Example sentences of "[noun] had [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Umpire Frank Lee called him on 11 occasions for throwing in England 's only innings and , after the home side had wrapped up the game early , he was again called , in the exhibition match which followed , by the other umpire , Syd Buller , and was forced to complete his only over underarm . |
| 2 | Charlie stared up at his mother 's framed photo that Becky had hung on the wall . |
| 3 | Amaryllis had put on a dress which had arrived only that noon from London . |
| 4 | After the execution of Xavier de Chavigny , the German High Command had taken over the house and gardens at St-Cloud and used the beautiful late-seventeenth-century mansion to quarter troops . |
| 5 | Imagine , then , that Mandela had written down the story of his life , and that the manuscript was for sale . |
| 6 | By 1924 Hill had bought out the family interests and established Beecham Estates and Pills Ltd . |
| 7 | He caught the glint of a smile from Fael-Inis at that , and felt a sudden delight , because the fire was surging up all about them , and Fael-Inis had taken up a stance at the fore of the Chariot , and he was gathering up silken reins between his hands , only the reins were of living colour and shifting light , and there were certainly spells within them as there had certainly been spells in the Chamber of the Looms … |
| 8 | His spectacles had shaken down the arch of his nose . |
| 9 | Hoskyns had built up a computer company and been active in the Centre for policy Studies before joining Mrs Thatcher . |
| 10 | The new congress did lack consequential leaders and congressional reform and the further weakening of political parties had brought about a variety of undesirable developments . |
| 11 | Vonadk reported on Jan. 8 that resistance fighters had carried out a grenade attack in Phnom Penh on Jan. 6 , killing a number of " traitorous Vietnamese puppets and lackeys " . |
| 12 | Later , the spectra of other stars were examined , and before the end of the last century astronomers at Harvard College Observatory in the United States had drawn up a system of classification which is still used . |
| 13 | Meanwhile the British warships had to ride out the monsoon . |
| 14 | Agreeing that the cakes should be protected , Mr Pinkney had set up a sort of crêpe paper barrier along the front of the display . |
| 15 | Some of the less educated women in Askham 's ( 1975 ) Aberdeen study had given up the pill as a result of such articles in popular newspapers and had become pregnant in consequence . |
| 16 | At ten o'clock in the morning a monster had ripped up the countryside , devastation littering its wake . |
| 17 | Forester 's fear was not so much that the room might not have been available , but that if Hennessy had moved out the hotel might be closed down for the off-season altogether . |
| 18 | The words had hung on the air , heavy with innuendo , and an act of simple kindness had been spoiled . |
| 19 | In 1937 , a series of mass demonstrations in the oil industry had ushered in a period of severe labour unrest throughout the West Indies and this had led to the setting up of a Royal Commission , under Lord Moyne , to assess the social conditions on the islands . |
| 20 | Four times , he said , Scots had woken up the morning after an election to find a Tory government : ‘ We can not guarantee when they wake up the morning after the election in 1997 that we will have got rid of them . ’ |
| 21 | Then there was the news that El Daba airfield was not being used , though Jellicoe had brought back a couple of German prisoners who freely volunteered the information that this was the most important of their forward airfields . |
| 22 | Barrie Nye from Woughton on the Green in Milton Keynes had flagged down a lorry with smoking tyres on the M-One near Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire . |
| 23 | The wily captain 's luck was holding in more ways than one for the customs search team found that one of the French shells had ricochetted down an alleyway , through the door of the Captain 's cabin and had embedded itself in the leg of a table where the occupant would have been sitting . |
| 24 | There was no sign of Benny , but Ace assumed that the Professor had taken up a position on the other side of the stanchion . |
| 25 | An earlier wind had whipped up the surface snow into rivulets like tiny mountain ranges , and whirled spirals like ice cream from a machine . |
| 26 | Piers had set up the garden table and two benches , and they had what turned out to be a very edible meal under the fading sun , with a magnificent view overlooking the still blue sea , with all the night noises playing a symphony around them . |
| 27 | The new statute had set out the management arrangements governing the institutions which the county authority had taken over . |
| 28 | A National Communications Union official , Rachel Ashworth , told the Women 's TUC annual conference in Blackpool that British Telecom had set up a Freephone number to deal with inquiries from potential operators . |
| 29 | In a case which occurred some time between 1037 and 1054 , the abbot of Marmoutier complained in Geoffrey Martel 's court that a certain Bouchard had seized back a mill which his brother , with Bouchard 's consent , had earlier bestowed on the abbey . |
| 30 | The presbytery asked members of the church to note that the South Ronaldsay Parents ' Action Committee had set up a fund for legal aid to which they might like to contribute , and they asked their Social Matters Committee to look into the question of guidance to ministers in cases involving the Social Work Department . |