Example sentences of "had [vb pp] with [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And still the faint red light up ahead came and went by fits and starts , leading them on across gale-swept open moorland , through massively still pine forests , up exposed dirt tracks and over passes whose names had vanished with the inhabitants of the farms where until a few decades earlier generation after generation of human beings had eked out lives of almost unimaginable deprivation . |
| 2 | The discovery of the Americas and of southern Africa had synchronized with the beginnings of European printing and , throughout the sixteenth century , the expansion in European understanding of world geography and world ethnology coincided with a tremendous spread of general literacy , which was in turn accompanied by the revived and intensive study of the Bible in vernacular languages . |
| 3 | She could see the Beastline overlords who had sat with the Wolfkings at Tara ; proud and noble and dignified , and just very slightly cruel , but charming and strong as well , and utterly loyal to the High King . |
| 4 | So a legend which had originated with the attempts of Dark Age royal servants to give their masters a lineage as old and distinguished as that of the Western Roman emperors they had displaced continued in the twelfth century to satisfy the needs of new royal families and even of some princely houses . |
| 5 | Prior to their expulsion the delegation had met with the families of imprisoned dissidents Wang Juntao and Chen Ziming [ see p. 38395 ] . |
| 6 | So , as they had done with the relations of production , Marx and Engels tried to show that this state of affairs was not inevitable , but the product of a specific historical development . |
| 7 | She told Princesse Mathilde that she wanted to find the son of her old friend Andrzej Potacki , yes , yes , the Andrzej who had died with the partisans after the war . |
| 8 | A couple of weeks later Stephen was called away to Bradford , where the manager of one of his mills had disappeared with the wages of the whole workforce . |
| 9 | Research carried out in 1985 showed that 44% of Chief Nursing Officers did not have 5 " O " levels yet presumably they had coped with the rigours of a career in nursing at all levels ( 2 ) . |
| 10 | It was a testimonial for a funeral parlour which had dealt with the victims of a forest fire . |
| 11 | In the battle for Tunis the 152nd had lost two commanding officers in three days ; and in Italy they had fought with the Guards in bloody actions from Cassino to the Po . |
| 12 | The main part of this group consisted of Cossacks from the Soviet Union , who , because of their fierce anti-Communism , had sided with the Germans during the advance towards the Caucasus in 1942 . |
| 13 | A visit to France , the details of which remain unclear , also led to the accusation that he had associated with the supporters of Mary Queen of Scots [ q.v. ] there : this may account for the apparent loss of royal favour by the mid-1570s . |
| 14 | One officer spoke nostalgically of the manner in which Joyce had cooperated with the forces of law : |