Example sentences of "had served in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both men had served in the Prince of Wales 's Own Volunteers where d'Alembord had succeeded Sharpe to the command of the first battalion 's light company . |
| 2 | A career diplomat , he had served in the Washington embassy in 1970-83 and as head of the Foreign Ministry 's United States department in 1983-86 , and had participated in nearly all Soviet-US summit and foreign ministerial meetings since 1983 . |
| 3 | The survey is the result of ex-servicemen , who had served in the South Pacific tests , and their relatives contacting the BBC television programme Nationwide . |
| 4 | The latter , my grandfather , had served in the Crimea , in the Indian Mutiny , and in Abyssinia as Deputy Adjutant-General during the Magdala campaign ; he then commanded the troops in South Africa during the Kaffir and Zulu wars . |
| 5 | Virtually all the faces around Attlee 's Cabinet table had served in the wartime Coalition ( Aneurin Bevan was the most important exception ) . |
| 6 | Before the emancipation of the serfs the government had been reluctant to return peasants to the countryside after they had served in the army , for fear that they would use their training to promote discontent . |
| 7 | The Parliamentary majority in favour of including women was still small and as Martin Pugh has commented , ‘ when one remembers that the 1918 Act actually enfranchised boys of nineteen if they had served in the forces , the limit on women [ to those of thirty years of age or over ] was almost an insult ’ . |
| 8 | On the other hand the number of university graduates greatly increased : many of them had served in the forces , usually as officers , and several had been temporary civil servants . |
| 9 | During the war he had served in the United Kingdom , India , and Ceylon , and retired from the army as a major in the Royal Artillery . |
| 10 | The leadership of the army was heavily influenced for a generation to come by those who had served in the ranks of the Imperial Japanese army ; five of the first seven chiefs of staff and three of the ministers of defence between 1948 and 1961 were officers trained at the Imperial Defence College in Tokyo . |
| 11 | I had initially become interested in things military through my father , who had served in the Cavalry in World War Two . |
| 12 | He had served in the Georgia legislature and been elected governor of the state in 1970 . |
| 13 | The dangers inherent in the situation had been brought home to senior figures in the Reagan camp who had served in the Nixon administration . |
| 14 | After the 1987 election , the parliamentary party had only eleven MPs who had served in the Guards , and a further eight who had been cavalry officers . |
| 15 | Five had served in the Guards , two in the Cavalry . |
| 16 | Chancellor of Wisconsin University , Shalala , 51 , had served in the Carter administration , when she was assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development . |
| 17 | By 1945 , 63038 of the Gold Coast population were in the armed forces and 30 500 had served in the Burma campaign where two Divisions ( the 81st and 82nd ) came from West Africa . |
| 18 | The Chief Minister , Luis Proto Barbosa , had served in the post since he replaced interim Chief Minister Churchill Alamao on April 14 . |
| 19 | Truly , a former astronaut , who had served in the post for two years [ for his appointment see p. 37437 ] , had been criticized by the Bush administration for his support for the shuttle programme , which was deemed insufficiently cost-effective when compared with rival launching systems . |
| 20 | It was not as if he was protected by politics : he had served in the regiment of Colonel Robert Phaire , a regicide . |
| 21 | A number of undergraduates were men in their mid-twenties who had served in the war and whose university education had therefore been deferred . |
| 22 | I found myself liking Henniker — he was a few years older than I am , and had served in the war as an AA gunner . |
| 23 | Ben too was an active man in his sixties and had served in the police force for years , rising to the rank of sergeant . |
| 24 | One of the first women to be awarded a master 's degree in business administration from Harvard University , Franklin had served in the White House under President Richard Nixon . |
| 25 | Sharir had served in the Cabinet from 1981 to 1988 , and according to Israeli political commentators he nursed a grudge against Shamir for not including him in his last Cabinet . |