Example sentences of "had [verb] the [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The details of the liberal programme ( attack on regional , ecclesiastical , and aristocratic privilege , guilds , and the Mesta ) were inherited from regalists and political economists , from the servants of Charles III who had attacked the privileged in the interests of a modernized monarchy unencumbered with private jurisdictions . |
| 2 | The Criminal Law Revision Committee had recommended the same in its Report , Offences Against the Person , Cmnd 7844 , 1980 . |
| 3 | A few days earlier , the 40,000 miners of the Jiu Valley towns of Lupeni , Vulcan and Petrosani , in the foothills of the Carpathians two hundred and fifty miles to the north-west of Bucharest , had done the unimaginable in a communist state : they had gone on strike . |
| 4 | The Dutch had done the same in 1982 , after a horrible massacre at the main army barracks in Paramaribo , the capital . |
| 5 | Before twelfth-century English bishops helped to propagate a canon law based on papal direction by appealing constantly to Rome for guidance , Boniface had done the same in the eighth century . |
| 6 | Would that he had done the same in the biological parts . |
| 7 | Early in the fourth century the struggles that had occurred intermittently between the Roman state and the Christian Church ended with the latter proving the stronger , partly as a result of the military upheavals that had threatened the former in the middle of the previous century . |
| 8 | ‘ Look neither to the right nor to the left , but keep straight on ’ , Asquith had told the faithful in his resignation speech of October 1926 . |
| 9 | A couple of hours later the same Burnmouth boat which had brought the Marischal in picked its secret way out of Berwick harbour , with the three knights as passengers . |
| 10 | And how would we know the colour had remained the same in the intervening years ? ) |
| 11 | ( If overall expenditure had remained the same in real terms , a fall in pupil numbers of 17% would have led to a rise in unit costs of 20% ) ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Table 11.10 ) . |
| 12 | A neighbour who often did shopping for the Lennons had left the semi-detached in Heyford Road , Marsh Green , on the outskirts of Wigan , only a few minutes earlier . |