Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the present case there was a glaring absence of any reliable evidence as to exactly what happened on the occasion on which Mrs. Steed had placed her signature on the transfer . |
| 2 | The government confirmed on May 13 that it had landed a contingent of troops on the southern tip of Bougainville for the first time since 1990 , when it had withdrawn its forces from the island in the face of a protracted secessionist guerrilla war conducted by the Bougainville Revolutionary Army ( BRA ) . |
| 3 | On Aug. 12 it was reported that the air and naval high commands had withdrawn their support for the President , dissociating themselves from the incidents of Aug. 10 . |
| 4 | As the debate progressed it became clear not merely that the country 's four opposition parties were prepared to co-operate to defeat the proposal , but that several senior figures within the ruling party — including Shin Kanemaru , leader of the largest LDP faction — had withdrawn their support from the bill . |
| 5 | In fact , several of the warnings were from colleagues at the centre who had withdrawn their association from the centre early last year . |
| 6 | It should not , in the administration 's view , disqualify Thomas as a Supreme Court Justice , unlike the case of Douglas Ginsburg , who in 1987 had withdrawn his nomination to the Supreme Court after it was revealed that he had smoked marijuana while a teacher at Harvard Law School . |
| 7 | In the face of mounting political tensions , it was reported on April 9 that President Mobutu Sese Seko had withdrawn his objections to the holding of a national conference . |
| 8 | ( Koirala had formed his government after the party 's election victory in May 1991 — see p. 38193 . ) |
| 9 | The children here were all considered old enough by their parents to understand a sympathetic explanation of the grounds on which the Reporter had referred their case to the Children 's Panel . |
| 10 | Eventually , when he had slurped his way through the two cheeseburgers and large French fries , polished off an apple pie and a strawberry milkshake , he got out of the car and walked over to a litter-disposal unit . |
| 11 | Critics , however , said that he had ‘ blown it ’ and that his loss on time — unusual among top players — had exposed his inexperience at the very highest level . |
| 12 | Kenneth Brown , 21 , had tricked his way into the Surrey home by asking to use the toilet , an Old Bailey jury was told . |
| 13 | During the hearing the Home Office claimed Mike Morley had tricked his way into the prison to record the interview with Nilsen . |
| 14 | She glanced in the mirror and declared I had wrecked her eyes for the rest of the day . |
| 15 | As for himself , he was sorry she was upset — and also , if he was honest , a little irritated too , because the crisis had wrecked his plans for the morning . |
| 16 | By that time Luib had gathered his men from the outer gates and was attacking the enemy rear . |
| 17 | Napoleon , far from manoeuvring about the Duke 's right flank , had rammed his troops into the seam between the allied armies . |
| 18 | Mr Bell said he had consulted his solicitor about the matter . |
| 19 | Bobby Kennedy declared Sinatra 's home a security risk , and the President had to cancel his stay at the Sinatra mansion . |
| 20 | What is certain is that the Egyptian goldsmiths had developed their skills to the point at which they were able to mount amethyst , lapis lazuli and turquoise in the gold bracelets buried with King Zer of the first dynasty in his tomb at Abydos . |
| 21 | It is submitted that it would be ill-advised to treat such statements made in one House after the Bill had completed its passage in the other House as an expression of the intention of , in the words of Lord Browne-Wilkinson , ‘ Parliament as a whole ’ . |
| 22 | It was reported on Sept. 3 that the AAIB had completed its investigation into the crash of a British Midland Boeing 737 near Kegworth in Leicestershire in December 1988 in which 47 people were killed [ see p. 36410 ] . |
| 23 | By 1795 significant sections of the Bible had been translated into Bengali and by 1798 he had completed his translation of the whole Scripture . |
| 24 | Mr Bumble had completed his business in the city , and had just finished a most satisfactory meal in a pub . |
| 25 | Fox had completed his examination of the vandalized room and his report was conclusive : no prints , fresh or otherwise , of anyone other than Alfred himself . |
| 26 | ‘ Word came that the reivers had hidden their galleys in the sea lochan at Arivegaig . ’ |
| 27 | Croatia and Slovenia had recalled their representatives from the Presidency and the representatives of Bosnia-Hercegovina and Macedonia had not attended since October [ see p. 38513 ] . |
| 28 | But he had revised his view by the time he wrote A West-India Fortune ( 1950 ) : there , and in George III and the Politicians , the two approaches were fruitfully combined . |
| 29 | The District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals in July 1990 had overturned his conviction on the first charge and sent the other two convictions back to US District Court judge Gerhard A. Gesell , to determine whether testimony from any of the 67 witnesses at the original trial had been influenced — directly or indirectly — by information which North gave Congress under grant of limited immunity during four days of nationally televised interrogation in June 1987 [ see p. 37605 ] . |
| 30 | He had heard her cries in the night . |