Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Myeloski , still unsteady on his feet from the effects of the flight , had weakly harangued a local taxi-driver into driving them to the police station .
2 The main cause for concern was the dominant role of France , which had withdrawn from NATO 's integrated command structure in 1966 and had since taken an independent line in defence matters .
3 Lord Denning M.R. circumvented section 441(3) by finding that the judge had misconstrued the words in section 411 , had thereby made a jurisdictional error , and therefore , relying on Anisminic and Pearlman , the ‘ no appeal ’ clause was ineffective .
4 But now , rather like recording afresh over the existing programme on an audio or visual cassette , Sylvia had superimposed a successful situation and had thereby made a significant change in the data recognized by her subconscious .
5 He had been delighted beyond speech to see her until she had nervously produced the blue hospital card from out of her handbag .
6 The government stated that the decision had been made in order to prevent the spiral of drug-related violence which had eventually persuaded the Colombian government to end extradition [ see pp. 37772 ; 37851 ; 38332 ] .
7 The father she had always known would no longer have anything to do with her so she had eventually got a tiny room in a house in London which served as a hostel for single girls .
8 In a development connected to the election campaign it was revealed on Dec. 18 that the Justice Department had secretly appointed a special prosecutor to investigate whether senior White House officials had been involved in a search of Clinton 's passport records .
9 I had secretly harboured a vague desire to be a subject ( Vague desire ? !
10 Barlow Clowes investors to receive £150m compensation continued from page one had properly investigated an obscure Jersey partnership which had been licensed then it would have established a link between it and Barlow Clowes .
11 Over the months , scars had slowly covered the sore places in her mind but sometimes , especially at Kew , the pain took her breath away .
12 In contrast , the culture of precursors and purified epithelium alone remained small and was alymphoid , even though the epithelial cells had successfully formed an intact structure and still expressed a cortical epithelial cell phenotype , including MHC class II antigen expression ( b ) and ERTR4 ( ref.16 ) and 4F11E ( ref.17 ) expression ( not shown ) .
13 They think , perhaps , more in terms of what knowledge and skills they would hope to find in a secondary school entrant rather than of those one might expect from a child who had successfully completed a primary school course .
14 By refusing to keep open two-way radio links , the crews had effectively ended a proper emergency service .
15 At the former , stone-robbing had effectively removed the crucial junction on the steeply sloping ground ; at the gate , it remained unclear whether the wall was already in existence or whether it had been constructed at the same time .
16 He had metaphorically shaken a large fist , impotently , at some looming energy-field , and got on with his work , his work .
17 Seb realised he had inadvertently said the wrong thing , but Carrie had gone to the scullery that opened off the farmhouse kitchen .
18 The perfect condition of everything had somewhat disguised the extreme age of the place , but now it was obvious .
19 They argued that the appeals court had wrongly interpreted the federal legislation and that the prohibition of any type of gun-ownership by law-abiding citizens was an infringement of the constitutional right " to keep and bear arms " as enshrined within the Second Amendment .
20 5 April : The Mail on Sunday sets its sleuths onto Lord ( Clive ) Hollick , one of Kinnock 's advisers and chairman of MAI , whom it had wrongly accused the previous week of paying himself in gold bars to avoid tax .
21 Twenty-nine days earlier he had personally visited the National Westminster Bank in Lower Regent Street , and in the office of the Deputy Manager he had ordered the movement of 500,000 American dollars from the account of Iraqi Airlines ( London ) to a numbered account in Dublin .
22 The SDP leader Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson had declared that his party could not continue to participate in the previous PP-SDP-PA centre-left coalition arrangement without a clear consensus on two key policy issues : Iceland 's position in EFTA negotiations with the European Communities ( EC ) , in which he had personally played a leading role as Foreign Minister , and a proposed US$1,000 million project to build a new aluminium smelting plant south of Reykjavik .
23 He had personally recruited the antique dealer .
24 McAlpine had thoughtfully completed the external checks before I ventured onto their Hayes helipad .
25 The Times , which had hitherto kept a dignified silence on such a distasteful subject , pronounced itself well-pleased with the modified outcome .
26 The British had hitherto favoured the US-led NATO system NAAWS .
27 In 1981 the executive committee directed that the BDN , which had hitherto performed the dual role of addressing the hearing public on behalf of deaf people at the same time as serving deaf readers , should in future primarily be a paper for BDA members and the deaf community as a whole .
28 His basic argument , that Marx proposed a new conception of knowledge defined against Hegelianism , implied an accompanying revision of the Hegelian concept of history , which , as we have seen in the cases of Lukács and Sartre , had hitherto provided the dominant model of Marxist historicism .
29 The US side had hitherto accused the Soviet military of evading the impact of CFE force reductions , in particular by transferring tank units east of the Urals ( i.e. simply removing them from the area covered by the treaty , rather than destroying them — see pp. 38027 ; 38122 ; 38217 ) .
30 After four weeks every group had interviewed four of the original subjects , plus others who came in for a single session , and they had all accumulated a great amount of material .
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