Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aylwin had been leader of the Christian Democratic Party in 1973 , when it had joined in calling on the military to intervene , but he now acknowledged that all political forces which had preferred confrontation to dialogue at that time , were responsible for creating the conditions in which human rights violations eventually took place . |
| 2 | The strategies behind the claims were procedural : Egypt wanted United Nations Charter , Article 27 ( 3 ) to be applied , to prevent those States that had protested from voting on the matter before the Security Council , while the United Kingdom wished to preserve the bilateral nature of the dispute and its own procedural rights . |
| 3 | as if to confirm her pedestrian turn of mind , Miss Logan at this point revealed that it had been a matter of curiosity to her since childhood how the Ark had succeeded in resting upon the top of a mountain . |
| 4 | TANU had succeeded in coping with a nationalist political movement , but could it cope with the demands of people whose national political consciousness might be further aroused by messages coming from outside the party 's framework of control ? |
| 5 | It had become obvious early on to paleontologists that the dinosaurs , living in a moist and warm environment , in a sparsely populated animal kingdom , had succeeded in evolving into the first vegetation-eaters with no competitors . |
| 6 | She pocketed the Beretta , her hands still trembling as she thought of how close she had come to firing on the turn . |
| 7 | With no football to relieve his loss , Billy took it hard and , on Tuesday 26 July 1932 , the day after the team had reported for trailing for the new season , he was found dead in one of the dressing rooms . |
| 8 | Until at last there was only one Callanish eagle left , a juvenile whom the others had sought to protect and so had prevented from joining in the fighting even though she had wanted to . |
| 9 | It was claimed that he had confessed to spying for the US Central Intelligence Agency , but the US authorities had always denied that he had any official connections . |
| 10 | There was a strength and hardness about their voices that took away the pride he had felt at disposing of the hooded crow so effectively . |
| 11 | Mr Engholm had thought of resigning after the Social Democrats ' battering at local elections in Hesse last March . |
| 12 | A first-year physics student told me that he had thought of transferring to an arts subject , maybe psychology , in the first few weeks , because : |
| 13 | He looked at me , as if I had talked of going to the North Pole . ’ |
| 14 | The Leningrad city and regional Communist Party first secretary and leading conservative , Boris Gidaspov , had been the most prominent local party leader to ignore party recommendations and had refrained from standing in the elections to the Russian Supreme Soviet , having apparently anticipated the kind of defeat inflicted at the polls on March 4 and 18 on many other Russian city and regional party secretaries . |
| 15 | The presence of a very occasional lesser white-fronted goose from Scandinavia on the reclaimed land of the Severn is well-known to have been a crucial factor in Sir Peter Scott 's choice of site for the new wildfowl refuge and research station he had dreamed of creating during the War . |
| 16 | Bill Morrison was posted here during the war and amazed everyone by contacting the hotel in 1991 to return one of their beer glasses which he had had since waiting at the bar one night during the way only to have them run out of beer . |
| 17 | Then , at an after-dinner speech in the town hall of Stockholm , Eliot said that he had experienced on learning of the award , … all the normal emotions of exaltation and vanity … with enjoyment of the flattery , and exasperation at the inconvenience of being turned overnight into a public figure " . |
| 18 | He waited until the cloud had settled before returning to the keg to peer inside . |
| 19 | that was something people had asked for working for the media here |
| 20 | In Bolivia 11,500 indigenous Indians from the Chimanes forest marched in August 1990 to the capital , La Paz , in protest at a 1987 debt-for-nature swap [ see pp. 35763 ; 36249 ] , which they said had led to plundering of the area by logging companies . |
| 21 | Amelia had left off quoting from the wit and wisdom of her favourite mass murderers , done a few lines of cocaine , and started to whizz around the room . |
| 22 | Since Wendy had taken to hovering over the bed , Rhoda had reclaimed her as a daughter and now spoke freely of the past . |
| 23 | They , too , had taken to helping in the hospital and Miriam could read on their pale , shocked faces some of the terrible sights they had seen ; after a little while she sent them away to bed . |
| 24 | But Dexter knew Blanche had benefited from a growing friendship with a woman she had met on a management course at the police college at Bramshill — a former commander in the Met who had taken to lecturing after a heart attack . |
| 25 | Sien had taken to staring into the abyss with the kind of inherent fatality he dreaded in himself . |
| 26 | ( I had taken to climbing over the railings of the barracks each night , as the watchmen on the gate had been forbidden to let me in as I was known to be sleeping there . |
| 27 | When he was back at Thorsbury , he had taken to sleeping in the dressing room now that her time was almost upon her . |
| 28 | Parker , in a seminal article in the Journal of Social Policy ( 1976 ; see also Judge , 1980 ) , summarised the reasons legislators had invoked for charging in the social services . |
| 29 | There was even a story , not necessarily apocryphal , that when a message arrived to tell one of the teachers that his father had died , Clive had insisted on waiting until the lunch break before passing it on . |
| 30 | He told us unsettling stories of Chinese merchants who had insisted on travelling aboard the prahus to keep an eye on their cargo , and had somehow been lost overboard while their merchandise appeared for sale in harbours far from their intended destination . |