Example sentences of "had [verb] [noun prp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 A fitting start to the celebrations , said managing director Harriet Spicer , because of the support the trade had given Virago over the years .
2 Zhou had shielded Deng from the extremists when ‘ class struggle ’ was predominant rather than economic development .
3 An American studio had approached Willy for the rights to the play , but ‘ they envisaged a Brat Pack movie , packaging first and script later , ’ and he turned them down .
4 Well , she supposed that figured ; after all , she had seen Luke with the children at the sailing club , again revealing that other side of his nature which did n't extend to her …
5 ‘ I had n't even made the connection until a friend mentioned he had seen Tim in the papers with all the Princess Anne business . ’
6 The advocate-depute , Ann Paton , QC , asked if , as a result of what he had told Mackie about the profits warning , Mr Runciman had expected him to go and deal in Shanks & McEwan shares or communicate with others in such a way that they would deal in shares .
7 Hopkins had told McGrath of the plans for It and for the Scot to edit it .
8 Evelyn had watched Kate over the years putting her own life on hold for Lizzy , and for what ?
9 The first day Emma had escorted Ruth to the gates and come back with a red nose .
10 Perhaps he was n't without blame , but had n't she made the same kind of mistake when she had endowed Marcus with the qualities she 'd wanted him to possess ?
11 Before going north to meet the French King , Henry had left Poitou in the hands of Queen Eleanor with an experienced commander , Earl Patrick of Salisbury , at her side as her military adviser .
12 All Western diplomats had left Kabul in the weeks leading up to the Soviet troop withdrawal in February 1989 [ see p. 36448-50 ] , when the United States was predicting the imminent collapse of the Najibullah regime .
13 Nor that the reason she had sent Maggie to an all-girls ' school was not to protect her from evil-minded youths , but to protect her from the sort of teaching that she seemed to be getting .
14 Certainly that was a part of it : fear of in love and rejection had sent Jay along the sands away from her , away from the pattern of I-love-her , she-loves-me-not .
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