Example sentences of "[noun] had [vb pp] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her sidelong glance had caught a quick exchange of looks between them as if Father Devlin were silently saying , ‘ I 've done my share ; now it 's your turn . ’ |
| 2 | Most important was that the Association had lost a high proportion of the key members by death or removal from the area , and failed to attract the younger men coming home from war service who found an outlet in more direct political activity . |
| 3 | I KNEW that Earl Spencer had made a special provision in his will . |
| 4 | It was only the fourth time that one horse had completed a clear round . |
| 5 | By 1750 the buying and selling of government stock had become a straightforward routine . |
| 6 | The further side had offered a fair-sized patch of flat ground . |
| 7 | When Matey had ventured a favourable comment about his midnight drinking having stopped , he had simply said , ‘ You must thank McAllister for that , ’ and so her influence seemed to be a good one . |
| 8 | Among the lands earlier ceded to the abbey of St Denis was the Vexin français , that natural bulwark between the French royal demesne and the now hostile Norman duchy , which had been held as a Norman fief , had formed part of Simon de Crépy 's state ( see p. 216 ) , and finally was reclaimed for the French crown by Philip I. The Vexin had had a comital family , in origin probably the advocates for the abbey ; but Philip had bypassed their claims , granting the territory to the young prince Louis , who met with such opposition in the area that it was not until 1119 that his possession was secured . |
| 9 | The Yenan Koreans had formed a separate party , the New Democratic Party . |
| 10 | Coalition had become a political habit that would be quite difficult to break and had sapped the party 's confidence in itself . |
| 11 | Terence Blacker had made a small bet with himself that he would be the first speaker to mention children 's books : he won . |
| 12 | Defence counsel stated that Adams had made a full admission . |
| 13 | One-o-one squadron originally set up in 1917 , was reformed in 1984 as one of only two refuelling squadrons , after the Falklands had shown a strategic use of air-to-air refuelling . |
| 14 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that on the plain words of section 2(1) ( a ) of the Rent Act 1977 a statutory tenant enjoyed that status so long as he remained in occupation of the dwelling house as his residence , and , therefore , the defendant had remained a statutory tenant after the possession order had been made ; that since she was neither a statutorily protected nor an excluded tenant within the meaning of the Protection from Eviction Act 1977 she was entitled to the protection of section 3 of that Act and could not lawfully be removed from the premises until the possession order had been executed in accordance with rules of court ; that since the only method of enforcement provided by the County Court Rules 1981 was by execution of a possession warrant in accordance with Ord. 26 , r. 17 , the plaintiff was not entitled to re-enter by other means ; and that , accordingly , the defendant was entitled to damages for unlawful eviction under section 27 of the Act of 1988 ( post , pp. 879B , 881D–E , G–H , 882A–B , B–C , 883C–E ) . |
| 15 | The second defendant had made a large number of deliveries to and collections from the premises on Capricorn 's account . |
| 16 | As a juror , would you find that a defendant had committed a serious crime on such a basis ? |
| 17 | On Oct. 1 the United States cut off economic and military aid , worth between US$564 million and $578 million in 1991 , following renewed fears that Pakistan had developed a nuclear weapon . |
| 18 | In October 1990 the USA had suspended military aid following fears that Pakistan had developed a nuclear weapon [ see pp. 37764 ; 38289 ] . |
| 19 | The inter-war working-class holiday organizations had occupied a significant place , gradually introducing a previously untravelled sector of the population to the educative and recreative value of foreign travel while yet accommodating a more traditional pattern of holiday-making . |
| 20 | Meanwhile Richard and his brothers had attended a great court held by Louis VII at Paris in the spring of 1173 . |
| 21 | The Yang brothers had taken a prominent part in quelling the " turmoil " in mid-1989 and presided over a massive programme of political education within the army . |
| 22 | The brothers had purchased a beautiful metal casket as a sign of their love for their mother . |
| 23 | A second attempt by Admiral Rodney to attack the transports at Le Havre had found the defences there too strong for his bomb-vessels to get within range , while a storm off Dunkirk had enabled a French squadron shut up in the port to make its escape . |
| 24 | National assertiveness reached the largest and most important of the Soviet Union 's republics , the Russian , in May 1990 , following the elections to the republican Congress of People 's Deputies in which radical candidates had won a substantial proportion of the vote ( see above , p. 59 ) . |
| 25 | Before Carver had left Helsinki Galvone had secreted a tiny bug inside Carver 's case . |
| 26 | Fakrid 's eyes had turned a livid yellow . |
| 27 | The eyes had become a jet-black bar that flamed . |
| 28 | His eyes had acquired a thoughtful gleam that made Polly 's heart lurch erratically . |
| 29 | Archaeological discoveries in the latter half of the nineteenth-century had caused a considerable stir in Europe . |
| 30 | Would you rather Galatea had remained a cold block of marble after all ? ’ |