Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This alternative offence can also be proved as at point 5 with the additional observations to the effect ‘ The stationary vehicle had stopped to accord precedence to foot passengers ’ . |
| 2 | We all felt happy about this and began to walk towards a distant wood , but as we approached it we saw two figures emerging : the priest we had come to see arm in arm with an attractive girl . |
| 3 | To some extent his interest in revenge had helped to thwart success over taxation . |
| 4 | Mr Hill said Mr Bakker displayed some of the persuasive powers in the courtroom that he had used to raise money on television . |
| 5 | On Sept. 27 , Economics Minister Andrei Nechayev , in an interview with Interfax , said that the RCB had agreed to cut credit to industry to 500,000 million roubles for the remainder of the year . |
| 6 | The Japan Times of Jan. 8 , 1990 , reported that , notwithstanding political advances towards the LDP by Komeito , Komeito and the DSP had agreed to increase co-operation in advance of the elections and to make the " utmost effort " to facilitate meetings and discussions between leaders of the four non-communist opposition parties . |
| 7 | He suspected that perhaps McAllister , always so gallant in facing life , as he had now seen on several occasions , had tried to suppress , to crush down the awful memory of what had been done to her , had refused to give way to grief , to shed healing tears , until in his arms something had reminded her so strongly of what had passed and broken the barriers her will had erected . |
| 8 | Services were often inadequate and expensive , because the Treasury had refused to provide money for investment ; managers were full of ideas of what could be done with new and cost-cutting technology . |
| 9 | What made the ruling even more surprising was that the Japanese government had pledged to correct bias in school textbooks after South Korea and China lodged diplomatic protests in 1982 , when the book was originally banned . |
| 10 | Before disembarking , the passengers had been reminded to put their watches forward by six hours to be in line with Continental time , which had served to add disorientation to fatigue . |
| 11 | But when he heard that Sipotai had tried to kill Burun in front of an army of witnesses , he would spit blood . |
| 12 | Those in the Treasury who had tried to stop consideration of demand management attacked again . |
| 13 | Jenner had begun to make use of cowpox for human vaccination in 1798 , but it would be a few years before its use was widespread , and 1840 before it was available free . |
| 14 | In sentencing Reynolds , The Judge Mr Justice Rougier said : ’ You had chosen to make war on society . |
| 15 | Teesside Magistrates were told he had not entered plans with Middlesbrough council , had failed to give notice of work being carried out and had not made the foundations big enough or deep enough . |
| 16 | Interest payments accounted for 28.1 per cent of 1990 spending ( as against 23.6 per cent in 1980 ) and tax revenues had failed to keep pace with income growth . |