Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who could fail to be stirred by the thought of such purpose , reaching back over generations to the men who had gathered on this spot two centuries before ? |
| 2 | Yet even as one half of her mind speculated on its significance , the other half reminded her that if she had stumbled on this odd circumstance , then the police would almost certainly have done so in the course of their routine enquiries and , since Barney was still their prime suspect , found a satisfactory explanation . |
| 3 | The purpose in setting side by side the careers of Hocazade and Civizade is simply to compare in a very broad way the careers of two not unrepresentative scholars of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries respectively in order to show the degree to which the hierarchy had developed during this period ; and what one may fairly infer from the comparison is limited . |
| 4 | Country cotton weavers claimed in 1756 to have been long accustomed to meet weekly at a public house to discuss trade matters and that their friendly society or " box club " had developed from this and in its turn found itself exercising trade-union functions . |
| 5 | It was her first visit to a city and she was taken aback by the volume of traffic — ‘ I had heard about this kind of thing , but it 's quite frightening close to like this , ’ she said , as she stood on the pavement in City Square and watched four lanes of vehicles jousting strenuously for position . |
| 6 | Driving through Kilmartin , south of Oban , I saw two notices calling public meetings to discuss pollution — the first I and many others had heard about this problem . |
| 7 | The fact that almost nobody had heard of this prerogative turned out to one of the judges to be a point in its favour : |
| 8 | Corbett remembered he had heard of this type of man , an ‘ Albus ’ , an all-white man or albino . |
| 9 | So all she had heard of this woman was true . |
| 10 | A spokesman for the British Field Sports Society said it was the first time he had heard of this happening ; which prompted Chapman Pincher to write in saying that the same thing had happened to him in 1961 ( Daily Telegraph , 21 and 24 December 1987 ) . |
| 11 | I had heard of this spirit creature . |
| 12 | I said that this was the first I had heard of this claim . " |
| 13 | It is most probably that the inhabitants had heard of this religion which had spread over Europe and had been known as early as the late Roman period in Britain . |
| 14 | After a while it seemed to me amusing that such preparations as a wedding involve should surround the plain , pale husk that was me and that no one had commented on this incongruity . |
| 15 | Here we were disturbed by no one , it seemed that the whole world had stopped on this Scottish Sabbath . |
| 16 | The boy had scoffed at this but Farag had told him to wait and see . |
| 17 | How far Anselm had travelled along this road , and how much further he would still travel , are questions to which an answer must be sought in the reign of Henry I. But it is clear that Anselm in exile was beginning to see events , if not through Hildebrandine eyes , at least with shades of Hildebrandine colour . |
| 18 | Or maybe the French had marched past this crossroads and were already nearing Brussels ? |
| 19 | It was less than a year since he had marched into this office , having forsaken the job of Director General of the Security Service for what he regarded as a promotion , while the men of Century recoiled at what they saw as a political insult . |
| 20 | The cheekbone too , and much of the left side of his face , had vanished into this ill-defined cleft , leaving the nose twisted and the mouth distorted . |
| 21 | She had worked for Mair as his PA for the last three years and he knew her now no better than on that morning when she had sat in this same office being interviewed for the job . |
| 22 | It was only two days since she had sat in this same seat and dribbled raindrops everywhere . |
| 23 | Aline had sat throughout this colloquy listening attentively to every word , but contributing none of her own . |
| 24 | Baby had looked like this doll , as though nearly real , yet not quite , with a waxy pale skin , yellow-tinged , bright glassy eyes and a dainty pink mouth . |
| 25 | Many before me , I thought , had been shot by arrows in ancient woodland and faced their mortality in places that had looked like this before man started killing man . |
| 26 | He was wondering whether the slaves who had been shipped to America had looked like this , when he felt his mother 's gentle touch on his shoulder and turned to find her smiling fondly at him . |
| 27 | Sooner or later , if she ever got her reason back , she would realise that her daughter had resigned from this German job six weeks before the accident , that she had n't breathed a word to her aunt or her friends about the possibility of her returning to Europe . |
| 28 | Nyamwisi Movingi had resigned from this post on March 22 , accusing the government of leading the country to disaster . |
| 29 | It was reported on July 18 , in an apparently unrelated development , that the president of the HDUR , Géza Domokos , had resigned from this post . |
| 30 | Even so , if he had succeeded in this endeavour , to the point of winning the election , then the ensuing chaos in both the health and educational fields would have been fearful to behold , quite apart from the flight from sterling , and the loss of foreign investment . |