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| 2 | The main cause for concern was the dominant role of France , which had withdrawn from NATO 's integrated command structure in 1966 and had since taken an independent line in defence matters .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 treated the much-vaunted pace pairing of Wasim and Waqar as though they were tame medium pacers , not the men who had mercilessly destroyed the last threads of his Test confidence . |
| 6 | He had been delighted beyond speech to see her until she had nervously produced the blue hospital card from out of her handbag . |
| 7 | 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 ] . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I had secretly harboured a vague desire to be a subject ( Vague desire ? ! |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Over the months , scars had slowly covered the sore places in her mind but sometimes , especially at Kew , the pain took her breath away . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | By mid-February opponents of the government 's privatization law , narrowly approved by Congress with Colorado support in late September 1991 , had successfully gathered the 12,000 signatures constitutionally required to continue their campaign for a referendum on privatization . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He died within a year of taking up his new office , but by then he had successfully completed the first stage of the reduction of Wales which , according to his will , he expected to complete within his three-year term of office . |
| 17 | By refusing to keep open two-way radio links , the crews had effectively ended a proper emergency service . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He had metaphorically shaken a large fist , impotently , at some looming energy-field , and got on with his work , his work . |
| 20 | Seb realised he had inadvertently said the wrong thing , but Carrie had gone to the scullery that opened off the farmhouse kitchen . |
| 21 | It was a routine call on the bereaved Mrs Place who had lost her father and who might soon be a widow , who had perhaps shed a few tears , but not very many . |
| 22 | The perfect condition of everything had somewhat disguised the extreme age of the place , but now it was obvious . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He had personally recruited the antique dealer . |
| 28 | McAlpine had thoughtfully completed the external checks before I ventured onto their Hayes helipad . |
| 29 | The Times , which had hitherto kept a dignified silence on such a distasteful subject , pronounced itself well-pleased with the modified outcome . |
| 30 | The British had hitherto favoured the US-led NATO system NAAWS . |