Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Miss Watson , of course , really was her better , for she had been a headmistress before this , and had taught in town schools , so large and magnificent that naturally she was much wiser and more experienced . |
| 2 | By the middle years of the nineteenth century many an estate village remained impervious to Dissent , whereas the new settlements that had gathered round textile mills , collieries or canal-heads were markedly Nonconformist in character . |
| 3 | This was the third time in six months that the federal government had intervened in state politics to redress alleged fraud . |
| 4 | My daughter had stumbled into Pitfall Number One for the unwary green consumer — the ‘ Bit-Less-Bad ’ trap . |
| 5 | And by now close relationships had developed with aid agencies in Canada , Australia , Aotearoa(NZ) and the US . |
| 6 | High Anglican architects such as William Butterfield ( 1814–1900 ) and George Edmund Street ( 1824–81 ) took up these ideas and produced a series of parish schools which combine simple planning and construction with details they had developed for church architecture . |
| 7 | The initiative had been launched by citizen groups anxious to break up the relationship which had developed between pressure groups and entrenched state politicians , and to make the California legislature more responsive to the ordinary voters . |
| 8 | The second spoke of Iraq 's having attacked Tehran 's Mehrabad ( both civil and military ) airport : Iran had retaliated with air attacks on Baghdad and on a petrochemical complex near Basrah . |
| 9 | At first the techs had retaliated with bolt guns and heavy stub weapons . |
| 10 | The bird was found in a field after it had flown into power cables . |
| 11 | The members of the Commission on Social Justice , who had flown from south-east England in airline comfort yesterday morning and now were seated on hard chairs in the decrepit surroundings of the Salvation Army hall , nodded amiably . |
| 12 | The human rights organization Amnesty International in its 1992 annual report released on July 9 claimed that governments around the world had connived with security forces in permitting extrajudicial murder , abduction and torture . |
| 13 | The two American researchers say that , despite some of the workers having 20 years ' experience in the electricity industry , none of the workers had heard of sulphur hexafluoride , nor did they know that their work could lead to exposure to irritant gases . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't think the Victorians had heard of peanut butter . |
| 15 | When I started out , nobody had heard of health economics ; now every provider unit in the health service wants one . |
| 16 | ‘ Nobody south of Perth had heard of malt whisky in those days , ’ he said , ‘ so I took a bottle and six glasses into my final crit . |
| 17 | I suggested that , in any case , it might be wise to postpone going away until we had heard from M. Chaillot regarding the ‘ Chansons de Mani ’ . |
| 18 | In Nairobi , Cynthia Osterman , of Care , said that she had heard by satellite telephone that four US vehicles were burned but no-one was injured . |
| 19 | In Nairobi , Cynthia Osterman , of Care , said that she had heard by satellite telephone that four US vehicles were burned but no-one was injured . |
| 20 | " He also laid before the Meeting an account of the expenses he had incurred in travelling & c during the progress of the building , as also his charge of Commission , together amounting to £388 13 8d of which he had received on account £100 , Whereupon the Committee were pleased to order the balance to be paid him . " |
| 21 | Does the Secretary of State recall that although he gave an account of meetings with the Japanese , the question asked specifically what representations he had received from business men ? |
| 22 | If radio had depended on advertising revenue to operate on its 1940s scale , TV would have killed it . |
| 23 | Two days later he was seen again by police this time on the town 's Valley Bridge approaching people and trying to talk to drivers who had stopped at traffic lights . |
| 24 | An and that had stopped by World War Two would you say ? |
| 25 | Carol Wilson , who had joined in Music Publishing and signed Sting 's songwriting to the company ( but not Sting as an artist ) had developed her own label , DinDisc , under the Virgin umbrella , which in 1980 gave the company one of its best-selling artists , Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark . |
| 26 | For example , the Agricultural Department of what was then British Kenya , when faced with the Wakamba who had marched on Government House as a protest against compulsory destocking in 1938 , said : |
| 27 | Wingti announced on Oct. 29 that Arawa had fallen to government troops and that " government authority is now established in central Bougainville " . |
| 28 | The Afghan government in early April acknowledged that its garrison at Khost had fallen to mujaheddin guerrillas on March 31 . |
| 29 | A popular legend tells of Arion , a lyric poet and musician , who was returning to Greece from Italy , laden with riches he had won at music competitions . |
| 30 | The birds had vanished from Tram Chim ( meaning bird swamp ) when their habitat was destroyed in the early years of the war , and restoration of the wetland reserve is one of Vo Quy 's highest environmental priorities . |