Example sentences of "had [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Before she could protest , he had filled both glasses . |
| 32 | On 4 June , the same crowds which had filled Happy Valley with rallies of pop music and bright colours gathered , now in mourning clothes of black and white . |
| 33 | But he seemed anxious to show me his own poetry , with which he had filled several notebooks . |
| 34 | Long years of poverty had filled those words with a special resonance ; to use them now brought out again the risk-all abandon of those times , before responsibility had taught her caution . |
| 35 | The terms of the Soviet plan , now made public , were that ( i ) Iraq would make a full and unconditional withdrawal from Kuwait ; ( ii ) the withdrawal would start on the second day after hostilities ceased ; ( iii ) Iraqi forces would depart according to a fixed timetable ; ( iv ) after two-thirds of Iraqi forces had withdrawn economic sanctions against Iraq would be lifted ; ( v ) after all Iraqi forces had left all UN Security Council resolutions against Iraq would lapse ; ( vi ) all prisoners of war would be released when the ceasefire became effective ; ( vii ) the troop withdrawal would be monitored by forces from countries not involved in the conflict , under direction of the UN Security Council ; and ( viii ) work on details and specifics would continue and would be presented on Feb. 22 to Security Council members . |
| 36 | The passenger committee addressed its appeals to political and religious leaders throughout Europe ; though its messages now had to be shorter , since the shipping line had withdrawn free cabling facilities . |
| 37 | The measure was supported by all major parties except the Akali Dal ( Mann ) , which had withdrawn parliamentary support from the National Front coalition government in protest at the proposal . |
| 38 | In The Emperor 's Clothes ( 1953 ) Kathleen Nott called the Christian revivalism of Eliot , Lewis and others no better than a revived superstition ; and in a scathing attack on contemporary dogmatics and the anti-progressive views of literary Modernism she remarked , in tones of ultimate scorn , that Lewis 's interest in the Devil had plumbed unusual depths . |
| 39 | The dogs , who had sustained monotonous barking at Leon Kennedy since he entered , now submitted to aloof ecstasy as he kneeled to massage their ears . |
| 40 | One glance told Rachel the pilot had sustained serious chest injuries . |
| 41 | This chapter concludes by examining the ways in which the notions of , maturity and masculinity which had Sustained professional links between English and Englishness were challenged from a range of pluralist , marxist , feminist , and other cultural perspectives during the 1970s , which , in the context of a counter assault from the new right , culminated in the symbolic " Cambridge Crisis " of 1981 . |
| 42 | Petrochemicals and Plastics Division , as it was then , had sustained huge losses in 1980-81 . |
| 43 | Reports on March 26 , quoting Kurdish sources , said that Kurdish pesh merga guerrillas had been in control of the oil centre of Kirkuk for seven days during which they had sustained intensive shelling and air attacks by Iraqi government forces . |
| 44 | The basement of the house had sustained heavy damage and part of the ceiling on the top floor had collapsed . |
| 45 | The consultant was visibly shaking as he described how the 12-year-old victim had sustained severe head and facial injuries . |
| 46 | Where previous designs had riveted aluminium-alloy plates for the structure and gas turbine engines , the AP1-88 employs marine construction methods and diesel power . |
| 47 | She stared , fascinated by the carpets on the floor and the brightly painted candles , and wondered why the Catholics lit candles too if both sides had hated each other as much as they had in her school history books . |
| 48 | Although his two sons had hated each other , they would not have dared move openly against one another while their powerful father was still alive . |
| 49 | The change involved the production of a protective ‘ skin ’ to ensure that water loss to the atmosphere was not excessive , and the stems had to acquire sufficient rigidity to stand up without the support of surrounding water , but also the cellular structure had to allow the passage of nutrients to the growing shoots ( ultimately , a vascular system ) . |
| 50 | The Scouts had hellfired crowded transport sledges that slid at speed down glossy oiled vitrodur channels , diving from transit stations , canting along branch-lines , corkscrewing , swooping up to come to rest at other destinations … |
| 51 | On the other hand , he points out that Devlin had in fact answered the question in the affirmative , and had justified this response by suggesting that , just as society can take steps to preserve itself against acts of treason , then so it may protect itself from attacks on established morality , for this too can threaten society 's existence . |
| 52 | It was Metzinger who , in his Note sur la Peinture of 1910 , was the first to write of the fact that Picasso and Braque had dismissed traditional perspective and felt free to move around their subjects , studying them from various points of view . |
| 53 | It was revealed on July 25 that Fuji Bank , the country 's fourth-largest commercial bank , had dismissed four employees at the centre of an illegal loans scheme using forged deposit certificates worth 260,000 million yen ( about $2,000 million ) . |
| 54 | The Far Eastern Economic Review reported on Sept. 28 that Myanma sources and diplomatic observers had dismissed these allegations as an attempt to discredit the NLD and as an attempt to bolster unity in the Army which had fought the insurgent CPB for many years . |
| 55 | In February 1991 Civic Forum had formed two parties , Civic Democratic Party and Civic Movement [ see p. 38017-18 ] . |
| 56 | But they did not know that in the beginning , as Mrs Irving expatiated in her cracked and gracious voice on the high brick wall which dated from the Civil War , and earlier still , which had formed one boundary of General Fairfax 's lands when Putney was a separate village , when Cromwell 's Trained Bands assembled there , when the Putney Debates on liberty of conscience were held in St Mary 's Church on the bridge . |
| 57 | An appeal to the principles of non-alignment had formed one strand in the Soviet strategy of base denial . |
| 58 | Abolition of the rule preventing practice under limited liability has led to very considerable growth in this form of organisation and , by 1988 , the proportion of practices which had formed limited liability companies had grown to 7.5 per cent of the total . |
| 59 | These reflected the extraordinary complexity of the political situation which had developed in Yugoslavia during the years of the German occupation , when different ethnic , religious and political groups had formed shifting alliances , according to whether their main enemy at any time had seemed to be the occupying Germans or Tito 's partisans working to establish a Socialist state in post-war Yugoslavia . |
| 60 | Recently he had formed another attachment , one which he valued more . |