Example sentences of "had [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conclusion of the report was that the resilience and vigour of adult education in the county during the previous twenty years had placed it in a good position to consolidate earlier effort and made HMI confident that further development in the provision of liberal adult education would build on the foundation of the established tradition of co-operative endeavour between the LEAs and the Responsible Bodies . |
| 2 | Madge Allsop had just crept in like a beige dormouse and deposited a salver of tea , though Dame Edna had dismissed her with a beady look when she attempted to sit in our chat . |
| 3 | Soon she had formed them into a big circle , like this : — |
| 4 | The funny man who had found her on a distant planet and had treated her as a human being . |
| 5 | The reason was that the employer had taken no effective steps to end the practice and yet suddenly , and without proper warning , had treated it as a sufficient ground for dismissal . |
| 6 | Its windows and doors had been sealed up with breeze-blocks but the Koranic inscription beneath the roof remained and someone had painted it in the past ten years . |
| 7 | All the same , the theme is still national honour and personal loyalty , the lessons which Dick teaches to Anastasia as successfully as he had taught them to the weak but responsive Carol . |
| 8 | For almost the whole of their walk their objective had been in sight : the green copper cupola of the soaring campanile of Arthur Blomfield 's extraordinary Romanesque basilica , built in 1870 on the bank of this sluggish urban waterway with as much confidence as if he had erected it on the Venetian Grand Canal . |
| 9 | But the archaeologists ' obsession with the past had blinded them to the real cause of the lamentations they witnessed along the river . |
| 10 | Without a doubt it had been Greg 's backing which had propelled him into the big league ; without him , for all his talent , Hugo might have been trapped in small-time design and manufacture for ever . |
| 11 | Addressing a press conference on June 23 , French Finance Minister Pierre Bérégovoy said that while some countries favoured associate membership for the Soviet Union , others had regarded it as a transitional status . |
| 12 | Daphne Rye once again had pointed him in the right direction . |
| 13 | She was more than capable of defending herself if the need arose , but what if her pursuer was someone who had recognized her from a previous UNACO assignment , someone out to blow her cover ? |
| 14 | players had received it in the past two years as well , now four times overall since it was inaugurated in 1985 . |
| 15 | Tight in his hand he held the silver coin that Dad had given him at the front door . |
| 16 | I had heard the bell toll … the wave of ecstasy which drove me on to this shore had pressed me into a dark , dull interior . |
| 17 | Yet he had pursued her with a single-minded intent that was unnerving . |
| 18 | By an effort of memory she could just recall a time when money had been plentiful , and her father — then strong and well — had spent it with a gay extravagance which had delighted her as a small child . |
| 19 | He had addressed it to the Chief Accountant personally , and a letter so addressed , in his distinctive handwriting would stand out a mile when the letters were spread across Steve Pyle 's desk . |
| 20 | What magic did these brothers possess that had catapulted them into the rarefied atmosphere of the multi-billionaires . |
| 21 | He indicated to Haussmann that the form of the railway station , a huge open space covered by glass , had impressed him as a possible model and as a result of the Emperor 's predilections , and Baltard 's skill , the great new market of Les Halles was built in a light , airy combination of iron , stone and glass . |
| 22 | Mrs Nowak had impressed her as a strong woman , a woman inclined to fantasy perhaps , but resilient and not inclined to despair . |
| 23 | Irritated with herself for reminding him , Julia turned back to face the front and said nothing more until Bill had dropped them outside a big yellow house on the edge of Fiesole . |
| 24 | Whereas Catherine the Great had confined them to the western and southern borderlands of the empire and Alexander I had encouraged them to consider economic diversification and cultural assimilation , Nicholas intervened in their lives more dramatically . |
| 25 | This morning Luke seemed even less human than he had at the interview when obviously she had caught him in an off moment . |
| 26 | The drawings were purchased by the museum from William Proby , whose family had owned them from an early date , for £310,000 with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund , the National Art Collections Fund and other benefactors . |
| 27 | Last time I had been to Paris they had rescued me from the freezing streets and hungry wolf packs . ) |
| 28 | It was nearly forty years later that I met the man who had carried me into the only half track we had left and who reassured me . |
| 29 | A tramp had found her freezing and near to death on the doorstep of a gin palace near the Elephant and Castle and he had carried her to the local Catholic church . |
| 30 | As soon as she reached the club , as soon as she was back in the public eye , she would have to switch on the false persona that had carried her through the past week . |