Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter also diverged from the Prime Minister , with whom he had latterly differed over Westland , Libya , and other issues . |
| 2 | Hermite had presumably gambled on Smith 's being the only entry for the competition , but there were in fact two others . |
| 3 | Aubrey had laughingly referred to Lionel as Madeleine 's ‘ intended ’ . |
| 4 | Elections to the Constituent Assembly , which the Provisional Government had eventually scheduled for November , went ahead . |
| 5 | Later Seddon telephoned to tell me that a young man — actually a volunteer from the Metropolitan police — had duly appeared at Southend , and had been remanded for a week . |
| 6 | I thought of cold nights in Edinburgh and went everywhere with a relaxation I had rarely felt in Peru . |
| 7 | — who had secretly turned into Mrs Greene . |
| 8 | The charges , which carried a maximum sentence of 50 years ' imprisonment and a fine of $1,000,000 , alleged that Imelda Marcos had secretly invested in Manhattan real estate and valuables using money stolen from the Philippines . |
| 9 | In one of the most startling revelations to emerge early in 1990 about the Zhivkov era , the newspaper Narodna Kultura on Feb. 23 published documentary evidence ( in the form of a BCP central committee resolution from July 1973 ) that Zhivkov had secretly agreed in November 1972 with the then Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev to create conditions for Bulgaria 's annexation by the Soviet Union . |
| 10 | Certainly , the United States administration had vastly over-reacted to Nkrumah 's book Neo-Colonialism : The last stage of imperialism ( 1965 ) , though the views he advanced were becoming the commonplace of Third World writing . |
| 11 | Opponents of Meciar in Public Against Violence ( PAV , the senior partner in the ruling coalition ) , which he had effectively split in March by forming a separate minority faction [ see p. 38106 ] , had allied with the CDM in arranging a parliamentary investigation into Meciar 's recent conduct , which found him guilty of incompetence , lying , and abusing his access to former secret police files . |
| 12 | The only clue so far discovered of any value to a possible dating of his return is the fact that , according to Bursali Mehmed Tahir , there exists a copy of one of his most famous works , the written in his own hand , presented to Mehmed II , and dated 878/1473–4 it would not thus be unreasonable to suppose that Molla Husrev wrote the copy especially for Mehmed II , this in turn suggesting that by 878 Molla Husrev had made up his quarrel with the sultan and had perhaps returned to Istanbul . |
| 13 | He had constantly worked against Balfour , criticizing him freely in letters to colleagues and using his party positions as independent bases against the leader . |
| 14 | Pinochet Hiriart stated in his testimony to the committee in mid-January that the money , apparently used to buy out his share in a small bankrupt arms manufacturing company , was in fact a payment for three loans which he had personally secured in Europe for the company . |
| 15 | In People v. Rosario ( 1961 ) 213 N.Y.S. 2d 448 four members of the Court of Appeals of New York , adopting the view of the United States Supreme Court in Jencks v. United States ( 1957 ) 353 U.S. 657 , ruled that the entire previous statements of prosecution witnesses ought to be shown to defence counsel after the direct examination with a view to his cross-examining those witnesses and attacking their credibility , saying that counsel were best able to decide what use could be made of the statements , whereas three members of the court took a narrower view and , following the line of authority which had hitherto prevailed in New York , held that defence counsel could examine and use only those portions of a statement which , according to the view of the trial judge , contained variances from a witness 's evidence . |
| 16 | We had all gathered for Hamish and Tone 's traditional Ne'erday partyette ; a necessarily quietish affair during which people exchanged tales of drunkenness , broken resolutions and recipes for hangover cures , as well as taking advantage of the opportunity to compare notes regarding blank spots in the memories of any of the assembled penitents . |
| 17 | The four judges — Archie Tait , David Reid , Loius Marks , and Ross Devenish — said they had all voted for GBH , and the decision was ‘ inexplicable ’ . |
| 18 | Perhaps they had only lived in London because he had thought it was what she wanted . |
| 19 | The Government of India had only moved to Delhi from Calcutta in 1911 , and the magnificent Lutyens buildings which today dominate New Delhi were still being built . |
| 20 | It was as though the creature had never existed ; or had only existed in Mungo 's imagination . |
| 21 | He had only gone to Karlovy Vary to deliver a package — and look at the time , nearly four o'clock ! |
| 22 | She tried however to pin her thoughts on other matters and , recalling that Ven had only returned to Mariánské Láznë in order to pick up some papers , she realised that , since they were important enough for him to make the four-hour return journey , he must want them to hand over to someone else . |
| 23 | This had only added to Brian 's sense of guilt , as if he had been prying , probing into something personal that was not his business . |
| 24 | That he had only looked through Mrs report on the day of his evidence and had taken five or ten minutes on Mrs report . |
| 25 | On appeal , the Authority stated that the dismissal was not one of redundancy as their requirements for draughtsmen had not ceased , they had only ceased at Orfordness . |
| 26 | ‘ Your father had only qualified from Edinburgh a couple of years before . |
| 27 | With the exception of a few New Zealand government officials , the other inhabitants had only come to Koraloona because they preferred it to life in reduced circumstances in a big city . |
| 28 | What had happened was that Birkenhead , Austen Chamberlain , Worthington Evans , Derby and Joynson Hicks had , together or separately ( and , according to Bridgeman , backed by Beaverbrook and Rothermere ) succeeded in persuading Balfour that Baldwin intended to resign ; that he should , if asked by the King , advise him to choose not MacDonald nor Asquith , but another Conservative- Derby or Austen Chamberlain , because he held Baldwin personally to blame rather than his party ; further , they had so worked on Stamfordham , that if Baldwin had gone to resign at once , the advice tendered to the King by his private secretary would have been the same . |
| 29 | I had entirely forgotten about Mrs Hall 's absence . |
| 30 | She had entirely forgotten about Alexander Vass and that unfortunate collision with his Bentley . |