Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] had [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Anglicans and Protestants now not only heard the first systematic teaching on the word of God in the Church ever formulated by a Catholic Council ( for Trent had only dealt with particular points at issue with the Reformers ) , but also admired it .
2 There was no-one in the room at the time for Murray had only newly lit the fire and the table was still unlaid apart from the great branching candelabra like silver trees .
3 Ernest Kombo , speaker of the transitional legislature , the Higher Council of the Republic ( CSR ) , warned on Sept. 14 , two days before the opening of the CSR 's session , that elections planned for the first half of 1992 might be postponed because a census of the electorate scheduled for mid-September had yet to take place .
4 All the more disappointing therefore to learn later that some Seniors members who had blackballed me for Muirfield had now put in an objection to my joining this club too .
5 Smaller ports such as Charlestown had all but disappeared but ports such as Methil 3m tons , Leith 2m tons , Burntisland 1.5m tons , Grangemouth 1.8m tons and Granton 0.8m tons had steadily increased .
6 What he had loved about Sylvie had always in part been his inability to pin her down , to capture her .
7 The suggestion of a ‘ social contract ’ between States had already been made in the first half of the seventeenth century by Grotius .
8 The citizens of Kettering had never seen a better ring , In fact no better pair of 'em " Take care of " me ! " they cried .
9 The crowded church was silent for a few seconds at these words no citizen of Decin had ever heard before .
10 Growing up in the shadow of Olivier had already left its mark on Richard professionally .
11 Mastery of the skies over large parts of Germany had already passed to the allies in 1942 , and heavy raids , chiefly by the Royal Air Force , had been carried out on cities mainly in northern and north-western Germany ( Hamburg , Lübeck , Rostock , Cologne , Essen , Bremen , and others ) .
12 Too busy , Hamilton added drily , to be informed the Deputy Fuhrer of Germany had just dropped in .
13 Criticisms of Germany had hitherto been largely implicit in the philhellenic perspective .
14 Poor widows in Barking and Dagenham parishes in the Forest of Hainault had formerly been allowed one load of wood yearly from the ‘ King 's woods ’ : the disafforesting Act of 1851 provided that an equivalent sum should be invested in Consols , and the income applied to a distribution of coal at Christmas to the widows .
15 One almost complete skeleton of Crassigyrinus had previously been known from only one skull fragment .
16 Yet , only a minority ( 40 per cent ) of LEAs had substantially increased the number of their administrative staff working in this area .
17 In eastern Europe the kingdom of Hungary had early and direct relations with the papacy , for the Arpad , the holy Stephen , had been crowned king with insignia given by the pope in the year 1000 .
18 The representative there of the Bosnian Serbs , Misha Milosevic , told the commission ( i ) that no concentration camps existed in Serbian territory in Bosnia-Hercegovina ; ( ii ) that no hidden camp had been created ; ( iii ) that the [ self-proclaimed ] Serbian government of Bosnia-Hercegovina had never carried out operations of " ethnic cleansing " on its territory ; and ( iv ) that the same government had never refused international control over the prison camps in its territory .
19 In Staffordshire the forest of Cannock had virtually ceased to exist by the end of Elizabeth 's reign , and in Kinver Forest only Iverley Hay remained in the hands of the Crown , and even there the deer had disappeared , and the woods for the most part had been cut down .
20 The cave-dwellers of the Dordogne obtained shells from the Mediterranean and those of Mentone had apparently secured some of theirs from as far afield as the Indian Ocean .
21 The decision ended a trial which the government of Mexico had repeatedly denounced as illegal on the grounds that the defendant had been forcibly abducted and taken to the USA in violation of the US-Mexican extradition treaty .
22 But he knew it to be a frequently found trait , for most of the Noble Lords of Tara had long since dispersed and the enchanted Beastblood , once guarded so jealously , had nearly died out .
23 The first week of February had barely passed when Doctor Staples fired a warning shot across his bows .
24 The President of Cuba had apparently given permission for the Jews to be landed on the Isle of Pines , a former penal colony .
25 The flower of Scotland had well and truly wilted .
26 He reacted by behaving in a way which rammed home to the Scots memories of Edward I. The events of 1543 took on a sinister familiarity ; for Edward 's attempted annexation of Scotland had also begun with a proposed marriage , between the infant Margaret , Maid of Norway , who succeeded Alexander III in 1286 , and Edward 's son , the future Edward II .
27 These included the restoration of Scottish peerages forfeited after the rebellion of '45 , the continuation of the Scottish currency , and — to me most dramatic and romantic of all — his discovering in a locked box in Edinburgh Castle the ancient regalia of Scotland ; the crown and sceptre and sword of state with which the kings of Scotland had always been crowned , and which had last been used at the coronation of Charles II at Scone .
28 It is true that much of England had already been enclosed by 1760 , but in some areas , notably in the south and east Midlands in counties like Northamptonshire , Cambridge and Oxfordshire , more than half of enclosures took place after 1760 under acts of parliament .
29 The household of Henry I of England had even closer links with France than with Germany .
30 Many Frenchmen whom I met on several occasions at the Training Centre at Achnacarry and on the South Coast of England had also gone , either killed or wounded .
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