Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He treated the much-vaunted pace pairing of Wasim and Waqar as though they were tame medium pacers , not the men who had mercilessly destroyed the last threads of his Test confidence . |
| 2 | He had been delighted beyond speech to see her until she had nervously produced the blue hospital card from out of her handbag . |
| 3 | The government stated that the decision had been made in order to prevent the spiral of drug-related violence which had eventually persuaded the Colombian government to end extradition [ see pp. 37772 ; 37851 ; 38332 ] . |
| 4 | Over the months , scars had slowly covered the sore places in her mind but sometimes , especially at Kew , the pain took her breath away . |
| 5 | By mid-February opponents of the government 's privatization law , narrowly approved by Congress with Colorado support in late September 1991 , had successfully gathered the 12,000 signatures constitutionally required to continue their campaign for a referendum on privatization . |
| 6 | He died within a year of taking up his new office , but by then he had successfully completed the first stage of the reduction of Wales which , according to his will , he expected to complete within his three-year term of office . |
| 7 | At the former , stone-robbing had effectively removed the crucial junction on the steeply sloping ground ; at the gate , it remained unclear whether the wall was already in existence or whether it had been constructed at the same time . |
| 8 | Seb realised he had inadvertently said the wrong thing , but Carrie had gone to the scullery that opened off the farmhouse kitchen . |
| 9 | The perfect condition of everything had somewhat disguised the extreme age of the place , but now it was obvious . |
| 10 | They argued that the appeals court had wrongly interpreted the federal legislation and that the prohibition of any type of gun-ownership by law-abiding citizens was an infringement of the constitutional right " to keep and bear arms " as enshrined within the Second Amendment . |
| 11 | 5 April : The Mail on Sunday sets its sleuths onto Lord ( Clive ) Hollick , one of Kinnock 's advisers and chairman of MAI , whom it had wrongly accused the previous week of paying himself in gold bars to avoid tax . |
| 12 | Twenty-nine days earlier he had personally visited the National Westminster Bank in Lower Regent Street , and in the office of the Deputy Manager he had ordered the movement of 500,000 American dollars from the account of Iraqi Airlines ( London ) to a numbered account in Dublin . |
| 13 | He had personally recruited the antique dealer . |
| 14 | McAlpine had thoughtfully completed the external checks before I ventured onto their Hayes helipad . |
| 15 | The British had hitherto favoured the US-led NATO system NAAWS . |
| 16 | In 1981 the executive committee directed that the BDN , which had hitherto performed the dual role of addressing the hearing public on behalf of deaf people at the same time as serving deaf readers , should in future primarily be a paper for BDA members and the deaf community as a whole . |
| 17 | His basic argument , that Marx proposed a new conception of knowledge defined against Hegelianism , implied an accompanying revision of the Hegelian concept of history , which , as we have seen in the cases of Lukács and Sartre , had hitherto provided the dominant model of Marxist historicism . |
| 18 | The US side had hitherto accused the Soviet military of evading the impact of CFE force reductions , in particular by transferring tank units east of the Urals ( i.e. simply removing them from the area covered by the treaty , rather than destroying them — see pp. 38027 ; 38122 ; 38217 ) . |
| 19 | Ira Dilworth , Dick Halhed and Jim Gilmore had all visited the northern B.C. port of Prince Rupert and spoken highly of it , so I decided to go north on a Pacific coast steamer . |
| 20 | The FIS , the FFS and one section of the FLN leadership had all questioned the constitutional legitimacy of the HCS . |
| 21 | With Nathan it had all happened the other way around . |
| 22 | On the surface the man seemed to be part of the backbone of the community , but she had only to remember the marked reluctance shown by those of his employees she had tried to interview that afternoon to realise that all was n't as it seemed . |
| 23 | However , the majority of these had only finished the first level of secondary education — the fifth and sixth years following four years of primary school . |
| 24 | One can only feel for the Jesuits : when their Order was dissolved in 1777 , they had only enjoyed the finished church for two years . |
| 25 | Ahmed Deedat told thousands of Muslims who filled the Albert Hall in central London that if they had only shown the non-Muslim majority that Mr Rushdie had grievously insulted the Queen , Margaret Thatcher and all white women in The Satanic Verses , then the author would have been condemned by all of society and the book banned . |
| 26 | When his trial opened on May 26 he had been charged with complicity in genocide , and the presiding judge had only substituted the lesser charge of instigating murder at the moment of reaching a verdict . |
| 27 | He had only had the single season at Wakefield when the approach came . |
| 28 | Nessie had only closed the stable door when Sergeant Davidson arrived with two uniformed policemen in the police cart . |
| 29 | The lock to open the door of her sensuality had only needed the right key . |
| 30 | I then took Maxine 's mind off what had happened by asking her to describe again the scenery in the area of the canal and the painted barges and sturdy horses which had so fascinated the young boy . |