Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leith swallowed hard , and knew , before the weakness of loving him , the weakness of wanting him battered down the rest of her defences , small though those defences were , that she had to appeal to that in him which she somehow knew would make him hate himself if he took her . |
| 2 | Production had fallen during 1992 in almost all sectors , privatization had been slow and the performance of the new companies showed little improvement . |
| 3 | As a result , the fall in numbers has been slower , though still considerable : from a high point of nearly 140,000 during the 1950s , the workforce had fallen to 74,000 in 1984 . |
| 4 | He also admitted that party membership had fallen by 4,200,000 in the previous 18 months to 15,000,000 — the level of 1973 . |
| 5 | John Cummings , defending the seat for Labour , said the number working in the coal industry there had fallen from 11,799 in 1979 to 2,300 now . |
| 6 | A local authority report on changes between 1979 and 1987 indicates that of the 16 600 pre-1919 dwelling in North Tyneside , the number without amenities had fallen from 2800 in 1979 to 262 in 1987 . |
| 7 | He pointed out that while the estimated number of drug users in the USA had fallen from 23,000,000 in 1985 to 14,000,000 in 1988 , evidence suggested that drug users now employed more types of drugs more frequently . |
| 8 | The same hospital said that road deaths had fallen from three in February 1982 to nil in February this year . |
| 9 | The Edinburgh journeymen compositors had succeeded in 1803 in their appeal to the courts to sanction a document known as the Interlocutor — an extraordinarily complicated scale of piece-work rates — which was regarded as a great victory . |
| 10 | ‘ I wanted to come , ’ Maggie muttered , quite agreeing with him that she had come off worst in everything . |
| 11 | People would stop in the street asking how we were and where we had come from all in perfect English . |
| 12 | Was it not true , though , that the Liberal Democrats had voted with Labour in five out of every six divisions in the last Parliament ? |
| 13 | In January Norbert Blüm , the Labour and Social Affairs Minister , had announced that unemployment had crept above 2,000,000 in December 1989 , but taking into account the arrival of some 700,000 ethnic Germans the overall unemployment rate had fallen from 8.4 to 7.9 per cent . |
| 14 | Women with their womb-smelling warmth , their talcum powder and milky breasts had seen to that in the first four weeks of life . |
| 15 | By 1960 , their number had grown to 150 in 1960 and to over 600 by 1980 . |
| 16 | The number of asylum seekers had grown from 5,000 in 1988 to an expected 46,000 in 1991 . |
| 17 | In 1983 , this had risen to 2,500 in 1985 , 8,000 candidates registered ; and in 1987 , an estimated 26,000 people applied ( GMRB 22. 2. 1988 ) . |
| 18 | These had risen by 70,000 in the month from mid-August , and Mr Murdoch said the group was likely to reach the target of one million homes by 1 February 1990 . |
| 19 | In total the number of summertime schemes had risen from five in 1982 to twenty by the end of the period . |
| 20 | The number of workers involved in strikes had risen from 225,000 in May to 1,000,000 in May and to 1,500,000 in June . |
| 21 | They found the incidence per 100,000 of the population had risen from 3.4 in 1979 to 7.1 in 1989 for men , and from 6.6 to 10.4 for women . |
| 22 | And , most important of all , the number of states using primary elections to select delegates to the convention had risen from 17 in 1968 to 29 in 1976 , with the number of votes cast by delegates chosen or bound by primaries increasing from 37.5 per cent to 72.6 per cent . |
| 23 | Seizures had risen from 12 in 1987 to 27 last year to 124 this year . |
| 24 | Asylum applications within the EC had risen from 169,000 in 1988 to 327,000 in 1990 . |
| 25 | In the fifties university student numbers had risen from 135,000 in 1949 to 220,000 in 1960 . |
| 26 | They included Henri de Lubac , later to be raised to the rank of cardinal , though only after he had retreated from the more extreme position on the relationship between nature and grace he had adopted in 1946 in his book Surnaturel ; Marie-Dominique Chenu , one of whose books was placed on the Index in 1942 for daring to suggest that Thomas Aquinas ought to be studied against the history of his times ; and Yves Congar , who survived to become one of the leading theologians of Vatican II . |
| 27 | He was pumped full of sedation , but none of it seemed to work and Gilbert had decided against more in case he died . |
| 28 | The Cologne-based Association of the Victims of Stalinism claimed that around 21,000 internees had died after 1945 in Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen and that 90,000 people had died in camps set up by Soviet occupying forces in eastern Germany after 1945 . |
| 29 | An outstanding example of peasant political particularism had occurred in 1921 in the Tambov guberniia bordering on Kursk . |
| 30 | I had agreed to this in case I had to have a Caesarian . |