Example sentences of "had [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His father had been killed in the Rostock riots of 1931 , and it seems that Gustav himself had for certain been a Worker Youth . ’ |
| 2 | Did you ever conduct the Leningrad Philharmonic , the orchestra Mravinsky had for fifty years ? |
| 3 | Sweden is currently off the Richter price scale for British clients but Norway , euphoric at winning the 1994 Olympics for Lillehammer , is determined to regain the reputation it had for alpine skiing thirty years ago , when the annual quota of British skiers was 15,000 ; today it is 1,500 , but that will change when the tour operators can be induced to include Norwegian destinations in their programmes . |
| 4 | Although that struggle brought about changes in the formal relationship between the press and politicians , it did not fundamentally alter the natural attraction that these two spheres had for each other . |
| 5 | Even that did n't alter the respect they had for each other . |
| 6 | She had for 10 days refused all solid food . |
| 7 | While the progress towards the reunion of separated churches has been much slower than many had hoped , the last sixty years have seen dialogue and joint action at many levels , from the local to the international , between Christian communities which had for long centuries been very largely isolated from each other . |
| 8 | I was feeling much happier than I had for two years . |
| 9 | We 're also taking another four hundred thousand out of budgets that we had for planned improvements in staffing as well . |
| 10 | I had been asked the previous year by the Intendant , von Benda , in an arrangement they had for young conductors , but there was no rehearsal , so I declined . |
| 11 | He said you were n't to let a new dog off the lead until he had for six weeks |
| 12 | Resolving the question of whether palaeocurrent flow in Torridonian Scotland was predominantly westerly or northerly is important to those interested in Scotland 's geological history , but has less external interest than the solution of the genetic code problem had for all biologists . |
| 13 | I thought about telling him the arrangement Laura and I had for that night , then decided against it . |
| 14 | And one of the differences that anorexia can become much more visible and identifiable , whereas those of us who have experienced bulimia , which I had for thirteen years , can be extremely secret and well disguised because we normally do n't change from normal body weight . |
| 15 | He encouraged us also to get more involved in equine matters , considering the potential Ireland had for such things . |
| 16 | Moreover I can reveal that the findings of the Committee were certainly not those indicated in this letter ; we found that Derry Corporation had for many years been carrying out a policy of anti-Rome Catholic discrimination in employment and rigid segregation in housing . |
| 17 | NUTFIELD PRIORY , AN enormous Victorian Gothic mansion near Reigate , had for many years been a school for the blind . |
| 18 | They had for many years been estranged from each other . |
| 19 | A Manchester family of Magnall , who also had business interests in London , had for many years borne arms without authority , and on 19 February 1765 Thomas Magnall was granted bearings blazoned argent on a mount vert a swepe ( or balista ) azure — a swepe/balista being a large siege catapult . |
| 20 | In that case the appellant rendering company and their predecessors had for many years carried on various offensive trades , namely blood boiling , bone boiling , fat extracting , fat melting , tallow melting and tripe boiling , without concealment , to the knowledge of the local authority and under the control of their inspectors . |
| 21 | These works were founded by Mr Joseph Wright , who had for many years been intimately connected with what we may call ‘ the system of locomotion ’ , having been a contractor for the conveyance of mails , and the owner of most of the coaches running between the Metropolis and Birmingham , and other large towns . |
| 22 | Late in life he married a member of the Wilkinson family ( whose firm had for many years been solicitors to the College ) . |
| 23 | I had for many months loved her from afar . |
| 24 | I had for many years had this feeling about myself-that I looked like that — not literally , but in an inner way I felt I did . |
| 25 | As it was , the chantry duties of the guilds had been in steady decline since the early fifteenth century , so that by 1547 the majority had for many years been looked upon as burial societies . |
| 26 | They had for many years been letting cottages — although many more than we — and were just starting to think of selling up and living a quieter life . |
| 27 | Janine nodded and left the flat , feeling lighter hearted than she had for many days . |
| 28 | Politics , however — at least in the sense of nationalist feeling — had for many decades been an important and even a dominant theme in children 's fiction , and we would expect to find Ruritanian stones using nationalistic honour as a theme at least in books where adventure made any pretence of being more than a game . |
| 29 | The membership also included Derek Senior , who had for many years been advocating a fundamental reorganisation of local government . |
| 30 | The Formosans had for many decades suffered from imperial Chinese indifference and neglect , and a substantial minority of the island 's non-Japanese inhabitants benefited from the new economic and educational policies and enjoyed rising living standards . |