Example sentences of "had [verb] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For as a girl , she herself had been taken through the world , as through a series of doors , by her young husband , each door opening on to fresh joys and colours and perspectives , and she had exclaimed in delight , followed him , learned , and even afterwards , when the final door had shut , she could retrace her steps , spend a longer and longer time in each place , as in a series of gardens , and gratefully . |
| 2 | It was a standard interview room and the only non-regulation items to break the monotony of tube-legged table and chairs were the cigarettes , lighter and an ashtray advertising Tuborg lager which Malpass had placed in front of himself . |
| 3 | He 'd remembered the Walther Steve had brandished in Evelyn 's Wandsworth house . |
| 4 | The army that was fighting there , particularly its professional component , was still bruised by the defeat it had sustained in Indochina in the early 1950s and was determined not to repeat the experience . |
| 5 | We in the borough , we dare not be rough because we had to remain in Ipswich after the strike was over . |
| 6 | Particularly during the French wars , no merchant might be willing to take them , and then they had to remain in Newgate prison . |
| 7 | He could not possibly mean here in the bay , yet her heart had jumped in confusion for a moment . |
| 8 | Among those cowed by ‘ Nandie ’ were five mutineers whom a frightened ship 's captain had clapped in irons . |
| 9 | In working on these activities the class had worked systematically and persistently ; they had collaborated in pairs and groups ; they had identified patterns and structures in the sequences ; they had made predictions and tested them ; they had explained and justified their reasoning to me and to each other ; they had worked practically to understand the sequence and how it could model a real life situation . |
| 10 | and they had to they had to sit in rows and they had to do as they were told and they were n't allowed |
| 11 | I had to sit in silence for twenty minutes with him and the weird Indian music . |
| 12 | The trainer , watching the race on a television screen in the weighing room , had gazed in silence until the field reached the top of the hill and turned towards the stands for the last time . |
| 13 | Unlikely , because Mrs McLaren had taught in school for many years — the school at which her husband , when alive , had been headmaster . |
| 14 | And Miss Watson , of course , really was her better , for she had been a headmistress before this , and had taught in town schools , so large and magnificent that naturally she was much wiser and more experienced . |
| 15 | Archbishop Fisher and Archbishop Garbett of York started to look around for scholarly clergymen and hovered over various names , ail of whom taught then or had taught in universities . |
| 16 | Everybody who was anybody had gathered in Lord Grafton 's spacious house in Grosvenor Square . |
| 17 | The hall was bigger than the Cromarty Hall in the village ; it could accommodate more local people and more of the television cameras that by now were multiplying daily , along with their crews , reporters , producers , and the army of newspaper journalists and feature writers that by this time had gathered in Orkney . |
| 18 | In the first major demonstration since the May-June strike [ see pp. 38302-03 ] at least 5,000 people had gathered in Tirana 's Dinamo Stadium on Aug. 25 , when they were addressed on behalf of the opposition coalition by Azem Hajdari , a member of the Democratic Party ( DP ) executive committee . |
| 19 | Reports indicated that more than 100,000 demonstrators had gathered in front of Georgian party and government headquarters ; many factories were on strike as well as the local television , and troops and armoured personnel carriers were on duty . |
| 20 | Oil Ministers from the member states of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) who had gathered in Vienna for their 93rd meeting on Nov. 25-27 , reached agreement on a cut in output which would involve restricting global OPEC oil production to 24,580,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 21 | Once baptised in the fiery power of the Spirit which had been in Jesus , the disciples at once interpret it as the fulfilment of Joel 's prophecy about the availability of the Spirit in the last days , and proclaim the good news to the representative crowd from ‘ every nation under heaven ’ which had gathered in Jerusalem for the feast of Pentecost ( 2:16ff ) . |
| 22 | This was the third time in six months that the federal government had intervened in state politics to redress alleged fraud . |
| 23 | By then , the Smethwick factory had trebled in size , and new offices had been built in Broad Street . |
| 24 | Deutsche Bank , which arranged a Dm100m issue , and Geneva-based Warburg Soditic , which led two Swiss franc bonds , followed an example set by Credit Suisse which on Tuesday called the four issues it had arranged in Switzerland into default . |
| 25 | The coalition had to agree in principle to the report , announcing its determination to implement the report 's assumption that mass unemployment must be prevented . |
| 26 | Tran , who was the party 's most outspoken advocate of the notion that political and economic reforms had to proceed in tandem if either was to succeed , was expelled for " grave violations of organization , principles and discipline of the party " . |
| 27 | The Kislevites were driven to wild fury by what they had witnessed in Praag , and the Chaos army began to crumble before their implacable anger . |
| 28 | He was as shocked here as he had been by the scenes he had witnessed in London 's East End . |
| 29 | The mother-daughter relationship he had witnessed in London had moved him so profoundly that he had fallen in love with them both . |
| 30 | Their press network , built up from 1917 on , had fluctuated in extent with the fortunes of the Civil War , but at its end nearly sixty papers in various national languages had been set up . |