Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [verb] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then she realised that the hoof beats of his horse had come to an abrupt stop . |
| 2 | The Mersey building programme had continued at an impressive rate throughout 1990 with orders recently placed for the last 14 fibre reinforced composite ( FRC ) boats — due to be completed within the next 22 months . |
| 3 | The Royal Institution had begun with an abortive attempt to train artisans in elementary science ; mechanics ' institutes provided lectures for what seems to have been chiefly a membership from the lower middle class . |
| 4 | In his mind that was guarded by grey , disinterested eyes and his sallow tight-drawn forehead , Holly could picture the process of how a match lit in innocence had tumbled upon an incendiary device . |
| 5 | The first witness had decided at an early stage not to travel to Dublin ; the second only recently made his decision not to give evidence . |
| 6 | Where the sand had stretched in an unbroken line of gold towards the horizon , now we saw more and more rock exposed the farther up the strand we looked , until in the distance the dunes faced a shore of pure stone . |
| 7 | By the end of 1989 the proportion had risen to an estimated 6 or 7 per cent , representing 450,000 to 600,000 mortgagors . |
| 8 | The policeman and the girl had come on an ordinary routine visit . |
| 9 | Stair , turning to see what was happening , was borne away from Neil , who was himself carried down the Haymarket by a shouting throng — the rugger match had triggered off an impromptu riot as well . |
| 10 | The disabling whine had lessened to an irritating tinnitus . |
| 11 | I knew then that it was more inspiring than if the sound had come from an orphean bird . |
| 12 | The adorable kitten had grown into an uninteresting cat ; Lorna Lewis found herself approaching forty , battling against spreading hips , deepening wrinkles , an unlovable daughter and changing times . |
| 13 | Inflation had slowed to an annual rate of 30 per cent by the end of the financial year , compared with 89 per cent the previous year . |
| 14 | The organisation had put in an innocent manager to take delivery of a consignment of wood . |
| 15 | She sensed that the barometer of their fraught relationship had plummeted to an all-time freeze and , at last , tormented beyond endurance , she stopped typing halfway through a schedule and went into his office . |
| 16 | IN CASE any of your readers were left with the impression that most of the Chadwick Collection had disappeared into an anonymous private collector 's hands , we would like to reassure them that fortunately this was not the case . |
| 17 | In 1979 , the World Bank published a glowing report , Romania : Industrialization under Socialist Planning , which claimed , on the basis of official Romanian government figures , that in the quarter century between 1950 and 1975 , the Romanian economy had grown at an average compound annual rate of over 9% . |
| 18 | The cafe was shut , she did not want to walk as the grass had withered to an unappealing brown , and she had left her papers at home . |
| 19 | Georgina wrinkled her nose , as if the dog had left behind an unmentionable souvenir of his visit . |
| 20 | His career had gone into an ignominious period following his deposition and he had spent time in prison in Kansas , fought bulls in Barcelona , performed stunts in circuses , played ‘ Othello ’ across the country and even boxed all-comers in exhibitions at the age of 68 years . |
| 21 | No doubt the dead man had returned in an unsuccessful attempt to save his friend from a similar fate . |
| 22 | Fifteen yards down the street , the man had come to an uncertain halt , his eyes searching both sides of the street for a glimpse of his prey . |
| 23 | Darwin at the end of one of his books wrote that according to the unchanging world of his critics , there had been the fall of man into sinfulness and mankind were forever doomed to hopelessness , whereas in his ( Darwin 's ) theory of evolution , man had come from an inferior form , and because of this continuous progress , he commands a limitless potential . |
| 24 | The UK government had pressed for an earlier start . |
| 25 | They took him to John Gifford , minister of an Independent or Baptist congregation in Bedford which the Cromwellian government had installed in an Anglican church . |
| 26 | The Gascons themselves were well aware that the 1259 treaty had led to an immediate change in their status . |
| 27 | I have to confess that on many occasions I have had recourse to Hansard , of course only to check if my interpretation had conflicted with an express Parliamentary intention , but I can say that it does not take long to recall and assemble the relevant passages in which the particular section was dealt with in Parliament , nor does it take long to see if anything relevant was said . |
| 28 | Princess Diana 's relationship with her step-mother had deteriorated to an all-time low , culminating in that outburst which led to Raine 's fall downstairs . |
| 29 | The Financial Times of April 10 reported that the World Bank had agreed to an Indonesian request to establish and chair a new aid consultation forum . |
| 30 | At the age of sixteen , this writer had slept with an older , married friend of her Father ; she had arranged to meet him in a churchyard after dinner and they made love on a tombstone . |