Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [noun] had the " in BNC.
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| 1 | John and Joan Waters had hoped that , once they realised that Derek had the support of other members of his family , they would leave him alone . |
| 2 | I could n't see it too clearly 'cos it was at the other end of the pitch , but it seemed that Jamie had the ball around the right hand edge of the box and curled it into the top left hand corner . |
| 3 | Western military sources confirmed that Turkey had the military capability to carry out an air raid on the Bekaa . |
| 4 | It acknowledged that states had the sovereign right to exploit their own resources ( by implication , therefore , ruling out coercive action to halt the destruction of , for example , the tropical forests ) , but added the rider that they should not do so in a manner which caused damage to the environment of other states . |
| 5 | This meant that Virgin had the right to publish his songs , but no rights on Sting himself as a performer : his group , the Police , were signed as recording artists to A&M . |
| 6 | But there was no reply , and when Belinda turned from the front passenger seat to look at the artist stretched out in the back , she saw that Faye had the back of her hand pressed against her mouth to stifle her sobs . |
| 7 | Until the kidnappers knew that Maxwell had the money ready they would n't name a place . |
| 8 | I knew that Bissell had the answers that I really wanted . |
| 9 | The King rather shrewdly asked whether Baldwin had the support of his colleagues in the House of Lords . |
| 10 | It said that states had the sovereign right to exploit their own resources ( by implication , therefore , ruling out coercive action to halt the destruction of tropical forests ) , but added the rider that they should not do so in a manner which caused damage to the environment of other countries . |
| 11 | It concluded that Guatemala had the lowest ‘ physical quality of life index in Central America and the third lowest in the whole of Latin America after Haiti and Bolivia ’ . |
| 12 | In January Pressler , sponsor of a 1985 law under which the USA had suspended economic and military aid to Pakistan in October 1990 on the grounds that it might have developed nuclear weapons [ see p. 37764 ] , had claimed in January 1992 that Pakistan could manufacture two nuclear weapons [ see p. 38726 ] , anticipating a controversial admission by Pakistan 's Foreign Affairs Secretary , Shahryar Khan , who suggested that Pakistan had the expertise to assemble one nuclear device [ see pp. 38762-63 ] . |