Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Existing comprehensive schools in Coventry , for example , had successfully developed forms of organization based upon the ‘ house ’ — a unit in which a pupil would remain throughout his school career , and to which also belonged a group of teachers . |
| 2 | He finished his coffee and took the Underground back to his studio apartment in Beaufort Street , Chelsea , where he had prudently stored photocopies of the evidence he had brought out of Jeddah . |
| 3 | The committee already had prematurely exalted views of its importance , for it deferred to the next meeting the question of how to apply to the King for royal patronage — patronage of an institution which had no actual existence . |
| 4 | After all , Henry III , Richard of Cornwall , Louis IX and Charles of Anjou were brothers-in-law — they had all married daughters of the count of Provence . |
| 5 | What these critics did not see so clearly was that elsewhere customary tenures had so confused conceptions of ownership that a clear , profitable , and workable landlord-tenant relationship was difficult to conceive ; while in many regions customary quit rents gave the landlord little surplus to invest , even had he been inclined so to do . |
| 6 | In his mind he had obviously got fragments of things that he 'd heard and seen that day , there was an expression that was being called out , To arm citizens , because war had been declared . |
| 7 | Embraer had long adopted policies of aiming for international competitiveness ; the domestic market was too small to support its ambition . |
| 8 | It was bonfire night and townships had long prepared stacks of driftwood and domestic combustibles . |
| 9 | He had long shown traces of absent-mindedness . |
| 10 | Land around the Thames to the west of the City had long attracted tillers of the soil . |
| 11 | He had already studied plans of the old house . |
| 12 | I had already received details of properties in several regions of France , including the Toulouse area , when I providentially read your article , ‘ At the sign of the Red Rocker ’ , the catalyst being the mention of a cheap flight to Toulouse from Heathrow for £116 return . ’ |
| 13 | Indeed , the nineteenth century English philosopher , Herbert Spencer , had already constructed theories of human society based on Darwin 's evolutionary ideas and his writings were again part of Park 's reading . |
| 14 | Though Hobbes had already made enemies of John Wallis and Seth Ward , two of its founder members , over his claim to have solved the geometrical problem of squaring the circle , it was at least partly due to his association in the popular mind with a materialistic atheism that he never became a Fellow . |
| 15 | Richard , however , had already made overtures of friendship to the Sicilian king and cemented this by giving him a rich and generous gift — Excalibur , the magical sword of King Arthur . |
| 16 | They said the Iraqi leaders had already given details of P O Ws . |
| 17 | By the early nineteenth century some areas and classes had already achieved levels of survival not enjoyed by the country as a whole until about 1900 . |
| 18 | Some individual Arab states had already issued condemnations of the invasion . |
| 19 | Chief Judge Platt had already shown signs of distress over the government 's intransigence . |
| 20 | This rumour may have done what the poll tax did in 1381 , set fire to a potentially explosive situation , indeed one which had already shown signs of bursting into flame . |
| 21 | In the midst of his writings he used suddenly to include advertisements for some of his editions of prints already published , adding for good measure that ‘ His Highness the Prince Regent ’ had already ordered copies of the same . |
| 22 | Here he was following a precedent created by Lanfranc , who had already consecrated bishops of Dublin in 1074 and 1085 . |
| 23 | The Independent of Nov. 15 had meanwhile published details of internal UN documents which seemed to suggest that a UN official had handed over to the Moroccan government information supplied in confidence by the Polisario Front . |
| 24 | The old Poor Law had always provided instances of parishes making allowances to able-bodied parishioners unable to secure work or , more commonly , unable to secure work at adequate wages . |
| 25 | They have the same wistful air as the terrace further back , as if they too had once entertained hopes of the lane going somewhere in life . |
| 26 | She shone her most fetching smile , a smile which had once wowed captains of industry and beguiled all her clients . |
| 27 | Presumably it had once housed families of civilian workers at the army camp , but before that it might have been the home of some isolated community of wild-fowlers or oyster-dredgers , with smuggling , probably , as their main source of livelihood . |
| 28 | Jane had probably watched rumours of the affair harden into fact with an amalgam of loathing , sadness and jealousy . |
| 29 | She had also noted patches of discoloured skin on the inner aspect of both ankles which itched . |
| 30 | He had also received letters of commendation from the chief constable of Central Scotland Police , and from the assistant chief constable of the British Transport Police in Scotland . |