Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Beaton had been dumped by a road-side and picked up by police who had been alerted to the hijack and had eventually stopped MacIver in the lorry at Doune . |
| 2 | Athelstan had requested that Huddle should first draw charcoal sketches , from these giving the gifted young man scriptural advice to the effect that there was no evidence whatsoever that Herod had eventually stabbed Pilate in the back ! |
| 3 | The presence of Henry and his sons , together with their army , made a considerable impression on the Limousin , though it is also clear that in the months between June 1176 and October 1177 Richard had effectively wielded power in this region , quartering his Brabançons on monastic estates as he chose . |
| 4 | They wanted to sacrifice the wage so that they could feel they had personally taken part in the humiliation of the local landlords . |
| 5 | Churchill , a strong Zionist supporter , had fiercely condemned MacDonald in the Commons in 1938 and continued his verbal assault afterwards in the Division Lobby of the House of Commons . |
| 6 | It was Sunday and they had all found rooms in a commercial apartment house . |
| 7 | The expansion of the Virgin operation , the sharp influx of profits ( the loss of £900,000 reported at the beginning of 1981 had been turned into a profit of £1.5m by the beginning of 1982 ) , and the more aggressive attitude of performers to selling themselves had all put Virgin in a more competitive milieu and frame of mind . |
| 8 | This meant that actions to reduce emissions of sulphur dioxide within Brussels had only limited success in reducing smog levels and the city simply had to wait until the extensive smog bank drifted away or began to be dispersed . |
| 9 | Many analysts believed that Cedras and his colleagues had only taken charge in order to prevent themselves from being swept away by events , and some senior commanders had reportedly refused to join Cedras in the ruling junta . |
| 10 | The idolisation of Miss Hatherby that had so annoyed Nora in the early days of the piano lessons had gone . |
| 11 | North Shields had highly organized workers in the yards and on the railways . |
| 12 | Cnut 's absence had obviously seen unrest in the area , but unless it was connected with the return of the ætheling Eadwig ( date unknown , see above ) its nature is obscure . |
| 13 | When the constable first entered the Chequers , albeit in plain clothes , Slatter , the local man , had obviously left James in no doubt who they were . |
| 14 | He had suddenly lost interest in the proceedings . |
| 15 | I had suddenly lost interest in everything except the huge , wonderful rocking-horse , on which I was placed , reins in my hands . |
| 16 | I also had long haul flights in mind . ’ |
| 17 | Bantry Bay was the first engagement of the Anglo-French war officially declared by William on 7 May 1689 ; Holland had already begun hostilities in February , the start of that great international effort to prevent Louis XIV dominating Europe which was to be William 's main preoccupation till his death and to shape English naval and military policy for years to come . |
| 18 | And I had already heard footsteps in the hall . |
| 19 | Mr Hirst added that Hilton had been discussing the possibility of moving into India and had already evaluated properties in Delhi and Bombay with the aim of a management contract with a small amount of equity . |
| 20 | The Tate had already expressed interest in the work . |
| 21 | Lully had already essayed recitative in French in a ballet , Les aisons ( 1661 ) : and the comédies-ballets gave him plenty of opportunities to experiment further . |
| 22 | The Portuguese authorities announced on March 28 , 1990 , an amnesty for the parents of Chinese illegal immigrants who had already secured residence in Macao . |
| 23 | This scene came towards the end of an episode in which Frank had already caused havoc in the local library , succeeded in unintentionally dismantling his neighbour 's chicken house and attended an interview for a job selling farming products . |
| 24 | An Act of 1485 had already made hunting in disguise or by night a felony ; it was re-enacted several times so that Forest offenders could be prosecuted at Quarter Sessions or at Assizes . |
| 25 | He had already made speeches in favour of European co-operation and even of a Franco-German union . |
| 26 | He had already advised Donleavy in his bi-weekly reports that Hurley 's security arrangements were derisory , that all sorts of people with no clear allegiance were wandering in and out of NARCOG , ostensibly selling information but just as likely collecting it ; that agents and bona fide informants were being put at risk because of this , and that future DEA or inter-agency operations might well be fatally compromised from the start . |
| 27 | The Quins were embarrassed to discover yesterday that Troy Coker , the wandering Wallaby , had already left England in readiness to play for Queensland against Fiji in Suva this weekend . |
| 28 | The man has ninety-one previous convictions , but was released because he had already spent time in jail on remand . |
| 29 | The man has ninety-one previous convictions , but was released because he had already spent time in jail on remand . |
| 30 | It was rumoured that they had already burned farms in other villages , so their mere presence filled the Fontanellatesi with terror . |