Example sentences of "[adj] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Marine had to battle all the way against a Gainsborough side that won praise from College Road boss Roly Howard . |
| 2 | The other 140 had to rely in varying degrees on transferred votes to provide them with a quota or something approaching it . |
| 3 | The delegate meeting of the STA at Dumfries in 1895 had called upon those branches affected by women 's employment to " exercise their influence in every way to secure the standard wages and fair conditions of employment for female compositors " . |
| 4 | Sometimes the causes were trifling , as when Richard returned some books to the library including one that Elfed had wanted to read . |
| 5 | True , Elfed had swung him a collar-and-tie job that was ‘ practically pensionable ’ : true , Cis was always there and the other brothers and sisters would look out for him . |
| 6 | Perhaps the consensus was that as Elfed had borne the burden , he had the right to make the decision . |
| 7 | But Elfed had persevered . |
| 8 | Or maybe the French had marched past this crossroads and were already nearing Brussels ? |
| 9 | But the French had done it . |
| 10 | Both scored highly in the first round but the French had done so well in the next round with three landing on the line , that only the RAF stood a chance of catching them . |
| 11 | The most reasonable assumption was that the French had pushed a cavalry raid across the frontier . |
| 12 | The original answer had been from a woman and the French had baffled her . |
| 13 | The French had retreated , presumably back to Frasnes , while Saxe-Weimar 's men had begun to make their bivouacs . |
| 14 | Near Killala harbour , where the French had landed , I saw a pointed Round Tower , obviously very old . |
| 15 | Er they were banking on the fact that there 'd be problems for other countries because of , you know , public perception etcetera , you know the French had decided almost all of them decided they 'd have a nuclear programme anyway so , so , so they were er o okay . |
| 16 | But by the end of 1978 the French had decided that the sooner the Shah left Iran the better . |
| 17 | Presumably the French had believed her , or they would hardly have let her go . |
| 18 | In the 1748 peace settlement it was returned in exchange for Louisbourg , but nobody in India had any doubt that the French had demonstrated their superiority . |
| 19 | By the time Charles landed , at Roscoff in Brittany , on 29 September 1746 , his brother Henry had returned to Paris and the French had realised that the Stuarts could be of no further use to them . |
| 20 | But the margin of retreat for the French had become very narrow indeed , and now the full weight of the Germans in the West could be thrown against Pétain 's men on the Right Bank of the Meuse . |
| 21 | So the French had ridden into Belgium . |
| 22 | By the 1920s , the French had lost their monopoly , but proceeded to work at Susa until the Islamic revolution of 1979 . |
| 23 | After disaster at Dongkhe , and the horrors of the Cocxa gorge , the French fortresses at Caobang , Langson and Laokay were abandoned but , in their retreat , the French had lost 6,000 men in what has been called their greatest colonial defeat since Montcalm had died at Quebec . |
| 24 | From this side , I could see the modern town the French had built , outside the casbah . |
| 25 | The point of contact between British and French colonies was still on the seacoast , and here the British regular forces and the colonial militia co-operated effectively and captured the fortress of Louisbourg , which the French had fortified at immense cost to command the entrance to the St. Lawrence and hold back the British in Nova Scotia . |
| 26 | Such hopes as there may have been — American , French , even Vietminh — of a cease-fire or negotiated settlement lingered on for several months but once the French had begun fighting they presented their case , modestly , that military operations were designed with no thought of reconquest but simply to persuade the Vietminh that they had no hope of victory . |
| 27 | Here the last of the French had regrouped to make a final stand before the inevitable retreat . |
| 28 | Besides , the appearance of the French had spurred Sharpe 's old excitement . |
| 29 | But if the French had threatened to withdraw their troops it was , said Bao Dai , pure blackmail ; and the Americans had fallen for it . |
| 30 | The French had invested money there , had built the Suez canal and recalled Napoleon 's expedition of 1798 . |