Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Blunkett had been reviewing some of the scientific evidence about the connection between deprivation and ill health or premature death , and immediately before your intervention had referred to children in social class 5 being six times as likely to be burnt or knocked down in accidents as those in social class 1 . |
| 2 | A group of spectators had gathered like vultures on the pavement . |
| 3 | This was the final stage of a two-year investigation into the actions of five senators , all but one of them Democrats , who had intervened with regulators on Keating 's behalf at a time when he contributed some $1,300,000 to their campaigns and political causes . |
| 4 | In making his decision , he said , he had consulted with representatives from " Jordan , Yemen , Palestine , Sudan and the Arab Maghreb " and had been " encouraged " by " the decision of the Democratic Party in the US Senate and the European Parliament 's invitation to our Foreign Minister for dialogue " . |
| 5 | By 1930 , more than 500 students had enrolled in classes at some twenty-six rural centres . |
| 6 | Because everything took a long time to complete , I started to savour occupations which in the past I had regarded as chores to be endured . |
| 7 | From then on Endill was never again scared by the strange footsteps he had heard for years in the middle of the night . |
| 8 | Violet had heard of women like that . |
| 9 | The EC meeting at Maastricht [ see pp. 38657-59 ] had broken off discussions on economic and political union to seek assurances of security following the Dec. 8 Minsk agreement . |
| 10 | She could believe that this was the creature that had floated inside her — yes , like a starry astronaut in his liquid capsule , attached to his red life-support cable — she had pored over photographs of embryos and imagined him a hundred times . |
| 11 | Others may be in positions of trust not directly derived from full-time occupation , such as scout masters — SCOUT LEADER 'S CAMPING SHAME ( Star ) — as well as those in less formal and less-easily recognisable roles ; the headline Sex shame of ‘ uncle' ( Daily Mirror ) and text ( ‘ a mild-mannered clerk known by schoolboy train fans as Uncle Roland … took boys in the Rail Riders ’ Club on trips in Britain and Europe ’ ) shows how some offenders had eased into positions of trust with youngsters . |
| 12 | In the course of time the pirates turned merchants became a great hereditary patriciate , and Venice came to rule a mercantile empire much akin to that of ancient Athens , even in the end to acquire a large contado along and behind the Italian coast — but only after it had depended for centuries on piracy and trade for its food and livelihood . |
| 13 | The introduction to medieval and Renaissance literature that appeared some months after his death as The Discarded Image ( 1964 ) , based on the accumulated notes of lectures he had given for decades in Oxford and Cambridge , deals sympathetically with authors who , as he approvingly remarks , quote Homer and Hesiod ‘ as if they were no less to be taken into account than the sacred writers ’ ; and the break in the European spirit he saw as a consequence of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution is magnified here , in a sweeping argument , far beyond the familiar classroom shift from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance . |
| 14 | They had of course heard of the ‘ Vallar plan ’ , and had joined in discussions of it at various stages . |
| 15 | In February 1982 , after C. and D. had fallen into arrears on the mortgage payments the building society obtained possession . |
| 16 | However , after changes in the housing benefit regulations , his substantial income had dropped , and he had fallen into arrears with mortgage payments and had been unable to sell the house . |
| 17 | She hurried after Garry , and Roman strode after her , leaving Claudia standing in the middle of the garden feeling as if her world had fallen to pieces round her . |
| 18 | Ghozali , in announcing his resignation on July 8 , had spoken of " forces who were working behind the scenes … stemming from positions which they had won inside sectors of the administration , economy , enterprise , the mass media and politics " . |
| 19 | The level of funding was sufficient to cover 100 per cent of the benefits that had accrued to members after allowing for expected future pay increases . |
| 20 | On the day on which he had lost her he had sat for hours on the bed in the attic where she had lived during her time with him , and where they had shared their afternoon of love , and now , on the evening of the second day , he sat there again . |
| 21 | Winifred had sat for hours in those early days on the sofa , next to Marcus , who moved away , and like a parody of a mad religious discipline , abbreviated his answers , elongated his silences , until he had imposed on his mother a similar pattern of behaviour . |
| 22 | Elves and Men had come to blows in the past and might do so again . |
| 23 | Yet what pleased the Bath coach Jack Rowell more than the cold facts and figures was that his team had come to terms with Neath 's ‘ unique style of total rugby ’ . |
| 24 | Sipping a large Armagnac and enjoying the heady aroma of a Havana cigar , he had come to terms with the fact that life could , and would go on . |
| 25 | The degree to which these denominations had come to terms with Teetotalism and a sign of the strength it had acquired are seen in some figures for 1890 . |
| 26 | Gradually she had come to terms with it , accepted it as a fact of life , though the grief had been longer in going and the sadness was still sometimes there , an echo in the night . |
| 27 | George and Elizabeth had come to terms with the fact that they would always be childless . |
| 28 | By and large , capital had come to terms with war — an alliance given prominence in 1916 by press agitation for Allied plans to translate the wartime economic blockade of Germany into a post-war policy of concerted discrimination against German exports — the so-called ‘ War After the War . |
| 29 | Mickey Morris , having left school with a grade 1 CSE , ‘ managed to scrape four ‘ O ’ levels at college' and then progressed admirably through the internal examination system of the Department of Health and Social Security ; but not before he had come to terms with what he called ‘ a home truth ’ . |
| 30 | Yet the heartening aspect of her story was the way Diana had come to terms with her life and how , with the help of friends and counsellors , she was finding her true nature . |