Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He avoided those parts of Paris where revellers had gathered to celebrate the New Year out of doors with drink and dancing . |
| 2 | It was with Rohde that Nietzsche had intended to spend the forthcoming year in Paris on what might have amounted to a non-classical refresher course . |
| 3 | Pravda reported that most of the ‘ thousands ’ of letters it had received asked the simple question : ‘ When is the war going to end ? ’ |
| 4 | I suggested that the evidence seemed , in the context of language as rescue , to promise a whole new set of preoccupations , to a point where even those undertakings Stephen had given to rework the stiff clay of his race , even these can seem unduly influenced by his still being among them . |
| 5 | In Mexico in the early 1980s these networks had joined to form the National Council of Popular Urban Movements , with their main demand being that every poor family had a right to a piece of land for a dwelling ( Cockroft 1983 ) . |
| 6 | All EC governments had undertaken to give the European Commission , by April 1 , detailed plans for achieving the EC 's target date for stabilising carbon dioxide emissions : by the year 2005 for us , and 2000 for the rest of them . |
| 7 | Baker , whose key tasks in the State Department had included supervising the Middle East peace process , was succeeded in an acting capacity by his deputy , Lawrence Eagleburger . |
| 8 | He realised , with a thrill of annoyance at himself , that in his haste — his weary haste — to get to the hearing that morning , he had omitted to set the second lock with its automatic alarm connection . |
| 9 | The code of military behaviour had come to permeate the whole world of knightly behaviour , not just the field of battle . |
| 10 | The Jews of his day had come to see the Old Testament law not as a pointer to the life of trusting obedience in God which it was meant to be but rather a code to be scrupulously followed in every detail . |
| 11 | The sentence comes from an essay called Eztetyke du Rêve , an eccentric spelling of Esthétique du Rêve ( ‘ Aesthetic of the Dream' ) in which , building on the idea that ‘ the dream is the only right which can not be forbidden ’ , Glauber Rocha described how he had come to realise the revolutionary importance of the mystical in Latin American popular culture . |
| 12 | Moreover , the President believed that the time had come to use the great power of the USA not only to end the war but to ensure , through a place at the Peace Conference , that he could bring about a " just peace " . |
| 13 | The disagreement about where they were to live had come to seem the only obstacle . |
| 14 | They were working up to the crucial ( as it was then ) question of how and why she had come to identify the first body as Uncle Mossycop 's . |
| 15 | It is hardly surprising given the enhanced status , power and influence which the nineteenth century had brought , that Nonconformists had come to identify the Christian religion with the values and secular goals of their times , the most important of which was an acceptance of the inevitability of progress through change . |
| 16 | She had touched on the deadness in himself and this spasm of melancholy had come to torment the impacted sin of a lifetime . |
| 17 | By the 1920s , the zaibatsu had come to dominate the newer manufacturing sectors like steel , machinery or shipbuilding but they also dominated the financial sector , owning two-thirds of banking and insurance institutions . |
| 18 | No longer could she take any pleasure in the act ; almost she had come to hate the interminable travail . |
| 19 | The smell of antiseptic , and the helpless waiting , brought back powerful memories of the visitors ' room two years ago , where the doctor had come to break the mind-numbing news that during a routine operation to remove her appendix her mother had died of heart failure . |
| 20 | But it shocked the Left which had come to regard the Soviet Union as the only genuine opponent of Fascism . |
| 21 | The challenge with which we were faced on the day of the ‘ Fresh Start ’ Motion was that we knew that a very full House , which had come to hear the prime minister 's Maastricht statement , would deplete rapidly after he was finished , as the business to follow — a debate on the Earth Summit — was not very controversial . |
| 22 | This last had the support of the man who had come to symbolise the Franco-American alliance , Marie Joseph de Motier , Marquis de Lafayette , who having gone to America to fight for the rebel colonists , in May 1779 returned to France a major-general in the US army . |
| 23 | For the past two years , Washington has been desperate to unseat a ruler who , across the world , had come to symbolise the crass stupidity and shortsightedness of American policy in Latin America . |
| 24 | Tim Roberts , prosecuting , said the couple , who lived at the house in Brankin Road , Darlington , had forgotten to shut the front door when they went to bed that night . |
| 25 | Once she had picked clean the bat-eared tree of the Indian fig , and spun its armoured fruit , she had ten hanks of pale green yarn with a red fleck ; and she could begin to weave . |
| 26 | At the Yalta Conference in February 1945 ( CORE , pp. 74–5 ) Roosevelt , Churchill and Stalin had met to discuss the post-war settlement in Europe and Asia . |
| 27 | The Curator did not see the look in Mr Wolski 's eyes as he glanced back to the window and stared again at the wolves outside , who had turned to face the icy wind with narrowed yellow eyes . |
| 28 | Everything was a blank between their arrival and the moment in which she had thrust open the Little Vestry door . |
| 29 | It is sometimes suggested that the mystical flowering of the fourteenth century was a reaction against the scientific and scholastic enthusiasms of the thirteenth century , which had sought to reinterpret the Christian experience in terms of the rationalistic philosophy of Aristotle . |
| 30 | Over long years , he had sought to rebuild the nuclear programme , as he had been charged to by the Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council . |