Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er there would have been some cases where that had happened erm and clearly the nationalists had withdrawn from most of southern China into , into south west China and therefore erm th th there 'd been er and there was quite a lot of fighting going , still going across south China so i it 's not quite the same . |
| 2 | ‘ There are always survivors , ’ she said , and told me about cancer patients given six months to live by conventional doctors , whom she had sustained over several years . |
| 3 | She had guessed by that time that , since he had n't yet stated why he 'd waited an hour to see her , he was saving what he 'd come to tell her until they were inside her flat . |
| 4 | As he spoke , he reached out for the hand that was nearest to him , uncurling her fingers from the tense fist they had formed without any difficulty as the contact had its inevitable effect on her . |
| 5 | They had referred to all the relevant authorities and had properly understood the principles and so could not be said to have erred in law . |
| 6 | They carried the body to the brake compartment and carried on their journey ; others had jumped from that bridge and there would be more . |
| 7 | This was still the post-war England of austerity and ration books — full of those coupons that young Jenkins of the Port Talbot Co-op had treated in such a cavalier manner . |
| 8 | We were greatly influenced by the work of the FMS and some of us had collaborated with that organization back in 1968 during the teachers ' massive strike . |
| 9 | It was about three weeks later when I happened to notice that the pupil of this eye had dilated to such an extent that it was now noticeable to everyone . |
| 10 | Who could fail to be stirred by the thought of such purpose , reaching back over generations to the men who had gathered on this spot two centuries before ? |
| 11 | On its own streets , too , massive crowds had gathered during those remarkable weeks to demonstrate support for their Peking compatriots . |
| 12 | Too much momentum had gathered behind several of the major reform proposals for them to be abandoned , but the final legislation reflected the government 's intense concern that the new freedom should be carefully circumscribed . |
| 13 | Knots of expatriates had gathered around each visitor , eager for news from England . |
| 14 | Foreign currency reserves had plunged to some US$2,300 million in early March , barely enough to cover three weeks ' imports . |
| 15 | Vogel had negotiated the release of over 34,000 prisoners whose freedom was bought by West Germany , had arranged for some 250,000 people to leave East Germany and had also arranged spy swaps . |
| 16 | Our rental car was called a Ford Escort , but you could have fooled me ; somebody had smoothed off all the corners . |
| 17 | When the psychiatrist Jack Dominian wrote his influential book on marital breakdown in 1968 , that figure had soared to some 30,000 divorces every year . |
| 18 | And now our small party showed the same intimacy I had witnessed in all the random groupings I had seen with a recent experience of Machu Picchu behind them . |
| 19 | Temperature — an intense degree of heat — was the route that the big machines , the hot fusion tokamaks , had been following in their attempt to induce the nuclei to meet ; Fleischmann and Pons believed that they had stumbled on another way — intense pressures provided by the natural make-up of solid palladium . |
| 20 | Yet even as one half of her mind speculated on its significance , the other half reminded her that if she had stumbled on this odd circumstance , then the police would almost certainly have done so in the course of their routine enquiries and , since Barney was still their prime suspect , found a satisfactory explanation . |
| 21 | The purpose in setting side by side the careers of Hocazade and Civizade is simply to compare in a very broad way the careers of two not unrepresentative scholars of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries respectively in order to show the degree to which the hierarchy had developed during this period ; and what one may fairly infer from the comparison is limited . |
| 22 | By the end of June 1982 serious or severe deficiencies in rainfall had developed over most of New South Wales , central and south-western Queensland and northern Victoria . |
| 23 | The technique had developed to such an extent by the New Temple Period , beginning in 1700 BC , that vases were being made out of obsidian and rock crystal : for example , the beautiful crystal rhyton from Zakro . |
| 24 | Country cotton weavers claimed in 1756 to have been long accustomed to meet weekly at a public house to discuss trade matters and that their friendly society or " box club " had developed from this and in its turn found itself exercising trade-union functions . |
| 25 | Not surprisingly , it was among the southern , pastoral peoples that social stratification had developed by that time , so that the label ‘ feudal ’ is attached , for instance , to the Buryat Mongols and the Tatars . |
| 26 | ‘ Then one day a learned educationist visited the island and met the boy and was astonished at his understanding of many things and at the knowledge which he had developed round these things , and the educationist said to himself how wonderful it would be if every child in the land had the learning which this boy had built around the simple experiences which he had had with the bees , pigeons , flowers , vegetables , forestry and visits to York and Malham . |
| 27 | By half past ten , Deirdre ( Molloy ) Kavanagh had parted with all her little triangles of tricoloured pastry , taken off her apron , drunk a few glasses of champagne , told several guests that broccoli was out of fashion , and was busily engaged in conversation with a television journalist who had just returned from making a programme for Charles in Iran . |
| 28 | Several small practitioners in the same area as the original complainant also said they had been approached by the company , but only one had parted with any money . |
| 29 | Using his Farman , which he had flown with such excellent results for the past few years , Jack instructed pupils with equally good results . |
| 30 | Potatoes had flown to all four comers of the kitchen . |