Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [vb pp] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before 1945 Korean Marxists had cooperated with the Soviet Union from bases in Soviet far eastern territories and had worked with the Chinese communists at Yenan . |
| 2 | Articles in the weekly Al-Jamahiriya newspaper ( reported at length by the official news agency JANA ) criticized Kadhafi for following the " mirage " of Arab and Islamic unity while Arab countries had complied with the UN sanctions imposed on Libya in April [ ibid . ] . |
| 3 | Like many recent reforms in medical education the changes had started with the dean 's concern at the effects of the traditional course on the students in his faculty . |
| 4 | Thus NEP as a monetary phenomenon took time to seep slowly through the various levels of society , just as pistoles and écus had competed with the franc in the French provinces after that other great revolution . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , very serious problems had developed with the National Coal Board . |
| 6 | Before Bakewell , traditional breeders had agreed with the churches that breeding between close relatives was not good practice , either in humans or in livestock . |
| 7 | Allied with Francis Bacon 's proposal that a properly organized and properly conducted science could increase the power of the English state was his observation that a new vitality in the sciences had coincided with the Protestant Reformation : This was , of course , a Protestant view of the matter . |
| 8 | A couple of weeks later Stephen was called away to Bradford , where the manager of one of his mills had disappeared with the wages of the whole workforce . |
| 9 | A number of chemists had experimented with the polymerisation of ethylene using catalysts . |
| 10 | And still the faint red light up ahead came and went by fits and starts , leading them on across gale-swept open moorland , through massively still pine forests , up exposed dirt tracks and over passes whose names had vanished with the inhabitants of the farms where until a few decades earlier generation after generation of human beings had eked out lives of almost unimaginable deprivation . |
| 11 | The first half of the 18th century had seemed kind enough : improved climatic conditions and better harvests had combined with the disappearance of bubonic plague to help curtail the mortality crises which had beset Northern Europe up until then . |
| 12 | The spokeswoman added : ‘ We believe there was some third party involvement in the spill … the Grovesnor Estate says that vandals had tampered with the tank . |
| 13 | He and his friends had collaborated with the Japs , but had quickly seen that the independence granted to Burma was fictitious and that the Burmese people were being exploited for Japanese imperialism . |
| 14 | On the day after Aquino 's announcement it was reported that 28 congressmen and 22 governors had broken with the LDP and announced their support for Ramos . |
| 15 | Arthit Kamlang-ek , an influential former Supreme Commander of Armed Forces and Army C.-in-C. , had since May 1988 been leader of the Thai People party , whose 17 members had voted with the government in the July no-confidence motion , and which thus now joined the ruling coalition . |
| 16 | Advance indication of its impact in terms of austerity measures had come with the presentation of the railways budget on Feb. 25 , with reduced government support and a concomitant increase averaging 20 per cent in passenger fare prices . |
| 17 | The children had lived with the house keeper in the guest cottage and learned early that it was futile to ask when Mummy would be home . |
| 18 | After the separation the children had lived with the mother and her new man friend . |
| 19 | The gipsies had tampered with the water supply causing flooding to a nearby farm and generally been a nuisance , he added . |
| 20 | Before 1939 Swire & Sons had tinkered with the idea of ‘ going into air ’ . |
| 21 | It was no co-incidence , said Pravda yesterday , that this ‘ giant provocation ’ from the West Germans had coincided with the East Germany 's anniversary . |
| 22 | He particularly missed the huge oil portraits which had dignified that impressive Whitehall staircase , intrigued always by the techniques by which artists of varying talents had coped with the challenge of dignifying the ordinary and occasionally unprepossessing features of their sitters by the visual exploitation of magnificent robes and by imposing on their pudgy faces the stern consciousness of imperial power . |
| 23 | It had hitherto been assumed that successive Clean Air Acts had dealt with the problem . |
| 24 | For 15 years British filmmakers had experimented with the medium , developing film editing and camera effects to build suspense , and explore a world of magic and fantasy . |
| 25 | The waiters had come with the drinks . |
| 26 | After the first clash , when the crowd was halted in front of the police cordon , some of the women had argued with the police and told them that they too were victims of the ‘ system ’ . |
| 27 | The calculations by Frank and the Soviet theoreticians had dealt with the fusion of proton and deuterium or of two deuterium nuclei . |
| 28 | Don Dixon and other MPs had trained with the Paratroopers ; the opposition 's sole training , insists Lord Zetland , was a couple of glasses of Pimms beforehand . |
| 29 | Her sexual habits had changed with the times and , besides , in England all the signifiers seemed different . |
| 30 | Most of the principals had come with the intention of delivering their manifestos , irrespective of the line of questioning . |