Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adj] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The results of the simultaneous state and local elections in the neighbouring state of Hidalgo were not due for official release until Dec. 2 , but preliminary results indicated that the PRI had won 81 out of the 84 municipalities . |
| 2 | He had built this out on the steps of the church and placed it on trestles before the rood screen . |
| 3 | By February 1940 he had drafted two out of the five sections , and was describing the poem as a successor to " Burnt Norton " — he was still not at all sure of its worth , however , since he seemed only to be imitating himself . |
| 4 | That was the first of several epic desert walks carried out by both groups and individuals from the SAS who had become cut off during the campaign in North Africa . |
| 5 | Cushendall police requested further assistance in the Glengariff area at 1345 where more livestock had become cut off by the flood waters . |
| 6 | When the ice at last melted and the seas rose , Sri Lanka had not only drifted apart from its parent India , it had become cut off by an ocean gap of approximately 20 miles ( 32 km ) . |
| 7 | On Sept. 4 the communists in the Supreme Soviet , who before the coup had numbered 324 out of the 450 deputies , mustered only 50 votes in favour of lifting the ban , and the leader of the CP bloc , Oleksandr Moroz , announced that it was to be dissolved . |
| 8 | Yet Clark had known all along of the military preparations ‘ Musketeer I ’ and ‘ Musketeer II ’ and had been dismayed when Dulles seemed to have aborted them with his Suez Canal Users Club ; and after the Anglo-French meeting in London in September he had put out ‘ a dull communiqué , and no one has the least idea of what big things were abroad' . |
| 9 | Although at that time the Unix PC was the most successful Unix product ever , by May 1986 ( UX No 79 ) , AT&T was struggling to market thousands of the things held in stock — it had wanted to sell a million of them — and had co-opted Convergent on to the job too . |
| 10 | According to the Croatian Assembly election results after the second round of voting on May 6-7 , the HDZ had taken 205 out of the 356 seats in the three Assembly chambers . |
| 11 | My 1979 two and a quarter diesel has been leaking oil from around the fuel pump and I had put this down to a leaky gasket . |
| 12 | I 'll tell you this — if they had tried that on with the Liverpool team of the mid-1960s that included Ron Yeats , Ian St John , Gerry Byrne and myself the match would never have taken place . |
| 13 | He said that the predominance of classical entries in the competition came from the supposition that it was the favoured style , but the judges had awarded four out of the seven prizes to Gothic designs . |
| 14 | Duvall joined him and began to shove hard , until the cabinet had juddered close up to the office door . |