Example sentences of "had recently [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year later , now a second lieutenant , he sailed to Palestine to join the Nottinghamshire Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry , a cavalry regiment that had recently exchanged its horses for tanks . |
| 2 | When she sank to the seat she had recently vacated he paced about a little and then swung to face her , his dark eyes angry . |
| 3 | They had recently converted their Kingston area routes to trolleybus operation and had obtained some of the new Feltham type cars for their Uxbridge route . |
| 4 | and had recently written in collaboration with the new librarian , the head of lower school , and the second in department , some study skills booklets for use by children in the library : The study skills … came in really last year . |
| 5 | I told him I had recently written a letter . |
| 6 | About the year 944/1537–8 , the two kazaskers , Ebussu'ud Efendi and Civizade , the latter a teacher of Molla Bostan 's , spoke well of him in the presence of Sultan Suleyman ; and as a result of their intercession , and of the sultan 's interest in a monograph that Molla Bostan had recently written , it was decreed that he should be appointed to a medrese . |
| 7 | If the above conditions were not acceptable , then those officers who had recently joined should be allowed to return to their original units as the terms on which they had volunteered no longer applied . |
| 8 | Widmark had recently joined John Ford 's repertory company and so Wayne , who was producing and directing as well as starring as Davy Crockett , was delighted when Widmark accepted the role of Jim Dowie — so much so that he took an ad in the Hollywood Reporter reading ‘ Welcome aboard , Dick . ’ |
| 9 | In a speech on 17 December 1945 Kim stressed the necessity for creating a wide range of party organisations in factories , enterprises and villages with the formulation of suitable criteria for party membership so as to eliminate some of the dubious elements which had recently joined the party . |
| 10 | The only evidence we have to shed further light on this question comes from a letter written on the same day by Mr J Nicholls [ see note at end of chapter ] , a Foreign Office political advisor , who had recently joined HQ 5 Corps staff at Klagenfurt . |
| 11 | Laura found enormous fulfilment in discovering old print references and Brian Jones , a soft-spoken , young artist who had recently joined her design team in Carno , proved adept at transferring them on to fabric . |
| 12 | The story relates that an abbot was pouring tea for a young novice monk who had recently joined the monastery to learn kung fu . |
| 13 | Thousands of people pressing similar demands also demonstrated in Leningrad , Yaroslavl , Gorky , Saratov , Voronezh , Stavropol , Volgograd , Ufa , Sverdlovsk , Omsk , Barnaul and Novosibirsk ( many of these cities had recently witnessed protests resulting in the removal from office of unpopular local Communist Party leaders — see p. 37235 ) . |
| 14 | On Jan. 14 the official Iranian news agency IRNA reported that growing tension between the Parcham and Khalq factions had recently led Najibullah to impose a 14-day emergency in Kabul ; officers and soldiers had been warned to remain in barracks . |
| 15 | Peter Laslett , who had succeeded his fellow-historian Edward Miller as District treasurer three years before , made a further point to the District Executive when it considered the financial position early in September : the local education authorities had recently received a circular from the Ministry asking that students ' fees for courses be raised to 10s. 0d. per term . |
| 16 | It was unfortunate that at this period he was going through a protracted quarrel-by-letter with her and was generally grumpy and morose , especially if he had recently received one of her periodic letters informing him that it was ALL OFF ! |
| 17 | William was more eager that he should show me some papers he had recently received by post from America . |
| 18 | There were other gifts , too : new oak doors , given by Sir Geoffry Christie-Miller , adorned the side entrance ; cathode-ray oscilloscopes had been donated by Ferranti Ltd. and Professor Williams ( who had recently received the Hughes medal of the Royal Society ) ; £1 , 000 had come from the Sir Alan Sykes Trust towards the cost of the Sixth Form rooms ; and Mr. Charles Royle , MP and Old Stopfordian , and Mr. David Blank , Old Stopfordian and a recently co-opted Governor , were arranging to provide £100 to endow a Sixth Form Essay Prize in memory of the former 's father , a Governor from January 1923 until his death the previous November . |
| 19 | Ricky had recently received a small legacy and with this had bought an Opel car with a convertible roof . |
| 20 | Jalal Talabani of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan ( PUK ) , who had recently received fresh assurances of continued Western assistance for Iraqi Kurds [ see p. 38361 ] , had reportedly insisted on a more ambitious scheme involving autonomy for an area twice the size held by Kurdish guerrillas , incorporating the city of Kirkuk , and a clearer commitment by the government to hold democratic elections . |
| 21 | The council had recently authorised an adjoining owner to construct and pave an access way over part of the road verge . |
| 22 | He had recently split up with Hermione and was suffering from bruised emotions and in a way , was very much alone in the world , not to mention totally penniless — he did n't have two beans to rub together . |
| 23 | For example , a report in the International Herald Tribune of July 17 claimed that the rebels had recently made the most significant gains in the whole of the 11-year civil war and that government forces were being forced to fall back and defend large urban centres . |
| 24 | Bobby Hunt never forgot the agitation with which Minton told him how , on visiting the house of a friend whose wife had recently shot herself , his eye fell on a piece of skull left unnoticed under the piano . |
| 25 | And yet this was also the man who had recently shot a blackmailer through the head . |
| 26 | Following the meeting a US military excavation team carried out its first MIA search in Cambodia ; it announced on March 23 that it had recently unearthed some remains which were believed to be of members of US television crews killed in Cambodia in 1970 . |
| 27 | They were named as Col. Mangwane Khosana , Gqozo 's former right-hand man who had recently escaped from custody facing treason charges , and Lt.-Gen. |
| 28 | In the related oyster drill Urosalpinx cinerea , Pratt ( 1967 ) found that a starved snail would move away from other starved individuals , but towards ones which had recently fed . |
| 29 | They continued chatting for a while , in which time Nigger got the definite impression that the six months in jail that Terry told him he had recently endured for receiving stolen property , had taught him nothing at all . |
| 30 | Army Television Channel 5 in Thailand reported on Jan. 9 that fighting had recently broken out between Lao government and rebel forces in Vientiane province . |