Example sentences of "had [verb] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The incident , which did not result in casualties , came only hours after the South Korean government had placed its armed force on heightened alert in response to the attempted coup in the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | Claiming to have uncovered details of plans for an imminent military coup , the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) stated on Nov. 27 that it had placed its remaining guerrilla forces ( an estimated 3,000 not yet demobilized ) on full alert . |
| 3 | She was just crossing the square , and wondering where in her portmanteau she had placed her woollen shawl , when she became aware of footsteps that were not her own . |
| 4 | Cromwell 's men were searching a Cavalier household ; the man had hidden in a window-seat and on top of it his wife had placed their sleeping child . |
| 5 | Her mother had filled her early childhood with wonderful memories of picnics and riding ponies and of a stream of smiling schoolfriends who were always made welcome , but it was her father to whom she 'd felt closest . |
| 6 | Between 1870 and 1880 the Jesuits had been expelled from Germany , religious orders dissolved , the State had interfered with the discipline of the clergy , civil marriage had been made obligatory and Prussia had withdrawn its financial support from Catholic churches . |
| 7 | A visionary at Much Wenlock , on the testimony of Boniface , proclaimed in Ceolred 's lifetime that the angels surrounding him had withdrawn their protective shield and abandoned him to demons because of the multitude of crimes he had committed . |
| 8 | In the early years of the nineteenth century , the classical had sustained its peaceful co-existence with the Gothic and a variety of other styles , largely because each house remained at heart Palladian , assuming alternatives merely as decoration . |
| 9 | How she had suffered for him , for her poor pitiable ridiculous father , how she had hated her cruel peers for their relentless mocking , how she had dreaded each Christmas pantomime , each school-leavers ' farewell , each assembly that she knew her father was due to conduct , each occasion on which she heard him open his mouth in public . |
| 10 | For an instant Dougal wondered wildly if Henry had guessed his real purpose . |
| 11 | Before , it had justified their arbitrary rule . |
| 12 | Although Duke had dismissed his past association with the racist Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups as a " youthful indiscretion " , as recently as 1988 he had contested the presidential elections as the nominee of the Populist Party — a known repository of neo-Nazis and former Klansmen — on an openly racist and anti-Semitic platform . |
| 13 | She squinted in bewilderment at the ten or so boarders who had formed her little band of helpers . |
| 14 | Livingstone had formed his political views during the ‘ new left ’ upheavals of the late 1960s . |
| 15 | William Clarke of Nottingham had formed his All-England team , a sort of travelling circus of the top players in 1846 . |
| 16 | Under the old regime , the Central Authority had treated their financial policy as a quite separate exercise having no relationship to their investment policy . |
| 17 | ‘ I told them you could be quite helpful because you knew someone who had traced her natural mother . ’ |
| 18 | He preferred not to think that everyone knew the artist had painted his best-known work from the window overlooking Dzerjhinsky Square . |
| 19 | The following year a London magistrate , struck by the notion that there should not be one law for the rich unavailable to the poor , permitted a man named Gleaves to bring proceedings against the authors and publishers of a book entitled " Johnny Go Home " , based on a Yorkshire television documentary which had exposed his insalubrious hospitality to feckless youths . |
| 20 | The nuns , Nenna 's nuns , what a very long time ago it seemed , in a class known as plain sewing , had taught her bygone arts , darning , patching , reinforcing collars with tape , which at last found their proper object in Willis 's outmoded garments . |
| 21 | And now Havvie 's cruelty had wrecked her true love for her , for she was unable to bring to Dr Neil either an unspoiled body or a spirit which was prepared to accept his lovemaking . |
| 22 | Their skin was a mouldy grey , while gravity had gathered their uncirculating blood at the lowest points — under the chin , the undersides of the limbs , and around the area of the lower ribs , buttocks and kidneys . |
| 23 | Taking a leaf out of Madonna 's book once more , Kylie had punished her tiny body with a strict daily keep fit routine . |
| 24 | He came to see how his possessive checking on Susie had provoked her secretive behaviour . |
| 25 | She had finished knitting and sewing all its little garments , had arranged its fine hair , and was now busily engaged in slipping them on . |
| 26 | Although half the incontinent people in the MORI survey had consulted their general practitioner , other surveys have suggested a much lower proportion . |
| 27 | 52% ( 108 ) had consulted their general practitioner at the onset of incontinence and a further 31% ( 65 ) later . |
| 28 | A further 31% ( 65 ) went to see their doctor — suggesting that over 80% had consulted their general practitioner at some time . |
| 29 | Members of the sample had consulted their general practitioners a mean of 7.0 times ( range 4–15 ) . |
| 30 | Newman ignored the extended hand , looked at the man called Steve who had tucked his right hand inside the lapel of his buttoned jacket . |