Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who could fail to be stirred by the thought of such purpose , reaching back over generations to the men who had gathered on this spot two centuries before ? |
| 2 | The purpose in setting side by side the careers of Hocazade and Civizade is simply to compare in a very broad way the careers of two not unrepresentative scholars of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries respectively in order to show the degree to which the hierarchy had developed during this period ; and what one may fairly infer from the comparison is limited . |
| 3 | Democratic audiences had to consent to this approach . |
| 4 | Driving through Kilmartin , south of Oban , I saw two notices calling public meetings to discuss pollution — the first I and many others had heard about this problem . |
| 5 | It was her first visit to a city and she was taken aback by the volume of traffic — ‘ I had heard about this kind of thing , but it 's quite frightening close to like this , ’ she said , as she stood on the pavement in City Square and watched four lanes of vehicles jousting strenuously for position . |
| 6 | A spokesman for the British Field Sports Society said it was the first time he had heard of this happening ; which prompted Chapman Pincher to write in saying that the same thing had happened to him in 1961 ( Daily Telegraph , 21 and 24 December 1987 ) . |
| 7 | I had heard of this spirit creature . |
| 8 | Corbett remembered he had heard of this type of man , an ‘ Albus ’ , an all-white man or albino . |
| 9 | So all she had heard of this woman was true . |
| 10 | I said that this was the first I had heard of this claim . " |
| 11 | The fact that almost nobody had heard of this prerogative turned out to one of the judges to be a point in its favour : |
| 12 | It is most probably that the inhabitants had heard of this religion which had spread over Europe and had been known as early as the late Roman period in Britain . |
| 13 | After a while it seemed to me amusing that such preparations as a wedding involve should surround the plain , pale husk that was me and that no one had commented on this incongruity . |
| 14 | and all our shopping was down at the Old Town , you had to go down this lane to the Old Town if you wanted a stamp |
| 15 | I remember we arrived during a heat wave and had to go into this refrigerator where they kept the furs . |
| 16 | During my boyhood my special task in the family was to look after our cattle , sheep and goats ; therefore I had to go through this training , and afterwards taught my brothers . |
| 17 | ‘ They made us chase shadows for long spells but we had to go after this game and that situation was tailor-made for Spartak , ’ he said . |
| 18 | How far Anselm had travelled along this road , and how much further he would still travel , are questions to which an answer must be sought in the reign of Henry I. But it is clear that Anselm in exile was beginning to see events , if not through Hildebrandine eyes , at least with shades of Hildebrandine colour . |
| 19 | Or maybe the French had marched past this crossroads and were already nearing Brussels ? |
| 20 | It was less than a year since he had marched into this office , having forsaken the job of Director General of the Security Service for what he regarded as a promotion , while the men of Century recoiled at what they saw as a political insult . |
| 21 | I had to come round this way this morning to get to Whitehall It 's just so chock-a-block on that new ro roadway . |
| 22 | Aline had sat throughout this colloquy listening attentively to every word , but contributing none of her own . |
| 23 | Baby had looked like this doll , as though nearly real , yet not quite , with a waxy pale skin , yellow-tinged , bright glassy eyes and a dainty pink mouth . |
| 24 | Nyamwisi Movingi had resigned from this post on March 22 , accusing the government of leading the country to disaster . |
| 25 | It was reported on July 18 , in an apparently unrelated development , that the president of the HDUR , Géza Domokos , had resigned from this post . |
| 26 | Even so , if he had succeeded in this endeavour , to the point of winning the election , then the ensuing chaos in both the health and educational fields would have been fearful to behold , quite apart from the flight from sterling , and the loss of foreign investment . |
| 27 | Harry had come to this place to meet someone . |
| 28 | In God 's purposes Jesus had already gone to the cross , he was alre , hi his , his natural fate if you like , was already sealed , he had come for this purpose , he had come to die . |
| 29 | How many had come into this squat or that , asking , " Any of your soup left , Alice ? " and then sat breaking bread into it , handing back their plates for more . |
| 30 | Spurs had come into this match unbeaten in their previous eight matches , and although they have improved their League standing , the cup competitions remain their best hope of success . |