Example sentences of "[noun] had [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unknown even to the operators , some of the rods of uranium fuel which were supposed to fall from the back of the reactor into a storage pond had instead tumbled into the channel which led up to the tall chimney . |
| 2 | The Soviet side had initially responded with a counterproposal involving ceilings for both sides of either 225,000 or 195,000 troops for Europe as a whole ( thereby calling on the United States either to accept an imbalance of 30,000 troops in Central Europe or to withdraw some or all its forces from the other countries ) , but accepted the original proposal after the US side had rejected this alternative formula . |
| 3 | The Hussars drew their sabres to drive the unarmed men back into the river , but French artillery had already closed on the southern bank and , as soon as the Hussars went into the trot , the first roundshot slammed across the water . |
| 4 | Bettws Community Council and local MP Alex Carlile had both protested against the plan . |
| 5 | The administration had instead settled for a policy of " holding the line " , which basically meant the continuation of containment . |
| 6 | Adeane had strongly advised against the controversial speeches of the past year , especially the one to the architectural profession . |
| 7 | The plaintiff rode his horse violently and collided with a pole which the defendant had negligently left in the road . |
| 8 | Bernice had obviously fallen from the ledge above her . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's sensitive , ’ she shouted , after Geoffrey had recounted an incident in which Meredith had supposedly scuttled into the band room to avoid interviewing some out-of-work actor who had an appointment with him . |
| 10 | Hu had served on the politburo standing committee and secretariat ; Rui and Yan had both served on the secretariat . |
| 11 | By the summer of 1419 all Normandy was his : the major walled towns of the duchy , Caen , Falaise , Cherbourg , and Rouen had all fallen to the English besiegers . |
| 12 | Dimas had reportedly clashed with the Prime Minister 's wife , Marika Mitsotakis , who had publicly reprimanded him for his behaviour towards Greek industrialists accompanying the official party . |
| 13 | Gorbachev had apparently asked for the military to support him as Commander-in-Chief . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're an offensive shit , Bellybutton , ’ I said in a very friendly voice , but he had already turned his attention away from me because a car had suddenly appeared in the yard . |
| 15 | If David had ever learned of the things Phipps had said to her , he would probably … |
| 16 | It also objected to the legitimacy which UNTAC had allegedly bestowed upon the Phnom Pehn government . |
| 17 | During the early part of 1990 , the Kuwaiti opposition had openly campaigned for the restoration of the National Assembly . |
| 18 | Seb started , as though his mind had suddenly returned from a very long distance . |
| 19 | In point of fact , in terms of Catholic tradition , the challenges here might be less awkward than those of phase 2 ( and to some extent John Paul II was able to recognize this ) , but the crucial ecclesiastical issue once more ( as in phase 1 ) had become the acceptability of diversity , and the curial mind had never escaped from the conviction that unity requires uniformity . |
| 20 | The devaluation of the pound and the Swedish krone had also contributed to the fall . |
| 21 | In 1804 Currie had also written on the relationships between health and environment in Liverpool . |
| 22 | I explained , however , that because her arousal had clearly remained at a high pitch during uninterrupted lovemaking , she had indeed experienced a multiple orgasm . |
| 23 | Ms Nadia Comaneci was still performing on the long bar for Romania , but her gymnastic trainers had already defected to the US . |
| 24 | His present place was shaky — a violent gale had just blown in the window panes and the frame was flapping loose . |
| 25 | Kathleen had always rushed for the post , even in the days when their father had laughed at her eagerness and stood above her as she scooped up the white and brown envelopes . |
| 26 | Guinness drinkers in Indonesia had long believed in the recuperative powers of Foreign Extra Stout and this has not changed today . |
| 27 | Four parties had previously collaborated with the SED within the National Front : ( i ) the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) which merged with the West German CDU on Oct. 1 [ see p. 37761 ] ; ( ii ) the Democratic Farmers ' Party of Germany ( DBD ) , whose chair , Günther Maleuda , resigned on June 25 and was temporarily replaced by Ulrich Junghanns pending a merger with the CDU ; ( iii ) the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany ( LDPD ) , which renamed itself the Liberal Democratic Party and joined the new League of Free Democrats in February 1990 and merged with the West German FDP in August [ see p. 37661 ] ; and ( iv ) the National Democratic Party of Germany ( NDPD ) which joined the League of Free Democrats in March [ see pp. 37260 ; 37302 ] . |
| 28 | The rumours were further fuelled by a general statement Conran had previously made about the responsibilities of a group chairman when talking to a journalist . |
| 29 | True , she was getting a belly on her now , her neck had started to sag , but her attractions had always gone beyond the merely physical . |
| 30 | The United States had already agreed under the Mutual Defence Aid Programme to provide 70 B-29 bombers ( renamed Washingtons in RAF service ) as a stopgap , and these had started to arrive in March 1950 as part of the NATO build-up in Western Europe before the Korean War began . |