Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The practical reason was that because we had collaborated with the Russian museums for earlier exhibitions we were able to make an agreement and bring together our collections with theirs . |
| 2 | By early evening hundreds of screaming fans had gathered outside the historic Raffles Hotel where Jackson and his entourage are staying . |
| 3 | Fry noted that night visits had trebled in the seven years from 1967 to 1974 . |
| 4 | But by the next morning sleep had smoothed over the ragged edges of Folly 's doubt . |
| 5 | The implications of this question , transformed by the reprehensible way in which the administration of life imprisonment had developed over the intervening years , were to be subjected to critical review by a Lords Select Committee in 1988–9 . |
| 6 | On this ground , Ritschl was critical of much previous theology , and especially of the way the doctrine of the person of Christ had developed in the early centuries . |
| 7 | These were the children from whose statements the allegations had developed against the four families . |
| 8 | Understandably Diana found it hard to concentrate on the cookery course she had enrolled in a few days before her father suffered his stroke . |
| 9 | When the fire fighting and rescue detail had regrouped outside the main gates , Wallace , Rocky and Larsen gave Springfield a brief account of their successful operation . |
| 10 | By July 30 , 12 candidates had registered for the presidential elections due to be held simultaneously with legislative elections on September 29-30 . |
| 11 | In two important maize-growing areas , fewer than half of those interviewed had heard of the increased price , and in an area where the Government was keen to encourage a substantial increase in local production , less than one in ten had heard of the new prices . |
| 12 | Paisley had supported him again once he had broken with the Official Unionists . |
| 13 | She had also caught the very faint remnant of warmth , gaiety , that he thought no-one but himself had recognized from the old days . |
| 14 | Of all the advice she had received from the other creatures , taking away the dog 's food was the only one , she decided in the end , that might have a chance of succeeding . |
| 15 | The first round of the presidential elections was notable for the fact that both main candidates attracted substantially more votes than their parties had received in the parliamentary elections , even though in the case of Constantinescu , the rector of Bucharest University , he had only been named as a compromise choice at the July 27 DCR Congress ( the NLP having left the alliance after its unsuccessful bid to persuade ex-King Mihai ( Michael ) to stand as a presidential candidate ) . |
| 16 | A strength that was not of her body but rooted in absolute desperation got her to her feet rising with the urchins still clinging to her and then shaking them off like the she-bears , once chained in this square for sport , had shaken off the baiting dogs . |
| 17 | In the 1570s William Harrison , an Essex parson , had commented on the new comforts provided particularly by chimneys , bedding and tableware . |
| 18 | The previous management had relied upon the financial accounts as the main control mechanism , supplemented by weekly accommodation letting reports and an orthodox stock control system . |
| 19 | The King , understandably enough , did not thank Asquith for implying that he would deviate from the role of strict constitutionality by denying to Labour what he had given to the other parties . |
| 20 | Accompanied by a number of his key allies , he had travelled to the southern SEZs in January to launch his counteroffensive [ see pp. 38722 ; 38764 ] . |
| 21 | The one notable feature in his face were the eyes ; they were brilliant blue , recognised as the colour of gentians by those who had travelled to the Swiss mountains in summer . |
| 22 | The weather had changed ; summer in its glorious profusion of colours had transformed the land that Corbett had travelled through a few weeks before . |
| 23 | John McFall , a Labour home affairs spokesman , had pressed for the proposed penalties , a six-month jail sentence or a fine of up to £1,000 , to be increased . |
| 24 | Their Parthenon-building ancestors began that culture , and their Byzantine ancestors kept it alive when the rest of Europe had fallen into the dark ages . |
| 25 | But Sealink did admit that their numbers had fallen over the nine months from January 1 to Monday of this week , by 20,755 passengers and 9,644 cars . |
| 26 | Edward had won over the industrial towns of Flanders in 1340 , and the maintenance of the English position there was to be a basic strategic principle until its decisive failure in 1385 . |
| 27 | In the 1983 election , the party won less than half the number of seats it had won in the larger cities in 1959 , the last election when it was returned with a three-figure majority . |
| 28 | It had penetrated through the layered chalks on which Troodos sits and had just begun to bring up rock cores from the ophiolite 's fringe . |
| 29 | He was what we have learned to call a WASP , and his lifetime coincided with the process , not yet quite completed , by which that caste — white Anglo-Saxon protestants of the northeast — was supplanted from the position of privilege that they had enjoyed from the first days of the Republic . |
| 30 | Kit Hegarty was in the big front bedroom , the one she had let to the two brothers from Galway . |