Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] had [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found a graze that had oozed a small crust of blood into the thick hair , almost dry now . |
| 2 | Dear people who could hardly write for arthritis , who had to send aged husbands staggering out in the frost to find something suitable , people whom I had hardly seen and had exchanged no more than the shiest of glances were sending me pictures of daffodils , valleys , seas and mountains . |
| 3 | Held , allowing the appeal and quashing the order , that the judge had failed to specify the fees to be disallowed and had adopted an inappropriate procedure ; and that , in any event , there had been no unreasonable act or omission capable of founding an order under section 19A of the Act ( post , pp. 665G — 666B , G ) . |
| 4 | On taking her history , it was discovered that when she was twelve or thirteen she had had frequent nose bleeds and had lost a great deal of blood . |
| 5 | AFTER SEVEN years of perfecting an original and incisive style of investigative journalism in the provinces , I relished the opportunity to move to the big city and expose the callous greed and avarice that had poisoned the cynical entertainment industry for so long . |
| 6 | It was where Diana was born and had spent the first fourteen years of her life . |
| 7 | She lived in the house where my mother had been born and had spent the first seventeen years of her life , up until the time she was married . |
| 8 | But in each case the wife lacked a full understanding of the security transaction into which she had entered and had had no independent advice . |
| 9 | Hugh was already committed to the marathon trip when he heard that the special care school had been burgled and had lost a vital computer and software , which is crucial in helping the children 's development |
| 10 | But when the justice minister who had agreed to her release himself fell from favour , she was reimprisoned and had to serve a further ten months before being rereleased . |
| 11 | It was cold but not too cold , and dammit , I had caught four fish with hardly any effort ; fish that had taken a big crust with a savage bite that suggested they were very hungry . |
| 12 | It was n't so much the cash , although there was plenty of that ; it was the security boxes that had afforded the biggest haul , the accumulated assets , in gold and precious stones , of hundreds of Americans in England . |
| 13 | Often , such people never consider that it might be because they are not academically qualified or had had a bad interview ; they automatically blame racism . |
| 14 | House Martins nest in many villages and some larger towns and in 1971 three pairs were found nesting 1.2km. from the site of a gas works that had closed a few months previously . |