Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he took the side of Vice President Al Gore against other cabinet members in committing the United States to lowering by 2000 its emission of greenhouse gases to 1990 levels , a provision the Bush administration had kept out of the global climate treaty signed at Rio . |
| 2 | The Gold Coast had fallen back from the situation 50 years earlier when English-educated Africans had played a leading part in administration , Christian leadership , the judiciary and the learned professions . |
| 3 | The brashness had gone out of the sunlight , and the air had a chill . |
| 4 | He then noticed Mrs Wilks at the telephone box and , in his rear-view mirror , he saw that the grey saloon car had pulled on to the hard shoulder and was heading towards her . |
| 5 | She felt grubby , tired and , now that the car had pulled up outside the cottage , sickeningly tense . |
| 6 | A car had pulled up by the gate . |
| 7 | This beggar had come in to the fitting shop , corner at the back corner , where he should n't have been . |
| 8 | Major debt defaults in Mexico and Brazil had prompted a worldwide retreat from international bank lending and the virtual collapse of the syndicated loan market ; since then , unofficial observers estimated that some $45,000 million of net development capital aid had flowed back from the borrowing countries and towards the lenders . |
| 9 | Even before the securities houses announced their decision , the advantages of issuing new equity had slumped along with the Nikkei . |
| 10 | Lee and his stepdad had come out of the shed . |
| 11 | Elizabeth , meanwhile , had managed to get down the lane and had reached her father-in-law 's farm , even though the narrow cart track was blocked in several places where the snow had drifted up against the hedge . |
| 12 | As the freak end of the underground had dropped in on the LSE , so the politicos , or would-be politicos , packed their bags for Alexandra Palace . |
| 13 | The men on the fence had disappeared back into the trees . |
| 14 | The report , compiled by Judge Ezra Kama and issued on July 18 , claimed that rioting had broken out at the Temple Mount after the accidental discharge of a police tear-gas canister near a group of Palestinian women . |
| 15 | The demonstrations were the most serious in Jordan since April 1989 , when rioting had broken out after the imposition of austerity measures [ see p. 36602 ] . |
| 16 | If the industry had gone along with the sort of scheme that we were urging three or four years ago , it would be well geared up to meeting the challenge now , instead of being caught short by its friends — who I am sure the industry feels have in some way betrayed it . |
| 17 | Lee remembered when a sparrow had flown in through the window of her bedroom when she was a child . |
| 18 | Even before the revolution , however , and particularly under Tudor rule , the Privy Council had been largely ignored as too large and public a body , and the practice had grown up of the monarch preferring , instead , to seek advice from a smaller number of individuals whom he regarded as trustworthy and committed to his cause . |
| 19 | The Victorian stoneware ‘ suite ’ from Mr Twyford 's manufactory was decorated with flowers in willow-pattern blue but paint flaked off the walls and the linoleum had worn through to the floorboards . |
| 20 | A figure had crawled out of the tent , rumpled , wearing trousers and a sweater ; the man stood up once he was clear of the canvas and stretched , yawning . |
| 21 | Only one figure had subsided on to the ground , his face to the wall , and all their gazes were on him , terrified and arrow-sharp with hatred . |
| 22 | A shifta or brigand had stepped out of the bush , clubbed one of the men and made off with his rifle . |
| 23 | Leaflets calling for this protest action had gone out in the name of the underground organization Mwakenya , and were echoed in a BBC World Service broadcast by the exiled writer Ngugi wa Thiongo , but workers were urged by the official Central Organization of Trade Unions to ignore the " seditious leaflets " , and commentators noted an understandable reluctance to identify openly with Mwakenya by supporting its strike call . |
| 24 | A sharp cold wind had sprung up with the fading light , removing the sweaty warmth of her exertions and letting her know that she was cold and exhausted . |
| 25 | A wind had come through with the Josephites , and blown away the man 's whole world . |
| 26 | It was not until she noticed a bill on Todney 's desk , to be authorized by Stephen as complimentary , that she knew his half-brother had checked out of the hotel without so much as saying goodbye to her . |
| 27 | Small pieces of electronic equipment had spilled out of the snake . |
| 28 | But the old pub had burnt down in the 1960s and been replaced by a more profitable and thrusting enterprise . |
| 29 | The Princess had stepped out onto the dais to make the presentations . |
| 30 | Well , this went on and on until the pile of things Morag and Granny had cleared out of the cupboards was nearly all gone . |