Example sentences of "[noun] had [adv] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Soviet side had initially responded with a counterproposal involving ceilings for both sides of either 225,000 or 195,000 troops for Europe as a whole ( thereby calling on the United States either to accept an imbalance of 30,000 troops in Central Europe or to withdraw some or all its forces from the other countries ) , but accepted the original proposal after the US side had rejected this alternative formula . |
| 2 | Agreement on this package within the administration had not occurred without a struggle . |
| 3 | The administration had instead settled for a policy of " holding the line " , which basically meant the continuation of containment . |
| 4 | Seb started , as though his mind had suddenly returned from a very long distance . |
| 5 | I explained , however , that because her arousal had clearly remained at a high pitch during uninterrupted lovemaking , she had indeed experienced a multiple orgasm . |
| 6 | Didier had not taken to a foreign language and was having trouble keeping up in class . |
| 7 | The new generation of producers that subsequently emerged came to believe it was possible for the British film industry to ‘ take on ’ the Americans , although this grand ambition had more to do with a desire to efface their inferiority complex than any serious resolve to face reality . |
| 8 | As Othello tells him that Cassio had even acted as a go-between in their courtship , Iago appears surprised — ‘ Indeed ! ’ — and takes refuge behind a series of evasive answers — ‘ Honest , my lord ? ’ |
| 9 | MacLane had n't shaved in a week and listed ‘ sweating ’ as his hobby in Who 's Who ; Bellamy radiated open-faced friendliness and ever so slightly dumb honesty . |
| 10 | The Pétains had never boasted of a military tradition . |
| 11 | When she glanced at him , the hard mouth had actually softened to a smile but he was smiling to himself , thinking his own private thoughts , and Maggie bit into her soft lip , doing some rapid thinking of her own . |
| 12 | Glancing over her shoulder , Melissa saw that the entrance had already shrunk to a slit . |
| 13 | The Mercedes had almost rolled to a halt about fifty yards behind them . |
| 14 | It was this book that Rincewind had once opened for a bet . |
| 15 | As Minister of Defence between 1955 and 1957 , Zhukov had vigorously pressed for a less onerous regime of Party supervision and for greater General Staff autonomy in military — technical matters . |
| 16 | He reacted by behaving in a way which rammed home to the Scots memories of Edward I. The events of 1543 took on a sinister familiarity ; for Edward 's attempted annexation of Scotland had also begun with a proposed marriage , between the infant Margaret , Maid of Norway , who succeeded Alexander III in 1286 , and Edward 's son , the future Edward II . |
| 17 | But when the bridal pair returned home to Grantham , Lincs , from their Kenya honeymoon , they discovered that Angela 's parents had not parted with a penny . |
| 18 | According to the report , the two countries had also agreed on a date for Vietnam to restart repaying its debts to Japan . |
| 19 | A spokesman for the DTI acknowledged that the department had been broadly aware of the situation at Leyland-DAF in September but insisted that news of the receivership had still come as a surprise . |
| 20 | By mid-February all factions had apparently agreed to a Jakarta meeting , but no date had been set . |
| 21 | By early 1690 such tensions had again come to a head . |
| 22 | Murdoch 's motivation was simply profit , and his cynical attitude had already led to a mass exodus of high-minded journalists . |
| 23 | The DCAC had earlier called off a proposal token strike by shirt-factory workers , but at about 3 p.m. about one thousand workers , mostly young women from some half-dozen factories , left work and marched up Strand Road , through Guildhall Square and via Shipquay Street to the Diamond . |
| 24 | You would have thought that what happened at Tottenham had never happened on a football pitch before . |
| 25 | The fetid stench of the darkened hut , the mind-dizzying rice alcohol , even Paul 's mocking laughter had all fused into a delicious composite memory now . |
| 26 | Denis could hardly hide his smiles , knowing that Uncle Mick had never stepped on a baseball pitch in his life . |
| 27 | Still , Vallance said staff cutting had already translated into a 8.1% fall in gross personnel costs during the year . |
| 28 | One thing William did know was that Uncle Titch had once worked in a circus . |
| 29 | As of the end of March the Security Council had yet to agree on a further resolution to establish definitive ceasefire conditions . |
| 30 | Thus Verity , the generation construction engineer , replied to an enquiry in September 1949 as to why the engineers had not reacted to a draft contracts procedure sent to them six months ago : |