Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adj] [pron] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former Neville men wanted a new lord , a need particularly acute for those who had supported Warwick in 1470/1 and who therefore faced possible recriminations . |
| 2 | The former Neville men wanted a new lord , a need particularly acute for those who had supported Warwick in 1470/1 and who therefore faced possible recriminations . |
| 3 | THE world of the second half of the nineteenth century was very different from that which had existed before 1848 . |
| 4 | The problems which faced the Church now were not , Theodora thought , so very different from those which had faced those young priests for whom the Reverend Thomas Henry Newcome had founded St Sylvester 's in the 1860s . |
| 5 | At any rate , so far as Zuwaya are concerned , it was those men who were fifty to sixty years old in 1979 who had created in the previous three decades the marked differences in wealth which did exist . |
| 6 | However , levels of satisfaction were high among those who had received either service . |
| 7 | She thought that Clare was being contemptuous of all she had done for her . |
| 8 | The hill that was waiting for me across the next two miles of nothingness was typical of those I had climbed that day — no more than a hundred feet high , with a gradual slope . |
| 9 | Colonel Philips explained that they had thought initially that they had discovered a danger similar to that which had caused the Hob 's Lane disaster . |
| 10 | With no likelihood of progress in the dispute , it was widely believed that Yeltsin had cancelled his visit in order to avoid a failure to achieve progress on the issue similar to that which had accompanied the visit by the then Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in April 1991 . |
| 11 | The proclamation came amid a renewal of disturbances akin to those which had surrounded the holding of the referendum , this time provoked by a Croatian government order to disarm reserve police officers in Serb-populated municipalities . |
| 12 | I recently lost three stone in weight and wondered how else I could improve myself and I was lucky in that I had had a mastectomy for a cancer about seven years ago , so I went ahead and had breast reconstruction . |
| 13 | In short , progress in the first years after 1957 was sufficiently gratifying to all who had backed the formation of the EEC , and sufficient to oblige other states to take more account of it . |
| 14 | and then if you 'd been off sick at all you had to make that time up as well so it was about four years and six months I did there altogether . |
| 15 | Ms Hatton suggested that many health workers were wary of becoming involved with those who had attempted suicide because they found the topic ‘ frightening ’ . |
| 16 | In comparison four of seven with the remaining cases , chronic diarrhoea was more frequent in those who had travelled abroad ( χ 2 test , p<0.005 ) , and just significantly increased in patients from itinerant families ( p<0.05 ) . |
| 17 | Frances joined us from PMD where she worked in marketing Bullion Products for two years , prior to that she had worked in marketing at the Financial Times . |
| 18 | The season began in January in Brazil and prior to that he had had only a couple of rainy test-sessions at Silverstone . |
| 19 | By the end of the war this culture had been defeated , and the victorious Puritans and their nonconformist allies who had gained control of the reins of central government believed they now had an opportunity to impose on the whole nation the same moral reforms that prior to 1640 they had struggled to instigate piecemeal at a local level . |
| 20 | Prior to this I had used many strange concoctions for the hopeful parents to swim in , even a brew made with oak leaves . |
| 21 | Prior to this he had painted The Death of Nelson ( Colour Plate XIX ) , again on a big format and based on a reproduction of the central group in Daniel Maclise 's mural of the same subject for the House of Lords . |
| 22 | Legislators were clearly concerned for those who had entered marriages where they were being harmed and mistreated by their partners . |
| 23 | Dear God , why should she still find him so disturbing after all he had done to her ? |
| 24 | Then when we met again , you would be full of all you had done — a ride on your motor bike to Alba de Tormes or Ledesma , a strange church you had discovered , or a new book someone had sent you from the States . |
| 25 | It would have seemed strange to those who had known Nigel in his early days as a conscientious objector to find him cheering the prime minister through the Falklands War . |
| 26 | In September 1982 the Secretary of State announced that grants of up to 90 per cent of the cost of remedying structural defects would be available to those who had bought their houses under the 1980 Act . |
| 27 | This was very familiar to those who had worked with Peter before ; he said it before every production , regardless of how complex or simple it was , and regardless of the length of rehearsal allocated . |
| 28 | A privilege detested by merchants everywhere , it was particularly frustrating to those who had to round the dangerous coastline of Brittany with ships full of wine . |
| 29 | It was a strange place and it gave him strange ideas ; he was oddly aware of those who had played , and loved and quarrelled there . |
| 30 | It must have been especially significant to those who had entered the D & AD direct mail section , in which silver pencils have been notoriously few . |