Example sentences of "[n mass] had [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had invited any of the hospital staff who had cared to come , and my ‘ Dawes Road ’ friend Miss Dorrie Pierce told me that church folk had organized a little wedding tea , and my husband-to-be had ordered and paid for a wedding cake . |
| 2 | Of the 195 members of the Paris Academy of Sciences to be honored with an official eulogy before the Revolution of 1789 , at least twenty percent had received a Jesuit education . |
| 3 | 5 Corps had made a consequential agreement with Yugoslav Fourth Army that " any formation wrongly surrendered will be returned to Tito " . |
| 4 | By the middle of the Devonian the lobe-finned fish had acquired a suitable set of bones and muscles , and a stumpy fin arrangement that could easily be adapted to a four-footed locomotion . |
| 5 | The first was on the local islet of Likangloe , where the once abundant population of wild goats had recently been massively reduced in inverse proportion to that of the snakes which ate them , and where the resident family of fisherfolk had lost a sixteen-year-old daughter to a python only the year before . |
| 6 | Official domestic media had maintained a virtual silence over Deng 's January tour of the Shenzhen and Zhuhai special economic zones ( SEZs ) in Guangdong province , which had been extensively reported by the Hong Kong press , both Beijing-controlled and independent . |
| 7 | The media had recognised a good subject in the white-haired surgeon in his plus-twos and St. Andrew 's pullover , with his characteristic swing and follow-through — his body leaning forward and the club aimed like a rifle at the flag . |
| 8 | Pearn and the members of his staff had started a monthly publication called Burma Today , giving news brought out by men who had gone in with Wingate , photographs taken by army photographers or by RAF planes on patrol , and first-hand accounts by people smuggled out of occupied Burma or coming out from the growing number of liberated areas . |
| 9 | People were slow to come out and if these people had made a concerted effort in the beginning it might have been different ’ . |
| 10 | His people had wrung a meagre living from it . |
| 11 | First of all , in the elections to the assembly , the people had given a resounding vote of confidence to three parties , all of which were opposed to de Gaulle 's constitutional principles . |
| 12 | During the dark early days of the war , the local people had felt a strange sense of security just to see her pass by . |
| 13 | Educated people had become a despised group , just as during the Cultural Revolution , when they suffered verbal and physical abuse . |
| 14 | Deportation can not be used to achieve extradition , and the Home Secretary could not use his powers to revoke television licences where people had bought a new licence early in order to avoid a price increase . |
| 15 | Most people had brought a packed lunch and this was eaten in the sun on Kidderminster Station platform . |
| 16 | Although Beveridge argued that once older people had worked a full course and fulfilled ‘ the obligation of service ’ they were to receive ‘ an adequate income to maintain them ’ , this has never been the case in practice . |
| 17 | Chamberlain may have shrunk visibly as the clouds across the face of Europe had grown darker , but the British people had taken a different path . |
| 18 | That Duck had opened a new avenue of literary expression is evident from the number of poems published in the 1730s , often addressed to Duck , in which poets assert the literary possibilities of their own labour . |
| 19 | The government stated that its appeal for famine aid totalling $136,000,000 had received a weak response from international donors [ see pp. 37561 ; 37643 ; 37644 ] . |
| 20 | On the second day of the trail the trial rather the prosecution said that in interviews with the police the pair had demonstrated a fluent capacity to tell lies . |