Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The half-circle had spread almost into a circle . |
| 2 | Hence the study had to fall back on a proxy for measures of ill health — standardised mortality ratios ( SMRs ) or death rates from different diseases standardised by age . |
| 3 | The town 's magistrates were told that tension had built up for a year after a decision to dissolve the partnership . |
| 4 | ‘ Mind this patch , it 's slippery , ’ Weasel warned as he traversed a landing where snow had drifted in through a broken skylight . |
| 5 | Their friendship had straggled on in a passive sort of way ; he 'd been to see her in Brighton and played the romantic flirt , talking of Brief Encounter in the pub and putting his hand on her knee . |
| 6 | On my previous visit , at dawn , the range had floated eerily above a sea of fog . |
| 7 | Community architecture had come about as a reaction to the tower blocks of the 1960s which were clearly not working : they had led to vandalism and mugging and terrifying isolation for the people who lived in them . |
| 8 | There was a girl in charge of the place , a child of perhaps twelve , who told me that her name was Morag , and that her auntie had stepped out on a visit , but had said the young lady from Camus na Dobhrain might be there to use the telephone , and please to go through . |
| 9 | What had started out as a dramatic sea chase and developed into a running battle had fizzled out in a disappointing anti-climax . |
| 10 | He looked up into Grandson Richard 's huge face and , trying to make his voice as deep and slow as possible , said the only word any nome had said directly to a human in five thousand years . |
| 11 | Miller 's career in management had got off to a whirlwind start . |
| 12 | He says a boy had gone away for a weekend and had come back to the school with the tablets and then sold them . |
| 13 | She was not disappointed ; if a firebell had gone off within a yard of his ear , he could not have appeared more shaken . |
| 14 | Barrie Lamb , chairman of the Darlington Railway Preservation Society , claimed the council had missed out on a major tourist attraction . |
| 15 | Coun Dixon ( Lab ) said the borough council had paid up to a week 's salary in overtime in November and December last year for officers patrolling shops on Sundays . |
| 16 | Coun Dixon ( Lab ) said the borough council had paid up to a week 's salary in overtime in November and December last year to monitor Sunday opening . |
| 17 | One night ( this was in the second week after he had arrived , and about nine or ten weeks before The Romance really began ) the man who had driven him away from the Bar had done so in a big , warm , expensive , deep-seated car . |
| 18 | As the Welfare Officer drove back through the camp gates she was greeted by the smell of a well-smouldering barbecue and the news that the Greenfinch rounders team had lost heavily in a tournament at RAF AIdergrove . |
| 19 | Such crassness was inevitable but for all that the Warner Bros team had come up with a powerful film . |
| 20 | They drank whisky and cider , watched pornogrhapic videos that the teacher had brought back from a holiday in Germany . |
| 21 | Godwin and his circle had grown out of a relatively broad tendency within the rising industrial bourgeoisie , but was then , as a specific formation , forced into crisis — into a dissidence verging on rebellion — within a general crisis of the social order , itself still politically directed by another class , the ruling landed aristocracy . |
| 22 | Instead , after the first flaring of fame had died down to a steady glow , and he had enjoyed the sexual fruits that it offered , he stayed in his two-room West 11th Street apartment , together with Anne and Karina again , dressed in the faded jeans and threadbare leather jackets he had always worn . |
| 23 | Business had come almost to a standstill and the newspaper was adversely affected to an increasing degree . |
| 24 | Barrie Lamb , chairman of the Preservation Society , said the town had lost out on a major attraction to the North-East . |
| 25 | That the curtain had blown aside for a moment |
| 26 | This crisis had come about as a result of the Emperor 's determination to carry through a series of far-reaching reforms which had actually been begun in a tentative fashion some years previously . |
| 27 | That conference had floundered largely as a result of the Phnom Penh government 's apprehension over the issue of power sharing and the role of the UN . |
| 28 | Miserably aware that the evening had lurched off to a regrettable start , Shannon fell into step beside him , irritated still further when she caught the receptionist 's knowing smirk at the sight of them walking out together . |
| 29 | The light and often humorous tone of the evening had changed completely into a silence charged with something heavier , potent and compelling . |
| 30 | With a sigh her lips parted , welcoming him , tasting him , and all at once her mind and her body had grown tight with a sudden aching , urgent need . |