Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The CDU/CDM coalition had been announced on April 3 by the People 's Party ( one of the minor parties allied to the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia ( CPCz ) before November 1989 , which had since undergone extensive changes in its leadership and policy ) and two parties formed since the November revolution , the ( Czech ) Christian Democratic Party and the ( Slovak ) CDM . |
| 2 | Within a few hours the 126-member Slovene delegation walked out in protest over this defeat and over votes on amendments to the draft congress declaration , which had thereby rejected clear commitments to human rights and to closer ties with West European organizations . |
| 3 | Yet Labour had a double advantage with the electors : its leaders had served with complete loyalty in the coalition , and had thereby secured valuable experience of government , mostly , to be sure , on the home front ; but the party in Parliament had also by its single rebellion in 1943 made it clear to all that it was dissatisfied with the coalition 's progress towards social reform . |
| 4 | However , as they had mostly lost significant amounts of weight already and it had n't occurred to me to ask them to measure their weekly progress in terms of inches , the results , whilst remarkable , were only visual . |
| 5 | The former Prime Minister of Hungary Károly Grósz revealed on April 22 that the Soviet Union had secretly deployed nuclear weapons in Hungary until 1988 . |
| 6 | The International Herald Tribune of Nov. 25 reported that Iraq had secretly exported small quantities of refined oil products to Lebanon and Turkey to help pay for food . |
| 7 | Gorbachev eventually proved willing not only to condemn Stalin for the imprisonment and execution of loyal Russians in the 1930s , but also to concede that Stalin had secretly divided eastern Europe with Hitler in 1939 . |
| 8 | They were mostly crews who had successfully completed one tour of operations ( 30 missions ) , so they were not only skilful but also lucky . |
| 9 | The organisation he had so painstakingly built up had successfully weathered several crises over the past week . |
| 10 | Britain had successfully negotiated long-term contracts for the total output from the Congo , and so had a near monopoly of ore supplies , which she had been happy to share with the US in the wartime atomic weapons programme . |
| 11 | The earl had successfully held minor raids near Carlisle , apparently launched to sound out the defences of the western march , and at Berwick the garrison , with the help of George Dunbar , that angry refugee from over the border , poacher turned forester , had decisively defeated a party of four hundred Scots . |
| 12 | Now after twelve years as convener at the huge Merseyside plant where he had effectively established shop-floor control after a long and bitter struggle , he had been thrown out by his own union members . |
| 13 | Afterwards , when he [ Chlothar ] had gladly received these titles from his older brother [ Childebert ] , he considered in his own kingdom what ought to be added there , and what further should be included , and he ordered clauses 84 to 63 [ for 93 ? ] to be fixed . |
| 14 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 15 | President François Mitterrand came under attack both from the opposition and from within his own Socialist Party ( PS ) early in September for his ambivalent initial reaction to the Soviet coup against Mikhail Gorbachev ( although he had swiftly reversed this impression in a television appearance two days later ) . |
| 16 | At his own suggestion , Reg said Singh had personally removed that clause from my contract with his nail clippers . |
| 17 | The protest vote theory , though valid , was not sufficient to explain why 2 million adults took the trouble to vote for organic smallholders and kindred green souls who had hitherto made little impression on the political scene . |
| 18 | By massing overwhelming artillery strength on a short front , and replacing prolonged duration of fire ( which had hitherto given ample warning of attack to the defenders ) by the number of guns employed , he hoped so to disrupt French trench lines that , when the bombardment ceased ; a relatively small German force could advance with little loss . |
| 19 | Throughout the entire journey we saw perhaps six tiny fishing villages and one ugly landslide scar whose remarkable story we had all heard various times in Bau-Bau . |
| 20 | Malaya , the princely states of India , Fiji , Natal , the Gambia , had all experienced some form of indirect administration . |
| 21 | The common feature of all members of the Town Boys group was that they had all held dominant roles within the Rowdies group or its equivalent at some stage in their careers . |
| 22 | It had only sounded that way to his western ears — because the words had been Chinese ! |
| 23 | She had only seen one corpse in union blue . |
| 24 | Yes , they had been neighbours in Shrewsbury , but of course they had only seen each other during the school holidays , and of course they had n't made friends over some grotty little terrace-house garden fence ; he 'd first noticed her from the tree house in his parents ' garden while she was learning to ride her new pony in her parents ' ten acres of mature woodland and well-kept pasture . |
| 25 | Rory had only seen fleeting glimpses of it , but enough to know it was there . |
| 26 | There was a time , I think , in the late sixties , when erm the education service did itself very little good by going along with the general mythology that you had only to put more money into the schools to service , to solve all social problems . |
| 27 | It was 6.30 am when he set off and he had only travelled five minutes from his home when the accident happened . |
| 28 | She had only to take one look at him to realise he had n't forgiven her for walking out on him , nor for going to see Robert Dexter behind his back , and her heart sank . |
| 29 | But London Ambulance Service categorically denied that it had plans to cut off phone lines , saying that it had only authorised one disconnection at Park Royal Ambulance Station , West London , because crews had locked themselves in . |
| 30 | Before this year , Carlie had only received one chance of a retainer and that was from Nicky Henderson back in 1989 . |