Example sentences of "[det] [pron] had [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Half I had seen things in that place and heard the girls talking .
2 They were not here , nor was Thor of Allerdale himself ; but , after all ; it was strategy such as this which had kept Allerdale free despite the wolves at his frontiers .
3 So I and the few who had escaped illness enjoyed the beautiful summer weather , with no lessons or discipline at all .
4 Surprisingly , that is , for mainstream economists , who had assumed that Keynesian economic management would abolish such crashes , but without surprise for the few who had remembered Kondratiev 's ideas .
5 In contrast was his finding that amongst the prisoners of San Quentin jail , there were some who had achieved fulfilment .
6 At the beginning of the century , it was generally held that , in the absence of any contractual or fiduciary relationship , there was no liability for a negligent misrepresentation made by one person to another who had incurred loss by acting on it .
7 The Hercules plane like this one had left Lyneham yesterday afternoon with two others for low level tactical training .
8 Some feeling like that which had attacked Jim Nesbitt last year and made him marry that girl in Durham , who , to his mind , had nothing going for her .
9 She had n't realized how much she had missed Donna .
10 Individual tales of how efficient she had been and how much she had helped members abounded .
11 She wondered how much he had told Barney about the purpose and the result of the forensic tests .
12 The scheme to impose military control over Kinsai had been a logistical catastrophe , and it was the utter inefficiency above all which had made Alexei suspicious .
13 His main aim in these months was to reconcile and renew the nation : hence no revolution , but most of the reforms that the CNR had wanted ; hence a purge , but not the wholesale purge of all who had had dealings with the Germans or with Vichy ; hence a referendum and free elections , but no plebiscite ( whatever his opponents alleged , the referendum of October 1945 was not a true plebiscite ) ; hence the presidency but no Gaullist party .
14 To all complaints about his conduct he made the same answer : he was bound by the decree of 1099 , which obliged him to withdraw from the communion of all who had taken part in ceremonies of investiture or homage .
15 As unsuspecting Betty appeared , her face was a picture of amazement on being greeted not only by present Class members but also by many who had attended years ago .
16 I thought of the pearl fishers who often visited the South Sea Islands , and of the many who had made fortunes .
17 She 'd checked the impulse when she realised that since Travis was being man enough not to ask that of her she really could not interfere , only for Rosemary to reiterate all she had told Travis before .
18 The longships were beautiful , and worth all he had paid King Svein of Denmark .
19 The new plants were defined as those which had begun operations after 1980 while the older organisations had all been established before 1975 .
20 The schools from which the sample was to be drawn were those which had submitted reports , or were scheduled to do so , between the autumn of 1981 and the summer of 1985 .
21 Williams showed that it would be much better to concentrate on attacking U-boats which could still be seen on the surface , with a depth-charge setting of 25 feet , and ignore those which had had time to submerge , because of the uncertainty in knowing their exact position .
22 The rate of relapse in elemental diet treated patients was higher than in those who had gained remission with prednisolone .
23 It was agreed to abstain from hostile media campaigns , and a joint committee to meet in Paris on July 22 would discuss compensation for those who had lost property during the events of 1989 .
24 A study of 2,000 women aged 30–54 discovered a reduction in blood pressure levels in those who had lost weight and restricted sodium consumption .
25 Instead , the organizers staged a hoax on the 39 horses and their jockeys , together with their trainers , owners and other hangers-on , the few tens of thousands of people waiting in the rain at Aintree ( near Liverpool ) , those who had wagered £75 million on the outcome of the race in Britain alone and the score of broadcasting organizations elsewhere that had brought the right to show the event on television .
26 The first stage of the purge was to seek out and kill those who had assassinated Kirov .
27 However , as the sample was selected from those who had sought treatment or counselling for their daily habit , such users are necessarily excluded from this study .
28 Moreover , despite Elizabeth 's personal danger during the Seymour affair , she added to the risks to herself by strenuously protecting her governess , Catherine Ashley ; loyalty to those who had given loyalty was the mark of the true ruler .
29 He replied that there was no substance in the allegation of French unpreparedness in the Verdun sector and asked for the names of those who had given Galliéni the information so that they might be admonished .
30 Baldwin had a profound distaste for those who had made money out of the war and in 1919 he made an anonymous donation of part of his wealth to the nation as his personal sacrifice ; Neville Chamberlain was greatly affected by the death of his cousin Norman and determined that such sacrifice should not be wasted .
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