Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [pron] had [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the struggle I had lost a scarf I valued but never went back for it . |
| 2 | We always went out in twos and threes , for obvious reasons , but all the same by the time we were approaching the field we had collected a following of about a dozen . |
| 3 | Within the hour he had joined a company of infantrymen from the 26th Regiment at Kahlenbergerdorf . |
| 4 | Pérez promised , however , to promote closer co-operation with the DEA which had opened a branch office in the western city of Maracaibo , but maintained a smaller presence there than in neighbouring countries . |
| 5 | It was a tragedy for Everton because the concentration which had hallmarked a disciplined defensive performance , lapsed for one fatal moment . |
| 6 | Things had been near perfect at that stage , and they 'd gone for a drink later , with Amanda chatting up the barman who had seemed a nice shy boy , if a bit quiet for the job . |
| 7 | In the process she had made a lightning circumnavigation of the British Isles and was now steaming hard down the west coast while we returned by the eastern route . |
| 8 | The National Assembly on Oct. 1 approved the dissolution of the powerful National Defence Council , the body which had played a major role in the planning and execution of security policy during the Vietnam war . |
| 9 | During the war he had adopted a neo-romantic style in his drawings of landscapes , apple trees , houses and labouring figures . |
| 10 | In the course of the evening we had sampled a wide variety of wines , and were now experiencing a woozy sense of disassociation that was like being drunk and hung-over at the same time . |
| 11 | In fact , Botham did have an excuse , in that before the match he had received a death threat . |
| 12 | The gardener who had worn a knotted handkerchief on his head , whoever he might have been , had had no means of knowing then or later that Adam intended to live there . |
| 13 | William Dement woke six subjects in this systematic way over a period of six nights , and found that on the first night they did seem to " start all over again " whenever properly woken , so that by the end of the night they had achieved a good deal of slow wave sleep and very little REM sleep . |
| 14 | As I got nearer the Porsche I saw that during the night someone had taken a sharp instrument to the bodywork . |
| 15 | An earlier draft had been rejected by the King who had requested a number of minor alterations . |
| 16 | find , because all the other who had drawn a horse they , they were void . |
| 17 | In the event he had to have a below-the-knee amputation . |
| 18 | If in Murder in the Cathedral he had chosen a particular martyrdom which functioned as a bloody , savage ritual , then in the plays which followed , connections with primitive ritual would be clearer — if anything , as Eliot later feared when thinking of The Family Reunion , too clear , the primitive outline getting in the way of the Christian story . |
| 19 | The reader who has survived so far may recall that during my wartime service in the Navy I had nursed a great curiosity about the enemy we rarely saw , and that I had promised myself that at some time in the future I would find out more about them , the ships they had fought in and the sort of people they were . |
| 20 | During the day we had shared a track with several bands of people — dog walkers , long-distance backpackers , ramblers and day walkers . |
| 21 | In between times during the day he had to take a short ladder , laid across the bike and make sure the lamps were clean . |
| 22 | Lower down the page he had scribbled a quotation from Shelley : ‘ Life stains the white radiance of Eternity ’ . |
| 23 | On May 12 , members of the Parachute Regiment were alleged to have assaulted staff and customers in several public houses in the predominantly nationalist town , apparently in revenge for an earlier IRA bomb in the area which had injured a colleague . |
| 24 | Aubrey , watching the three excitedly making plans , was sensitive enough not to mention the news he had received a few days ' earlier from his mother — that Madeleine and Dunbar were coming home with the regiment . |
| 25 | Before the end of the Interregnum he had amassed a modest fortune and had begun styling himself gentleman . |
| 26 | After a spell in the sauna I had to make a choice . |
| 27 | Earlier in the morning he had received a piece of parchment with a sketch of a crudely drawn ship , and a flat sesame seed cake . |
| 28 | Towards the summit I had to cross a couple of snowfields , and there was a final rock-climb to get to the top . |
| 29 | Thinking now of the battles she had fought with her own children , especially her daughter , Margharita , she felt a pang of remorse over the woman she had buried a few hours earlier . |
| 30 | This led to a real Sunday morning 's devotion , singing new stanzas to the song I had started a few days before : ‘ Thank you for sore legs ; thank you for the pain ; I wan na thank you , Lord . |