Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv prt] [subord] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had to sit down because of the shock . |
| 2 | The system of setting limits to public spending had broken down because of the following : |
| 3 | It all seemed so logical that you knew Ryan , had come over because of the land . ’ |
| 4 | So in 1950 the American , Hillary Waugh , impressed by a volume of real murder cases he had picked up , not so much because of the horrific details the author had dwelt on as by the tone of authenticity that seemed to arise naturally from the accounts of the cases , decided to write a fictional crime story catching as much as he could of this real-life feel . |
| 5 | Jacques Lanxade , 56 , was named Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces in place of Gen. Maurice Schmitt , who had reached retirement age in early 1991 but had stayed on because of the Gulf crisis . |
| 6 | Yet when Vechey 's corpse was found , somehow or other it had dried out except beneath the knees . ’ |
| 7 | He went there before you , as did your grandfather Cornelius Swift , who gave us the vases in the hallway and the stuffed baboon I had to throw out because of the fleas . |