Example sentences of "had [verb] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could only tell me that Wesley 's father had left home when he was about six years old , that his mother had remarried and the boy now lived with her and his stepfather . |
| 2 | She had guessed that the reason was something to do with Jennifer for she had known that her sister had n't been well for some while and had been undergoing tests since experiencing stabbing pain in her right eye and numbness in her legs . |
| 3 | Alexei had guessed that the path of the conversation would lead eventually to this . |
| 4 | Long queues had formed before the car was towed away by police . |
| 5 | This opinion was consistent with the opinion which Mr. Tinker had formed while the deceased was at Samuel Saye House and that Dr. Rao had formed in the period before the deceased 's death . |
| 6 | From Dennis 's drunken hints that memorable evening in Ramillies Drive I had gathered that the reason for this was Karen 's sterility , so I was somewhat surprised to find her going on the offensive . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , reports on Sept. 20 said that a Harvard University medical team which had recently returned from Iraq had found that the number of child deaths due to malnutrition and disease had trebled since the imposition of sanctions . |
| 8 | Production even on the smallest holdings had trebled and the work load had soared . |
| 9 | Two generations later the population had trebled and the pall of industrial smoke had become permanent . |
| 10 | Mobutu had intended that the Assembly , made up largely of members of his Mouvement populaire de la révolution ( MPR ) , should draft an alternative constitution to that proposed by the national conference in September [ see p. 39082-83 ] . |
| 11 | SAAB had estimated the costs and benefits of the line-out system and had calculated that the system would pay for itself within four years , with more than half of the savings coming from the increased production flexibility of the system and another 25 per cent coming from reduced labour turnover and absenteeism . |
| 12 | They had to wait while the Substitute put on his new galoshes , murmuring with a cigar between his teeth : ‘ Do n't want to miss anything this time … ’ |
| 13 | I could n't cope with never knowing what days I was going to be there — you had to wait till the rota was up to see which days you 'd be working … |
| 14 | Hounslow had to wait until the second-half before England 's Martyn Grimley scored their first goal in a 3-0 win over Lyons , the Poundstretcher Second Division side . |
| 15 | Unable to turn , Chant had to wait until the man walked past his supine body to get a sight of him . |
| 16 | He had to wait until the coronation of Richard II before receiving an earldom , and his endowment with part of the Bohun inheritance was scarcely sufficient for one of his rank . |
| 17 | The only parts of the Home Support Project which were not clearly understood at first were ( a ) its method of obtaining clients ( it was sometimes thought that any dementia sufferer in the borough could be referred directly to the development officer ) , and ( b ) the fact that the development officers could not step in immediately the psychogeriatrician referred a client to the project , but had to wait until the research assessment had been carried out ( which would confirm the client 's eligibility for the project service ) . |
| 18 | I had to wait until the female was bulging-ripe , so within a few days she was brooding . |
| 19 | The Labour Party published the result of its own enquiries in 1936 and began a campaign for more effective measures , but the compulsory control of industrial location had to wait until the war and the post-war Labour government . |
| 20 | The market was pleasantly stunned by the deal , since no-one had realised that the stake was worth anything like the sum agreed . |
| 21 | I also recognised that I was expected to take responsibility for the interpretation of the utterance , exploring a wide range of contextual assumptions ( about hospitals , illness , operations , and convalescence ) and deriving a wide range of contextual implications — not only a wider range than I would have derived had the newsreader just produced [ 14b ] , but a wider range than I would have derived if I had realised that the speaker was talking about the pound . |
| 22 | Then he had realised that the originator of the plot could just as easily have been Burun — intending all the time that it should fail — achieving at a stroke the removal of effective opposition , placing Artai in debt to the Merkuts for the security of his throne . |
| 23 | He had realised that the refinement of distress is that you are obliged to suffer not just for yourself , which is the easier part , but for others as well . |
| 24 | Ever since he could think at all he had realised that the class which exploited the worker in every country would fight to the last ditch for the sake of keeping the worker where he was and where he had been all his life . |
| 25 | The successful vote on energy policy reflected the broad national consensus which had developed since the issue was last addressed in a referendum in 1983 , when the proposal failed to secure a majority in more than half the cantons as required [ see p. 32643 ] . |
| 26 | Suddenly , here , on the windswept rock , after the battle , she experienced certainty and settling , as if the clouds had parted and the sun had illuminated her . |
| 27 | The mother had pointed out that her daughter was under the legal age for sexual intercourse , but the high priest had explained that the order had its own calendar . |
| 28 | He had explained that the amount of paperwork involved made it impracticable , but he was sure they had n't believed him . |
| 29 | Then she discovered that it was Travis she had to thank that the news of her engagement to his cousin was all over Vasey 's , as , still smiling , he stated , ‘ Hope you do n't mind , Naylor , but I came in earlier to have a quick word with Leith , and could n't resist telling her assistant that a possible reason for Leith being late this morning could be her getting engaged to you at the weekend . ’ |
| 30 | We had heard that the University library and the small library of the Burma Research Society had practically disappeared , so I visited second-hand bookshops to Pick up out-of-print books on Burma , and for the modest expenditure of one hundred pounds managed to gather a very good collection of standard books on Burma and Buddhism . |