Example sentences of "had [verb] the [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The indications are that , in Castro 's eyes , the failure of the April 1958 general strike had exposed the political and organisational unreliability of many moderate 26th July Movement leaders ( Szulc : 1986 , p. 352 ) . |
| 2 | to back him through thick and thin , but not before I had consulted the eight or nine senior legal Members ( some of them more distinguished at the Bar than myself ) and got their promises of support . |
| 3 | Peter Thomson had won the 1954 and 1956 British Opens with Cecil Timms . |
| 4 | If Wooderson was any different from his fellows it was that he tried harder ; he had the old equivalent of tunnel vision , enhanced by a coach , Albert Hill , who had won the 800 and 1500 metres at a single Olympics . |
| 5 | The representative principle had superseded the ministerial and the personal . |
| 6 | In my job , I had expected the sick and the dying to trust God , and I had come to the Sahara hoping to discover whether I myself would keep the faith in adverse circumstances . |
| 7 | She enjoyed its lack of significance , much as she had enjoyed the bleak and dirty corridors of Battersby Grammar School when she was eleven years old . |
| 8 | Professor Pacey had epitomised the forties as one of ‘ vacillation and disillusionment , ’ but the tide had indeed commenced to turn , a new era was opening up . |
| 9 | He had shed the first and worst load , and as soon as he lifted his head and made to rise on his knees , Rhun 's arm lifted and sustained him . |
| 10 | We told him that he had to have a specific programme … that he had to train the hardest that he had ever done in his life . |
| 11 | He had approached the five or six youths , who were hanging around his car , a gold Ford Escort Estate . |
| 12 | He had seen the best and the worst . |
| 13 | I went on my way happy after that — indeed , happier than I had been before I had seen the strange apparitions-and it occurred to me that somebody both less logical and less imaginative would have jumped to the conclusion that what they had seen were UFOs . |
| 14 | When Robert McFarlane was charged with withholding information from Congress about diverting arms sale funds to the Contras , Reagan openly joked that he had done the same and withheld information from Congress . |
| 15 | ‘ But , darling , suppose I had done the same when I was expecting you ? |
| 16 | I told her that I was surprised at that because my Mum had said the same and I had n't believed her . |
| 17 | Angus , who admired guts and gumption , had missed the adventurous and spirited Miranda even more than he expected . |
| 18 | Her stepfather , Robert Simpson , had bought the battered and bomb-damaged house for a song just after the war . |
| 19 | All over the world , mystics had told the adept that he must die to himself and to all that he knows ; he must experience annihilation and extinction , which the Sufis call 'fana . |
| 20 | Merchants trading overseas had to cover the diplomatic and even military expenses which in later centuries would be met by their governments . |
| 21 | In there had lurked the defeated and the dispossessed , with hatred in their hearts , their gaze uplifted towards the distant hill where the walls of Carewscourt rose higher and higher with each passing day . |
| 22 | ‘ Sometimes they come back , ’ said Rohmer , and now he had drawn the automatic and raised it . |
| 23 | the movement had to discuss the ultimate and logical outcome of political action or it would be adding to confusion . |
| 24 | There had been calls for the removal , even the court-martialling , of the general concerned , but the army had defended the latter and he had been allowed to complete the campaign . |
| 25 | ‘ Mrs Kettering , for instance … ’ she asked after Fosdyke had called the pale and sullen-looking girl wearing glasses and a blue overall from behind the zinc-covered bar to bring vino bianco to the Signora , plus ancora malt whisky con acqua . |
| 26 | News that standards had stayed the same or actually fell in several instances is pretty alarming , especially the apparent deterioration in reading skills among less able pupils . |
| 27 | Within three months , the refugee from England had become the known and acknowledged assistant of two of the greatest powers in the land . |
| 28 | In the last exercise you learnt that to remove a number from one side of an equation you simply had to do the opposite or reverse operation to both sides . |
| 29 | I had reached the 11th but was a long way off the green . |
| 30 | Mrs Thatcher had established her environmentalist credentials in several speeches and had replaced the true-blue but ungreen Nicholas Ridley with the practically viridescent Chris Patten as Environment Secretary . |