Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [vb pp] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All three brothers had settled themselves in the area , Nathan 's being a pleasant semi-detached residence of three storeys . |
| 2 | He had gagged for hours following the ordeal , convinced that one of the dog 's hairs had lodged itself at the very back of his throat where his fingers were unable to reach . |
| 3 | She had got as far as pulling out her suitcase , which looked scruffier than ever now that her eyes had accustomed themselves to the comfortable luxury of Luke Hunter 's flat , and laying it open on the bed before something inside her rebelled . |
| 4 | Harry went slowly and cautiously through the gully , feeling his way at every step until his eyes had accustomed themselves to the darkness , and could judge distances and distinguish the shapes of the weathered planes of rock that leaned over him . |
| 5 | In a daring helicopter operation supporters had freed him from the prison on Naos Island , off Panama City , on Dec. 4 . |
| 6 | Beryl 's words had impressed him at the time because they summed up his own vague feeling that what had happened and what was happening might be consequences of the old man 's cynical , even malicious contrivings . |
| 7 | It was not until the oriental had addressed the armed newcomer with the blackened face , that the two youngsters had recognised him as the private detective Brett Grant . |
| 8 | Her parents had sent her to the convent , and she begged them to let her become a Catholic after she 'd been there only a year . |
| 9 | Her parents had taken her to the doctor because of breathing problems and after being sent to hospital it was discovered L had extensive bruising across the buttocks . |
| 10 | He first acquired a great deal of Gilbert and Sullivan , because his father was keen on the Savoy operas , but eventually John turned to ballet music because of the tales his parents had told him about the Diaghilev Ballet . |
| 11 | After he had slept in the same sheets for six months Nails had taken them to the launderette , and now he had discovered a few things like that , which helped , which was more than his dad ever had . |
| 12 | Britain 's social engineers had prided themselves on the ability to plan as they had done during the war . |
| 13 | Her footsteps had taken her to the car park — how , she could n't remember . |
| 14 | It had long been understood that , while the refugee camps of the East Bank had remained pro-PLO ever since the events of 1970–1 , the wealthier Palestinians had incorporated themselves into the Jordanian establishment . |
| 15 | Quick wit and cleverness at school had shifted him quickly from his roots in the Belfast underclass , and his natural proclivities had led him to the theatre set , a wee bit of acting and extra-work from time to time , usually as a gunman or a thug and once , memorably , as a rather well-fed hungerstriker . |
| 16 | Customs had waved them through the green section . |
| 17 | A circle of light illuminated the group gathered round the bank of screens ; another shone on the blue box , the battered structure that the Doctor call his TARDIS , standing where the androids had left it near the edge of the room . |
| 18 | When I arrived ten minutes before her at one stop ( advance means a few minutes ahead as well as two months ) I found that two ladies in wheelchairs had positioned themselves at the foot of the stairs and were pleading with everyone to let them stay and shake hands with Mrs Thatcher . |
| 19 | Thus by the outbreak of war a number of questions and problems had forced themselves onto the agendas of middle-class society , and by the end of the war all these factors were resolved into one major consideration : the nature and control of ‘ industrial democracy ’ . |
| 20 | But by now the rising waters had isolated them on the islands of Borneo , Sumatra and Java . |
| 21 | Below it stood the childhood doll 's house she had intended to renovate for posterity and the guitar whose broken strings had halted her on the path to world fame as a singer of gypsy ballads , in a costume of scarlet and yellow sewn with little mirrors . |
| 22 | Iain reported that Tim Moulds had informed him about the present situation . |
| 23 | and er building trade work , both of these things had left me with the qualifications for be abl be able to do it . |
| 24 | Gamal and one or two of his friends had joined them in the box and Gamal was not entirely comfortable either , though for different reasons . |
| 25 | players had received it in the past two years as well , now four times overall since it was inaugurated in 1985 . |
| 26 | And , as the big metal bird had lifted up into the sky , two heavy hands had taken her by the shoulders . |
| 27 | Two men had followed him up the stairs . |
| 28 | Presumably she bolted the door after her for that was how the police had found it in the morning . |
| 29 | Ashi had met him during the height of the oil boom , when the late Shah was pouring the country 's new-found wealth into creating an entire new infrastructure for a land that had hardly changed since biblical times . |
| 30 | Not that the early issues had learnt anything from the underground . |