Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] in the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Wood noted that the taste for English watercolours had developed considerably in the US over the last ten years through the support of the Paul Mellon Foundation as well as the efforts of dealers like himself . |
| 2 | Meanwhile there were also reports on March 12 that unrest had broken out in the Shia districts of Baghdad ( Saddam City and Shuala ) and that curfews had been imposed . |
| 3 | The Tokyo stock exchange fell to its lowest level in 3½ years on Sept. 28 on unfounded rumours that war had broken out in the Gulf . |
| 4 | He ruled out further help for the legalized opposition parties , saying that they needed time to win supporters , and that was why they had fared badly in the April elections . |
| 5 | That 's £21.46 more than it would have cost you , if you had dined out in the UK . |
| 6 | That evening , before dinner , we had sat together in the Clerecia , watching the glib little gilded pendulum of the antique wall-clock wagging away . |
| 7 | The previous year , BASF , Bayer , Hoechst , Agfa and a number of smaller German companies had come together in the Interes-sengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie ( IG Farben ) . |
| 8 | Both the air force and the army , as well as those who actually served with Leslie , seemed now to presume that the aircraft had come down in the English Channel . |
| 9 | The Russians had taken Trebizond from the Turks , but had suffered bloodily in the Narocz marshes after a noble response to Joffre 's plea for a diversionary offensive to relieve Verdun . |
| 10 | Prior to settling in London around 1605 he had operated extensively in the Netherlands . |
| 11 | Marital breakdown often means that families must move — 58 per cent had done so in the Bradshaw and Millar survey . |
| 12 | The intellectual and emotional leader of that original collective was Fred Newman , a Korean war veteran , who had grown up in the Bronx , held a PhD in the philosophy of science from Stanford and abruptly turned to Marxism in the mid-1960s . |
| 13 | Patrick had grown up in the Dublin that his mother now worked so hard to forget . |
| 14 | These somewhat standard indictments nevertheless came from a scholar who had grown up in the York school under Archbishop Ecgberht and gained maturity in the household of Archbishop Aethelberht as master of the school until he joined the court of Charlemagne in the early 780s . |
| 15 | Even before the war with Spain ended in 1609 the Dutch were preparing to attack various parts of the empire the Portuguese had built up in the Indian Ocean in the previous hundred years , stretching as far east as Java and the other Spice Islands near it , and later on they also attacked the Portuguese possessions in Brazil . |
| 16 | New Scientist , basing its report on information from well — placed anonymous sources , argued that British sailors had died needlessly in the Falklands because their ships were floating fire traps . |
| 17 | All the earlier amphibians from the late Carboniferous and the Permian had died out in the Triassic , including the cotylosaurs . |
| 18 | Oh yes , he had performed well in the Sigerson Cup competition and his Higher Education track record is second to none . |
| 19 | According to Dotty , Fairchild , while still in short trousers , had played Slightly in the Scala production of 1922 . |
| 20 | Inflation had slowed down in the United Kingdom to 5 per cent per year which produced a greater sense of economic security in terms of planning expenditures ahead . |
| 21 | By the early part of the 20th century , milling on such a scale had become concentrated in two main mills , the Albert Mills ( which James Reynolds had set up in the Albert Warehouse in 1869 ) and the City Flour Mills , described in 1906 as ‘ large and well equipped , having adopted the roller system at an early date ’ . |
| 22 | Cash was solicited from wealthy sympathisers , notably Quakers with whom Morel had worked closely in the Congo Association . |
| 23 | It did well enough , though might have done better if it had covered less ground ; also , in the four years that had elapsed since gathering material for it , public interest in the world role that Americans had taken up in the Kennedy years had largely evaporated . |
| 24 | He achieved a double figure percentage of the vote only in Mississippi , and scored a derisory 9 per cent in his home state , compared with the 39 per cent which he had achieved there in the November 1991 gubernatorial contest . |