Example sentences of "had [verb] [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Polybius had treated Rome in the same way as according to a fragment of Book 34 he seems to have treated Alexandria , we would have gained in understanding . |
| 2 | It had plucked Mariana from the pillion seat , skittering her against the current like a flat stone skipped across a pond . |
| 3 | Failure at the polls had exposed Danzigers to the true state of the city 's finances . |
| 4 | They had arranged March for the wedding . |
| 5 | The fines imposed upon the Earl of Lancaster and his followers were remitted , and Lancaster received confirmation of his right to Pontefract , Tutbury and Leicester , which he had not been able to recover after the revolution of 1327 , though he had to lease Pontefract from the queen for £1,000 a year . |
| 6 | It had been amusing to get Ingrid through it , just to spite Busacher and keep Aschmann in a supporting role , but now he had to sustain Ingrid through the rest of the Season . |
| 7 | Up to this time many astronomers had regarded Venus as the Earth 's twin , and that beneath the clouds , which were widely regarded as consisting of water , there were oceans and perhaps vegetation and animals . |
| 8 | Islamic Jihad had stashed Waite in the basement car park of a four-storey building in Baalbeck , in the Bekaa Valley . |
| 9 | A fitting start to the celebrations , said managing director Harriet Spicer , because of the support the trade had given Virago over the years . |
| 10 | M. Lévy gave me a third more for the second vase than he had given Jean-Claude for the first one . |
| 11 | Zhou had shielded Deng from the extremists when ‘ class struggle ’ was predominant rather than economic development . |
| 12 | Critics accused Meciar , a former communist who had joined VPN at the time of the revolution , of using information from secret police files to intimidate political rivals and of acting unconstitutionally by making official foreign visits . |
| 13 | He talked about Fitzroy , the naval officer who had carried out the first detailed survey of the waters we were looking down on , and of Darwin , who had joined Fitzroy in the Beagle for a second voyage in which the survey had been completed , followed by the long voyage home via the Galapagos and other islands , including New Zealand . |
| 14 | Darwin had favoured Africa as the cradle of humankind , a view that was consistent with the link to the modern great apes . |
| 15 | Skelton had partnered Florida in the knockout event and just shaded Whitaker and Fonda in a thrilling dash to the finishing line . |
| 16 | St Petersburg 's major diplomatic goal had been to nullify the clauses of the Treaty of Paris which had disarmed Russia on the Black Sea . |
| 17 | The duke 's campaign of the previous season , which had won Berwick for the crown , may have whipped up enthusiasm for future conquests , but it had also been a lesson in the expense and difficulty of winning a small piece of land and the cost of keeping it thereafter . |
| 18 | The duke 's campaign of the previous season , which had won Berwick for the crown , may have whipped up enthusiasm for future conquests , but it had also been a lesson in the expense and difficulty of winning a small piece of land and the cost of keeping it thereafter . |
| 19 | Competing in the free market of air fares had catapulted Branson into the rarefied area of government policy and international relations , and helped to define what had hitherto been purely instinctive beliefs in a more rigid ideological context . |
| 20 | It was she who had interviewed Meg for the Old Rectory and Meg now found it difficult to connect that confident , tweeded , slightly aggressive woman with the two gentle old people she knew . |
| 21 | After all , it was the British and the Russians who had dominated Iran through the nineteenth and much of the twentieth centuries . |
| 22 | After Gerald Williams had caught Pontypool on the hop with a 16th minute try , converted by Mark Wyatt , the Kiwi import changed the whole course of events . |
| 23 | Both men had served in the Prince of Wales 's Own Volunteers where d'Alembord had succeeded Sharpe to the command of the first battalion 's light company . |
| 24 | In 1886 the President was Balfour Stewart , Tait 's collaborator ; the Vice-Presidents included the Bishops of Carlisle and of Ripon , A. J. Balfour , the future Prime Minister , Lord Rayleigh , the physicist — who had succeeded Maxwell as the Cavendish professor at Cambridge — as well as Sidgwick and other notables . |
| 25 | White had rescued Brown from the nose but Ainley was dead when they managed to get him out . |
| 26 | In the afternoon she had to trust Ruth on the way home . |
| 27 | An American studio had approached Willy for the rights to the play , but ‘ they envisaged a Brat Pack movie , packaging first and script later , ’ and he turned them down . |
| 28 | Nanny left once she had pushed Artemis into the room . |
| 29 | ‘ At the time , he thought — no , it was almost as if he was hoping — that someone had pushed Klein off the cliff . |
| 30 | As I walked to my car I wondered why the heavies had pushed Toby into the cupboard . |