Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So answer my question , ’ he urged after the waiter had poured their wine and another had placed the tapas in the centre of the table . |
| 2 | However , Bernard had filled the bottles with supermarket plonk , considering this adequate revenge for having been told by the same neighbour that his new perfume was ‘ rather bourgeois ’ . |
| 3 | No doubt , Ms Lowthorpe had stacked the odds by going for couples who looked as young as they clearly felt . |
| 4 | It was clear to Ruth that she had plumbed the depths of depravity . |
| 5 | In an interview with Arab journalists on March 8 US President Bush had said that the PLO had " lost credibility " after siding with Iraq ; Bush had dismissed the chances of a quick resumption of US-Palestinian talks . |
| 6 | Hawkes had dismissed the ideas of ‘ objectivity ’ and ‘ truth ’ in Structuralism and Semiotics , but Nuttall insists that such dismissals are pragmatically self-refuting . |
| 7 | It is in this context that Marx and Engels finally turn the tables on the ideas of philosophers who , like Hegel , had argued about the primacy of ideas , especially the idea of the State , as though these ideas had formed the processes of history rather than the other way round . |
| 8 | Based across the border in Sudan , he had formed the MPS with Libyan backing , and had launched a series of offensives from Sudan 's western Darfur region ; the third ( and finally successful ) such offensive began on Nov. 10 . |
| 9 | It can not have helped him , but the restored democracy had treated the leaders of that attempt to destroy it with , if anything , excessive leniency . |
| 10 | ‘ A high-class combination ’ , concluded the Sportsman loyally : ‘ Those croakers who had likened the visitors to a fifth-rate team must now be hiding their diminished heads . ’ |
| 11 | As the spacesuit folded in on itself like one of the Transformers toys that had fascinated the boys in Ace 's school for a brief season , Defries joined her at the window . |
| 12 | The 14-year-old boy had heated the forceps on a Bunsen burner in the lab at Beaumont School , St Albans , Herts , an industrial tribunal was told yesterday . |
| 13 | The few rooms were large and high and she had painted the walls in pale yellows and greens . |
| 14 | Besides performing refraction and examinations of the media of each eye all the optometrists reported that they had dilated the pupils of the prompted patients . |
| 15 | " for these ¾ of a year no past he had taught the scholars of the school to the content of the inhabitants , who have sent their approbation and who desire him to be established therein . " |
| 16 | Most of the Gnostic sects claimed to be Christian ; that is , to represent the secret tradition which Jesus had taught the apostles in private . |
| 17 | The Agaw were Hamites and had inhabited the highlands since time immemorial . |
| 18 | And all the smouldering volcanic lava of past England-Pakistan cricket argument and controversy was reignited in those few flashpoint moments , consuming the polite arms-length relations set up by those who had foreseen the dangers from the start of the tour . |
| 19 | After she had arranged the flowers in the brown pottery jug which stood on her office windowsill , she put the rest in the black glass vase in Luke 's room . |
| 20 | He himself had consulted the judges in 1971 , 1979 and 1985 . |
| 21 | Frank sat down again and launched into a tale of how he had outwitted the guards at every turn and been the mainstay of the prisoners . |
| 22 | From the dead limbs they cried at the moon , pecked at the wind-shattered stubs where winter had stripped the branches from these creeping giants , added their own anger to the screaming from the split and rotting bark . |
| 23 | Many , unable or unwilling to see that by the 1890s the emergence of the proletariat had redefined the terms of the class struggle , failed to cut themselves adrift from their bourgeois and petty-bourgeois roots . |
| 24 | One of a long list of commandments , much more extensive than the original ten , that had circumscribed the exploits of Preston 's youth . |
| 25 | It had nationalized the coalfields of the Nord and Pas-de-Calais , the Bank of France , the four largest clearing banks , and the Renault and Gnome-et-Rhône companies . |
| 26 | Well the problem is , you see , the devil has blinded their eyes , he had blinded the eyes of men and women so that they think that they ca n't do this , but what has actual happened , Paul tells us , i i in , in Corinthians in the first er , in Two Corinthians in chapter four , and verse four , he says , the God of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelieving that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ , who is the image of God . |
| 27 | Cole had emphasized the relationships with landsurfaces of different age and character , but to demonstrate exactly how ecological processes were manifested it was necessary to focus upon the interrelationships of all factors in the savanna ecological system and therefore the dynamic ecology was a feature of the University of McGill Rupununi Savanna Research project ( Hills , 1965 , 1974 ) and of work by Eden ( 1964 , 1974 ) . |
| 28 | When they lived together Paul had explained the merits of plastic entertaining . |
| 29 | He harrowed hell with the same spiritual vigour with which he had overturned the tables of the money-changers in the temple , and the faithful dead were set free . |
| 30 | The council 's pollution control officer , Jim Dickson , said he had heard no reports of oil pollution in that area and suggested the oil may have come from some other source . |