Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two sides , however , were still separated by traditional rivalries extending over several centuries as well as by differing interpretations of Marxism , disputed borders and rivalry in their relations with other countries ; indeed it was perhaps surprising that their earlier association had lasted as long as it did . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , it was necessary to attempt do so : the alternative was to confess that the administration had failed where it most wanted to succeed . |
| 3 | That Merymose had died because he had discovered something important enough to threaten the killer was clear , and Huy knew that his own reluctance to take the policeman into his confidence had been one indirect reason for his death . |
| 4 | He 'd purchased considerable tracts of land during his lifetime , and the profits that accrued from that investment had ballooned as London grew . |
| 5 | The fighting had erupted after the rebels had launched an attack on a police post at Bang Wang Nua , in the Sanakham district of Vientiane province . |
| 6 | Rumours of lawlessness and factional fighting had increased since the government had withdrawn its troops in March and the BRA had made a unilateral declaration of independence in May . |
| 7 | Fighting had begun when the Dnestr National Guard , said to number 1,000 , attacked Moldovan police headquarters on March 1-2 and blockaded roads to the town of Dubossary . |
| 8 | The fighting had started after Gen. Aoun had effectively ordered the LF to disband , declaring that no-one was permitted to bear arms or carry a military identity card except for Army soldiers . |
| 9 | In R. v. Anderson ( 1987 C.A. ) the defendant had sold as new a Nissan which , though in mint unused condition , had been registered in the retailer 's name . |
| 10 | Moreover , capacity utilization was considerably lower when the previous upswing had begun than it was at the start of the mini-boom of 1972–3 . |
| 11 | The numbers under his command had grown since he bad re-crossed the Border , with the accession of some additional clans and the arrival of 800 men , Scots and Irish formerly in the French service , including two squadrons of horse , who had landed at Montrose on 22 November . |
| 12 | It was the biggest body-blow the club had taken since they were dumped into the Second Division 20 years ago . |
| 13 | The call had been made in good faith : a car had looked as though it might turn over , but in the event it had not . |
| 14 | Concern over a covert Iraqi nuclear weapons programme had grown after US intelligence sources claimed that a senior Iraqi nuclear scientist , who recently defected to the USA , had confirmed that a substantial portion of Iraq 's nuclear and chemical weapons stocks remained intact . |
| 15 | On the following day the Országgyülés adopted a new law on internal security , including strict controls on the use of telephone and mail surveillance , after hearing acting Interior Minister Zoltan Pál admit that covert monitoring of the opposition had continued until little more than a week before , and that documents relating to the scandal had been shredded in defiance of a government order to secure all files for investigation . |
| 16 | Most of them , however , 53 per cent , made other comments , generally to the effect that the person had had little to do with other residents : ‘ Her mind had gone so she was not able to socialise. , |
| 17 | But a Northumbrian Water spokesman said yesterday the confusion had arisen because Middlesbrough Council had chosen not to continue collecting water payments along with tenants ' house rents . |
| 18 | For the new study , a researcher from the university 's department of psychology conducted interviews with 56 young men who the earlier research had assessed as either safe or unsafe drivers . |
| 19 | His weight had increased since their marriage , and she began to dread his nightly activity , but she accepted it without complaint as the price she had to pay for Corrie . |
| 20 | Morgan 's interest in anthropology had begun when he noticed the systematic pattern created by the totality of the terms used to refer to relatives and kinsmen . |
| 21 | In the meantime a new chapter had opened when operations began to recover gold from the Main Reef of the Witwatersrand . |
| 22 | Every bloody boat had waved as it crossed the bar . |
| 23 | JC : I wonder how far the piece had progressed when I engaged you to come and sing with Sadler 's Wells Opera in January 1943 ? |
| 24 | There was a running video of the television documentary about Sheikh , who had , at the beginning of June , gained entrance to Oxford and Cambridge and had published an article in an American scientific journal that an eminent German physicist had described as ‘ revelatory ’ . |
| 25 | The ships in harbour had to leave because of a storm ; they sailed away bearing his new widow and her son , aged two , who grew up to become a big game hunter in central Africa . |
| 26 | For him , violent crime had advanced because of the excessive leniency of the law : ‘ the crime of cruel laxity ’ as he put it . |
| 27 | To this is often ( but not always ) added an idea that a cause makes its effect happen , implying perhaps that to find a cause is to show why the effect had to happen as it did . |
| 28 | Industry had stalled because , Mr Li admitted , his State Council , or cabinet , had ‘ failed to adopt timely and rigorous measures for macro-control and apply effective methods ’ . |
| 29 | Where last the light had died when she had gone . |
| 30 | The third practice had overspent because it had taken over a smaller practice after the preparatory work on budget setting had been completed , and it had not been able to make an accurate estimate of prescribing costs for the 1300 patients involved . |