Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [adv] [vb pp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the land was largely champaign , some demesnes had never lain in common field , or had long ceased to do so . |
| 2 | Even now his words had n't sunk in completely . |
| 3 | Again , this was a 1960s fad which lasted only a very few years ( c 1966–69 ) , although split-screen sequences had occasionally appeared in fantasy films such as musicals in the 1940s and '50s . |
| 4 | They pointed out that Lome III had not stimulated trade between the EC and the ACP countries ( since 1985 trade in both directions had actually fallen in both absolute and relative terms ) , or lessened the ACP countries ' economic dependence on the production of primary commodities , or encouraged industrialization . |
| 5 | The numbers of Elves had so declined in later years that many of the cities were half empty and many of the lands abandoned . |
| 6 | Pro-Chinese elements had traditionally convened in the Federation of Trade Unions and through complex webs of professional , social and business organizations . |
| 7 | In practice , a number of dealers had not succeeded in passing the little BIDS exam , and obviously had n't bothered to cheat their way through it either . |
| 8 | Most dealers had already written in a premium for the premiership of Pierre Beregovoy , whose stint as finance minister made him well known to the business community . |
| 9 | The British Government had cut the overseas aid budget by more money than the two charities had ever raised in their entire histories — and neither the media nor the general public had produced a murmur of protest . |
| 10 | He 'd noticed that the geese had just arrived in the back fields . |
| 11 | Before long English , French , Danish and Basque whale-hunters had all joined in the lucrative trade . |
| 12 | The French troops had not stopped in Frasnes , but were marching doggedly on towards Sharpe who supposed that their orders were to seize the crossroads at Quatre Bras before nightfall . |
| 13 | Already after a few days it became clear that the German troops had not succeeded in repulsing the Normandy landing , and that the deployment of the V1 — rapidly dubbed ‘ Versager I ’ ( ‘ Failure No . |
| 14 | A revaluation in Scotland in 1985 caused a political furore and justified the general caution with which governments had generally proceeded in this matter . |
| 15 | Plants had already seeded in crevices around the foundations , preparing to take over the instant man 's will failed . |
| 16 | Another participant pointed out that the Northern Ireland budget over the last five years had only increased in line with inflation . |
| 17 | The latest gramophone discs had just arrived in Colombo , and one could join Harry Champion in the chorus of his You Ought to See the Missus in a Harem Skirt . |
| 18 | Opponents alleged that police powers had dangerously expanded in recent years while police accountability had diminished . |
| 19 | By 1983 surveys had also begun in the Netherlands , France , Austria , Switzerland , Luxembourg and Italy , as well as in many Eastern European countries where short-range pollution involving sulphur dioxide and NOx was still a major problem . |
| 20 | The success of the rural reforms had already faltered in the late 1980s as farmers found that competitive risk-taking generated losses as well as profits . |
| 21 | Since 1952 his illustrations for plays had regularly appeared in the Radio Times where , as Rigby Graham has argued , Minton 's knowledge of costume , his sense of period and locale , made him invaluable . |
| 22 | Particularly was this so because the British accountancy profession played a more constructive role in the preparatory stages of the two Directives than our professional bodies had hitherto taken in relation to EC proposals . |
| 23 | Tree swallows had just arrived in Hobart on their annual migrations , and were ‘ particularly numerous in the streets ’ ; wood swallows dived among the paddocks and pasturelands on nearby estates ; fire-tailed finches and flame-breasted robins were busy nest-building in gardens and orchards — ‘ I have even taken its nest ’ , remarked Gould about the latter , ‘ from a shelving bank in the streets of Hobart' — while dusky robins perched on garden railings . |
| 24 | He also discovered that , in the majority of cases , any sexual encounters that the patients had really had in childhood were with other children . |
| 25 | These youths had all escaped in one way or another from forced labour throughout the archipelago and the mainland colonies ; there were some women with them , but not many , and Dulé planned to bring Ariel and her baby to live with him on Oualie . |
| 26 | She recognized that this feeling was in part a hangover from her schooldays , when her occasional invitations to friends had invariably resulted in sessions of strained discomfort , presided over by the disapprobation , however concealed , of her mother ; she had no precedent for successful hospitality . |
| 27 | Work on drafting a Directive specific to the mountain areas of the Community had already begun but one of the British government 's objectives during entry negotiations was to provide for a continuation of the special assistance hill and upland farms had hitherto enjoyed in the UK . |
| 28 | The faltering champions had n't won in six matches before their Coca Cola Cup caning of lowly Scunthorpe on Tuesday . |
| 29 | The displays of china and silver-framed photographs and the arrangements of feathers and dried flowers would have made the atmosphere claustrophobic if the immense windows had not let in so much light . |
| 30 | It may be that he was influenced in his thinking yet again by the British , whose officer class cultivated the honourable wound , and whose subalterns had lately contributed in altogether disproportionate numbers to the casualties suffered by the British army in France . |