Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for nothing had this little procession presented the air of a party setting out to receive guests . |
| 2 | Franklin had once written a letter to Sir Ralph which the Member thought highly offensive and relations between them had since remained frigid . |
| 3 | It is also relevant here that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries meetings between rulers were exceedingly rare ( Louis XIV never met William III , the Emperor Leopold I or Charles II of Spain , the rivals against whom he struggled for so long ) and negotiations between them had therefore to be conducted entirely through their diplomats . |
| 4 | The atmosphere between them had suddenly become frosty . |
| 5 | At three o'clock that afternoon , the intimacy between them had almost completely disintegrated . |
| 6 | She looked across the open grave at Sarah , her stepdaughter , and it saddened her even more that the gulf between them had never been bridged . |
| 7 | Now place around the head of this statue angels ; place in his left hand a sword ; and light in his realistically enamelled eyes a welcome and a promise such as I had never , never in all my years seen . |
| 8 | It was an otter such as I had never seen before , with this all-over fawn coat . |
| 9 | In some elusive way , here before me was the representative of something , some enormous sphere of sensations and transcendent values such as I had only read about , something my Maker had withheld from me which I desperately needed . |
| 10 | Into er into some other places and owt , and had about I had about about two months . |
| 11 | That he might die , he did not much care , not , as he lay , and without protest , after what had already happened . |
| 12 | Our chances of ending the war quickly would certainly be greatly increased if the battle were won ; but if we failed to win it , even after what had already been achieved , our victory would merely be postponed and not rendered impossible , especially if we resolved in good time not to persist with our useless efforts at Verdun , but to take the initiative of attack elsewhere . |
| 13 | Contemporaries remember him coming scowling to school after what had clearly been rows with his patron . |
| 14 | He asked to switch her mind to something else , and because it was essential to leave the autobahn after what had just happened . |
| 15 | It would mean telling her everything — and telling the full truth about himself had never been easy . |
| 16 | Chile and Argentina were both offered barter deals , involving the exchange of Chilean nitrates ( demand for which had recently collapsed because of German development of synthetic substitutes ) and Argentine agricultural products for Soviet crude oil , along with assistance in the setting up of their own national refineries . |
| 17 | This failed to meet the demand for the forcible removal of the barricades , as advanced by the 7,000 white residents of the Chateauguay suburb adjacent to the Mercier bridge ( some of whom had regularly assembled during the siege to burn Mohawk effigies , and had participated in attacks on Indians fleeing the adjoining Kahnawake reservation ) . |
| 18 | The second was on the employed ( many of whom had either personal experience of unemployment or had close family or friends who were unemployed ) . |
| 19 | The 200-strong rebel army which had in December 1989 infiltrated from neighbouring Côte d'Ivoire was now thought to number some 5,000 men and boys , a small proportion of whom had reportedly received training in Libya and Burkina . |
| 20 | Iraqi opposition groups , some of whom had reportedly been consulted on the scheme during talks with senior US officials in late July and early August , were broadly supportive of Western plans . |
| 21 | This meant actually producing and maintaining a series of questions directed at the CEGB 's expert witnesses , most of whom had clearly spent many hours going through every conceivable pitfall . |
| 22 | There were 229 new referrals from general practice , most of whom had previously received one or more courses of antibiotic treatment ; 155 existing patients who showed little or no clinical improvement after at least three months ' antibiotic treatment ; and 84 patients sampled for other reasons ( mainly anxiety and screening after treatment with isotretinoin ) . |
| 23 | At national level , Adamu M. Fika and Stephen B Agodo , both of whom had previously held senior posts in the Cabinet office , were named as the administrative secretaries ; a further 44 secretaries were appointed at state level . |
| 24 | Some reports suggested that the invasion was supported by large numbers of the estimated 400,000 Palestinian workers in Kuwait , all of whom had previously been denied Kuwaiti citizenship despite constituting the backbone of the country 's middle-management structure . |
| 25 | Three women flashed the route : Isabelle Patissier , Susi Good and Robyn Erbesfield , all three of whom had also topped out on the previous two routes . |
| 26 | Forty-six Law Lords had been to Oxford or Cambridge , seven to Scottish universities , four to Trinity College Dublin , two to London University ( one of whom had also been to Cambridge ) and one to Queen 's Belfast . |
| 27 | A Shadow Cabinet containing senior figures like Lord Carrington , Whitelaw , Prior , Maudling , and Pym — most of whom had already achieved office under Mr Heath , were associated with his policies , and owed little to her — was hardly right-wing . |
| 28 | They joined the rest of their colleagues — most of whom had already been suspended — in the rest room of Europe 's largest ambulance station , where they were watching a video of A Bridge Too Far . |
| 29 | An agricultural relief committee was established in 1983 by a handful of young agricultural engineers , some of whom had already been working with ‘ the voluntary work committees ’ , a network of skilled and unskilled workers which had been operating since the mid-1970s . |
| 30 | She did not know his real name , and did not ask either Madge or Mr Mortimer , both of whom had already taken him home , what it was . |