Example sentences of "the [num] [noun] had [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the 3000 MkIII had gone the way of many a sports car in its dotage and started to take on a softer aspect . |
| 2 | The 1834 Act had made the mother wholly responsible for her illegitimate child so that the privileges of marriage would not be extended to the undeserving . |
| 3 | By the mid-1670s Peyton had become the leader of a republican group , ‘ Peyton 's Gang ’ , and it has been argued that this group had a hand in the murder of the JP Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey [ q.v. ] in 1678 , which provoked widespread belief in the bogus ‘ Popish Plot ’ . |
| 4 | In London , the 1888 Act had created the London County Council ( LCC ) as an administrative county comprising Parts of Middlesex , Surrey and Kent . |
| 5 | By the 1870s Cardiff had become the largest town in Wales and the marquess was being hailed as its ‘ creator ’ . |
| 6 | A spear , too spent to hurt , struck his own shield and found no room to fall to the ground , for by then men and shields were packed close around and behind him , and the three wedges had formed the svinfylkja , the pig 's snout , the secret of Odin that he hoped fur-traders ' sons had not been instructed about . |
| 7 | But it was n't Jozef who finally told me the truth — which of the three suspects had taken the pieces of silver . |
| 8 | They claimed that 133 out of the 225 MPs had signed the petition , which cited 24 cases of alleged corruption and nepotism . |
| 9 | To hear Joicey speak , it was as though he had just left the Prince 's side , and that the 1745 Rebellion had ended the previous day . |
| 10 | The initiative was confined to a small circle — Churchill , Eden and the Chiefs of Staff — and I described the episode in The Times , after the 1952 papers had reached the Public Record Office in January 1983 , as ‘ one of the best kept secrets in the 1950s ’ . |
| 11 | The 1952 revolution had freed the campesinos from the slavery of the haciendas but the Western practice of dividing and sub-dividing land through the generations had been adopted . |
| 12 | During his explorations in the 1850s Wallace had traced the line dividing the Asian and Australian faunas in South East Asia , still known as ‘ Wallace 's line ’ . |
| 13 | They are also a reminder that although the 1474 agreement had forbidden the two nobles to retain the same men , this left open the possibility of other forms of shared allegiance . |
| 14 | They are also a reminder that although the 1474 agreement had forbidden the two nobles to retain the same men , this left open the possibility of other forms of shared allegiance . |
| 15 | On Sept. 6 the Cypriot Supreme Court ordered the release of Nicos Sampson , leader of the short-lived right-wing regime whose seizure of power in the 1974 coup had precipitated the Turkish invasion [ see pp. 26661-66 ] . |
| 16 | The two assassins had joined the crew of the navy rescue expedition which had followed the escape pod down from the survey vessel from which it had been ejected , and they had been prevented from finishing off both their intended victim and the accidental witnesses only because of the timely intervention of a Yek patrol . |
| 17 | The two girls had reached the stage where they were hanging round the boys necks and roaring with laughter at virtually every word they uttered . |
| 18 | It later became clear that the two ministers had consulted the Roman catholic archbishop of Dublin before delivering their judgement on the matter . |
| 19 | The two cases had prompted the establishment of an all-party commission to investigate the financing of political parties . |
| 20 | William waited until the two women had left the room then he turned to his son . |
| 21 | Shevardnadze told reporters that the two sides had discussed the Cambodia issue in depth and that he and Qian believed that a " decisive phase had been reached " in the settlement of the problem [ see also p. 37712 ] . |
| 22 | The two sisters had converted the stables attached to their home , Miller 's House in Lewes , into a studio which during the war had become a kind of arts centre , where exhibitions , lectures and concerts were held and which received support and encouragement from eminent names . |
| 23 | The 1983 report had identified the crucial issue for North Shields as the need for the development of an adequate marketing facility in the port to attract larger visiting vessels which were responsible for 54% , of landings in 1982 . |
| 24 | The four Counsellors had reached the top of the ridge and were standing stationary in a line , like four badly-constructed scarecrows , their robes billowing in the wind . |
| 25 | By September 1991 , a combination of the impact of the recession , the high fixed costs of the Newport office and the loans to pay off the four partners had landed the firm with a £1.65m debt , £1m of which they saw as long-term borrowing and £650,000 as their working capital requirement . |
| 26 | The four men had spent the night scouring their living-quarters from top to bottom . |
| 27 | The region comprised a non-contiguous amalgamation of Sulu , the Tawi Tawi island group and the mainland Mindanao provinces of Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur ( the four provinces had approved the autonomy plan in the November 1989 referendum held in the 13 southern provinces of the Philippines — see p. 37042 ) . |
| 28 | Throughout the 1980s America had provided the rebels with arms and expert advice ; their leader , Jonas Savimbi , had been feted in Washington . |
| 29 | When Grace Archer died on BBC radio in 1955 , some twenty million people , it is said — perhaps half the adult nation — tuned in to hear , though by the 1980s television had reduced the audience for radio soap to a mere three million . |