Example sentences of "had [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1663 an Act of Charles II had placed a partial ban on the importation of foreign cattle to England ; the ban became total in 1666 and permanent in 1680 . |
| 2 | The bogus golfers had placed a triangular support under the open end of the decapitated golf-bag and had hammered a notched support into the grout at its base , which still rested on the trolley . |
| 3 | In my self-conscious zeal to improve myself , I had placed a regular order for the London Times , not a paper normally stocked by that small newsagent . |
| 4 | The court heard he had placed the original bet for a £1 stake and paid 10p tax at Ladbrokes in his home town . |
| 5 | Too much emphasis had been placed upon the strengthening of security by military rather than political means , and this had placed an undue burden on the domestic economy . |
| 6 | The hook had ripped a great tuft of flesh from his throat . |
| 7 | Ten minutes afterwards she had filled every available space on the card with news of her journey and her impressions of beautiful Mariánské Láznë , so that when it came to penning a signature there was barely any room for her own name , let alone room to add Cara 's . |
| 8 | Mr Ashdown , who loves to tell us that his campaign alone concentrates on ‘ the real issues ’ , had filled the entire broadcast with pictures of himself . |
| 9 | Lanfranc himself was only partly converted , and , even in his last days , he was still giving quantities of the bodies of his predecessors , which had filled the old church before the fire of 1067 , to his new foundation of canons outside the walls of the city . |
| 10 | Sergio and Bacco from 1206 : he had filled the important office of papal chamberlain . |
| 11 | But by the third edition Spock had withdrawn a longish way from the doctrine that natural loving care cures all ills . |
| 12 | She had sustained a slight scratch on her neck . |
| 13 | As a child Vidor had hated the Military Academy at San Antonio and he very much wanted to make ‘ an honest war picture ’ that would correct the excessive jingoism of the normal Hollywood war film . |
| 14 | Their mother had hated the very thought of anything that could lessen the love between her and Dana , and she had taught her that the bond between them was only imagination on Claudia 's part . |
| 15 | For an ugly moment I had been convinced she had guessed the real reason for my avid professional interest in Bill Francis . |
| 16 | Frost , like thickly appliquéd lace medallions , patterned the bedroom window , and water in a cup by the bedside had formed a solid block of ice . |
| 17 | Hobbes had formed a close friendship with Gassendi during his meetings with him in Paris , in the circle of scientists and philosophers which centred round Mersenne . |
| 18 | Steam from the water had clouded the mirrors in the bathroom ; condensation had formed a dewy veil over the tiles . |
| 19 | At one time Dalgety was up 16p as Elf Aquitaine , the French oil group , confirmed it had formed a joint company with Australian Robert Holmes a Court to hold a 5.5 per cent stake in the Dalgety agricultural and food group . |
| 20 | HAVING BEEN a close follower of The Lone Groover and loon pant ads in the NME of the '70s , I had formed a lasting impression of The World 's Greatest Rock Weekly as an impenetrable fortress of wit , intellect and sneering clever-gits . |
| 21 | However , reports in October claimed that up to 1,300 Army officers had formed a secret group in support of the former CCP general secretary Zhao Ziyang and in opposition to the Yang brothers . |
| 22 | China had formed a Leading Group on Intellectual Property , headed by State Councillor Song Jian , and on Oct. 20 , the China Daily reported that China would join the Berne Convention and the Universal Copyright Convention before the end of 1992 [ see also pp. 38339-40 ] . |
| 23 | The four opposition parties which had formed the Democratic Bloc in May [ see p. 38982 ] voiced opposition to the constitutional proposals . |
| 24 | At about that time a number of hotel-schools who had been involved in looking at accreditation with EURHODIP [ a group which has developed a European hotel diploma ] had formed the European Foundation for the Accreditation of Hotelschool Programmes [ EFAH ] . |
| 25 | One of the most respected of our club members , on our committee of management , Pavel Pavlovich Gaganov , an elderly man ad highly esteemed , had formed the innocent habit of following anything he had to say with the vehement addition , ‘ No , sir , you ca n't lead me by the nose ! ’ |
| 26 | The trial judge directed the jury if at the time he collected the coins the defendant had formed the dishonest intention of keeping them for himself he was guilty of theft . |
| 27 | It was announced on Nov. 6 that former Prime Minister Col. Kasdi Merbah , who had resigned in October from the central committee of the ruling National Liberation Front ( FLN ) [ see p. 37795 ] , had formed the Algerian Movement for Justice and Development . |
| 28 | In September these two groups had formed an anti-negotiation alliance alongside Hamas and seven other smaller non-PLO groups . |
| 29 | It had already formed local pacts with the SzDSz in five counties , but on March 30 Antall announced that the HDF had formed an electoral pact with the Smallholders and the Christian Democratic People 's Party whereby the three parties would support the best placed candidate in each constituency . |
| 30 | Talks sponsored by Djibouti President Hassan Gouled Aptidon brought together in Djibouti on June 5-15 the leaders of four Somali groups — the United Somali Congress ( USC ) , which had formed an interim administration in Mogadishu in January [ see pp. 37946-47 ] ; the Somali Salvation Democratic Front ( SSDF ) ; the Somali Patriotic Movement ( SPM ) : and the Somali Democratic Movement ( SDM ) . |