Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hess commanded a troop ship during the Second World War and the vessel 's echo sounder had traced out curious mountains on the floor of the Pacific . |
| 2 | Mr Mackie claimed Murray had heated up some heroin in a spoon and injected himself before giving him enough heroin for his own injection . |
| 3 | But recently , the City of Westminster successfully prosecuted both an owner and builder , who had stripped out large quantities of fine panelling from an early eighteenth-century house in Soho , on a total of no less than fourteen charges . |
| 4 | Mr Alistair MacDuff told a High Court jury that Princesses Faria and Simiya Al Sabah had meted out dreadful treatment to her on a 1983 visit to their Bayswater home in London . |
| 5 | The taxi ride from the airport to the little village where she was staying , only six kilometres from Nice , had been uncomfortable because the air-conditioning in the car had broken down three days before her arrival and was waiting to be repaired , and all in all her last vestiges of good humour had finally bitten the dust as she 'd stood in front of the house and realised that it had n't finished being built . |
| 6 | Reuters news agency , quoting Chinese sources , reported on Feb. 6 that a group of workers calling themselves the China Free Union Preparatory Committee had posted out 2,000 copies of their anti-government manifesto for the organization , modelled on Poland 's Solidarity . |
| 7 | Dalgliesh remembered a surgeon once telling him that Miles Kynaston had shown promise of becoming a brilliant diagnostician , but had given up general medicine for pathology at registrar level because he could no longer bear to watch human suffering . |
| 8 | Although it is impossible to think of him as a Londoner , this move began a lifelong association with the capital to which he returned every year for a few months , even after he had given up all thoughts of making it his permanent home . |
| 9 | By the 1660s , Rome had given up all thoughts of the forcible deposition of the English Protestant monarchy ; indeed , in the 1670s its cautious and reluctant response to the proposed marriage of the heir to the throne James and the Catholic noblewoman Mary of Modena threatened to block the best route for a peaceful end to the English schism , and Rome continued to offer only lukewarm support to James both before and after 1685 . |
| 10 | She had given up all idea of exercising any power over fate . |
| 11 | She had given up all hope of ever bringing Oreste over . |
| 12 | But she had given up all hope of Joss Barnet returning that evening and nothing else in the world mattered . |
| 13 | Ted had given up all hope of enlarging his holding and was concentrating his efforts on farming his existing soil , making a reasonable living from his multiplicity of vegetable crops , when a letter arrived one day explaining to him that if he still wanted to buy the adjoining land , the owners were interested in discussing the matter . |
| 14 | As early as 1524 , Henry had given up all hope of Catherine bearing another child , and by the time he became infatuated with Anne Boleyn two years later , he had already begun to convince himself that his wife 's failure to give birth to a son who survived infancy was a sign that his marriage to his brother 's widow was sinful , in that it had broken the laws concerning affinity laid down in the Old Testament Book of Leviticus ( chapter 20 : verse 21 ) . |
| 15 | They had given up all hope of ever moving when a two-bedroom house with a garden was found for them in Forthlin Road , Allerton last week . |
| 16 | They had given up all hope of ever moving when a two-bedroom house with a garden was found for them in Forthlin Road , Allerton last week . |
| 17 | War heroes who served on the Russian convoys had given up all hope of receiving the award issued by the old Soviet Union . |
| 18 | Many ex-servicemen had given up all hope of ever seeing the tribute after the Ministry of Defence warned supplies could dry up following the break-up of the USSR . |
| 19 | The timing of the goal was a vital ingredient of this delirium , of course ( I for one had given up all hope by then ) , as was the venue ( we had n't won up there for decades ) ; but what really gave the night meaning was the anxiety and despair , year after year of it , that had gone before . |
| 20 | Yes , after we had given up all intention of going there , we have arrived . |
| 21 | There was no immediate sign of an answer , but after Creggan had given up any hope of a reply and was looking at the path lights beginning to come on in the Park outside the Zoo there was a subtle shift of talons in Slorne 's cage , a gentle shift of wings , the swiftest of meek glances , and Creggan , too late to catch the look full on , yet sensed that in her mute way Slorne was saying ‘ Yes , oh yes , you were right to predict her return ’ This knowledge that another eagle there believed his prediction had been right gave Creggan comfort in those first weeks in the Cages . |
| 22 | Time and again it appeared that people had given up secure employment to farm full-time . |
| 23 | He was disappointed , too , that his father had given up artistic ideals in the pursuit of money . |
| 24 | so the staff use that and the children had to go up six flights of stairs |
| 25 | Kyle had won back two strokes with birdies at the 15th and 16th , but Des O'Grady had lost a ball off his drive at the 17th . |
| 26 | She had sat up that night in her room , sitting on the bed scribbling notes on one of the Shelbourne 's notepads . |
| 27 | Knowing that she simply had to shake off this mood of dreamy awareness , she turned on her heel , some grit beneath the leather soles of her flat white sandals grating harshly . |
| 28 | In December 1973 , Mr John Morris MP asked how many judges had carried out non-judicial duties in the form of inquiries , commissions and reports , or similar tasks , during the previous twenty years . |
| 29 | The father , Mr P , also an English incomer to Orkney , had carried out various forms of abuse over a long period of time . |
| 30 | Neo-Nazi skinheads had carried out similar attacks on a smaller scale on a hostel in the Saxon town of Hoyerswerda in September 1991 [ see p. 38447 ] . |