Example sentences of "the [noun] [pron] had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ Oh ! ’ was caused by a flash of insight ; it seemed like an answer to the prayer I had not prayed , the prayer I had only thought . |
| 2 | The ‘ Oh ! ’ was caused by a flash of insight ; it seemed like an answer to the prayer I had not prayed , the prayer I had only thought . |
| 3 | I was amazed and terrified at the change I had so casually brought about in her . |
| 4 | The institutions which had previously been set up to aid small farmers had their lending capacity cut considerably , making it difficult for many of the beneficiaries to find sufficient capital . |
| 5 | The conduct of the trial itself had also been the subject of much speculation when it became evident that most of the prosecution witnesses were detainees . |
| 6 | They were not allowed to tarry , however , but were taken upstairs , along a gallery and into a small chamber , its simplicity in stark contrast to the splendour they had just witnessed . |
| 7 | Lord Parker C.J. said ‘ The words on the foil cap were an accurate trade description of the milk , and in their context the words on the bottle did not refer to the milk which had already been accurately described , but merely conveyed , as the fact was , that it was a bottle belonging to the person whose name was embossed . |
| 8 | Alone , Franca washed her face in cold water in the kitchen , washing off the powder she had just put on . |
| 9 | When on 5 September the Lords Lieutenant of the four most northerly counties were ordered to make their respective militias ready for immediate service , it emerged that neither Northumberland nor Durham had been reimbursed by central government for the money they had previously spent in keeping the force mustered , while the authorities in Cumberland admitted candidly : ‘ T is so long since the militia was raised that we are apprehensive the arms are either lost or in bad order . ’ |
| 10 | She had already told Colin very firmly that she did not expect to be billed for any handling charge from him in view of the money he had already had — which was in fact a smaller sum . |
| 11 | The money he had fruitlessly spent was equal to what he successfully gained . |
| 12 | He wanted desperately to forget himself and who he was , or had hoped to be ; now , there was little hope , for the money he had carefully set aside for his expected purposes would not last for another year , and he had no employment . |
| 13 | His next film was very laid back and one , he admitted , which was the clearest-cut job of acting for the money he had ever done … and he vowed he would never do that again . |
| 14 | He came out of the Hotel suddenly and violently , unable to endure the privilege which had so cruelly and so recently oppressed him . |
| 15 | Over his face quivered shades of the sniggers he had just been enjoying with his mates . |
| 16 | Sub-Committee E has certainly carried out a number of inquiries — for example , those into Merger Controls and into product Safety and into Unfair Contract Terms , where the final content of the legislation corresponded entirely to the views they had earlier expressed . |
| 17 | Darwin himself held back the views he had already formed until 1859 . |
| 18 | Of course the text itself had n't literally all been erased . |
| 19 | He told her he had been thinking of the text he had just learnt , ‘ Prepare to meet thy God , ’ and perhaps he might die tonight , and he did not know if he was ready , if his sins were all forgiven … |
| 20 | The coroner was quite prepared to let Athelstan use the advantage they had now gained . |
| 21 | The director offered Susan a refund for the £40 she had originally paid and free treatment until her hair was put right . |
| 22 | All went well until we saw the cow which had originally smashed the crush . |
| 23 | Many were amazed that the war against Bolshevism was already more or less over , but no less a person than the Führer himself had again lent support to such notions with his proclamation to the soldiers on the eastern Front on 2 October , in which he spoke of ‘ the last mighty blow to smash the enemy even before the onset of winter ’ . |
| 24 | And in a fortnight or three weeks time they too would be found with the inquisitive crowd on the inside of the gate staring at the prisoners who had just arrived . |
| 25 | For the tourney I returned to the serving table to serve the knights who had just fought with a drink , and serve the ladies with bread , cheese and fruit . |
| 26 | The acetylcholine sweat spot test was carried out injecting 0.1 ml of a 1% solution of acetylcholine ( Miochol — CooperVision Ltd , Southampton , UK ) intradermally using a 25 gauge needle in a marked area of the dorsum of the foot which had previously been painted with a 2% alcholic iodine solution and a suspension of maize starch in arachis oil ( 100 g in 100 ml ) . |
| 27 | As he came towards her out of the darkness the inevitable shock of physical awareness swept over her , sharpened now by the experience they had just shared . |
| 28 | She was not sure what their present domestic arrangements were and whether there was some splendid woman in the kitchen who had perhaps failed in her duty on this occasion |
| 29 | That meant that as well as the cheque she had just written for her first month 's rent on her new accommodation , she would have to find three months ' mortgage from somewhere . |
| 30 | At Bhamdoun , a hill resort with a little railway station , an ornate French signal box and a clutch of mosques and apartment blocks built by the Saudis who had once gone there for their summer holidays , Syrian shellfire had smashed into the shops and flats , punching a hole into the wall of the Carlton Hotel . |