Example sentences of "had [be] [verb] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her heart had been lost to him the first moment she had set eyes on him . |
| 2 | Maggie 's room , her own place , had been made for her the summer she was eight by Phoebe , Paul and Uncle Wong . |
| 3 | Symbolically , at least , a formal connection had been made in which the success of US policy in strengthening Western Europe had been linked to what was in effect Congressional interest in policies which would ‘ contain' communism in Asia . |
| 4 | As he wrote the words , he knew quite well that his grave had been dug for him the day before , once a reprieve had been refused . |
| 5 | The UK had objected strongly to the particularly sharp cuts originally proposed in its own allocations ; in the final agreement , a compromise had been reached in which the UK 's cod catches were reduced from 55,800 tonnes to 46,180 , while haddock quotas fell from 62,500 tonnes to 36,280 ( see p. 36493 for 1989 quotas ) . |
| 6 | Meetings had been videotaped at which the legislators accepted from him a total of $370,000 . |
| 7 | During the final rehearsals for the 1962 Berlin recording of the Ninth , Karajan discovered that for years in the Finale 's ‘ adagio ma non troppo , ma divoto ’ the Berlin violas had been annexing for themselves the top line in a passage that is richly divided . |
| 8 | The agency , said Heseltine , has become ‘ a pawn in the negotiations of the French ’ , although an alternative way forward had been proposed in which the agency would have a secretariat in Brussels and the leadership of the agency would rotate in the same way that the EC presidency does . |
| 9 | Now , arriving at his own manor of Kouklia , he recognised as if he had been bred to it the sound and smell and look of each component ; each piece of equipment . |