Example sentences of "had [verb] its [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government confirmed on May 13 that it had landed a contingent of troops on the southern tip of Bougainville for the first time since 1990 , when it had withdrawn its forces from the island in the face of a protracted secessionist guerrilla war conducted by the Bougainville Revolutionary Army ( BRA ) . |
| 2 | The press in Zambia had broken its links with the South only to forge new ones with the British press and its allied agencies . |
| 3 | He had seen its lines in the spectrum , and realized that they did not correspond to any known substance . |
| 4 | Of the two European companies that did become members , Méliès had built its fortunes around the genius of one innovative filmmaker , whereas Pathé had deliberately set out on an internationalist path , making films not only in France but also in Britain , the US , Italy , Germany , Russia and Japan . |
| 5 | Today — the Saturday of the Whitsun weekend — the shop had opened its doors to the public for the first time ; and they had got off to an encouraging start . |
| 6 | The plant will enable it to cut down on shipping costs which Edwards said had affected its results in the past . |
| 7 | By the end of 1990 China had resumed its contacts with the West , with Japan and with the major international organizations . |
| 8 | At Tynagh , negotiations on a reclamation project for the devastated area began between Galway County Council and Northgate only after the company had finished its operations in the area . |
| 9 | One polytechnic had expressed its fears to the Council that not all boards would operate the new arrangements , and had received an assurance from the Chief Officer that ‘ corrective action would be taken as soon as possible where any Board was seen not acting in the spirit of the new arrangements ’ . |
| 10 | The September moon had sent its beams over the bed and into the corners of the bedroom so that everything seemed vivid , rather stark , a little ghostly . |
| 11 | The navy , greatly expanded under Henry VIII , required something more than the single clerk who had managed its affairs under the distant and often negligible supervision of the Lord Admiral . |