Example sentences of "[adv] had [vb pp] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Urban calls for a tax on farm income were ignored , although Aziz did announce the taxation under certain conditions of military and police welfare foundations ( which hitherto had run a wide variety of tax-exempt businesses ) . |
| 2 | The well bubbled into a tributary of the Moy , but unfortunately it had been hemmed in by modern concrete and so had lost a great deal of its charm . |
| 3 | The fourth John Booth founded another major firm in partnership with John Hartop and George Binks , whose own families also had had a long involvement in the local metal trades . |
| 4 | ‘ It does n't matter , ’ said Loretta , grateful that her unpremeditated action the day before had made a good impression on Veronica . |
| 5 | To her mind , Travis McKenna was definitely Mr Wrong … and yet today had brought a shivering awareness of him as a man — and herself as a woman . |
| 6 | Growers here had expected a bumper season . |
| 7 | Both he and Amiss had spent a considerable time comforting Sunil , who had been throwing up on and off for over an hour . |
| 8 | The idea of Tyneside is at least as old as the middle of the nineteenth century when modern industrial interests combined with local radical politicians to wrest control of the river from the city of Newcastle which until then had exercised a medieval monopoly . |
| 9 | The Welshman grabbed a 58th minute headed equaliser after Steve Staunton 's spectacular strike five minutes earlier had threatened a dramatic smash-and-grab of three Premier League points by former manager Ron Atkinson . |
| 10 | I wondered what memories were passing through the minds of the other members of the group , especially those that 50 years earlier had paid a flying visit to Norway in rather different circumstances . |
| 11 | Why we feel comfortable with such art , however grotesque , whereas the greatest art always leaves us a little bit uncomfortable , as though the earth we stood on had given a sudden lurch . |
| 12 | Thick was the snow on field and hedge And vanished with the river 's edge , Where winter skilfully had wound A shining scarf without a sound . |
| 13 | This is illustrated by Grenfell v EB Meyrowitz Ltd [ 1936 ] 2 All ER 1313 , where the defendants were held not to be in breach of s13 when they supplied goggles of " safety glass " which subsequently had acquired a technical meaning and the goggles conformed to this design ( see R v Ford Motor Co [ 1974 ] 1 WLR 1220 as to the meaning in the motor trade of a " new " car ) . |
| 14 | But the Germans really had little to boast about ; they too had made a major blunder early on by concentrating on the construction of Zeppelins , and their maintenance of technical superiority during most of the war was almost entirely thanks to the brilliance of a twenty-five-year-old Dutchman , Tony Fokker . |
| 15 | The glass must have held nearly half a pint and I thought I too had had a splendid day out . |
| 16 | prior to the departure of the Iwakura Mission , the Meiji regime too had started a limited programme of industrialization and social change , much of it contingent on the dismantling of the political , social and economic structure that had prevailed under the Tokugawa . |
| 17 | Guinness Brewing Worldwide had developed a strong portfolio of exceptional , premium brands . |