Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That sudden movement , slight as it was , jerked away the stone which Chignell had placed behind one of the wheels . |
| 2 | At repeat endoscopy ulcers had healed in 10 of the 11 patients . |
| 3 | The wire had cut so deeply , it had ripped off one of its legs and badly damaged another . |
| 4 | Grenada had withdrawn in 1981 from membership of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court ( ECSC ) , which automatically granted such a right of appeal , and the government was thought to have deliberately delayed re-entry to ECSC membership , originally scheduled for Aug. 1 , to obstruct this process . |
| 5 | On July 25 the federal government approved the Slovak government 's decision to go ahead with the Gabcikovo hydroelectric project , originally part of a joint Hungarian-Czechoslovakian scheme from which Hungary had withdrawn in 1989 [ see p. 37048 ] and to put the power station into operation from October as " a temporary measure " . |
| 6 | South Africa ( a founder FAO member which had withdrawn in 1964 ) was expected to apply for readmission , but withdrew after the Organization for African Unity ( OAU ) had indicated that such a move was " premature " . |
| 7 | Other campaign issues were the territory 's economic problems and the proposal to seek readmission to the European Communities ( from which Greenland had withdrawn in 1985 — see pp. 33001-02 ; 33592 ) . |
| 8 | A sample by OPCS of over 1000 couples divorced in 1979 showed that about one-third of both divorced husbands and divorced wives had remarried within two and a half years ( Central Statistical Office , 1988 ) . |
| 9 | A longitudinal sample of 1084 couples who divorced in 1979 found that one-third of both husbands ( 34 per cent ) and wives ( 33 per cent ) had remarried within two and a half years , and that those with children were just as likely to remarry as those with no children ( Haskey , 1987 ; Bhrolcain , 1988 ) . |
| 10 | Of women who separated between 1970 and 1974 before the age of 35 , nearly one-quarter had remarried within three years , while just over half had remarried within six years . |
| 11 | Among those divorcing between 1977 and 1980 , 52% of women and 67% of men had remarried within 6 years of divorce . |
| 12 | The 1988 General Household Survey found that 29% of women and 36% of men divorced during the period 1981–84 had remarried within 2 years of divorce . |
| 13 | Of women who separated between 1970 and 1974 before the age of 35 , nearly one-quarter had remarried within three years , while just over half had remarried within six years . |
| 14 | President Joaquín Balaguer Ricardo , 84 , declared on Feb. 27 that the Social Christian Reformist Party ( PRSC ) , which he had formed in 1964 , should elect a new leader to allow him time for other commitments . |
| 15 | Juan Bosch Gaviño , 82 , on March 15 told the Dominican Liberation Party ( PLD ) , which he had formed in 1973 after breaking from the Dominican Revolutionary Party ( PRD ) , that he had decided not only to resign as party leader but also to withdraw his party membership , because of the bitter fighting between the right and left wings of the party . |
| 16 | Then the Metropolitan Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Limited — which the sons of Joseph Wright had formed in 1862 — purchased the unexpired leasehold interest and the Railway Company transferred its activities to Wolverton . |
| 17 | In 1920 he revived the Headington Quarry side that he had formed in 1910 , some of whom had been killed or wounded in World War I , including his own son William , whose leg had been shattered . |
| 18 | In his later years Pritchard lived in a house called Eyton Turret in Eyton-on-Severn , Shropshire , which he had formed from one of a pair of Jacobean garden buildings in the former grounds of a demolished mansion . |
| 19 | A year later it had jumped to 149,000 and looks set to rise again this year . |
| 20 | He was probably far gone enough not to realise yet that he had jumped from one box into a smaller one . |
| 21 | THE Italian computer-maker , Olivetti , yesterday in Ivrea revealed that its losses for 1992 had jumped by 40 per cent and that it would ask shareholders to invest a further 900 billion lire ( £392 million ) through a capital increase . |
| 22 | Later in that year he had taught for seven weeks in the school ( a replacement master could not start immediately ) and had been paid £7 . |
| 23 | As planning progressed the four groups into which the staff were easily divided ( because they had taught on four different sites ) came together in their views . |
| 24 | His uncle , sister , and brother can all be described as nationalists and although Ho seems to have been attracted at one point to the China of the 1911 Revolution , he chose instead to make his way to France where , having led an intellectually enriched but materially impoverished existence in Paris , he achieved some fame , or notoriety , among his fellow expatriates by attempting to present a list of Vietnamese grievances to Woodrow Wilson and the European statesmen who had gathered in 1919 at Versailles . |
| 25 | A crowd had gathered around one of the piers , where Marlon Brando and Lee J. Cobb were tearing chunks out of each other with docker 's hooks . |
| 26 | The new Standing Orders adopted in 1882 , after Speaker Brand had intervened in 1881 to stop a forty-one hours sitting , allowed the closure of debate by a simple majority . |
| 27 | By 1957 this figure had doubled to 4 million and by 1961 had trebled to 6 million . |
| 28 | In the area of closest scrutiny only 14 per cent of males ( 45/311 ) and 19 per cent of females ( 75/390 ) aged over ten at the time of the 1861 census were living in the same house as the one they had inhabited in 1851 ; but many of them had moved only a short distance . |
| 29 | Their relationship is still unresolved , as wise heads had foreseen in 1960 : but their marriage has gained a lease of life . |
| 30 | The UEFA control and disciplinary committee said Dinamo had arranged for 5,000 dollars to be paid to the referee , linesmen and fourth official before the home game on August 18 . |