Example sentences of "[noun] had [vb pp] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no doubt that Jennie Walker had played quite a part in John 's life before they were married . |
| 2 | Bella had stayed there a bit , though , along with her ghastly cronies . |
| 3 | In earlier times many miners had worked only a part of their time digging coal ; the rest of their income came from labouring jobs or from a smallholding . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she said , when the shuddering had become only a shiver . |
| 5 | But Anton Rogan scored his first goal for the club with a perfectly-hit volley from the edge of the box in the 31st minute after goalkeeper Digweed had punched away a corner from a jaded-looking Atkinson . |
| 6 | One other respect in which Pascal is a modem thinker is in his view , which he shared with the Jansenists , that language had proven too strong for mystery , so that theology had become merely a branch of rhetoric . |
| 7 | Chester had put together a deal for the centre which would have cost the Government nothing because it was tied in with private sector development . |
| 8 | As a piece , although the overall process had taken almost a century to unfold and the measures were sometimes half-hearted in terms of their practical realisation , these changes signalled the arrival of a distinctively modern penal system which rested on the reformative and deterrent influence of the prison as its major instrument . |
| 9 | There was no light apart from a guttering candle , because the war had ended only a month or so before and the electricity supply had not been restored . |
| 10 | Within 12 minutes , Aled Williams had banged over a second penalty goal as a prelude to a tremendous Swansea surge which brought the second try from Jenkins . |
| 11 | The Docks Board was the biggest company in the ports industry and with its Southampton operations and its Humber and South Wales ports had secured about a quarter of the market . |
| 12 | His wife had died suddenly a couple of years back . |
| 13 | Mr. Barlow and Ena had had quite a giggle about those . |
| 14 | Being a replacement had become almost a way of life . |
| 15 | Apparently , an unseasonable deluge had washed away a section of river bank , exposing the perfectly preserved carcass of a woolly mammoth . |
| 16 | He pointed out to us , quite rightly , that the celebrated ‘ Destruction of the Country House ’ exhibition had illustrated just a fraction of Welsh losses and no extensive record of demolished country houses in the principality had ever been published . |
| 17 | Howells left his station to score the first after 67 minutes , and by the time Teddy Sheringham had tucked away a second from the penalty spot — earned by the sheer stamina of Durie — Spurs could have had a couple more . |
| 18 | His colleague , Lord Beloff , asked why the Government had brought forward a bill without support in either House for a scheme the vice-chancellors had repeatedly told them was impossible . |
| 19 | Gordon Brunt and his friends had taken away a wall without putting in the proper structural support , so the whole of the left side of Château Quigley had collapsed . |
| 20 | To aid his election campaign , Roosevelt had gathered together a body of men and women who became known as his Brain Trust , mostly from the universities . |
| 21 | Mr Grant said that his association and its members had contributed quite a lot of money for advice over a number of years . |
| 22 | Alfred had become almost a recluse , a man haunted by his dream . |
| 23 | His voice had become almost a screech of anger and frustration . |
| 24 | Together with them he established the musical pre-eminence of Venice in composition and performance , as Petrucci had done half a century earlier in publishing . |
| 25 | Mr Penna told the inquest : ‘ A fact which obviously must be considered is that the deceased by any standards had consumed quite a lot of alcohol . ’ |
| 26 | Fang and Li had spent over a year sheltering in the United States embassy in Beijing , having sought refuge there in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square massacre [ see p. 36722 ] . |
| 27 | No it is n't but what was not put was that er if the police had got there a couple of days earlier they would have caught because I was half . |
| 28 | Mind you the , the erm , the wages had risen quite a bit during the time . |
| 29 | TTT , carefully nurtured in the early days of PNP — especially after our fourth report had provided both a label and a framework for its development — became less prominent as coordinators returned from a collaborative to a solo teaching role . |
| 30 | The Fr300,000,000 grant had covered almost a quarter of the venture 's costs . |