Example sentences of "[Wh det] had [vb pp] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long before the doors of the Chinese empire opened to the West , travellers in other parts of the globe were sending plants and seeds back to the motherland to enrich or replace those native collections which had existed in some cases from early times . |
| 2 | With a sigh of relief I dropped my hands , because instead of Dad lying there there was the attic door which had fallen in such a way that it was wedging the door back , trapping me where I was . |
| 3 | On this occasion some of the Messerschmitts had carried bombs for the first time — not a new role for III/JG 27 , which had operated in this manner over the Balkans during the previous month . |
| 4 | He needed no reminder that it was his own union which had prospered in many British ports while Tillett 's Tea Operatives ' Union established in July 1887 at about the same time as his own had failed even to develop any wider organization in the Port of London itself . |
| 5 | In Italy a few famous and ancient republics — Venice , Genoa , Lucca — continued to exist ; and in some of them republican government , even in the highly oligarchical form which had prevailed in these small States for centuries , continued to arouse genuine loyalty . |
| 6 | The day before it was due to take effect , the tenant , having learnt of the order , made an application to set aside the order for possession and the judgment which had resulted in that order . |
| 7 | This boycott had begun on Jan. 18 after an altercation between an employee of one of the shops and a Haitian woman customer , which had resulted in each accusing the other of assault and racial insults . |
| 8 | On the very day that the Garotter 's Act became law , the essential distinction between right and wrong faltered appreciably in the pages of The Times where a disturbance was noted at Cremorne Gardens which had resulted in some upper-class rowdies being heavily fined . |
| 9 | Mine months previously he had had a neoplasm removed from the left hemisphere which had resulted in some post-operative speech disturbances . |
| 10 | Local ANC organizers apparently convinced the ANC executive that hostility between the rival groupings , which had resulted in some 40 deaths in the preceding week , was such that a joint rally posed a serious security problem . |
| 11 | The level of violence ( which had resulted in some 5,000 deaths since the breakdown of peace talks in June 1990 ) fell dramatically during the period of the ceasefire , although each side accused the other of extensive violations . |
| 12 | All she could think about was what had happened in this room last night — what had almost happened , what , undoubtedly , would have happened — if Nicolo had n't made the mistake of revealing his true intentions . |
| 13 | He was concerned simply with the effect of what had happened in this particular case . |