Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The once gleaming whitewash was dark and smoke-blackened ; in places the plaster had fallen away to reveal the messy rubble-walling beneath . |
| 2 | By May 1989 , however , many of these critics had come round to praise the continued radicalism of the Thatcher government , in education , tax cuts , and further measures of privatization . |
| 3 | That was the question that the Alton Carnival Committee were beginning to ask themselves , when they found that no girls had come forward to enter the 1962 Carnival Queen contest . |
| 4 | Onlookers admitted to me that they had come simply to see the tragic spectacle of the naked bodies — some of which were badly burned . |
| 5 | It was also to be a welcoming home for John and Angela , who had come down to watch the final round and were staying at the Bell Hotel . |
| 6 | PRESIDENT Boris Yeltsin appeared last night to have narrowly won a reprieve after the Russian parliament had voted overwhelmingly to take the first step towards his possible impeachment . |
| 7 | Two of the doors she had forced had turned out to open the other way , and to be cupboards containing piles of bedclothes , folded . |
| 8 | It saw little more than arguments over who had done most to break the 1975 Final Act ; but the fact that it continued to meet held out the hope of more fruitful conversations in future . |
| 9 | Fleury , unaware of the Collector 's plans for a graduated retreat because he was not supposed to be in the Residency anyway , had dashed upstairs carrying the fifteen-barrelled pistol with which he was hoping to do battle from the upper storeys . |
| 10 | On the evidence before him Mr Patten had decided not to take the listed building enforcement action needed . |
| 11 | In between came the almost arrogant announcement that President Bush had decided unilaterally to end the diplomatic isolation China had suffered since the massacre of Tiananmen Square . |
| 12 | Gen. Asif Nawaz Janjua , Chief of Staff since August 1991 , had moved swiftly to alter the pro-Hekmatyar strategy of his predecessor Gen. Mirza Aslam Beg . |
| 13 | Halfway to Porto the 1200 Lisbon Volmet said ‘ 1 CB at 2,500 ’ , so back we went : we had tried , and had agreed not to repeat the previous day 's experience . |
| 14 | ‘ On the Friday night I had stayed up to watch the late film , and at 3.30am I decided that it was n't worthwhile going to bed as I had to be at John 's house at seven o'clock . |
| 15 | Holcraft , having discovered his mistake while chatting to Sontag during the ride back to the hotel , had hurried off to find the other funeral directors . |
| 16 | The German army had pulled out leaving the entire city in ruins and , according to the information at Brigade H.Q , the devastation was unbelievable . |
| 17 | While Robyn had been preoccupied with the issues of contemporary literary theory and its repercussions on the Cambridge English Faculty , the Conservative Government of Mrs Thatcher , elected in 1979 with a mandate to cut public spending , had set about decimating the national system of higher education . |
| 18 | From all this sprang the paradox that orders like the Cistercian — which had set out to revive the old tradition that many monasteries should be away from the world , set apart , oases in the desert — encouraged journeying and laid on their leaders the obligation to travel often and far . |
| 19 | Whereas Bismarck had wanted constantly to reassure the other countries of Europe that Germany was satiated , and wanted to act as an honest broker between East and West ( his banker , Bleichröder , tartly remarked that there is no such thing as an honest broker ) , Wilhelmine Germany decided to make a bid for power in competition nth the other great powers , chiefly Britain . |
| 20 | His mother had stepped in to fill the embarrassed silence . |
| 21 | By the 1986–87 season Thomas ’ Neath had progressed sufficiently to win the old Western Mail Welsh Championship . |
| 22 | By the time the four had finished critically discussing the two women , they were a warm , close unit , comrades to the death . |
| 23 | It was all part of a private mythology that Mario had worked up to fit the American Success Story , and quite wonderful it was . |
| 24 | Under the guidance of Shirley Brasher , Karen had worked hard to resume the high level of play prior to her injury , and fully deserved her victory at Coventry . |
| 25 | The most zealous founders of the BFASS in 1839 were amongst those who had worked hardest to revitalise the local society network in the mid-1830s and so Joseph Sturge , John Scoble and the Quaker banker George Alexander toured areas of the country in 1839–40 to give the new national body the support of auxiliaries consciously orientated to universal abolition . |
| 26 | There were signs that Iraq was withdrawing the military support it had sent in to bolster the Lebanese Army against the Syrians , and the reasons for this could be established more discreetly in Beirut than in Baghdad . |
| 27 | Even worse , Colonel Windsor 's sharp glance detected a tremor in the hand that avidly accepted the whiskey and soda he had poured out to celebrate the unexpected reunion with his old comrade-in-arms . |