Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [adv] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this year 's fair , Wagner 's fans had wisely absented themselves . |
| 2 | Nor did Hincmar say more about a king 's daughters : in Charlemagne 's later years , the political influence of his womenfolk ( mistresses as well as daughters ) at court had been notorious , but his successors had either used their daughters in marriage-alliances , or , more often , placed them in convents , either way removing them from the political centre . |
| 3 | The two wingers were , in the manager 's words , ‘ brilliant against Poland at Wembley ’ , but tactical considerations had already precluded their selection in tandem next week . |
| 4 | She told them everything , right up to the fact that two of the notorious Felton brothers had actually brought her home to this very street , only to find there was no home to go to . |
| 5 | Her eyes had rarely left his face , although he was now tramping about the room , gesticulating as he talked . |
| 6 | Alexander Vass 's eyes had never left her face . |
| 7 | Jesuit missionaries had also taken it to Rome , from where an Apothecary named Robert Talbot had obtained medicine to cure Charles II of ague . |
| 8 | The opposition parties had anyway announced their intention to fight only 40 seats , thus guaranteeing the government an absolute majority even before voting took place . |
| 9 | In May 1711 , Jonathan Swift wrote that the two parties had so shifted their principles since Charles II 's time , " that those two fantastick Names of Whig and Tory , have at present very little Relation to those Opinions , which were at first thought to distinguish them " . |
| 10 | Neither of the kids had even noticed her standing there . |
| 11 | However , reports said that NPFL fighters had only intensified their fire , and by the following day full-scale fighting was going on , with Nigerian jets , artillery and warships attacking rebel positions . |
| 12 | But the words had hardly passed his lips when the shot struck him . |
| 13 | The shock of his words had so drained what little strength she had that for a moment she was powerless to take even one step . |
| 14 | Siraj-ud-Daula could not have been defeated — if that is the word for the collapse of his army — and destroyed if he had not alienated his subjects by being unreliable and vacillating , without any signs of charm or kindness to make up for it , but the decisive fact was that the British had fought him , while his subjects had only deserted him and waited to see who would win . |
| 15 | The vendor of these two pictures had previously consigned them to Thomas Gibson who had been offering them at considerably higher prices . |
| 16 | Draft evasion had already been going largely unpunished by Lithuanian authorities for more than a year , and had been steadily increasing : on Feb. 16 more than 5,000 conscripts attending independence day rallies had publicly returned their call-up cards . |
| 17 | Of the three component political groups which had founded the Labour Representation Committee thirty years before , the Marxists had mostly isolated themselves within the Communist Party , the ILP was ready to depart and the Fabian Society was moribund . |
| 18 | He found himself struggling on his back with the stifling presence of the flag wrapped round him like a shroud ; the strange thing was that as he weakly continued to struggle ( for the staff lay across his legs , pinning him down , and the lanyards had somehow trussed his elbows to his sides ) , he recognized the sensation immediately : this was a nightmare he had had on the night they had taken refuge in the Residency , and repeatedly since then throughout the siege ; when the Collector , cursing , had at last fought his way out of the flag , it was such a relief to escape from his nightmare that he felt he did not mind so much about the sepoys . |
| 19 | Nor , when their parents had already helped them more than enough with furniture and carpets and the like when they had first moved in , did she think she could take any more from them . |
| 20 | Although her parents had always treated her normally , Fiona had still been a victim of society 's tendency to view Down 's children as low achievers . |
| 21 | He held him firmly , as his parents had always told him to do , and after a battle of wills , staring at him all the time , the leprechaun began to weaken . |
| 22 | But their parents had obviously thought it was a suitable area . |
| 23 | Political , economic , and scientific functions had gradually freed themselves from religious control . |
| 24 | Although the Communists had greatly modified their policy they failed to persuade the leadership of the Labour Party to make any concessions on the United Front or affiliation proposals . |
| 25 | Such a concern is explained by the fact that these countries had repeatedly demonstrated their willingness to go to enormous lengths ( in effect taxing imports of capital , encouraging exports of capital and , even in the case of Japan , organizing plans for importing huge stockpiles of raw materials ) in order to prevent an upward movement of their currencies . |
| 26 | In 1987 lower interest rates in West Germany would have made it possible to prop up the dollar ( as the G7 countries had earlier promised they would ) without raising American interest rates . |
| 27 | His colleague , Lord Beloff , asked why the Government had brought forward a bill without support in either House for a scheme the vice-chancellors had repeatedly told them was impossible . |
| 28 | On 22nd August , the Nez Perce cavalcade trailed through Targhee Pass , recently vacated by Lieutenant Bacon in the belief that the Indians had already eluded him . |
| 29 | His French and Swiss bankers had already indicated their eagerness to participate in any expansion of the company . |
| 30 | And she was bound to confess that the Larks had always made her nervous , that she had always dreaded her visits to their crumbling , chaotic , downright shabby ancestral home , with dogs leaping out at one from every chair and all those things they kept on shooting — pheasant , partridge , grouse , poor little scrawny things — hanging up to rot simply everywhere . |