Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The treatment meted out was degrading and she had hated the middle classes ever after . |
| 2 | Normally he enjoyed staying over at the firm 's northern hospitality suite which was situated above their offices — bloody hell , he had treated a few girls to his own style of hospitality there enough times — but tonight it was all wrong . |
| 3 | But when the last apostle died , and Jesus , who had uttered the mysterious words , ‘ There are some of those standing here who will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God come with power ’ ( Mark 9:1 ) , had not returned — what were they to think ? |
| 4 | He said that at the recent mission in Cambridge Billy Graham had taught the grossest doctrines . |
| 5 | He turned and left , ignoring the shouts and screams of the small wet attendant as — after the under-cook had gathered the other scullions round , pointed to the cauldron , the ladle and its own belly before nodding at the wet attendant — the kicking , howling creature was grabbed by the same scullions who had recently been comforting it , hoisted up the ladder still resting against the side of the great vat , and thrown back in . |
| 6 | Shevardnadze also made the startling claim that the Soviet leadership had foreseen the revolutionary changes in Eastern Europe in 1989 . |
| 7 | I must explain here that , as neither Nigel nor I had religion , I had arranged the two speakers and then planned to say a few words myself , to thank everyone , in and out of sight . |
| 8 | For years , the ASP bureaucracy had annexed the closing stages of the annual circuit for Australia . |
| 9 | Within ten years he had conquered the other tribes along the Mad Dog Pass and subjugated the Night Goblin tribes that lived around and under Thunder Mountain . |
| 10 | It was as if the dominance of his spirit had conquered the physical results of lack of sleep , lending him a new vitality which arced across the distance between them , charging her own weakened batteries , as he responded to a challenge which had been originally hers . |
| 11 | European observers were reported as saying that they had witnessed no serious problems during voting but did not comment on the claim of fraud after the close of stations . |
| 12 | Television coverage had been scooped up by the BBC , who had realised the dramatic possibilities of the occasion . |
| 13 | Doctors in early modern England had developed no special skills for dealing with the health of older people . |
| 14 | Parallel to the increasing ‘ pedagogization ’ of care and control measures had developed the basic outlines of a youth policy with an equally pronounced pedagogical orientation . |
| 15 | GenTech had developed the little bastards . |
| 16 | As of mid-May Uzbekistan and Moldova had completed the relevant formalities ( on April 30 and May 5 respectively ) . |
| 17 | He had recalled the screaming gulls under the cliffs ; the staring eyes of the priest , the strange sensation of sinking a blade into his white flesh and seeing the life ebb from him . |
| 18 | An Irish government campaign had emphasized the economic benefits of participating in economic and monetary union ( EMU ) and warned that the country could lose as much as I£6,000 million over the next five years if the Treaty were rejected and could also lose foreign industrial investment . |
| 19 | Darwin himself had explained the strange inhabitants of isolated oceanic islands such as the Galapagos in terms of accidental migrations from the nearest mainland . |
| 20 | These rules stated that the economic world was Keynesian — equally in the sense that Keynes had explained the fundamental laws of economic motion and that in the process he had provided the prescriptions which would render high unemployment and stagnation as things of the past [ Posner , 1978 ] . |
| 21 | Dorothy had dealt with both of them , aided by Isobel 's giddy young sister-in-law , who had explained the social nuances of it all by saying : ‘ That pair of grasping alley cats would tear the eyes out of anyone who managed to make the social pages of the Tollemarche Advent on a day when they should have been featured . |
| 22 | I had heard no human footfalls in the corridor . |
| 23 | And the singing of birds I had heard a thousand times , thrushes , blackbirds in our London garden , I heard as if I had never heard them before . |
| 24 | Before I had heard a dozen words , I was trembling with fear . |
| 25 | ‘ The Missus ’ was about as inappropriate a soubriquet for Onyx Muggeridge as could be imagined , and Mike Pumfrey , who had heard a few scraps about her already , registered this . |
| 26 | I had heard a few comments , such as : ‘ Oh ! |
| 27 | Claire had heard the Irish maids talking in the kitchen , ‘ Pearls are tears … |
| 28 | Abbotsfield and Carinish Court : Peter had heard the two names for the first time on the same evening in July 1964 . |
| 29 | One had heard the ominous rumblings from the singers regarding the complexity of both choral and works , and the language of one of them ( Hebrew ) , but in performance on Saturday evening they sounded tremendous . |
| 30 | Ace had heard the scraping noises on the hull , so she was n't entirely terrified when a scaly , bristly limb extended across the outside of the window next to her . |