Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , she had enjoyed ten very successful years , but the so-called glamour Adam had referred to had in many ways begun to pall . |
| 2 | Nor did he mean what he and Barth had joined in attacking in Schleiermacher and Liberal Theology ( Brunner being indeed far sharper and harsher against Schleiermacher than Barth ever was : Barth used to insist that only one who was capable of loving Schleiermacher was entitled to criticise him ) , namely the supplementing of the revelation of God in Jesus Christ by additional sources of a more general religious or ethical kind . |
| 3 | Even so , that he was able to expel the powerful figure to whom he may have owed much of his victory in 1016 must say something about the effectiveness of the power base which he had succeeded in creating in England in the intervening years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ No one … ’ began Sally-Anne passionately , thinking of all that she had seen since arriving in Vetch Street — the poor creatures in Dr Neil 's surgery , and the even poorer ones who could not afford to go there — and of Dr Neil 's own selflessness letting people off their bills , so that only the small income he still received from an aunt 's legacy allowed him to keep going at all , when he could have been revelling with Stair . |
| 6 | She had gone on and on about it until Lydia 's face had ached from grinning in appreciation of Betty 's praise and frowning in polite dismissal of her wilder flights . |
| 7 | So far , Cabochon had refrained from getting in touch with Alix Micklemas . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Copernicus , on the left , raises the possibility of the earth 's motion , Galileo produces his telescope , and Kepler expresses a desire for wings that he might visit the new world — as indeed he had dreamed of doing in his unpublished Copernican text Somnium . |
| 10 | The opposition had called for voting in June . |
| 11 | García Meza , the leader of the military coup in July 1980 [ see p. 30584 ] who faced charges of armed uprising , fraud , genocide and violations of the Constitution , had gone into hiding in January 1989 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When he was back at Thorsbury , he had taken to sleeping in the dressing room now that her time was almost upon her . |
| 14 | Then I thought of all the trees I had taken for granted in the past — beside the Cherwell at Oxford or on the pavements of a Surrey suburb . |
| 15 | Now , though , she perceived that many things which she had taken for granted in her life , simple , cosy , homely things , were , in fact , great luxuries . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He had insisted on living in Auckland Castle though some people said that it was absurd for the Bishop of Durham to be saddled with such a pile . |
| 18 | And then enlightenment dawned as the thought of Doreen flashed into her mind — Doreen who had insisted upon living in the pretentious home , rather than in a humble flat . |