Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mistrust which their recent sufferings had engendered against all Turks made it impossible for the Serbs to collaborate with the more reasonable spahis , who were themselves the victims of the janissaries , whose leaders were known as dayis . |
| 2 | Foreign currency reserves had plunged to some US$2,300 million in early March , barely enough to cover three weeks ' imports . |
| 3 | By the 1790s these shock waves had triggered off another seismic event , sending North America ( where the struggle for national independence had already begun in 1774 ) not only away from the English Crown but on the road to a republican state . |
| 4 | Her great-grandparents had lived in this house ; it was her great-grandfather who had bought the farm ; but from where had come the money for a Polish immigrant to buy a farm in those far-off days remained a mystery to both her grandfather and , of course , her father . |
| 5 | After a letter to the Home Secretary in 1934 complaining that the IFL speakers had stated at these meetings that they would clear all Jews out of the country , and if this was not possible they would starve them and murder them , Special Branch reported that a Mr Pipkin and a Mr Smith of the IFL , both about twenty-one years of age , had made reckless and rash statements at such occasions . |
| 6 | When the crisis broke out in 1294 considerable arrears had accumulated on all these clerical levies : from the lay subsidies of 1275 and 1290 on their temporalities ; from the direct clerical subsidies of 1279–80 and 1290 ; and from papal tenths granted both in 1274 and especially in 1291 . |
| 7 | A mutiny over pay arrears had spread to several sections of the armed forces by the end of July , sparked off by troops of the Nyanga Battalion who erected road-blocks in the Manhica area . |
| 8 | By the late 15th and early 16th centuries the fashion for oriental rugs had spread throughout most of Europe . |
| 9 | Indeed post-elementary Hadow schools into which many of them were moved into after 1926 were offering much the same education as the old elementary schools had offered for those children between the ages of eleven and fourteen before 1926 . |
| 10 | Not since the demolition gangs had moved into that area south of the river to knock down the old tenements and clear it for redevelopment . |
| 11 | By the 1870s matters had improved for some : a survey of Nonconformist ministers in the city of Oxford in 1875 showed stipends ranging from £60 p.a. plus house and allowances for a Primitive Methodist minister to about £300 p.a. for the Wesleyan Superintendent of the Oxford Circuit . |
| 12 | Over the years brambles had spread in all directions and had wound round the barbed wire , so it would have taken an axe or some other sharp tool to have gained entry , one certainly could n't have reached the top of the stairway at all . |
| 13 | Parents had fought for this as a local resource to prevent the need for children to be placed in long-stay placements far from home . |
| 14 | She wondered exactly what kind of depravities had occurred inside that place when it was standing . |
| 15 | Some later public monuments also included portraits of children , and by the second century AD the notion of including portraits of children in public monuments had spread to some highly influential provincial families . |
| 16 | Potatoes had flown to all four comers of the kitchen . |
| 17 | In 687 and again in 688 Adomnán , abbot of Iona , visited Aldfrith and secured the release of those whom the Northumbrians had seized during this expedition and kept in captivity ( AU s.a. 686 : AT pp. 210 , 211 : CA p. 134 ) . |
| 18 | The deal was all too similar to others that he knew unscrupulous businessmen had perpetrated in this country and others . |
| 19 | Maybe the weight itself of thousands of boys over the last couple of decades had led to some sort of subsidence . |
| 20 | All the emotional turmoil and excitement of the outbreak of war , all the long drawn out details of my training , the thrills of flying and the fear of death , all the bustle and anticipation of the last few days had ended in this , in my standing alone on a slushy path in the late afternoon with absolutely nothing whatever to do . |
| 21 | Almost certainly textiles had fallen into some disarray by early 1524 . |
| 22 | As soon as King Henry had breathed his last the barons had turned on each other like ravening wolves , attacking their neighbours and ripe for every type of lawlessness . |
| 23 | As the Allies had discovered in all their abortive offensives , however wide the front might be there would always be a devilish machine gun on a flank that could hold up a whole division ; broaden the front to eliminate that machine gun , and inevitably there would be yet another on the new flank . |
| 24 | As the official investigation got under way , there were allegations that senior US officials had known for some time of BNL 's dealings with Iraq . |
| 25 | He also said there was no evidence that involvement by the companies with the independent generators had led to any increase in prices for electricity consumers . |
| 26 | Regional officers had lived for many years with successive waves of moral outrage about the scandalous conditions within the asylums . |
| 27 | Farmers had suffered from both the depressing consequences of over-production and the uncertainty of what the future held for them , and ever more bewildering changes were imposed on them every year . |
| 28 | Spurs grabbed a consolation just before the end from debutant Sol Campbell , who showed the enthusiasm his team-mates had lacked for most of the game . |
| 29 | Er there would have been some cases where that had happened erm and clearly the nationalists had withdrawn from most of southern China into , into south west China and therefore erm th th there 'd been er and there was quite a lot of fighting going , still going across south China so i it 's not quite the same . |
| 30 | Such efforts had met with little success from Liberal and Tory politicians alike . |