Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bomb-bay of a Mosquito was too small to accommodate so large a bomb , and they had to carry them slung underneath the fuselage with the bomb doors open . |
| 2 | Lord Justice Watkins criticised the legislation and doubted whether Parliament had intended it to apply to the housing of immigrants . |
| 3 | The Founders had to agree everything to do with the paper , including the appointment of the sponsoring merchant bank . |
| 4 | The public library has lost its soul because it has been absorbed into the modern semi-literate culture and because it did not have the knowledge and experience gained across generations that the old private libraries had to enable them to cope with the world of mass circulation popular fiction , for example , rather than the People 's University that Hoggart remembers from his youth in the Hunslet district of Leeds . |
| 5 | She went , and Alice sat still until she had heard her go up the stairs , and the closing of her door . |
| 6 | Ruth had heard her boasting to the Carsons . |
| 7 | He had heard me talking to the Princess . |
| 8 | On the day when Katherine came home to find the easel her father had given her collapsed on the floor and the careful copy she had been making of Vermeer 's ‘ Girl with a Mandolin' splattered with red paint , she made her decision . |
| 9 | When Mortimer had assigned everyone positions for the operation — Ace , Benny and Petion to remain with him — he checked his watch . |
| 10 | She had decided not to free the prisoners , so now she had to see what happened to the passengers . |
| 11 | ‘ They 'd shrivel up like walnuts , ’ she said to Karen , who had joined her to wash off the debris of the laughing fit . |
| 12 | His reputation as a hard man — he had picked up a conviction for GBH — had won him work on the bouncer circuit and the title ‘ King of the Bouncers ’ . |
| 13 | He watched her walk away without speaking and enter the hall again ; he had expected her to come to the table to supervise Mary packing up the food . |
| 14 | He had expected everybody to abide by the rules he had applied to his own life . |
| 15 | Felipe had let me drive around the hacienda but I had never been on a road . ’ |
| 16 | They had let me slip through the net earlier ; they would n't exactly be fans of mine . |
| 17 | The next day Julia woke with all the trivial but uncomfortable symptoms of a developing cold , and she wondered whether she had caught it dawdling by the edge of the icy lagoon . |
| 18 | The body of Elizabeth Page-Alucard , 41 , was found on Saturday by her boyfriend , Peter Hook , 25 , after he had reported her missing to the police . |
| 19 | Instead she 'd accepted his suggestion to show her more of the island of Zealand , and had been enchanted by everything , painfully aware that the spell which had entrapped her emanated from the powerful persona of the man beside her as much as the natural beauty of the surrounding countryside . |
| 20 | Very few had considered what to do about the care management-care programming interface but then this is at least partly a problem for health authorities . |
| 21 | They turned a corner and Corbett had to hide his trembling at the appearance of the small , squat , one-eyed man who seemed to rise out of the darkness before them . |
| 22 | Maureen had met her returning from the photographers ' room , discovered the keys and taken them . |
| 23 | Her mother , Lavender , had fallen in love with a scholarly man called Frederick Legh when she had met him walking on the Moor . |
| 24 | Clavell says that King Rat had freed him to write about the Far East . |
| 25 | He was sure no one had noticed him talking to the journalist . |
| 26 | Electrodes , that 's what they were ; she had seen them used on the baby in the next cot to Jenny in the hospital , just a few days before she had died . |
| 27 | Ted had been a little belligerent at first but a couple of hints that Pascoe had seen him drinking in the Club earlier and an oblique reference to the breathalyser test had calmed him down and made him most co-operative . |
| 28 | There were lines now from nose to mouth ; the lips were stern ; she had seen him take in the room , who was there , with whom , with one cold appraising glance as he entered . |
| 29 | She denied it but did not tell him she had seen him fighting with the pedlar or that the man had chased her and Oliver in Nice . |
| 30 | Harry signed for Palace after Manager Edmund Goodman had seen him play for the amateur side , Kingstonian , in a Surrey Charity Shield Final at The Nest early in the summer of 1921 , when Palace had just won promotion to Division 2 . |