Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] had [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I recently lost three stone in weight and wondered how else I could improve myself and I was lucky in that I had had a mastectomy for a cancer about seven years ago , so I went ahead and had breast reconstruction . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , in 1801 he had exhibited a portrait at the Royal Academy , and in the same year had established himself at 59 New Bond Street , at the corner of Brook Street , and published Rudiments of Landscape , a volume of uncoloured etchings after William 's drawings . |
| 3 | All down there and I had to get a it was that much I had to get a bucket of water , soapy water to scrub it down . |
| 4 | We survived the Thirties and the war , we sold successfully up to 1987 ( a flourish of porcelain animals and birds sold out 90 per cent before the opening party , immediately after Black Monday in the City ) ; even in 1991 we had secured a collection which made the first half of the year look profitable . |
| 5 | Before 1222 he had acquired a prebend in Salisbury under Langton 's pupil , Bishop Richard Poer ( q.v. under ‘ Poor ’ ) . |
| 6 | It was a hard walk to the mountain top , and she was relieved he had selected a pastime which did not require her participation . |
| 7 | Pitt was almost the only British politician ever to think that acquiring colonial possessions was the main purpose of European war ; by 1759 he had reached a position where he could carry out his objective almost at will . |
| 8 | In surviving the conspicuous favour of Edward II in order to go on to win that of Edward III he had followed a course unusual enough to suggest both his high abilities and his political dexterity . |
| 9 | John Hill says he started racing with a ski boat and then when the engines got bigger he had to have a go at powerboating which he really enjoys … |
| 10 | It was his great-grandson — the first Henry Overton Wills — who moved to Bristol where by 1786 he had become a partner in a tobacco business . |
| 11 | I should have been very glad of your society this last year , Maureen has been at the Royal College of Music , and I have been much alone , only for the animal 's company I do n't know what I should have done and poor Mr. Papworth [ a dog ] has been so ill we had to telephone a vet up at 2 a.m. one morning it was a funny night , Jack and I in our dressing gowns in the kitchen trying to comfort Mr. Papworth . |
| 12 | In 1170 he had made a bid to capture Bourges itself but withdrew when Louis VII came up with an army . |
| 13 | However , on Oct. 21 he had submitted a number of amendments to the document , provoking demonstrations in Kathmandu and other towns on Oct. 24 and throughout the succeeding week . |
| 14 | I did n't know about existentialism until I went to university , although at sixteen I had spent a lot of time agonising over whether God existed and what was Free Will , and had the frisson of reading Voltaire . |
| 15 | She was sure she had seen a hand in the drawer , a hand with little pink nails and a silver ring on one finger . |
| 16 | mhm And I suppose in the old days if you actually wanted to know which books were popular and which books were not used at all you had to send a librarian to painstakingly look through the shelves , perhaps , and look at the date stamps or something like that , whereas now it 's presumably just a question of pressing a few buttons and the information comes . |
| 17 | A number of unexpected things happened and in the middle of it all they had to make a decision about purchasing a property . |
| 18 | Above all he had conceived a mission to " clean up Cardiff " by " fighting The System " by which the " slimily cunning oddments of humanity " , the boarding house keepers , the cafe owners , the Red Lamp proprietors , even the laundrymen , battened on the sailors and their families The Achilles Heel of " The System " was , he concluded , the Chinese element in the port , especially when Chinese seamen were brought in from outside and used as blacklegs by the employers . |
| 19 | This went on for about ten evenings and at the end of it all he had lost a stone in weight and had attracted the waterfowl from the entire county ! |
| 20 | In 1908 he had made a drawing of a table-turning . |
| 21 | I was told I would have to have another operation a month later , but first I had to take a course of male hormones called Danazol . |
| 22 | On July 8 she had announced a stepping-up of the deportations of illegal immigrants , and had said that the state would charter special aircraft for the task . |
| 23 | But first they had to play a series of odd games , working out the rules for each one in turn , playing each one to a conclusion , without cheating or colluding . |
| 24 | First they had to prepare a claim for payment for furniture , bedding and carpets from the Department of Health and Social Security . |
| 25 | In 1987 he had led a campaign for the extradition of drug traffickers . |
| 26 | He was sorry he had made a fool of himself by ringing . |
| 27 | In 1935 he had formed a group , the International African Friends of Ethiopia , to oppose the fascist aggression of Mussolini and with the help of his good friend , George Padmore , he later organised the International African Service Bureau ( I.A.S.B. ) , whose journal , ‘ International African Opinion ’ , he edited . |
| 28 | At the age of eleven he had driven a herd of Welsh ponies up to the West Riding , for use as pit ponies in the mines . |
| 29 | I dropped to the floor , hopeful I had found a gap in the defences , and stopped dead . |
| 30 | By the late 1880s she had become a friend of Mary Wollstonecraft [ q.v. ] , who wrote to Joshua on 9 December 1790 : ‘ I fear her situation is still very uncomfortable . |