so at the passengers who took an even greater interest in our tiny single-engined Wapiti aircraft , and furthermore asked endless questions about our aircraft and of our life in Baghdad . |
| 28 | Table 5.1 shows that the manufacturing sector led fixed investment in 1978 , but that ‘ financial and business services ’ overtook it during the recession ( and had doubled in amount by 1986 ) . |
| 29 | Over by the fireplace , the headmaster had exhausted his limited store of small talk and had advanced to matters of serious educational concern . |
| 30 | Erm , er , the funding for that project which I understand has a total cost in excess of a hundred and sixty thousand pounds , has been met from a variety of sources , er , primarily local , but with a contribution from the County Council through the Leisure Services Committee , and also through the Resources Management sub-committee , and in a , indirect sense , in that the , the , the land transferred to the County Council from the District Council for a particular sum , when the project did n't go ahead , the land went back to the District , and had appreciated in value in the intervening time . |