Example sentences of "[noun] had [verb] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hostilities between India and Pakistan over Kashmir had ended in a ceasefire from Jan. 1 , 1949 . |
| 2 | Lori 's cat-like eyes had narrowed in a way Paige remembered only too well . |
| 3 | She laughed shrilly , seeing the way his eyes had darkened in a way that made the breath lodge hard and heavy in her throat . |
| 4 | The magazine had first taken note of him in his Student whizz-kid incarnation , when Branson had appeared in a BBC documentary entitled Men of the Future . |
| 5 | Imagine if Colette or Jane Austen or Dorothy Parker or Chaucer or Shakespeare or Marcel Proust had lived in a world without gossip ! |
| 6 | National statistics released this week showed the cost of vandalism and arson attacks on schools had doubled in a year from £60m. to £120m . |
| 7 | Her mouth had contracted in a manner Muriel had not seen for years . |
| 8 | The full story of what happened has never been reported , but it seems that Kambona had lost in a power struggle with other key figures in the Cabinet and TANU . |
| 9 | On Nov. 25 , 1991 , the United Left ( IU ) opposition grouping had lodged in a Madrid court an accusation against Renfe concerning fraudulent dealings . |
| 10 | Some of these were old portraits that Boy had bought in a street market early on a Sunday morning , wing collars and moustaches printed in sepia ; some were cut from pornographic magazines or bodybuilding magazines ( in colour ) ; some were cut from newspapers ( these in black and white ) . |
| 11 | He found that his feet had cramped in a clench of anguish . |
| 12 | After his ‘ over by Christmas ’ offensive into North Korea had ended in a rout he began to drop dark hints about Red China 's inability to wage ‘ modern war ’ . |
| 13 | Further down the alleyway the wood had shrunk in a fence leaving a knot-hole big enough to see through . |
| 14 | The return to England had worked in a way he would never have believed it could . |
| 15 | Sometimes , too , Ruth had eaten in a snack bar , having saved up her pocket money for a beefburger . |
| 16 | ‘ A plant does n't need to be taught how to grow ; and neither does a child have to be taught , in the old-fashioned meaning of teaching ’ , Herbert Casson had written in a series of articles for Teacher 's World in 1918 . |
| 17 | The previous month , on Dec. 13 , the Baltic permanent representatives at the UN had called in a letter to the UN Secretary-General for the removal of Soviet troops from their territory , and encouraged monitoring of the situation by the UN , warning of the danger that , as it disintegrated , the former Soviet Union would be unable to control the troops . |
| 18 | Ten days ago a police bullet had hit the explosive which Terry Place had hidden in a carrier bag in the tunnel . |
| 19 | Since the Revolution of 1830 , this group had lived in a sort of internal emigration , rejoicing in the fall of one usurper and awaiting with undiminished confidence the inevitable departure of his successor . |
| 20 | The elections of Oct. 27 had produced a fragmented legislature , and the government of Prime Minister Jan Krzysztof Bielecki had continued in a caretaker capacity . |
| 21 | What became real to her was not Therese Aschmann , but the tiny diamond and garnet engagement ring Willi had bought in a shop at the back of St Stephen 's Cathedral , and Gerda 's delight , and the luck they had had in getting two cancellation seats at the Staatsoper for a performance of Figaro , and the elegance of their hotel , and the toy truck they had bought for Georg , which had been so large they 'd had trouble getting it home . |
| 22 | The guide took his place at centre stern and , after the raft had turned in a circle to adjust itself to the current , the paddling rhythm set in to send it down-river towards the white foam that could be seen rising between the distant boulders . |
| 23 | This was the first time Duncan had called in a favour . |
| 24 | The rest had worked in a variety of occupations , principally manual or unskilled , such as shop assistant and labourer . |
| 25 | Prince Rupert managed to fight his way towards London and having reached Brentford , he decided to try to capture London and whilst his troops were encamped on Kew Green , they learned from a maid from a riverside inn ( The Bull ) that Oliver Cromwell was holding a council of war there , so he despatched some horsemen to capture Cromwell , but the ‘ Round Heads ’ kept the horsemen at bay until Cromwell had escaped in a boat to the island in the river closeby , which island has been called ‘ Oliver Isle ’ ever since . |
| 26 | If the contras could be neither saints nor crack troops , their appeal had to lie in romantic desperation : the ‘ fact ’ that they had been forced into exile , like the ‘ little old lady ’ with her hair in a bun and her dress ‘ held together by safety pins and string ’ whom Owen had met in a camp in Honduras ; the ‘ fact ’ that the soldiers were without food or uniforms , their hospitals nothing but hen-coops , lacking even mosquito netting ; the fact that there was never enough money for anything . |
| 27 | Russell quoted one case in which a person had died in a fire . |
| 28 | The report suggested that corruption had reached such a point that several officers had connived in a plot to topple the government in the early 1980s . |
| 29 | Certainly it would not have been a respectable person , such as Hilbert 's gardener or cleaner , but most likely some unemployed derelict Adam had met in a pub . |
| 30 | Vincent had put in a request to visit her and had been refused . |