Example sentences of "the [noun prp] had [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The driver of the Vauxhall had got out of her car and was advancing with menaces . |
| 2 | The ACPS had set up a sub-committee , under the chairmanship of Baroness Wootton of Abinger , to carry out the review . |
| 3 | Dr Tom McManus of the IIRS defended the Institute against allegations that it had been ‘ bought ’ by industry by claiming the IIRS had turned down 15 major industries which could have caused dangerous pollution : he cited the example of a herbicide factory which could have wiped out much of the marine life in Cork Harbour . |
| 4 | In October 1990 the WEU had come out strongly against a proposal by the EC Council of ( Foreign ) Ministers that the EC 's Treaty of Rome should be amended to incorporate Article 5 of the Brussels Treaty establishing the WEU , so that the EC should effectively control the WEU . |
| 5 | By 1912 , however , the influence of Matisse and the Fauves , which the Brücke had grafted on to a more purely native form of Expressionism , was definitely on the wane , and German painters were feeling the influence of both Cubism and Futurism . |
| 6 | The ELN leadership confirmed on Sept. 20 that a Socialist Renewal Movement ( CRS ) within the ELN had set up its own organization . |
| 7 | The prosecution argued that the Newleys had driven down together from London ; after the murder , Mrs Newley had driven back in her husband 's car , and parked it near their home ; no doubt she hoped that the trip to Hampshire would never come to light . |
| 8 | Within three decades , the house of the Kyburgs had died out , and in marched the Habsburgs . |
| 9 | Both the Paviours had come out to greet their guest , Stephen Paviour long and sad and constrained as ever , Lesley eager and young and welcoming . |
| 10 | All the earlier amphibians from the late Carboniferous and the Permian had died out in the Triassic , including the cotylosaurs . |
| 11 | But once the Petrovs had given up all their secrets they became difficult to please , claiming that their true value was not being appreciated . |
| 12 | In 1966 the Beatles had given up touring , a practice that had consumed their lives ever since they 'd been catapulted into celebrity in 1963 . |
| 13 | The Beatles had taken over from the Rolling Stones , but Gabriel , used to pop boiling over all around her , did not notice . |
| 14 | Hogg said the SRU had ruled out taking such a game to a non-rugby ground in either district as costs could prove prohibitive . |
| 15 | By now , the household of The Kilns had taken on the shape which it was to maintain until well after the Second World War . |
| 16 | By early July the Wordsworths had taken up temporary residence at Cottle 's house in Wine Street , Bristol , where Dorothy found the noise of the Bristol streets almost intolerable . |
| 17 | Third , the Serbs had to give up more territory than Croats or Muslims ( see maps below ) . |
| 18 | The Serbs had taken over the park , one of Croatia 's main tourist attractions , several days earlier , and had proclaimed its incorporation into their " Autonomous Region " . |
| 19 | The rights and wrongs of it were debated for some time and the feeling seemed to be that the TCCB had come out of it in a worse light than Gatting ; as the Melbourne newspaper The Age put it , ‘ Gatting , caught rumour , bowled hypocrisy , 0 ’ . |
| 20 | The Shah had built up his armed forces and had begun to create a nationwide secret police , but he had done almost nothing to meet the disparate but urgent demands of his people . |
| 21 | After Iraq was condemned for its use of chemical weapons , President Khamenei was quoted as having wished the UN had gone on to take steps against both Iraq and the states which had provided it with the means to manufacture such weapons . |
| 22 | The LDC category had first been given prominence nine years earlier , by the September 1981 UN Conference on Least Developed Countries in Paris [ see p. 31352 ] , when the UN had drawn up its list of ( then 31 ) LDCs , but little had been achieved in implementing a Substantial New Programme of Action adopted by that meeting . |
| 23 | Headed by Iqbal Riza , a Pakistani UN political officer , and Philippe Texier , a French senior appellate court judge , this was the first mission of its type the UN had set up inside a member country [ see p. 38187 ] . |
| 24 | The BBC had edited out at least one police atrocity . |
| 25 | Whatever the Dersinghams had skimped on , it was not the accoutrements of death . |
| 26 | At this time of year , with the flood still some weeks off , the Nile had shrunk back into its bed , uncovering a wide strip of mud , now baked hard and dry and cracked like crazy paving . |
| 27 | Defections from the former ruling Janata Dal ( JD ) to form the JD(S) had brought down the government of V. P. Singh in November 1990 , and led to the appointment of the JD(S) leader Chandra Shekhar as Prime Minister heading a minority government [ see pp. 37854-55 ] . |
| 28 | To extricate himself he had to fasten on the strike notices which the TUC had sent out and demand their unconditional withdrawal as a prelude to further negotiations . |
| 29 | Though the CPRS had drawn up an agenda in four parts , starting with our relationship with the external world , we soon found ourselves in the middle of a second reading debate over the whole field . |
| 30 | When the Frankish armies entered Saxony , the Saxons usually hid in the endless forests or untracked marshlands ; there they simply waited until the Franks had marched through , and emerged either to harry from behind or continue their nomadic life in another area . |