Example sentences of "had [vb pp] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far back as 1904 Winston Churchill had foreseen the same change when he predicted the tariff reformers ' coming takeover of the party . |
| 2 | Not until 1859 , when he was forty-eight years old , did he publish it and even then he was driven to do so only because another younger naturalist , Alfred Wallace , working in Southeast Asia , had formulated the same idea . |
| 3 | Recalling the defeat of the 1991 coup , Yeltsin said that he had outwitted the former KGB chief , Vladimir Kryuchkov , whom he identified as the main organizer of the attempt . |
| 4 | The two men exchanged experiences and found that they had heard the same noises of heavy breathing and the kick on the door . |
| 5 | None of the pupils seemed to guess that they had heard the same speaker more than once . |
| 6 | Rising to his feet on the floor of the penthouse Nicholas staggered for a moment , while his wrists were being wrenched back and lashed ; and knew from the way John was standing that he had received the same treatment . |
| 7 | Both rooms had received the same brutal searching treatment . |
| 8 | The irony of the position described by my hon. Friend the Member for Makerfield ( Mr. McCartney ) is that , if Wigan had received the same amount in grant as was received by Wandsworth and Westminster in the year in which it was capped , it would not have had to levy a tax at all ; indeed , it might have been able to give money back from the previous year 's levy . |
| 9 | At Tiverton in 1809 they had claimed they had received the same rate for 300 years ! |
| 10 | Coun George Robinson claimed that if the council had received the same level of Government support grant that it had in the 1970s , the poll tax would have been about £100 . |
| 11 | ‘ Did anyone know that Mowbray had received the same warning as Sir Ralph ? ’ |
| 12 | I have got to know him : he would not go round there unless she had given the all clear . ’ |
| 13 | The Adjutant was able to sound thankful where Charles had given the least impression of unwillingness . |
| 14 | Dr. Hicks of Baldock had given the same opinion ‘ in words of less meaning ’ , and Gibbon of Bedford had not felt qualified to give any opinion at all . |
| 15 | On 3 May he gave an address on Milton at the Frick Museum in New York , in which he recanted his previously low opinion of the poet , and on this occasion he seemed to one observer " incredibly refined , visibly aged " — he had given the same address two months before to the British Academy , and thus had saved himself additional effort . |
| 16 | So , on 12 September 1971 , at National General Pictures ' international conference for foreign film distributors in Hollywood , Dustin signed to become a partner , following Steve McQueen , who had joined the same year . |
| 17 | Tuppe had travelled the latter part of the journey on the tall boy 's shoulders . |
| 18 | It is not clear what view of the section the court would take in a case in which there was a clash between shareholder and employee interests , and there was evidence that the board had favoured the latter . |
| 19 | Held , dismissing the action , that a release by accord and satisfaction of one covenantor operated as a release of all other covenantors undertaking the same obligation ; that the landlord 's acceptance of the immediate surrender of the lease and the goods listed in satisfaction for releasing M. from all his liabilities under the lease was clearly a release by accord and satisfaction ; that there were no words of reservation or circumstances rebutting that construction ; and that the landlord had therefore released not merely M. but also the defendant company , as an intermediate assignee who had undertaken the same obligation ( post , pp. 483B–H , 484C ) . |
| 20 | Six weeks before the October general election , figures in mid-September showed that inflation had dropped sharply in August , rising only 0.2 per cent , while unemployment had fallen the same month to 16.6 per cent of the active workforce , the lowest level since 1982 . |
| 21 | Admittedly , Peak District was following in the wake of Star Player , who had won the same Beverley event last season , but it is most unlikely that this fully-exposed six-year-old — hard fit from two wins in all-weather hurdles — will ever aspire to the achievements of Star Player , who went on to win three other races , including the Chester Cup . |
| 22 | If Neil Kinnock had won the same level of support from manual workers and their families as Harold Wilson achieved in the 1960s , he would be in Downing Street today . |
| 23 | We 're not sure if this photo of him was taken during his sales training , or because he had won the half year professional sails guild award last year . |
| 24 | If they had polled the same plurality as they commanded in 1987 , there would have been no overall party majority . |
| 25 | The social groups C2DE still make up 57 per cent of the electorate ; if Labour had enjoyed the same dominance among these voters as do the Tories in social groups ABC1 , they would have swept to power with a big majority . |
| 26 | The Criminal Law Revision Committee had recommended the same in its Report , Offences Against the Person , Cmnd 7844 , 1980 . |
| 27 | I was interested to read in a Northern Ireland newspaper today that the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam had considered the same proposal . |
| 28 | Seeking to print the problem of a correspondent whose small son had , " taken a little girl behind the settee and pulled her knickers down " , she found her sub-editor had deleted the latter part of the quoted sentence and substituted , " taken off part of her underclothes " . |
| 29 | Even after the market had absorbed the many drawings and watercolours in the McCarty-Cooper sale ( at good prices ) , a Picasso drawing of 1904–5 from Sotheby 's Sidney E. Cohn estate ‘ Etude pour l'acteur et deux profils de Fernando ’ brought $825,000 ( £452,000 ) two and a half times estimates . |
| 30 | ‘ There was a feeling of disappointment that we were held to a draw in Bruges and the atmosphere in the dressing room at the Olympiastadion only lifted after we heard that Marseille had suffered the same result against CSKA , ’ said McCall . |