Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | After this paper was completed , the UK government announced its conclusions from the consultation process that had followed publication of the Green Paper on Abuse of Market Power in November 1992 . |
| 2 | No , from that figure of forty nine point nine five percent above S S A in nineteen ninety one we proposed a budge that had brought reductions year on year in that divergence of view . |
| 3 | Detectives say that had Mr Hughes been the intended target it would have been much easier for loyalists to attack him at his Carryduff home in south Belfast . |
| 4 | This was interesting general confirmation that the element of ‘ serious , content that had been an important part of the deceased Daily Herald and News Chronicle was no longer something the non-quality reader was prepared to pay for in a daily paper . |
| 5 | er s er but those occupations that worked shift and had to go round the clock had to have eight hour shifts , three shifts . |
| 6 | Daphne 's first suggestion was Alchemilla mollis , or lady 's mantle , a plant I already grow but had never thought of cutting . |
| 7 | Away to the west towards Memo , Lieutenant D. St. A. Dexter , supported by Turton , blocked the enemy 's eastward push that had overrun Dutch positions , but with the difficult hill country between them and Mape , they were unlikely to link up with the other columns . |
| 8 | For the astonishing fact is that Malcolm Allison , soccer 's oldest boss at 65 , has revitalised a Bristol Rovers side that had won only two of 16 games before he took over from the sacked Dennis Rofe a month ago . |
| 9 | Thank God , it was n't he who had to break the news to the woman that her husband and her daughter had both been killed in the car crash that had fractured her skull . |
| 10 | When he had filled that side , he turned the page over and continued to make notes , completely disregarding the pencil sketch that had been begun . |
| 11 | He found a graze that had oozed a small crust of blood into the thick hair , almost dry now . |
| 12 | And if you do die before your 65th birthday , your dependents would receive the cash benefit that had built up at that time , or Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit — whichever is the greater . |
| 13 | He had encouraged and praised her , bullied her a little when she needed bullying , and given her the love and support that had made her feel , even in the darkest moments of self-doubt , that she could rise above all the problems and emerge triumphant . |
| 14 | He had needed to wind down after the spiralling tensions of the day , and once again he felt the company warmth and support that had sustained him through the day . |
| 15 | Signe brought me coffee in a pot with a felt cover that had eyes and a nose , then she sat on the edge of my bed holding a silly conversation with the felt cover while I drank my coffee . |
| 16 | Well the money that we raised from there and also from another one was about three thousand nearly four thousand three thousand something and we presented er Tommy Cooper with the cheque on the Prince , the stage of the Prince of Wales Theatre , but that cheque was to buy a special ambulance for the children of Upshire , which is the home of the disabled and this special coach had erm places where you could wheel the children into the coach in their chairs with the clamps and those children that could be taken out of their chairs and put on seats put and had their belts put around them and that was the only way that these children were able to get out ! |
| 17 | They used to cost about two hundred pounds in those days and that was a heck of a sum in those days you know that sort of thing , how much they cost and had to be careful of them and all that . |
| 18 | The exhibitionist streak that had been confined to fancy-dress parties at Virgin 's weekends away now found full public licence ; Richard Branson embarked on a sort of alternative career in fancy dress that would see him , over the years , photographed in airline captain 's uniform , as Peter Pan , Spider Man , City Gent and , on one occasion and for reasons that were never entirely clear , in the bath , wearing only bubbles and a cunningly placed newspaper . |
| 19 | Yet so sure of themselves were they , that for 17.5 hours after the blast the power-station management insisted that the reactor remained intact and that it was only an emergency watertank that had exploded . |
| 20 | Little Ben was an aged , ugly , and apparently indestructible pocket watch that had cost my paternal grandfather five shillings when he was a Benedict 's houseman . |
| 21 | The protection suit that had been the sacrificial dummy was no longer that . |
| 22 | There was a great gash across his face , a heavy blow from a sword or axe that had smashed his nose and cheekbone , and slashed right across his eyes . |
| 23 | The part was expected to have materialised in a low-end 50MHz to 70MHz Hummingbird machine that had been talked up for the end of this quarter . |
| 24 | The part was expected to have materialised in a low-end 50MHz to 70MHz Hummingbird machine that had been talked up for the end of this quarter ( UX No 414 ) . |
| 25 | Part-way through entering the sale , Mr. S. had to go into the store-room to check a detail regarding the [ number of the ] machine that had been selected . |
| 26 | Back came all the romance of train travel that had not been seen for fifty years . |
| 27 | I had caught an eider duck that had been sheltering on a lochan and was flying back with it against the wind when I grew tired . |
| 28 | In the twelve years since Miss Watson 's coming , she had neither overslept nor had a day 's indisposition . |
| 29 | He 's not the first gentleman to turn to crime to pay off his debts , but I suspect that had we brought him before a court he would have been declared insane . ’ |
| 30 | AFTER SEVEN years of perfecting an original and incisive style of investigative journalism in the provinces , I relished the opportunity to move to the big city and expose the callous greed and avarice that had poisoned the cynical entertainment industry for so long . |