Example sentences of "in the [noun] had [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Moreover , the strong disarmament movement in the USA had gained some satisfaction from the Five-Power Treaty .
2 No one in the village had contracted any symptoms .
3 In fact , said Mr Liley , some companies in the field had tried this , but the customers had let it be known that this was not what was wanted .
4 And so it went on down till all the brothers in the family had married this lady and there was still no children , and then the er , they were posing the trick question to Jesus , well what 's gon na happen in the resurrection ?
5 Leaders noted that islanders in the region had made little contribution to the problems which now threaten their way of life .
6 Earlier , during talks with US treasury officials , the president of the German Bundesbank , Karl Otto Pöhl , was reported to have stressed that German interest rates were the lowest in the European Communities ( EC ) , and that hardly any other country in the world had achieved such a positive combination of strong growth and low inflation .
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