Example sentences of "[adj] had [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had occasion to set up the chunky machine ( this had to go in the bedroom , because of lack of space elsewhere ) . |
| 2 | This had begun in the late thirteenth century , and the edicts were falling thick and fast under Philip the Fair in the early fourteenth century . |
| 3 | Saddam 's talks with former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt on Nov. 7-8 had resulted in the announcement that 170 people would be released , including over 100 Germans . |
| 4 | The pressure of higher salaries , labour shortages and office rents was by 1989 causing more government departments to think of moving sections of work to the North , as some had done in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 5 | The transportation of useful plants from one part of the world to another had begun in the eighteenth century , and we saw in the previous chapter how Kew Gardens became the hub of the British empire 's efforts to replace indigenous species with imported ones of greater commercial value . |
| 6 | According to statistics provided by human rights and business organizations , 1,598 Guatemalans had been murdered , 2,517 had suffered bodily harm and 906 had disappeared in the first six months of 1989 . |
| 7 | Fourteen-year-old Sabine had remained in the roomy attic which had been hers since nursery days . |
| 8 | Of the seven warmest years in the 20th century ( which were , in order , 1990 , 1988 , 1983 , 1987 , 1944 , 1989 and 1981 ) six had occurred in the last decade . |
| 9 | The answer is , all three had featured in the accident . |
| 10 | Rita Quick reported that the Teacher Training Course had reached the stage when the first intake of students would soon be completing their training and three had qualified in the examination last November . |
| 11 | Mr O'Donnell said one of the men had squeezed in the passenger seat of the car beside him and three had got in the back . |
| 12 | We all had to help in the dairy . |
| 13 | Fifty years ago , only a hundred hardy individuals had succeeded in running the river through the Grand Canyon , its most challenging stretch , and many had drowned in the rapids trying . |
| 14 | Something terrible had happened in the time between his looking away and looking back . |
| 15 | By midday , a crowd estimated at between 80,000 and 100,000 had gathered in the grounds of Eglinton Castle . |
| 16 | Of these , 25 chose to take no part in the farm work , 2 were over 70 years of age , 4 had died in the past five years , and 3 farmers were unmarried . |
| 17 | Alexander I had decided in the second half of 1825 that the international problems which derived from the conflict between Greeks and Turks could not be resolved by the Concert of Europe . |
| 18 | Louis XIV had seen in the last days of his reign the growing pointlessness of the traditional Franco-Austrian antagonism , but his efforts to achieve some agreement with the Habsburgs were not followed up by his successors . |
| 19 | Five had served in the Guards , two in the Cavalry . |
| 20 | The federal Cabinet announced and sworn in on June 27 contained only 16 members , of whom nine had served in the outgoing government . |
| 21 | A federal state would be created , the constituent units including the authorities which the Dutch had inspired in the ‘ outer islands ’ . |
| 22 | David Singleton , prosecuting for FACT , said Sturdy had worked in the video business long enough to learn about counterfeits . |
| 23 | In another study , Johansen and Fuguitt ( 1984 ) from a sample of 572 of the 11,334 villages in the USA ( defined as a population of less than 2,500 in 1960 ) found that while only half of the villages had grown in the 1950s , two-thirds had grown in the 1970s , and that this growth was no longer restricted to the larger villages . |
| 24 | By 1945 , 63038 of the Gold Coast population were in the armed forces and 30 500 had served in the Burma campaign where two Divisions ( the 81st and 82nd ) came from West Africa . |
| 25 | Very little had changed in the village street but , as I walked towards her door , I saw smoke coming from the garden . |
| 26 | Cradled within his arms , Laura drifted into a deep sleep , but , even as she dreamed , their bodies seemed to stir against one another , as if they could n't help but touch and make love again ; as if nothing could satisfy the desire that each had awakened in the other 's flesh . |
| 27 | I felt grateful to my publishers for their insistence that we guard against any change of mind by my secret collaborators — unlikely as that had seemed in the frigid era of Brezhnev . |
| 28 | All of that had changed in the course of five minutes in the ancillary staff 's locker room , and the sense of betrayal had been exactly the same . |
| 29 | They recognise full well that , if that had happened in the 1950s , 1960s or 1970s , the story of this country in Europe and of the Community would have been different . |
| 30 | If Earl Eric was in England at this time , it may increase the likelihood that Swegen was also , for the two had collaborated in the defeat of Olaf Tryggvason , and Eric later fought for Cnut and was given the earldom of Northumbria . |