Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun prp] had [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This involved the creation of an Intendant-General of Finance and a number of Secretaries of State : the cumbersome system of councils on which the Spanish Habsburgs had relied so heavily in the previous century began to fall into disuse , the Council of Castile alone remaining important . |
| 2 | At first , acid from rotting conifer needles was blamed , but the average acidity of rain in the Scottish Grampians had increased tenfold from 1962 to 1975 36 and the suspicion grew that the strong acids of pollution were responsible . |
| 3 | The old Maggie had known how to defend herself , how to keep anyone at arm 's length , but this new person delighted when Felipe touched her , glowed with languorous warmth and melted instantly . |
| 4 | The Old Stager had started forward , but let his chin drop despondently on his stick . |
| 5 | I slipped it back into its proper place , noting that the suspicious-minded Rico had emptied out all the shells . |
| 6 | Giverny has become a monument to America 's infatuation with Monet — an infatuation which has been at least partly responsible for the exorbitant prices until recently given for his paintings , and one which is now shared with the Japanese Monet had lived there since 1884 , first renting a farm house with two and a half acres , then buying it , gradually making additions such as a studio , and extending the attached land to accommodate his famous Japanese garden and lake . |
| 7 | The gallant Lanc had flown over 800 hours on operations and had dropped around 500 tons of bombs , as well as many more flying hours on air tests and cross-countries . |
| 8 | The real Natasha had found both her voice and her face . |
| 9 | Thus if the 1976 Bill had gone through as introduced , railway and airline employees would have been treated as receiving benefits in kind from concessionary travel equal to the open market cost of tickets and schoolmasters would have been taxed for concessionary education on the amount of the normal school fees . |
| 10 | There could have been an innocent explanation for the dust cloud : it could have been caused by a herd of cows being driven to market , by a Prussian regiment on exercise , or even by a work gang hammering cobbles into the highway 's bed of chalk and flint , yet the musket-fire Sharpe had heard earlier , and the Presence of the enemy Dragoons on the southern bank of the Sambre suggested a more sinister cause . |
| 11 | Once they were back in the billet Charlie folded up his best suit and placed it under the bed next to the one Tommy had settled on , then swaggered around the room in his new uniform . |
| 12 | Cornwall appeared to be enjoying an Indian summer , just like the one Edna had described so many long years ago . |
| 13 | She transferred the Beretta from her shoulder holster to her anorak pocket then moved down the row of freight cars , checking for the serial number which corresponded with the one Teufel had written down for her . |
| 14 | In 1982 he was an occasional driver in the Williams car when injuries created an opening , but the dominant Mario had disappeared back to America . |
| 15 | The Scottish Mountaineering Club 's Munros book had warned of a false summit cairn , and if I had longed to see the view from Beinn Dorain , and look down on that road from which the young Gray had gazed upwards 25 years ago , I was going to be disappointed unless the mist lifted . |
| 16 | The two Kalashnikovs had fired simultaneously . |
| 17 | But the new Karen had become sickeningly selfless in bed . |
| 18 | ‘ She ; s come to make a hit , she should be so lucky , ’ the trio had joked as a nervous Kylie had sat patiently waiting to see them . |
| 19 | In a case which occurred some time between 1037 and 1054 , the abbot of Marmoutier complained in Geoffrey Martel 's court that a certain Bouchard had seized back a mill which his brother , with Bouchard 's consent , had earlier bestowed on the abbey . |
| 20 | The Liberal Democratic Congress and the Confederation for an Independent Poland had pulled out of talks with Olszewski on the formation of a government because of differences over economic policy . |