Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several booksellers commented that their sales of Sue Townsend 's The Queen and I ( Methuen ) had roared ahead at the full price , despite the fact that the book was available at a discount at Dillons down the road or around the corner . |
| 2 | Nought but a rabble he had gathered together on the fair island that lies to the east — of buccaneers and booty hunters and ruffianly runaways from the slaveships that are plying these waters most usefully . |
| 3 | Whatever Sauniere had stumbled across in the 1880s , the French author , Gerard de Sede , wrote about it nearly eighty years later . |
| 4 | Truman 's career had developed wholly in the domestic context where he had shown considerable guile and courage . |
| 5 | In 1928 the Medical Officer reported that maternity and child welfare had developed remarkably over the last two years . |
| 6 | According to Blackwell , morality involved the evolution of self-consciousness which had developed only in the human species . |
| 7 | A bitter personal feud had developed there between the two eminent classics professors , Otto Jahn ( like Nietzsche from Pforta ) and Friedrich Ritschl ; and in 1865 Ritschl left , followed by some of his students , to take up a post at the University of Leipzig . |
| 8 | On July 4 , 1989 , Guy Gennesseaux , leader and founder of the centre-left French Democratic Party ( Parti démocrate français — PDF — which had broken away from the Radical Socialist Party in 1982 when the latter refused to leave the UDF ) , announced that his party was joining the centre-left grouping , Presidential Majority ( majorité présidentielle ) . |
| 9 | On July 23 gunmen assassinated in Beirut Walid Khaled , an official of the Fatah Revolutionary Council , which had broken away from the mainstream Fatah in 1973 under the leadership of Sabri Khalil al Banna ( also known as Abu Nidal ) . |
| 10 | That is to say , malignant cells that had broken away from the original cancer and begun to reproduce in other parts of the body . |
| 11 | Two indistinct figures had broken away from the struggling mass and were desperately flailing towards Christine and the safe area at the other end of the executive transporter . |
| 12 | Mahmud had broken away from the main crocodile and was engaged in earnest conversation with the small fat boy . |
| 13 | After we had broken fast in the small buttery which adjoined the kitchen , Benjamin dragged me outside to the gardens . |
| 14 | Perhaps the toner fluid intoxicated her — there were over a hundred sheets to copy — or maybe it was the lack of air in the photocopying room , but after we had done and she had commented favourably on the comprehensive and detailed nature of the notes , she asked me to go out with her . |
| 15 | Although the Lancastrians had relied principally upon the archaic fifteenths and tenths they had occasionally tried some experiments . |
| 16 | They had stopped briefly in the great sculleries to pack up provisions . |
| 17 | Bleeding had stopped spontaneously at the endoscopic examination . |
| 18 | The member States had joined together for the collective achievement of this common purpose which demanded concerted action . |
| 19 | Behind them were Austin Currie , Proinsias Mac Aonghusa and David Green of Citizens for PR in the Irish Republic , and three Westminster Labour MPs , Russell Kerr , Ann Kerr and John Ryan , who had travelled directly from the Labour Party conference with Gerry Fitt . |
| 20 | She knew her character had altered completely over the last few years . |
| 21 | She added , ‘ He 's very good to Margaret ’ , and I felt that simultaneously she had nodded towards the past while affirming the present and that I had fallen somewhere between the two : nothing but the body of a ghost , nebulous and deserted . |
| 22 | Nor had the problems begun only at that time : the Bank for International Settlements had already warned that net bank lending had fallen steeply in the second quarter of the year , from $90,000 million to $65,000 million , while the amount raised in the world securities markets had shrunk from $44,000 million to $25,000 million . |
| 23 | It had fallen backwards into the narrow eight-feet-deep pipe while grazing at night . |
| 24 | With the country more and more forced into self-sufficiency , land was exhaustively cultivated , and by the closing stages of the war , when supplies from abroad had completely dried up , domestic production had fallen far below the 1941 level . |
| 25 | Not a single German bomb had fallen anywhere in the British Isles since war had been declared . |
| 26 | On the following day the share price index , which had fallen sharply during the previous year ( largely because funds had been siphoned from the stock exchange into real estate speculation ) , rose by almost 30 points , one of its biggest one-day gains . |
| 27 | Runcorn had fallen behind in the 19th minute but were unlucky to go in only level at the break through Steve Shaughnessy 's brilliantly taken equaliser - a flashing near post header from a cross by right back Jamie Bates . |
| 28 | For the party that had leaned heavily on the established Church and derived satisfaction from its role as defender of the Church , the decline of religion was a serious blow . |
| 29 | She had leaned forward on the grassy bank and she was speaking and I could n't remember what she was saying . |
| 30 | A Radio Rwanda bulletin on March 6 said that rebels had attacked twice in the northern Ruhengeri prefecture in the previous two days , suffering some 250 dead and " hundreds " wounded . |