Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had heard of the many mercy missions of the ruler 's private planes . |
| 2 | Jekyll 's servant had received by the same post a letter similar to mine , and he was waiting for me with the locksmith . |
| 3 | He had travelled aboard the same flight from Helsinki but in Economy Class , not an experience the Vice President of Information and Planning had enjoyed . |
| 4 | I found myself hurrying ton , until I realized that I had no destination : I wondered how many people around me had fallen into the same trap . |
| 5 | The office looked as if it had fallen under the same spell of passing time as Dexter , and been unoccupied for weeks rather than hours — the motes of dust , the grime of London gently settling on files , videotapes and yellowing newspapers . |
| 6 | This unprecedented discovery indicated one of two things : either at least four meteorites had fallen at the same place in Antarctica ( an event of vanishingly small statistical probability ) , or fragments of four meteorites , which had fallen at random on the interior ice sheet , had been carried to the Yamato Mountains site by ice motion . |
| 7 | Hailing each other , they found that they had come to the same conclusion : that so far as they could tell , in the gloom and confusion , the night was theirs , the camp completely broken up , the enemy scattered and leaderless and unlikely to rally now . |
| 8 | I went to see Eric to tell him about this conversation and found that he had come to the same conclusion . |
| 9 | ‘ And it looks as if Ivor had come to the same conclusion . |
| 10 | It seems that Kerr J at first instance had come to the same conclusion as Lord Denning via a public policy route . |
| 11 | He estimated that at that time the local wind had become steady at 15 to 20 mph from 300°M , which was less than that on previous occasions when he had operated from the same field . |
| 12 | I noticed that when particularly struck by a drawing , his features would assume the same look of wide-eyed amazement that they had done in the latter rôle when Bottom wakes from his dream and begins the speech , ‘ I have had a most rare vision … ’ |
| 13 | I noticed that when particularly struck by a drawing , his features would assume the same look of wide-eyed amazement that they had done in the latter rôle when Bottom wakes from his dream and begins the speech , ‘ I have had a most rare vision … ’ . |
| 14 | When junior health minister Tim Yeo launched the Mansell report on services for people with learning difficulties with challenging behaviour a couple of months ago , he made the aside that perhaps his audience were wondering why there was need of such a report , given the work the King 's Fund had done in the same area over the years . |
| 15 | But he was in a sense revivified : his heart withstood the weakening effect of his illnesses much better than it had done in the same period of the previous year , and this was the first winter for some time when he had not been forced to seek treatment in a clinic . |
| 16 | Behind the garden were several acres of rough pasture , which Mr Coleby had bought at the same time as he bought the strip of wasteland that linked the pasture to Champney Road . |
| 17 | Two of his sisters and many of his relatives over three generations had died in the same way , indicating that the condition may be inherited . |
| 18 | The Czechoslovak Communist leader , Klement Gottwald , who had died in the same year as Stalin and was embalmed like him and Lenin , suffered the indignity of springing a leak , loosing fluid , and slowly decomposing . |
| 19 | Strangely , Gilkes , his predecessor , had died in the same manner , in the same area , in September , 20 years previously . |
| 20 | For advanced economies , substantial changes had occurred over the latter half of the 1960s because of loss of comparative advantage in what had become basic technologies which could be mastered by low-income countries , together with changes in the nature of world demand and direct and indirect forms of trade barriers erected to protect domestic industry . |
| 21 | A similar incident had occurred at the same spot ten days earlier , though nobody was hurt then . |
| 22 | ( A similar attack had occurred on the same sub-prefecture in May 1985 — see p. 34927 . ) |
| 23 | According to Castle gossip , he had behaved in the same way towards the Major 's predecessor . |
| 24 | The 24-year-old buxom blonde who ‘ gave her favours freely to young village schoolboys ’ was told by Mr Justice Sheldon , ‘ If a man had behaved in the same way with girls of this age he would have ended up with a long prison sentence ’ . |
| 25 | Where a road which bears all the marks of having been laid out by the enclosure commissioners makes , at longish intervals , a sudden right-angled bend , sometimes two bends in quick succession , one can be pretty certain that though it was planned by the commissioners it follows an even older line from one village to the next , a line which had deviated in the same way around the heads of medieval furlongs . |
| 26 | He had hit on the same theme in Jubilate Agno , B404 : |
| 27 | Seb rode to where Noah Plunkett still sat on his sheepskin ‘ throne ’ , giving the impression he had remained in the same place since the wedding party began . |
| 28 | With Lord Hailsham 's retirement as Lord Chancellor in 1988 , Mrs Thatcher alone had remained in the same post and only Peter Walker , George Younger , and Sir Geoffrey Howe had been in the Cabinet continuously . |
| 29 | ‘ I wondered if she had gone through the same situation and if she had got into the car . ’ |
| 30 | I wondered if she had gone through the same situation and if she had got into the car . |