Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [conj] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Blue Leader , Lt. ‘ Jimmie ’ Gardner ( who had previously flown on attachment to the RAF and had claimed five victories whilst with Sqn.Ldr . |
| 3 | There , he had presided over a society only slightly less diverse than that of the Caucasus and had fostered its development without trespassing dangerously on local sensibilities . |
| 4 | Mr Carbert said that previously Gilfoyle had told him he had been a paramedic in the Falklands and had treated casualties on the battlefield . |
| 5 | At Rass he heard that Ibrahim was evacuating all but the Hijaz and had withdrawn to Medina . |
| 6 | His father , also named Rudolf Slansky , had been general secretary of the CPCz and had been executed in 1952 after a show trial at which he was accused of being an agent of imperialism . |
| 7 | She had scarcely seen the Mercedes that had swung into the drive just as she 'd been about to go out , but by sheer instinct she had swerved to miss it , sparing only a glance in the mirror to tell her the other car was safe before speeding on her way again . |
| 8 | ‘ He said we were being served with notice to leave on the Tuesday and had to be out by Thursday . |
| 9 | The Peugeot that had come up behind me . |
| 10 | She had been less fortunate with the driver , who was not at all sure of the route to the Hook and had to rely on friendly passers-by to give directions . |
| 11 | On April 25 , 1990 , the three Western allies announced that they had agreed to allow West Berliners to vote in West German elections for the first time since 1949 ( hitherto the West Berlin city legislature had sent 22 non-voting delegates to the Bundestag and had similar status within the Bundesrat ) . |
| 12 | According to the rules established by Lanfranc for refugee inhabitants of nunneries who had fled from the Normans but had not taken monastic vows , Gunhilda was eligible for marriage . |
| 13 | Adam remembered the BMW that had pulled out of the complex when he walked past earlier . |
| 14 | Ligachev , for instance , argued in a speech in June 1987 that the ‘ class enemy ’ was hoping that perestroika would undermine the influence of Marxist-Leninist ideology in the USSR and had been making use of it to spread ‘ irresponsible demagogy , hostile to the interests of the toilers ’ . |
| 15 | The Pentagon was obsessed with the Atlantic and had devoted inadequate attention to the problems of the Pacific . |
| 16 | All three came from the Midlands and had been at the sharp end of the business as salesmen for distribution companies . |
| 17 | So Wolfgang and his mother moved on to the spacious , elegant town on the Rhine that had been the seat of the Elector Palatine since 1720 . |
| 18 | However , Clive Cookson was no longer with the BBC but had instead become the science and technology correspondent of the Financial Times . |
| 19 | I stopped at a pub I used rarely near the BBC and had a ploughman 's and a couple of orange juices , no alcohol , partly because I wanted to keep a clear head and partly to fit in with the cab-driver persona . |
| 20 | The previous law relating to covert action , the Hughes-Ryan amendment enacted in 1974 , had applied only to actions undertaken by the CIA and had never been rigorously applied . |
| 21 | He had arrived in the late afternoon of a perfect summer 's day , was shortly to go off to the Alps and then the Himalayas and had not touched rock for a couple of years , so the urge for activity was upon him . |
| 22 | Hell , for a 60-year-old man who has been busted for drugs , received death threats from the Klan and had triple-bypass heart surgery , you look damn good , John . |
| 23 | If the VKPB brought together the extreme Stalinist wing of the CPSU and had very few supporters , the larger tendency in the former CPSU , conservative as far as the economy is concerned rather than from an historical point of view , formed the Russian Communist Workers Party or RKRP . |
| 24 | Where Joffre , Foch and de Castelnau were Pyreneans , Pétain came from a peasant family in the Pas-de-Calais and had all the characteristics of a northerner . |
| 25 | Brito was second vice-president of the PSD and had stood unsuccessfully as candidate for mayor of Oporto in December . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , Dr Michel Halbouty , chairman of the Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources , told the meeting that the findings indicated that as much oil and gas remained to be found in the Pacific as had been discovered so far worldwide . |
| 27 | But Conran had decided not to soft-pedal in the US and had made up his mind to make a big splash immediately , which required large investments which it took years to recoup . |
| 28 | He had been apprenticed to the kitchens at the Ritz and had simultaneously developed a theatrical bent , performing as a dancer at the Players ' Theatre . |
| 29 | One lady who was working in the Smithy and had recently been directed to Wolverton , kept pestering him for one , and at times was quite verbal about it . |
| 30 | That was a real issue during the troubles in the Punjab and had a real effect on Wolverhampton . |