Example sentences of "had [vb pp] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dorothy 's husband had plumbed in the second-hand washing machine for her , and refused to accept money , taken all Saturday morning doing it . |
| 2 | About 1820 , possibly due to the persuasion and influence of William Gilkison , Galt became the London agent for people in Upper Canada who were trying to obtain compensation from the British Government for losses they had sustained in the 1812/13 war with the U.S.A. He submitted a plan to the Government which led to the creation of the Canada Company , and , as its first Secretary , he was sent to Canada to acquire land . |
| 3 | The Graduate would be financed and released by Embassy Pictures , the company Joseph E. Levine had formed in the late fifties to exploit cheap European spectacles such as the Hercules films with muscle-man Steve Reeves , which brought in millions of dollars . |
| 4 | There were reports in mid-February that leaders from the 17-party Joint Action Committee of the Iraqi Opposition ( JACIO ) established in Damascus in December 1990 [ see p. 37927 ] and the pro-Western Free Iraq Council ( FIC ) formed in London on Feb. 9 , had gathered in the Saudi capital , Riyadh , to discuss the formation of a government-in-exile . |
| 5 | But word got around and by 9am some 30 anglers had gathered in the Little Chef at Bath , prompting a sweepstake on the local Bristol Avon . |
| 6 | Fry noted that night visits had trebled in the seven years from 1967 to 1974 . |
| 7 | He could hardly believe that she was letting him go , that he was not to be punished for what he had witnessed in the best room in the middle of the night . |
| 8 | The idea of a holiday in the north-west of the Iberian peninsula had developed in the preceding six months . |
| 9 | Yet even as these deliberations were going on in Washington , a new Sino-American crisis had developed in the Far East . |
| 10 | By the mid-1920s they no longer had the harsh appearance that they had developed in the immediate pre-war years … |
| 11 | On this ground , Ritschl was critical of much previous theology , and especially of the way the doctrine of the person of Christ had developed in the early centuries . |
| 12 | Kissinger even hoped to make 1973 the ‘ Year of Europe ’ in which the Atlantic alliance could be restored to full health , ending the distrust between America and Europe which had developed in the 1960s . |
| 13 | Stenhouse 's proposal was in marked contrast , not only to Hoyle 's , but , for different reasons , to the tradition of curriculum development that had developed in the 1960s , both in the UK and the USA . |
| 14 | The many Victorian great houses had developed in the contrary direction , separating themselves progressively from the ‘ other nation ’ on whose labours they depended . |
| 15 | Some kind of crisis had developed in the last few minutes , and she did n't know why she felt afraid . |
| 16 | The Chief Officer needed to contribute to this work and to help the Council maintain the influence in higher education it had developed in the previous six years , and to develop public awareness of the Council 's aims and activities . |
| 17 | Berkeley 's philosophy marks the turn of the tide against the world picture which had developed in the seventeenth century , and which had reached one of its classical expositions in Locke 's Essay . |
| 18 | Sheila Cunningham , of Norfolk North , said the present system was unfair and perpetuated the elective dictatorship which had developed in the 1980s . |
| 19 | Mills , like Marxists , also presented an historical account of the transformation of power in American society to explain how and why it was that a new power elite had developed in the post-war world . |
| 20 | When he had left , he had loved them desperately , and had hidden in the stifling furnace of his cabin for days , weeping himself dry . |
| 21 | Ginny had hidden in the big cupboard in the dining room . |
| 22 | Julie smiled , remembering the times she and her friends had hidden in the old shed during hilarious games of hide and seek and sardines . |
| 23 | Members of the National Front , the opposition the Shah had crushed in the fifties and ignored ever since , leftists , rightists , monarchists , republicans , dentists , doctors , lawyers — almost anyone it seems could finally get into see His Imperial Majesty . |
| 24 | A few weeks before he left Iran , the Shah had asked one of the most respected members of the opposition that he had crushed in the fifties to try to form a government . |
| 25 | His self-conscious gaucheness vanished as if it had evaporated in the thin cold air of the mountains and he found friends . |
| 26 | The satellite was first conceived as a successor to the ANS ( Astronomical Netherlands Satellite ) which the Netherlands Agency for Aerospace Programs ( NIVR ) had flown in the early 1970s . |
| 27 | The first round of the presidential elections was notable for the fact that both main candidates attracted substantially more votes than their parties had received in the parliamentary elections , even though in the case of Constantinescu , the rector of Bucharest University , he had only been named as a compromise choice at the July 27 DCR Congress ( the NLP having left the alliance after its unsuccessful bid to persuade ex-King Mihai ( Michael ) to stand as a presidential candidate ) . |
| 28 | At home , amongst his people , Mr Kinnock 's speech provoked the most spontaneous and enthusiastic standing ovation he had received in the last three weeks on the campaign trail . |
| 29 | This quarter the RIBA asked over 300 practices what marketing activities they had undertaken in the last 12 months . |
| 30 | Between early May and late August 1921 , no rain had fallen in the Middle Volga , central and eastern Ukraine , and the steppes north of the Caucasus . |