Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His once magnificent ruff of side-whiskers had been slicked down against his cheeks like wet fur and his ears had flattened apprehensively against his head . |
| 2 | But the steps had passed away into silence . |
| 3 | The BJP and its allies among militant Hindu organizations had called repeatedly for the mosque at Ayodhya to be replaced by a temple honouring the Hindu deity , Lord Ram [ see pp. 37854 ; 37964 ; 38532 ; 38682 ; 38866 ; 39008 ; 39193-94 ] . |
| 4 | Only gradually did it dawn on those responsible that vigorous and determined nationalist organizations had grown up in the shadow of the Japanese , that these movements had flourished exceedingly in the vacuum left by the collapse of Japanese power , and that if the colonial regimes were to be reconstituted it could only be by force . |
| 5 | Gradually , almost stealthily , all the brothers had crept out of their stalls , and gathered in a circle about this altar and the group debating at its foot . |
| 6 | Standardised tests had shown that ‘ whereas his two older brothers had scored better on verbal ability than on visual motor ability , Balbinder had performed equally poorly on both ’ . |
| 7 | Within an hour Allan , Donald the smith , and the Logan brothers had set off down the strath to Weem with the petitions in a leather wallet , to add to the already thick bunch in James 's strong-box , and Cameron and James had got horses from a sympathizer in the village and rode off towards the narrow glen of Keltney . |
| 8 | This was a fairly close spread of votes though the relative positions of the ten candidates had changed significantly between Stage I and Stage V. Positions continued to change through the remaining Stages of the count . |
| 9 | Money flowing into the territories from the Gulf nations and from remittances had fallen dramatically as a result of the war . |
| 10 | The penetrating grey eyes had narrowed thoughtfully on her pale face . |
| 11 | He seemed unoffended , though his eyes had narrowed thoughtfully on her . |
| 12 | Then David looked up and , as though the desperate misery in his eyes had called out to her , Julia went and knelt on the hard , icy floor at his feet , reaching up with both hands . |
| 13 | His blue eyes had fired up with excitement . |
| 14 | His eyes had flicked up to the top of the small cliff to our left . |
| 15 | Noticing the way the young woman 's eyes had glazed over with undisguised longing , while he appeared faintly bored with the proceedings , Shannon had mentally given thanks for the fact that she was n't drawn to gorgeous , self-centred hunks like this one . |
| 16 | She rubbed her face and when she dropped her hands her eyes had welled up with tears . |
| 17 | He was frail and bald ; a network of veins showed through the skin of his scalp and his eyes had sunk deep into their sockets , but his voice was firm and there was nothing wrong with his mind . |
| 18 | The most telling accounts were to be seen in the local press whose journalists had gone along on routine reporting assignments and tried to come to terms with the decidedly un-pop star look of the performers on stage . |
| 19 | Perhaps the most notorious was a forger ; Coiner Varley who escaped sliding down a rubbish tip which the market traders had pushed up against the wall of the gaol . |
| 20 | Determined that such a calamity never be repeated , several of the survivors had banded together in order to cleanse the Fifth of all magical knowledge . |
| 21 | Numbers increased slightly in March ( to around 14,500 ) , but Kleiner was concerned that job shortages had caused up to 1,000,000 Soviet Jews to cancel or postpone emigrating to Israel . |
| 22 | Loyalty to her clerical superiors , to the Church and all it stood for , battled with her contempt for the way in which the senior clergy had behaved both to herself and to Amy . |
| 23 | The petitioner still had to prove breakdown by demonstrating one ( or more ) of the following ‘ facts ’ : that the respondent had committed adultery ; that the respondent had behaved in such a way that the petitioner could not reasonably be expected to live with the respondent ; that the respondent had deserted the petitioner for a continuous period of at least two years ; that the parties had lived apart for a continuous period of at least two years and that the respondent consented to a decree being granted ; or that the parties had lived apart for a continuous period of at least five years . |
| 24 | The petitioner still had to prove breakdown by demonstrating one ( or more ) of the following ‘ facts ’ : that the respondent had committed adultery ; that the respondent had behaved in such a way that the petitioner could not reasonably be expected to live with the respondent ; that the respondent had deserted the petitioner for a continuous period of at least two years ; that the parties had lived apart for a continuous period of at least two years and that the respondent consented to a decree being granted ; or that the parties had lived apart for a continuous period of at least five years . |
| 25 | A few parties had walked along from Sandwich Bay Estate to picnic on the beach . |
| 26 | All the parties had learnt much from the single transferable vote elections of 1973 and this informed their strategy and tactics in 1975 . |
| 27 | As an example , he contends that ‘ communism is a transference to the party state of the moral traits and the regulatory mechanisms of the exogamous community family ’ ( p. 33 ) , so that the electoral success of communist parties had occurred only in areas dominated by that family type , whereas in France ‘ Socialism … follows on quite naturally from Catholicism ’ ( p. 86 ) . |
| 28 | PKK members had attacked a gendarmerie post in Sirnak 's Uludere district , and officials reported that surviving PKK fighters had fled back across the border into Iraq . |
| 29 | Earlier a smaller number of Cardiff supporters had run on to the pitch in celebration of their side 's equaliser in a game which the Welsh club eventually won 4–2 . |
| 30 | Within a few years of Karak Eight Peaks ' fall the Night Goblins had settled permanently in the ruins and split into many tribes based around the adjoining mountains and the tunnels that ran beneath them . |