Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv prt] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Two of the doors she had forced had turned out to open the other way , and to be cupboards containing piles of bedclothes , folded . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | His mother had stepped in to fill the embarrassed silence . |
| 10 | It was all part of a private mythology that Mario had worked up to fit the American Success Story , and quite wonderful it was . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |