Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had hated the one double date Antonia had talked her into , hated the squirming disaster of the back seat of the car , the searching hands , the prescribed wet goodnight kiss . |
| 2 | It struck Manville with no irony that Hayman had dismissed the two largest nations on the face of the earth to focus his attentions on just one man and an airplane . |
| 3 | The official Antara news agency reported on Dec. 28 that President Suharto had dismissed the two main East Timor military commanders " as a follow-up of the Dili incident " . |
| 4 | I must explain here that , as neither Nigel nor I had religion , I had arranged the two speakers and then planned to say a few words myself , to thank everyone , in and out of sight . |
| 5 | Even a change of name — from the Windscale that had witnessed the 1957 fire to the brave new world of Sellafield — has failed to expunge public hostility . |
| 6 | to back him through thick and thin , but not before I had consulted the eight or nine senior legal Members ( some of them more distinguished at the Bar than myself ) and got their promises of support . |
| 7 | The closure was ordered last night after an engineer discovered one of two vertical pins holding up one of the bridge supports had developed a six inch crack . |
| 8 | When I had completed a two hour programme my friends came to my home and we saw it together . |
| 9 | He pointed out that the American Physical Society had invited him to give the talk , that he had completed a three — year research programme , having done all the necessary cross checks and controls , and had definitive results to present . |
| 10 | And the singing of birds I had heard a thousand times , thrushes , blackbirds in our London garden , I heard as if I had never heard them before . |
| 11 | Before I had heard a dozen words , I was trembling with fear . |
| 12 | Abbotsfield and Carinish Court : Peter had heard the two names for the first time on the same evening in July 1964 . |
| 13 | In October 1990 , Hamadi Jebali , who is a member of the executive council of Hizb al-Nahda , had received a six month 's suspended sentence and a fine of 1500 dinars for publishing an article entitled ‘ The people of the State or the State of the people ? ’ in Al-Fajr in June 1990 . |
| 14 | Somewhere amongst the ochrous jumble of mountains to the south Moses had received the Ten Commandments . |
| 15 | Commentators noted that the collapse of communist power in the Soviet Union , following the August coup attempt there [ see pp. 38368-73 ] , had hastened the two countries ' moves towards normalization . |
| 16 | Belgium , Luxembourg and the Netherlands announced in May that they had joined the 1987 Missile Technology Control Regime ( MTCR ) which committed industrialized countries to restricting missile proliferation in the developing world . |
| 17 | By Nov. 19 , 59 countries had ratified the 1984 UN Convention against Torture [ see pp. 33619-20 ] , the most recent signatories including Germany , Paraguay , Somalia and Guatemala . |
| 18 | Peter Thomson had won the 1954 and 1956 British Opens with Cecil Timms . |
| 19 | Allan Wells had won the 1981 World Cup 100 metres here , fully vindicating his Olympic win of the previous year . |
| 20 | The Seoul 100 metres silver medallist , who had won the 200 metres unpressed in 21.30sec on Saturday , had more formidable opposition in the 60 metres from Michael Rosswess . |
| 21 | More recently , Mike McFarlane had won the 60 metres the previous year in Athens . |
| 22 | The NDP , which had won the 1984 general election , was returned to power in May 1989 , winning all of the 15 elected seats . |
| 23 | If Wooderson was any different from his fellows it was that he tried harder ; he had the old equivalent of tunnel vision , enhanced by a coach , Albert Hill , who had won the 800 and 1500 metres at a single Olympics . |
| 24 | England had won the '88 Championship duel by a considerable margin at Twickenham but Aherne , now living in Dublin and throwing in his hand with Leinster , got his chance . |
| 25 | Tony Jacklin had won the 1960 Open and the 1970 US Open , and his huge British following was going to make sure that he did what they 'd hoped he 'd do in 1970 at St Andrews , and win the 1971 Open at Birkdale . |
| 26 | The organisers of the conference had amassed the hundreds of rights suggested under 17 different principles , hoping eventually to amalgamate them into a single-page charter and a declaration similar to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . |
| 27 | It was further reported on April 12 that the police inquiry into allegations of malpractice against those officers who had interviewed the Four was being obstructed by the absence of an official transcript of the trial . |
| 28 | He had n't loved Vanessa , but he had enjoyed the fourteen months they 'd spent together here . |
| 29 | Professor Pacey had epitomised the forties as one of ‘ vacillation and disillusionment , ’ but the tide had indeed commenced to turn , a new era was opening up . |
| 30 | Ten years later , Iran had occupied the three Gulf islands belonging to Sharjah and Ras al-Khaimah , having maintained for many years a claim to Bahrain ( although this was dropped in 1970 ) . |