Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Bommai was elected to the post unopposed after Hukumdeo Narayan Yadav and S. Jaipal Reddy had withdrawn from the contest . |
| 32 | The ( MPRP ) Chair of the Council of Ministers , Sharavyn Gungaadorj , had withdrawn from the contest before the voting commenced . |
| 33 | Although Duke had contested the election as a Republican , he had been disowned by most of the party 's establishment , and the official Republican candidate had withdrawn from the contest in order to avoid splitting the anti-Duke vote . |
| 34 | Two candidates had withdrawn from the contest , leaving him as sole contender . |
| 35 | Instead , within seven years , Hepworth had declared himself bankrupt and Stoll had withdrawn from the production business , having lost some £200,000 from its various production ventures . |
| 36 | Sendero Luminoso had threatened to kill all candidates as well as those voting in the municipal elections , and 200 mayoral candidates and about 300 other candidates had withdrawn in the areas under states of emergency [ for which see pp. 36972 ; 37065 ] . |
| 37 | Finally , he had held out a bunch of one-dollar bills to her , said ‘ Rent , ’ and without another word had vaulted over the veranda balustrade and loped down the path to the garage . |
| 38 | In an instant he had vaulted over the side of their car and had begun swinging himself along towards the head of the train and the car occupied by Lord Woodleigh and Jilly Jonathan . |
| 39 | ‘ It was painted throughout in a very unattractive shade of green , ’ she explains , ‘ and someone had plumbed in a WC there — what a bizarre thing to do . ’ |
| 40 | In 1955 five Japanese citizens started a legal action against their own government to recover damages for injuries they had sustained as a result of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki . |
| 41 | The leaders had their work cut out keeping the group together , and one or both had to remain at the back to motivate the slower ones — the most effective method seemed to be carrying their kit , though this tended to be a last resort . |
| 42 | My baby had to remain at the nursing home , as I had no one to look after him , and he was not admitted into hospital because of whooping-cough in the nursery there . |
| 43 | Their clothes were locked away so they had to remain in the dormitory . |
| 44 | As an air-raid had just begun they could not leave and had to remain in an ambience where , as they now acutely realised , they were not wanted and did not belong . |
| 45 | It was reported on Dec. 17 that Aquino had dismissed from the Cabinet Trade and Industry Secretary José Concepcion , one of her closest allies , in an attempt to counter growing criticism of her government . |
| 46 | Designated children had to fall within the age ranges 3–4 years or 16–18 years and to have been under the care or formal supervision of the local authority for at least six months . |
| 47 | A queue had formed outside the shop . |
| 48 | The contents of the bowl were left undisturbed for an hour or two , by which time a kind of honeycombed curd had formed on the top , leaving alcoholic whey underneath . |
| 49 | They ran the cell all day , after which time a green crust had formed on the cathode . |
| 50 | His eyes were hooded and white spittle had formed at the corners of his mouth . |
| 51 | The rain had fallen throughout the night , and the largest pond , as usual , had formed around the Stores . |
| 52 | I picked at a crust of ice that condensation had formed upon the window . |
| 53 | His feet splashed in the pools that had formed in the night . |
| 54 | The cyclone in late April had formed in the Bay of Bengal and brought winds of up to 145 mph . |
| 55 | B. Layers of peat had formed in the marshes and between them there were layers of mud or silt . |
| 56 | This opinion was consistent with the opinion which Mr. Tinker had formed while the deceased was at Samuel Saye House and that Dr. Rao had formed in the period before the deceased 's death . |
| 57 | A queue had formed by the table holding the teacakes and a crowd gathered to watch the animal sacrifice slowly rotating on a giant spit . |
| 58 | a legendary monster said to have been born to a wealthy lady who had referred to a beggar 's child as a nasty pig . |
| 59 | Allard had referred to the work of Kupka at the Salon des Indépendants as ‘ post-Cubist fantasies ’ , while at the Section d'Or Vauxcelles singled out as representative of the worst and most outrageous tendencies Duchamp 's Le Roi et la Reine entourés de nus vites . |
| 60 | poets had referred to the riches of the east for many years , but in the early seventeenth century ‘ My America , my new-found-land ’ seemed a more effective phrase to represent emotional force and involvement . |