Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] had [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young Trotsky finished his printing and began to pack the copies I had stapled into an old US Army haversack . |
| 2 | I did my best to produce an attractive synopsis , embellishing it with some of the sketches I had made on the spot . |
| 3 | I was in lane 1 , which I found strange considering the positions and times I had achieved in the semi-final . |
| 4 | I wondered how comfortable he would be and what he would make of the covers I had borrowed from the farmer 's wife . |
| 5 | Far from ‘ letting me down ’ , the methods I had adopted from the Centre may well have been helping me . |
| 6 | I thought about all the books I had read in the past and remembered one in particular which I had enjoyed immensely . |
| 7 | Twin terrors combine in the instant with nightmare logic : feathers and cobwebs , cobwebs and feathers … and now … words … words burned into the blackness … white words , black words … seen , yet not seen … silent , yet heard … words I had read in the Book and forgotten but now knew again … word for word : |
| 8 | I was not earning nearly enough for a piano , however modestly priced , but it would cost less than I could raise from one of the famille rose vases I had brought from the house in Park Terrace . |
| 9 | The New York Times of Aug. 14 reported that Iraq had transferred between US$3,000 million and $5,000 million in gold , foreign currency and goods from Kuwait and that this had significantly increased Iraq 's financial reserves which had stood at an estimated US$6,500 million before the invasion . |
| 10 | By contrast , a group representing European human rights organizations which had returned from a 12-day visit to Burundi , maintained the same day that at least 3,000 people had been killed in reprisals by the army and paramilitary groups after the rebellion . |
| 11 | His words were taken up by many who would not have dreamed of opening any of his more technical works , and he came to be in great demand as a speaker at rallies and at the numerous conferences and seminars on the death of images organized by the Universities , the Churches and the innumerable Humanist organizations which had mushroomed in the immediately preceding decades . |
| 12 | Ockleton 's mop of jet black hair , his apple-cheeked face and the spectacles which had slid to the end of his nose combined with a tattered gown and a skew-knotted tie to create an impression of immaturity entirely at odds with his voice . |
| 13 | Revocation of an objective regime would only be possible with the consent of all parties which had consented to the regime and ‘ have substantial interest in its functioning ’ . |
| 14 | The results were , however , contested by 14 of the parties which had participated in the elections . |
| 15 | On Dec. 3 Valentin Kuptsev , leader of the RCP until the ban , called for the parties which had emerged from the CPSU to prepare a revival of the party . |
| 16 | He belonged to a family of immigrant Jews which had fled to a Glasgow tenement and a community of Yiddish-speakers within the city . |
| 17 | An eighteenth century travelling commode from the Duke and Duchess of Wellington , a pair of Georgian chairs from the people of Bermuda and wrought-iron gates from the neighbouring village of Tetbury were just a sample of the cornucopia of presents which had descended on the royal couple . |
| 18 | As compulsory state education absorbed the higgledy-piggledy assortment of church , charity and board grammar schools which had emerged over the 200 or so years of industrial Britain , the essentially utilitarian character of schooling was never quite extinguished . |
| 19 | The people of the Middle Ages inherited sea-walls and drainage channels which had survived from the Roman occupation . |
| 20 | Intense competition from the Far East began to conjure up unheard-of sums for Imperial porcelains , jades , lacquers and bronzes ; serious but collectable subjects which had passed through the books so calmly before 1960 now went out of reach . |
| 21 | All the cards and calendars which had come to the house were arranged on the mantelpiece , and amongst them were little boxes of sweets and candied fruit and brightly hued crackers . |
| 22 | The pie parade , which included about fifty floats which had started from the neighbouring village of Scissett , arrived late at the pie field , having been stuck on various sections of the route , including the entrance to the field itself . |
| 23 | Unknown aliens had crafted all such force rods which had fallen into the hands of the Imperium , most notably the cache found in the ice-caverns of Karsh XIII . |
| 24 | A neutral eyewitness reported that the building holding the stores of planks , pitch and cordage was entirely destroyed , while of the 600 shells which had fallen in the town 100 had landed on the basin and harbour . |
| 25 | Of the 60 or so gill-net vessels which had worked around the peninsula in the late 1970s , only half a dozen remained by 1986 . |
| 26 | And people in arrears who had bought at the top of the market could n't sell as their outstanding loan was often more than the value of their property . |
| 27 | Rather more , including Pike , came to shake me by the hand and ask me detailed and unanswerable questions about the nature of the extraterrestrials who had landed in the Wimbledon area . |
| 28 | It was time for News on Sunday to set off on the trail of the people and organizations who had theorized about the prospects for a popular left-wing newspaper for so long . |
| 29 | It was the priest and doctor and not the guerrilla fighters who had emerged as the bigwigs in the country Moran had fought for . |
| 30 | Young enthusiasts drove across the border to join the freedom fighters who had appealed to the world to help , but the world in general looked on in anguished impotence as the rebels were extinguished . |