Example sentences of "had [verb] the [adj] and " 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 | Peter Thomson had won the 1954 and 1956 British Opens with Cecil Timms . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The representative principle had superseded the ministerial and the personal . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He had seen the best and the worst . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I told her that I was surprised at that because my Mum had said the same and I had n't believed her . |
| 11 | Angus , who admired guts and gumption , had missed the adventurous and spirited Miranda even more than he expected . |
| 12 | Her stepfather , Robert Simpson , had bought the battered and bomb-damaged house for a song just after the war . |
| 13 | Merchants trading overseas had to cover the diplomatic and even military expenses which in later centuries would be met by their governments . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Sometimes they come back , ’ said Rohmer , and now he had drawn the automatic and raised it . |
| 16 | the movement had to discuss the ultimate and logical outcome of political action or it would be adding to confusion . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | Within three months , the refugee from England had become the known and acknowledged assistant of two of the greatest powers in the land . |
| 20 | Just as in a previous era an official ‘ gentling of the masses ’ by way of induction into a culture of civilization had accompanied the educational and political entry of the working classes into citizenship within the nation , so now assimilation into an imagined British national culture and way of life became the preoccupation of the educational establishment ( Open University , 1974 ; Jones and Kimberley , 1982 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ I can not say that if Mrs. O'Brien had known the full and true effect of her commitment under the charge , she would instantly and inevitably have refused to execute it . |
| 22 | The new socialist regimes in Vietnam and Laos had undermined the military and political pre-eminence of the Western states in Southeast Asia and this counteracted Kovalenko 's objections to the ZOPFAN idea , provided that Vietnam and Laos were included within its ambit . |
| 23 | By November 1934 the conciliatory attitude of the Communist International had caused the Labour and Socialist International to modify its earlier warning against entering into United Front agreements with national Communist Parties . |
| 24 | The 6th Fleet had inherited the nineteenth and early twentieth century roles of the British navy in the Mediterranean . |
| 25 | The chief executive of Gwynedd County Council , Huw Thomas , said that the flood had hit the elderly and poor most . |
| 26 | Numbers are very small , and of course tabular data are only an extremely crude summary of a very complex range of feelings ; however ( excluding those whose attitudes were not known or impossible to summarise ) , it appears that three carers in the action samples felt the strain had lightened , four that it had remained the same and five that it had worsened . |
| 27 | The Executive Committee of the Comintern had cabled the Labour and Socialist International on 25 September 1935 , asking for negotiations for the " defence of peace " . |
| 28 | ‘ He discoursed about his understanding of the Church and he said that we had to hold the high and the low together but for his part his sympathies were with the high . |
| 29 | But the fighting had left the British and French armies even weaker . |
| 30 | Archbishop of the second great German province , Cologne , his family had combined the secular and the ecclesiastical princedom for some time . |