Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [conj] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went on to quote the response that had been received from editors : |
| 2 | On his arrival , he had been satisfied to see the defences that had been set up around the hospital , and had every intention of congratulating those responsible . |
| 3 | As I have said before , the intellectual aristocracy of B.P. , who lived near the Park or had private transport , were able to take part in many home-made activities , such as the pleasure of organising and playing in small domestic chamber concerts , or chess , bridge , tennis , dancing , and amateur dramatics . |
| 4 | They were in a dark corner behind the bandstand in the park and had quickly gone through all the other stages , including the one Sally liked best , kissing and pressing the lower half of their bodies close together as if they were dancing . |
| 5 | James Abbott held the crook he carried every working day , the crook that had been his father 's when he was shepherd here , head shepherd to Alexander Bewick . |
| 6 | He had realised it before she had , and somehow the sympathy that had been briefly in those blue eyes , that she had mistaken for some sort of liking , was far more disturbing than his hard , cool look . |
| 7 | Raybestos also attacked the competence and motivation of the experts that had supported the residents : |
| 8 | To know the meaning of the weakness that had sapped the strength from her limbs when she had seen him half stripped earlier ? |
| 9 | At that point were both of you behind the shield or had he stepped out from behind ? |
| 10 | There were none of the crowds that had been there during the day and we could really pray . |
| 11 | What the ‘ new technology ’ and the restructuring of Fleet Street have patently not yet done is introduce the variety that had once been optimistically promised . |
| 12 | The conversation was dying all around her as she looked in the direction that had been indicated . |
| 13 | After the president 's office had released his controversial decree without any reference to a ‘ special order ’ of rule — the provision that had most alarmed the legislature — observers said it was not clear whether he had revised the decree to meet the demands of the Constitutional Court and parliament or had exaggerated its harshness in his weekend speech . |
| 14 | Theda slipped unobtrusively into the house , which seemed unnaturally quiet after the hurricane that had driven her out of it . |
| 15 | The only street fell steeply down towards the secondary gateway to the Manor and had about fifteen cottages on the east side of the road . |
| 16 | He 'd seen the change that had come over Chantal since the news that Philippe was still alive . |
| 17 | The apparent rarity of balances in the sixth century emphasises the change that had taken place , especially in Kent . |
| 18 | The women at the corner-shop remarked upon the change that had come over him , and could not account for it . |
| 19 | On the street again , suddenly I felt I was in the middle of a farce — ‘ POLICE SEARCH FOR THE BIG BANANA IS ON — and the discovery that actually I did have my cheque numbers in my moneybelt and that it was the photocopies that had been stolen made me almost light-headed . |
| 20 | For most of the time the plaintiffs seemed to miss out on the need to prove their reliance on the accounts and had they addressed this early enough , the case might never have come to court . |
| 21 | Accountants Marks Bloom had audited the accounts and had issued an unqualified opinion on them . |
| 22 | However , the handover of powers brought the institutions that had evolved from the old workhouses into the hands of authorities that could more effectively bring them up to date . |
| 23 | The distant Tower showed no mark of the flames that had consumed its upper floors . |
| 24 | Or was it the heavy rain slapping against the windows , the wind 's eerie message as it whistled down the chimney and flickered at the flames that had begun to lick about the new-laid logs ? |
| 25 | Richard 's grandfather , Tom , who had been crippled in the mines and had a wheelchair , had a great win on a horse called Black Sambo . |
| 26 | By this time I had joined the Scouts and had reached the dizzy heights of Patrol Leader . |
| 27 | The dog got over-excited and took exception to one of the chefs and had to be shut in the barn where he howled mournfully enough to wake the dead . |
| 28 | For Guido , she realised , had only been the catalyst that had finally forced her to confront her true feelings for Arnie . |
| 29 | Aubrey had been at his most affected , protesting volubly at the trick that had been played on him . |
| 30 | Blue Leader , Lt. ‘ Jimmie ’ Gardner ( who had previously flown on attachment to the RAF and had claimed five victories whilst with Sqn.Ldr . |