Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went to the houses of friends , she was invited everywhere , but not one of her schoolmates had crossed the door of Maple Gardens . |
| 2 | He had n't been paying much attention to what Throgmorton had been talking about on the way here , but he recalled his ears had caught the unpleasant words ‘ casting vote ’ , and ‘ your important role as president ’ . |
| 3 | AJAX , disqualified from European competition for two years after their fans had caused the abandonment of a UEFA Cup tie , had the punishment halved on appeal yesterday . |
| 4 | They visited the huge Gothic cathedral and gazed in awe at the beautiful Murillos — Saint Anthony and the Immaculate Conception — the stained-glass windows and the many other treasures the centuries had gifted the cathedral with . |
| 5 | Well , they jogged along for some time but , as you might care to imagine , there had to come a moment when the legs had reached the top of the tree , everyone could see everything and therefore the game had finished . |
| 6 | The region comprised a non-contiguous amalgamation of Sulu , the Tawi Tawi island group and the mainland Mindanao provinces of Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur ( the four provinces had approved the autonomy plan in the November 1989 referendum held in the 13 southern provinces of the Philippines — see p. 37042 ) . |
| 7 | Partnerships had enabled the use of community schools at Liphook and Bordon to be run so as to offer their facilities to the public throughout the year , and the new methods had reduced the inevitable deficit of the sports centre to well below the national average . |
| 8 | A coalition of nearly 50 civil rights , Hispanic , black and women 's organizations had opposed the nomination of Judge Kenneth L. Ryskamp of Miami , on the grounds of his alleged hostility to minorities . |
| 9 | Snaith was a Peculiar , ie it had its own ecclesiastical court and in many ways it was exempt from the jurisdiction of the Bishop , which may explain the fact that the Bishop 's inspectors came to interview the brothers at Snaith for reported ‘ indiscretions ’ and were unable to carry out their inspection because the brothers had summoned the ferry to the Snaith bank so they could not cross the river ! |
| 10 | Most famously , after the Al Fayed brothers had acquired the House of Fraser , which includes Harrods , the Secretary of State in April 1987 appointed inspectors under the Companies Act 1985 to investigate and report on alleged fraud and deceit in the takeover . |
| 11 | When nominations closed on Wednesday afternoon , four candidates had entered the contest for the Winchester parliamentary seat on April 9th , very much as expected . |
| 12 | Voters in these constituencies would choose between whichever two candidates had won the largest numbers of votes in the first round . |
| 13 | In the Pentland Firth , they said , the waves had overrun the island of Stroma from end to end , piling fish and wreckage on the top , and destroying the steading and boats of Thorfinn 's steward . |
| 14 | At several points the route was unclear , where the buffalo and other animals had churned the grass into a mass of muddy trails , so we trended upwards , away from the boggy sections and towards the crest of a broad ridge that formed one side of the river valley . |
| 15 | His eyes had turned the same colour and I caught a whiff of that strange perfume which sometimes emanated from him , sweet but sickly . |
| 16 | She muttered incoherently but the sound was happy , and her eyes had lost the terrible haunted stare of madness . |
| 17 | Now it was as if my eyes had glimpsed the windows of a dimly lit house . |
| 18 | But now his eyes had spotted the date . |
| 19 | It was many years since the assassin 's eyes had taken the pleasure they did now , seeing him . |
| 20 | A thousand eyes had watched the brief altercation , and now the whispers began in earnest . |
| 21 | ( By contrast , in April 1990 some journalists had questioned the regime 's claim of an alleged attempted coup , dismissing it as a pretext for action against suspected opponents — see p. 37367 . ) |
| 22 | The judges took only 80 minutes to decide the level of fines after ruling the journalists had breached the strict provisions of the 1981 Contempt of Court Act . |
| 23 | When she had been strapped back on to the bed beside a tray of sinister-looking instruments in the medical centre , Benny had tensed her muscles as best she could , before the guards had fixed the buckles and left . |
| 24 | To his left three guards had taken the strain on a rope that ran tight and stretched to the building . |
| 25 | The camp guards had allowed the baby six months ' life and then , when Elisabeth was selected for the officers ' brothel and her breasts required for purposes other than those of nourishing a Jewish infant , a non-commissioned officer , having polished his boots , drawn up the mess accounts , written an affectionate note to his wife and son and relieved his bladder , took Elisabeth Danziger 's baby from her arms and dashed out its brains against the stone wall outside his office . |
| 26 | By a fatal miscalculation , the guards had chosen the day of St Giles ' fair . |
| 27 | When the guards had surrounded the train we were allowed to get in . |
| 28 | The smaller regional administrative units had initialled the Treaty on March 18 . |
| 29 | The Provisionals said that one of their active service units had placed the devices , causing damage to prime commercial property . |
| 30 | The Moldovan Defence Ministry claimed that army units had entered the town to defend Moldovan police from attack by Dnestr forces backed by the 14th Army , and denied the 1,000 deaths claimed by Dnestr sources . |