Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] in the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was enormous fun to be juggling with the high explosive which had already exploded in the faces of EMI and A&M , and which the rest of the record industry had decided was too volatile to touch . |
| 2 | Coleridge tells us that after he ‘ had successively studied in the schools of Locke , Berkeley , Leibnitz , and Hartley and could find in none of them an abiding place for [ his ] reason ’ ( Biographia Literaria , ix ) he discovered in Germany the writings of ‘ the illustrious sage of Koenigsberg ’ : Immanuel Kant . |
| 3 | Horse-racing , a sport that had largely remained in the hands of the aristocracy and which was the object of criticism from bourgeois ideologues and socialists alike , grew rapidly in popularity . |
| 4 | Well everybody that was working for him had always worked in the quarries all their life , and they er they just been working for the slater company before the quarry shut down . |
| 5 | Emily tried to remember if she had ever known in the days of seeing him that he was such a strong swimmer , but nothing much came back . |
| 6 | North Caucasus representatives , with the exception of Chechnia , had also participated in the negotiations . |
| 7 | This was something that Picasso had also conveyed in the necks of the Horta figures , where the area between the projecting tendons appears to have been cut back into a deep recess . |
| 8 | From the point of view of the lord of the manor there were five freeholders , all of whom had earlier featured in the musters , two as inhabitants of the village . |