Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Sleeping lightly as always in the early hours , she had heard his key in the lock , his foot on the stairs , before drifting again into sleep . |
| 32 | At the time of the Marne , the Crown Prince had communicated his concern to the Kaiser about the difficulties von Kluck 's right wing had run into — only to receive the patronising rebuff : ‘ My dear boy ! |
| 33 | The press in Zambia had broken its links with the South only to forge new ones with the British press and its allied agencies . |
| 34 | Mr Salmond emphasised that the only correspondence surrounding the deal had already been published and rejected claims that his party had broken its side of the deal . |
| 35 | ( A Referendum Law had been passed on July 18 — see p. 38351 — but on Oct. 8 the Assembly had delayed its discussion of the issue . ) |
| 36 | Being a lazy lad , much given to the idea of rising late when given half a chance , he had delayed his arrival in the world until 1 January . |
| 37 | Moreover , apart from this defect , the election could not be regarded as complete until he had received his pallium from the pope , and he would be liable to deposition unless he received it within a year of his consecration . |
| 38 | As the target had come out of the hotel , his hand had stiffened on the grip of the Ruger in the plastic bag and he had eased his weight towards the passenger door . |
| 39 | She was perplexed ; she had sensed his interest in the bar downstairs . |
| 40 | She had stopped her tears with the heel of her hand , and face-paint smeared it . |
| 41 | The most notorious of those centred on an incident in December 1982 when two unarmed members of the Republican paramilitary organisation , the Irish National Liberation Army ( INLA ) , were shot dead after police officers had stopped their car on the edge of Armagh . |
| 42 | He was immediately released from his confinement , but he was still liable to the man who had given him credit in the belief he could keep his promise to pay later . |
| 43 | The record of this parliament is incomplete , but the recollection of contemporaries seems unequivocal , and in later , more difficult , circumstances parliament was to be reminded more than once that it had given its assent to the war . |
| 44 | Once parliament had given its assent to the war and Edward 's prospective companions in arms had been singled out for honours , Edward set about mobilizing the financial support he needed . |
| 45 | In that context , Franco was the unifying common denominator , in that he was the only person acceptable to all the shades of political opinion present on the Committee , to the external powers whose political and material support were vital to the Nationalists , and to the Catholic Church , which had given its blessing to the rising as the defence of Christianity against communism . |
| 46 | Julia , stunned but dry-eyed , had given her statement to the police . |
| 47 | On May 17 , local leaders meeting with SNM representatives at the town of Burao in the north-east had given their support to the secession ; according to Le Monde of May 16 and 21 , SNM leaders favoured a federalist solution but had bowed to this grasssroots opinion . |
| 48 | It had given us stability for the past forty years . |
| 49 | He told Mrs Edwards her son had given his life in the service of humanity and his sacrifice had not been in vain . |
| 50 | He told Mrs Edwards that her son had given his life in the service of humanity . |
| 51 | The dead Jewish convoy commander had given his name to the land where Mrs Zamzam 's village once stood , an Israeli hamlet that was now periodically threatened with rocket-fire from Palestinian guerrillas , perhaps the same men who as children walked with Mrs Zamzam from Um Al-Farajh after the ambush on the Jewish convoy . |
| 52 | He made it sound as though she had given his sermon to the messenger boy . |
| 53 | ‘ But you are thinking that it would be a dreadful irony if Fergus had given his soul into the captivity of the Prison of Hostages , only to have his quest abandoned ? ’ |
| 54 | Chambers , for his part , had given his endorsement in the book : ‘ During the case Nixon and his family were at our farm , encouraging me and comforting my family . |
| 55 | On Saturday Mrs Totteridge had ridden in the morning and then at lunchtime had checked her goat with the attendant events from which the whole enquiry had followed . |
| 56 | Gomolka had lost a vote of confidence on March 14 after dismissing his Justice Minister , Ulrich Born , who had criticized his handling of the privatization . |
| 57 | In one participating practice one general practitioner declined to take part in the study and a further three were excluded — two because they had joined their practices within the previous six months and one because he left the practice during the study . |
| 58 | Listening in their Castle Park home , his wife Virtue said Moore had altered her life for the worse . |
| 59 | This was the journal Jewry Ueber Alles which had just been published in February 1920 , and had altered its name to The Hidden Hand in September 1920 and to the British Guardian in May 1924 . |
| 60 | I noticed that he had pressed his elbows into the desk to stop his hands shaking . |