Example sentences of "had [vb pp] the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the establishment of colonies as opposed to trading posts , came the need for production and exports over and above what had sustained the earlier economic relationships between the West and the tropics . |
| 2 | And , to rub further salt into her wounds , Marissa had treated the younger girl with a cool , obvious contempt that had quickly begun to strip away Laura 's small store of self-confidence . |
| 3 | She had lifted the larger pieces clear when she saw something buried in the grey ash . |
| 4 | It was the urban UDA with its mass membership , which , during the general strike , had dominated the greater part of Belfast , the political and industrial capital . |
| 5 | 24 Thus , by maintaining in 1927 that O'Keeffe 's art was not emotional , McBride was the first to offer a direct and unqualified challenge to the Stieglitz-generated idea that had dominated the earlier criticism . |
| 6 | The Dons had enjoyed the better of the early exchanges with Scott Booth in particularly lively form . |
| 7 | Jaruzelski took responsibility for the act , but repeated his assertion that martial law had prevented the greater evil of an invasion by the Soviet Union . |
| 8 | John Windle picked out Drew as a man he had seen the worse for drink and in a threatening attitude in Cross Street at 4.20 on 22 June . |
| 9 | ‘ It would have been a different story if the brewery had done the earlier repairs . ’ |
| 10 | The more Minch had said the quieter Kraal had become . |
| 11 | While there , he naturally spent time at the dyeworks ; and twice , he had made the longer journey to Kouklia . |
| 12 | Everything had changed and , when he gave two readings at Columbia University and the University of Texas , on both occasions he made the same disclaimer — that he had almost lost contact with the young man who had written the earlier poetry . |
| 13 | Indeed , the implication of his resignation letter was that for five years there had been conflict at the very heart of the government that had precipitated the earlier resignations of Heseltine , Lawson and , in July 1990 , Nicholas Ridley , the Trade and industry Secretary ( the last after he had expressed intemperate views about Britain 's European partners that many observers believed the Prime Minister herself shared ) . |
| 14 | Of late my father had lent the greater part of this ground to a retired gardener and his wife , who had little garden of their own . |
| 15 | ‘ But ’ , as Mrs Napier George Sturt described in her Life of Charles Stun , ‘ these paintings had been the delight of Sturt 's leisure ; he was devoted to ornithology , and had collected the rarer specimens at great trouble and risk , and at no price would he part with the folio . ’ |
| 16 | According to the extracted deposition of one pupil , Doris Harrison , Miss Outram had told the older girls about the forced feeding of suffragettes in prison . |
| 17 | At the time , as I recall , it was generally thought that Leavis had had the better of things , partly because he made his a personal attack , and dealt Snow 's reputation as a novelist , which was then high , a blow from which it has never really recovered . |
| 18 | And here , thought Dalgliesh , he had had the larger vestry to himself . |
| 19 | Though no-one was prepared to admit that Roman Catholics had got the better of the argument , some Protestants felt a certain dissatisfaction with an afterlife in which all earnest endeavour , for better or worse , was at an end . |
| 20 | For a British army encamped on ancient Carthaginian ground , it was perhaps natural to enjoy without too many qualms some at least of the diversions which Livy suggested had got the better of the Carthaginians . |
| 21 | Thinking fatigue had got the better of his tired mind , Jack Hayden did not worry unduly until the following Monday morning when a porter who had been working on the station Platform came to the mess room and saw a strange figure looking at Mr Hayden . |
| 22 | Dadda 's temper , that he had inherited along with Dadda 's darkness and Dadda 's height , had got the better of him and he had attacked her , physically attacked her . |
| 23 | But then her pride and her curiosity had got the better of her again , and she remembered why she had agreed to the meeting in the first place . |
| 24 | There was another advantage late on a lunch-time in that there were always a few city slickers who had ventured north by north-west ( of the Barbican ) to try the Hoskin 's or the Holden 's bitter and found it had got the better of them , so needed a taxi back to civilization . |
| 25 | McStay and Grant had got the better of Hamilton and McGinlay while Slater and Collins were more effective than Lennon and Wright on the flanks . |
| 26 | The High Court in Inverness heard that PC John Smith 's curiosity had got the better of him when he learned that a Murdo MacIver from his home town of Stornoway was in custody . |
| 27 | Both Lyell and Wallace opted for a theory in which a supernatural force had affected the later stages of human development . |
| 28 | By ten to two she had deposited the larger of her two suitcases , had partaken of a cheese sandwich and a cup of coffee and , seated in the hotel lounge , and with time to kill while she waited for Ven , she was again being plagued by the vexed question of that abominable interview . |
| 29 | Most , however , had reached and even overshot their maturity ; they had become the elder statesmen of their breeds : exceptional , memorable examples of the extremes nature is capable of attaining . |
| 30 | He had reached the flatter section of land at the side of the house where vegetables had once grown in neatly fenced patches . |