Example sentences of "had [verb] in the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sendero Luminoso had threatened to kill all candidates as well as those voting in the municipal elections , and 200 mayoral candidates and about 300 other candidates had withdrawn in the areas under states of emergency [ for which see pp. 36972 ; 37065 ] . |
| 2 | B. Layers of peat had formed in the marshes and between them there were layers of mud or silt . |
| 3 | By midday , a crowd estimated at between 80,000 and 100,000 had gathered in the grounds of Eglinton Castle . |
| 4 | The males then returned inland , but the females had to wait in the burrows for a further two weeks while their fertilised eggs matured . |
| 5 | While the CNAA had been debating and arriving at a new policy statement , a considerable diversity of approaches had developed in the institutions . |
| 6 | They had wanted no part of the terror and the bloodshed , and they had hidden in the mountains and the caves and the remote Northern Isles . |
| 7 | This was intended to help them return to civilian life until they round employment and , to conform with the allowances they had received in the services , this sum included additions for dependants . |
| 8 | Vice-President Gonzalo Aguirre Ramírez had joined in the demands for the dismissal of Braga , who was subsequently appointed president of the Banco de la República . |
| 9 | The journey I had just completed in the Arussi had been the first I had undertaken in the highlands of Abyssinia . |
| 10 | Philip Snowden , dour but competent , became Chancellor of the Exchequer ; and the avuncular Arthur Henderson , who alone of his colleagues had sat in the Cabinets of Asquith and Lloyd George , Home Secretary . |
| 11 | At the time of writing , the first batch of prosecutions had collapsed in the magistrates ' court , on account of the long delay in launching the prosecutions against those involved . |
| 12 | His belief in peace at all costs in a policy of concession and containment — had eroded in the years since Han Ch'in 's death . |
| 13 | He explained she had to stand in the wings directing the beam of a torch at a strategically placed mirror which would send a reflection of light dancing across the back-cloth of Never-Never Land . |
| 14 | Several hundred mourners had to stand in the grounds where the service , conducted by the judge 's brother , Monsignor Laurence Higgins , was relayed outside by loudspeakers . |
| 15 | Instead she read us letters from a boy she had met in the holidays . |
| 16 | The reabsorption into landed society of those families who had suffered in the upheavals of the past decade was to be a slow process , and was to give rise to fresh disputes over lands claimed by families who had been on opposite sides , but Edward showed over the next twenty years that loyalty and service would receive their due reward . |
| 17 | Of the 65 men who had languished in the cells , only 34 remained . |
| 18 | It was the policewoman she had seen in the police station . |
| 19 | Although still on the top floor , they now had lifts , or rather elevators , to take them up and once inside the dressing-room each Girl had her own mirror well lit by bulbs surrounding three sides just as they had seen in the films . |
| 20 | Mostly they were second-rate copies of the kind of American bar-room R&B bands the members of these pub bands had seen in the days when they had a bit more going for them and had actually made it to the States one time in the late sixties or early seventies . |
| 21 | The commons played a more substantial and a more independent part in this political crisis than they had done in the conflicts of Edward I 's last years and Edward II 's reign , and they showed some awareness of their power to demand concessions in return for agreeing to the king 's financial demands . |
| 22 | The next time they returned to the windward mark , Paul Cayard tried to shoot the mark as Dennis Conner had done in the defenders ' trials on Tuesday . |
| 23 | In attempting to deflect opinion from the disappointments of the previous winter and the lack of prospect of an early end of the war and to revamp morale through blaming others for Germany 's misfortunes — much as he had done in the years before 1933 — Hitler had lifted a corner of the veil of the ‘ Führer myth ’ and revealed a glimpse of the arbitrary , dictatorial , and irrational way he responded to the first reverses he and the nation had had to suffer . |
| 24 | The room turned , as it had done in the parties of her youth . |
| 25 | By the fifth week , La Croix was linking names of bishops with the general gist of what they had said in the debates : its editor had the good fortune himself to be a peritus . |
| 26 | Three months after the end of the study triglyceride concentrations had risen in the patients who had monitored themselves from 1.6 to 2.2 mmol/l ( NS ) , as had the patients ' cholesterol concentrations ( from 6.1 to 6.4 mmol/l ( NS ) ) . |
| 27 | Mist had collected in the trees . |
| 28 | Even more remarkable was the change which the war had wrought in the relations between the union and the Shipping Federation and that which had developed between Havelock Wilson and the labour movement . |
| 29 | And he said Eventually with ropes and various other tackle it took seven of them to lift the piano back up again out of the gap that it had produced in the stairs and get it up the stairs . |
| 30 | Between 1914 and 1918 almost 900,000 British Empire soldiers had died in the trenches , most of them from the working class . |