Example sentences of "[noun] had [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ron 's glance had fallen upon the huge mound of nettle roots and bramble stems that was the product of Edward 's afternoon . |
| 2 | And then she realised that the hoof beats of his horse had come to an abrupt stop . |
| 3 | He was obviously interested in the past history of the house , and , by the time they returned to the dance-floor , all her irrational fears and instinctive wariness of the tall dark man by her side had receded into the very back of her mind . |
| 4 | Meticulous Jeff had hoped for a fine , calm evening — but it was misty and windy . |
| 5 | By early evening hundreds of screaming fans had gathered outside the historic Raffles Hotel where Jackson and his entourage are staying . |
| 6 | Indeed , Mr Voss had last year written to The Daily Telegraph extolling the place — ‘ for patrons who wish to relax in comfort and splendour and enjoy the delights of haute cuisine ’ — and complaining that it was n't fair that Paddy Burt had written about a nearby Dorset establishment ( albeit unfavourably ) . |
| 7 | By the time of the Norman invasion , the Saxon Manor had settled into a familiar form , with the Lord of the Manor , the reeve , the Hall , the lands retained in Demesne , lands let to tenants i.e. Villani , the Bordari or labourers , the Servi or slaves , in some cases Cotari , the tenants of part of the submanor , Free tenants , meadow land , mills , fisheries , woods for pannage and pasture . |
| 8 | The crisis within the coalition had arisen during the previous week when Reynolds on Oct. 27 accused O'Malley of " dishonest " testimony to a parliamentary inquiry into fraud in the beef export industry as regards Reynolds 's handling of export credits for Iraq while Industry and Commerce Minister in 1987-88 . |
| 9 | As Simon himself acknowledged , English public health administration had developed in a piecemeal and ad hoc fashion for much of the early nineteenth century , with national supervision divided between his own Privy Council Medical Office and the Poor Law Board . |
| 10 | Defence cuts of up to $8 billion more than the Bush administration had planned for the fiscal year beginning in October . |
| 11 | The judiciary committee 's preliminary examination of the affair led to accusations that members of the Bush administration had tampered with the pre-1990 export records concerning Iraq , and had impeded a federal investigation of a $4,000 million fraud at the Atlanta branch of Banca Nazionale del Lavoro ( BNL ) . |
| 12 | Whereas in the earlier revolt fighting had centred on the northern parts of the duchy , Poitou and the Saintonge , in 1 176 it was focused further south and east , in the Angoumois and the Limousin . |
| 13 | Perhaps because of this he contrived to fight on even after his brothers had surrendered to the Old King . |
| 14 | These offers were meant to demonstrate that the two younger brothers had gone to the very limit of reasonable concessions , and hence would bear no guilt for the casualties of battle . |
| 15 | By July 30 , 12 candidates had registered for the presidential elections due to be held simultaneously with legislative elections on September 29-30 . |
| 16 | ‘ Until then waves had looked like a pleasant photogenic distraction on television , and not a serious challenge to anything else , ’ Salter recalled , ‘ but getting so close to 5 p/kWh would have rung a lot of alarm bells with people who would feel threatened . ’ |
| 17 | Within a few decades , forests and animals had returned to the shattered islands which were all that remained of Krakatoa 's outer rim ; and from the waters between them emerged an ominous smoking mound , sometimes growing at a rate of more than three feet a month . |
| 18 | Kate rubbed her cheek thoughtfully , but now her dark eyes had lit with an inner fire . |
| 19 | Her eyes had remained on the tall , casually dressed man at the other side of the room , noting that little had changed in six years . |
| 20 | But when their eyes had met across the packed ballroom , for a fleeting instant the crowd had ceased to exist . |
| 21 | He had raised his glass civilly enough in recognition of Vernon 's presence whenever their eyes had met across the floral displays , and he had always been very effusive if they chanced to meet in the queue for the cloakroom or on the pavement outside the State Restaurant , but he had held his distance in mixed company , had never introduced him , for instance , to Mrs Harcourt . |
| 22 | Her eyes had darkened to an intense , violent green , sparks flaring within their depths , and when he moved towards her once more she lifted her hand and hit him hard across the face , her palm cracking along his cheekbone with satisfying force . |
| 23 | In the course of his visit to Sweden , Mandela had called on the international community to sever all diplomatic links with South Africa and to intensify sanctions in order to eliminate apartheid . |
| 24 | Following township rumours that the Mandelas had been living apart for some weeks , the Sowetan newspaper said Mrs Mandela continued to live in the mansion she had built in a better part of Soweto but Mr Mandela had moved into a well-guarded home in Johannesburg 's affluent northern suburbs . |
| 25 | By the end of the 1787 season the White Conduit Club had merged with the new Marylebone Cricket Club . |
| 26 | Mr Goddard said the ESC had apologised to the Civic for causing any inconvenience . |
| 27 | She 'd been so immersed in the music , letting it wash over her , uplifting her , that she had n't even realised that the car had turned into a short driveway to stop outside a luxurious chalet-type building set in a clearing of beech trees . |
| 28 | Tony Zanetta : ‘ David had moved into a little house in Chelsea in New York and called Michael Lipman . |
| 29 | Where the great rivers of molten lava had flowed in the distant past was now a jumbled mass of solidified rock-like structures which sometimes stretched for many kilometres . |
| 30 | The Mersey building programme had continued at an impressive rate throughout 1990 with orders recently placed for the last 14 fibre reinforced composite ( FRC ) boats — due to be completed within the next 22 months . |