Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv prt] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Leconte , who only four months earlier had undergone back surgery for the third time in little more than two years , it had seen the re-birth of what was — and can be again — a gloriously entertaining , as well as effective , career . |
| 2 | The extreme diehards had written off Law as the dupe of Lloyd George because he did not come out fighting against coalition policies , hence the witticism that the coalition was an alliance between a flock of sheep led by a , crook and a flock of crooks led by a sheep . |
| 3 | The defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo on 18 June 1815 had opened up travel on the Continent , and Sewell , fully realising that his visits were cursory , seems nevertheless to have enjoyed them . |
| 4 | Ariel had laid down Sycorax at the cabin entrance , under the dappled broad shade of a mango tree . |
| 5 | The other groups had set up camp on the far side , waiting for a few clear days and the worst of the snow to melt . |
| 6 | With Syrian approval , the captain of the town 's ‘ defence committee ’ had set up office in the telephone exchange . |
| 7 | The fifteen hundred men who had set off north from the Forth directly after the first struggle with Siward and who must be less than two hours away at this moment , marching up Strathallan by the way he had come himself , passing Dunblane and Forteviot . |
| 8 | Every available battery was brought to bear on the French guns , but many of these had taken up position behind the parapets of the forts clustered on the Bois Bourrus ridge and were consequently most difficult to hit . |
| 9 | After the service was over , they broke their fast in the small whitewashed refectory before approaching the Prior who confirmed his speculation of the previous evening that the Lord Bruce and his entourage had taken up residence in the port of Leith . |
| 10 | This was the emotion he had tried to purge himself of by identifying with the snakes that had taken up residence in the ashes of his family 's land . |
| 11 | It made her feel a little dowdy , as though she had taken up residence in the suburbs of morality . |
| 12 | After the dissolution of the Soviet Union , Russia , whose delegation was led by State Councillor Sergei Shakhrai , had taken over responsibility for the former Soviet military divisions in the Baltic . |
| 13 | According to the report local militias dominated by Uzbek , Tajik and Shia Ismaeli ethnic groups had formed an alliance with local mujaheddin units ( including fighters commanded by Ahmed Shah Masud ) in late March , and together they had taken over control of the city from Pashtun units . |
| 14 | Beirut port , where the Lebanese army had taken over control from the militias the previous month , opened on March 15 after a 14-month closure . |
| 15 | Without declaring for or against the coup , Sukarno issued an ordinance stating he had taken over command of the armed forces . |
| 16 | He had put on weight in the short time since going to Mrs Gracie 's ; he was plump . |
| 17 | There had been a good deal of rain , the Thames was high , and a north-westerly had piled up water at the river 's mouth , waiting for a strong flood tide to carry it up . |
| 18 | When the GTP was built , settlers had begun to develop the land along its route to such an extent that construction trains had to bring back wheat despite the unfinished nature of the track . |