Example sentences of "the [noun] had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the French envoy de Craon knew more , claiming the Prince had told him about Lady Eleanor 's death long before the porter had even reached Woodstock . |
| 2 | On Oct. 15 , 1989 , a controversial retrial of 15 Islamic extremists ( who had been associates of Bouiali-see above ) was abandoned after the defence had successfully argued that a regional court was not competent to try their case following the Supreme Court 's refusal to do so . |
| 3 | When they left the following day , the eastern end of the park had already begun to fill with tattered bivouacs and shelters of thorn and tarpaulin . |
| 4 | The majority had therefore experienced secure employment for relatively long periods of time . |
| 5 | She had tried , but the rehearsals had gradually taken on the menace of trials of endurance . |
| 6 | But yesterday , in a one-day series which the Pakistanis had already lost , umpires Ken Palmer and John Hampshire became concerned with the state of the ball . |
| 7 | Enveloped by the cloak , it was impossible to tell if it was male or female , but the worshipper had evidently finished praying . |
| 8 | Now the hotel , the railway , and the labourers had all gone . |
| 9 | Bur the Prince had already turned away . |
| 10 | US intelligence reports of ‘ northern redoubts ’ where Cuban advisers have been training the militia and storing arms and ammunition could also mean a far longer military operation than the Pentagon had originally envisaged . |
| 11 | The Lord of the Manor had apparently lied to us . |
| 12 | Although the CGT had broadly endorsed a package of protectionist economic measures announced on Oct. 28 [ see below ] , there had been an angry reaction in early November when Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo announced that senior government officials were to receive 200 per cent salary increases . |
| 13 | So the only justification for saying " the postgraduate study " would be if the writer had already named a group of types of study ( so creating the classification ) , and then compared the postgraduate element with an element of undergraduate studies . |
| 14 | But on closer inspection he realised the writer had actually turned out quite a nifty show . |
| 15 | Another pointer in favour of Wimbledon and West Ham was that the clubs had already taken action or announced their intention to take action against certain players involved in the incident . |
| 16 | It was wrong , so the Inquiry judged , to expect a central body to possess the primary responsibility for maintaining standards , particularly if the institutions had now reached ‘ maturity ’ . |
| 17 | The pope 's nephew , Cardinal Barberini , appears to have shared with Firenzuola the suspicion that the trial had more to do with personal revenge than doctrinal necessity . |
| 18 | He wondered , morbidly introspective in the cold light of dawn , whether his decision to see the next murder case through from the call to the scene of crime to the trial had really arisen from a desire to learn or merely from a craven wish to impress or , worse , to propitiate , his staff , to show them that he valued their skills , that he wanted to be one of the team . |
| 19 | Trade within the EEC had expanded at a rate double that of trade with non-members , and the EEC had also become the world 's largest trading power . |
| 20 | In addition , under strong pressure from France , the EEC had also taken the basic decisions on a common agricultural policy , to which it was committed by the Treaty of Rome . |
| 21 | The Lieutenant had once leapt fully clothed into a river , demonstrating to a casual enquirer the purpose of a Royal Engineer 's lifejacket as he continued building a bridge while swimming fully armed among the pontoons . |
| 22 | A similar sequence of events bad taken place at the castle of Mauvezin in Bigorre and a charge that the lieutenant had far exceeded the limits of his jurisdiction was made . |
| 23 | The lieutenant had then flown the banners of the king of France and the church of Le Puy over the barbican at Vic-de-Bigorre , and had refused to countenance Roger-Bernard 's protest on behalf of his sister-in-law . |
| 24 | By 1914 , there were over 400 Board of Trade exchanges in the United Kingdom dealing with juveniles ; in 44 districts the Board had also authorized JACs , and in 58 districts the LEAs were running their own schemes . |
| 25 | In its evidence to Williams , the Board had strongly supported the statutory test of obscenity because of its unique relevance to the sort of films which were repeatedly found most pernicious . |
| 26 | Because of rising costs and the import of cheap foreign lead in the late 1800s , the market collapsed and by the early years of this century the mines had all closed . |
| 27 | The Lombards had soon occupied an area that extended as far south as Perugia , though not all the way east to the Adriatic coast . |
| 28 | The crusade against the cinema had never caught the imagination of the parish since he had launched it with such lofty aspirations five — or was it six ? — months ago . |
| 29 | If this happens the scab may bounce about with great speed and energy within the turret and may do as much damage as if the shell had actually penetrated . |
| 30 | Cash was flowing out quicker than it came in during 1930 and this led to the idea that a new racer could be built to earn the ‘ big money ’ at the National Air Races , where the winner had just taken $15,000 . |