Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wind and rain on the little hill above Jaffa had ripped away at the paint but it was just possible to make out the words ‘ David Damiani ’ to the left of the broken wooden gate . |
| 2 | He had withdrawn there on the advice of several people ( including myself ) that Downing Street was an impossible place for anyone whose curiosity extended to seeing every telegram that came in at whatever time of the day or night . |
| 3 | Several booksellers commented that their sales of Sue Townsend 's The Queen and I ( Methuen ) had roared ahead at the full price , despite the fact that the book was available at a discount at Dillons down the road or around the corner . |
| 4 | The two men had collaborated before on the design of lightning protectors , and the Lodge–Muirhead Wireless Telegraphy Syndicate Ltd. was formed in 1901 . |
| 5 | When , at the end of the Second World War , France was liberated , those who had collaborated excessively with the Germans often had their hair cut off by the French Resistance . |
| 6 | As she did not want to reveal how much Shildon had reported , she had to sit again through the complicated story of the sale of the lease . |
| 7 | The girl then had to sit nervously on the edge of the sofa — there were n't many chairs — while the guest stretched himself , yawning , naked and sweaty . |
| 8 | We had to sit outside on the front steps , which were also white . |
| 9 | His thoughts , when they finally came , had been uttered in all their simplistic banality , in no particular order of logic or relevance , and in a curiously gentle voice punctuated by long pauses in which he had gazed thoughtfully at the throne and appeared to commune happily with some inner presence . |
| 10 | Cowley leafed through the file that Bodie had gathered together on the girl . |
| 11 | Nought but a rabble he had gathered together on the fair island that lies to the east — of buccaneers and booty hunters and ruffianly runaways from the slaveships that are plying these waters most usefully . |
| 12 | The riders , about a dozen so far , had gathered together in the middle . |
| 13 | The night before , Kalchu and Sigarup went to the shrine , lit the oil lamp and tied two strips of new cloth — one red , one white — on to the rafters among the hundreds of old and blackened ones that had gathered there over the years . |
| 14 | Much better to get involved with someone who had plunged fully into the sea of life than with someone who had stood wimpishly on the edge , afraid to dip in so much as a toe . |
| 15 | He would never forget the great dust cloud that climbed over the reactor shell , broken like a duck 's egg , after the jets had soared away into the June evening . |
| 16 | The art market , which had fluctuated greatly during the war , collapsed , with the price of the modern painters Derain , Vlaminck , Valadon completely depressed . |
| 17 | We have now finished coaling at Chapmans Well , but had to wait right to the very end for the best coal . |
| 18 | But for three hours singers , orchestra and audience ( many of the latter stading ) had to wait impatiently in the overheated atmosphere until the opera should begin . |
| 19 | If you were caught , you had to wait there until the end . |
| 20 | The latter had the important advantage of incumbency , but , as we have seen , was handicapped by a poor record as president and had stumbled badly during the campaign ; nevertheless he ran Carter close — 49 to 51 per cent in the popular vote and 240 — 297 in the Electoral College . |
| 21 | Whatever Sauniere had stumbled across in the 1880s , the French author , Gerard de Sede , wrote about it nearly eighty years later . |
| 22 | Truman 's career had developed wholly in the domestic context where he had shown considerable guile and courage . |
| 23 | In 1928 the Medical Officer reported that maternity and child welfare had developed remarkably over the last two years . |
| 24 | According to Blackwell , morality involved the evolution of self-consciousness which had developed only in the human species . |
| 25 | A month later , Churchill told the Commons that the role of the ‘ overlords ’ had developed naturally from the functions of Cabinet-committee chairmen in the Second World War and that ‘ the co-ordinating Ministers have no statutory powers . |
| 26 | A bitter personal feud had developed there between the two eminent classics professors , Otto Jahn ( like Nietzsche from Pforta ) and Friedrich Ritschl ; and in 1865 Ritschl left , followed by some of his students , to take up a post at the University of Leipzig . |
| 27 | They were not , by modern standards , especially radical in tone ; but they introduced to a wider public the new approaches to the critical study of the Bible which up till then had developed more on the Continent , and only to some extent in the cloistered world of the English universities . |
| 28 | Mr Wood noted that the taste for English watercolours had developed considerably in the US over the last ten years through the support of the Paul Mellon Foundation as well as the efforts of dealers like himself . |
| 29 | They could not afford another campaign : they had run through the treasure inherited from Edward II so quickly that they could not even pay their Hainault mercenaries , and they had to borrow both from the Florentine banking house of Bardi and from English merchants . |
| 30 | Shirley had clattered noisily on the linoleum , had huffed and puffed and banged about , and finally had said with some passion , ‘ You 're barmy . ’ |