Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Rogers had flown over the Front many times , and he thought of it as two huge armies entrenched against each other , launching and repelling attacks massively and obviously ; but now , he supposed , the fog must have dissolved the armies into isolated soldiers , each fighting his own tiny battle , with no way of knowing whether his side was winning or losing .
2 Various speakers congratulated us on the marvellous work we had done over the past few months .
3 Curtis remarked to Springfield that he must have seen more action in Rockford in the space of a few days , than he had done in the previous few years .
4 They were new shoes but already scuffed and dusty from the amount of walking he had done in the past few days .
5 He spent his time putting down on odd scraps of vellum his different thoughts on what he had learnt over the past few weeks .
6 It turns out that the Heston Club team has lost a title that it had held for the past few years .
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