Example sentences of "had [verb] [noun] under " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only the stupidity of Treasury rules that had stopped BR under Labour and Tory governments going after private capital . |
| 2 | Several of the planks , including those that had given way under Harry 's weight , had without that beam 's support simply been hanging out in space , resting like a seesaw over the previous beam but otherwise supported only by the tight fit of each plank against the next . |
| 3 | It was as if Andrus 's legs had given way under him . |
| 4 | The new plan was formulated in consultation with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) which in September 1991 had frozen payments under an April 1991 loan agreement [ see p. 38162 ] . |
| 5 | ‘ I gave away a Moses basket to my sister-in-law without realising he had planked £1,000 under the mattress . |
| 6 | The Cabinet , Financial and Home Secretaries were all transferred , while some of those civil servants who had suffered demotion under the Congress ( I ) administration were rehabilitated . |
| 7 | James had done training under Dr John Conolly at Hanwell , the Middlesex County pauper lunatic asylum , and to him the insane were the most pitiable of all human flotsam . |
| 8 | Some people had written dates under their names and sometimes there were short messages . |
| 9 | I had watched Quintin under pressure during the Suez crisis where he had shown admirable calm at the Admiralty in testing circumstances ; and while I had some misgivings about his famous ‘ judgement ’ I felt that he could take on the leadership and the job of Prime Minister , and make a success of it . |
| 10 | During the Christmas dinner Andrew had kept a low profile , as it were , but in the evening he had played host under the admiring gaze of Mrs Emma Funnell . |
| 11 | Her face had become blotchy under her make-up and her eyes were suddenly filling up . |
| 12 | Treated with contempt by the old Burmese kings , the Karens had welcomed British rule and , probably more important , their best people had become Christians under the influence of the American Baptist missionaries . |
| 13 | Since then , however , the LDP had recovered ground under the steady leadership of Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu , while the opposition had been increasingly perceived as divided and as having little policy other than opposing the government . |
| 14 | After notification from Greenpeace , German officials had revealed to their Hungarian counterparts that waste from a chemical factory in Halle had entered Hungary under false documents and been transported in barrels to different areas of the country . |
| 15 | This was in itself a striking commentary on what had already been done : Liberal Unionists who had resisted amalgamation under Balfour and Acland-Hood in 1911 acquiesced meekly under Law and Steel-Maitland in 1912 . |
| 16 | Alec and my mother had taken shelter under the wing of Santos 's ‘ grand friend ’ , Porua de Madariaga . |
| 17 | Kragan had taken Kaas under his wing and transferred him to the Stasi pre-trial detention establishment at Berlin-Hohenschonhausen . |
| 18 | The Colonel had taken Sophia under his wing as a frail and dependent woman , who because of her son 's lack of responsibility must work , when she should have been maintained in comfort . |
| 19 | But they provide an accurate picture of what had taken place under Justinian . |
| 20 | The copy featured the rise in crime that had taken place under Labour , stressing the need to support the police and the protection of people and property . |
| 21 | The Times printed a map showing where each shooting had taken place under the heading : ‘ LA Weekend : 48 Hours of Gunfire . ’ |
| 22 | Gerd Honsik , the neo-Nazi publisher of an extreme right-wing magazine Halt , was sentenced by a Vienna court to 18 months ' imprisonment on May 5 for 14 neo-Nazi offences including the denial that the mass murder of Jewish people had taken place under the Third Reich . |
| 23 | He was convicted of the lesser charge by a jury , with the addition that the assault had taken place under provocation . |
| 24 | Before obtaining CNAA approval , courses had to have authorization under further education regulations from the Regional Advisory Councils , the machinery used by the DES for this purpose . |
| 25 | Some of the practices of the colonial state were re-introduced , including corporal punishment , and some of those elected to village councils were rejected on the grounds that they had held positions under the previous regime . |