Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the way Batty was merely a promising youngster when Wilko arrived , and I do n't think Speed had played for the first team . |
| 2 | Ron 's glance had fallen upon the huge mound of nettle roots and bramble stems that was the product of Edward 's afternoon . |
| 3 | But after Dave Bassett 's side had clung to the 2-1 lead provided by John Gannon 's opening strike of the season , the only first that actually mattered was United 's position in the Second Division . |
| 4 | He was obviously interested in the past history of the house , and , by the time they returned to the dance-floor , all her irrational fears and instinctive wariness of the tall dark man by her side had receded into the very back of her mind . |
| 5 | The crisis within the coalition had arisen during the previous week when Reynolds on Oct. 27 accused O'Malley of " dishonest " testimony to a parliamentary inquiry into fraud in the beef export industry as regards Reynolds 's handling of export credits for Iraq while Industry and Commerce Minister in 1987-88 . |
| 6 | Defence cuts of up to $8 billion more than the Bush administration had planned for the fiscal year beginning in October . |
| 7 | The judiciary committee 's preliminary examination of the affair led to accusations that members of the Bush administration had tampered with the pre-1990 export records concerning Iraq , and had impeded a federal investigation of a $4,000 million fraud at the Atlanta branch of Banca Nazionale del Lavoro ( BNL ) . |
| 8 | Whereas in the earlier revolt fighting had centred on the northern parts of the duchy , Poitou and the Saintonge , in 1 176 it was focused further south and east , in the Angoumois and the Limousin . |
| 9 | The total loss of these aircraft and crews was the bitterest blow Bomber Command had to suffer in the entire war , and it is difficult to understand why it happened . |
| 10 | By contrast , palaeontology had increased over the same periods , from 14 to 25 , not quite doubling . |
| 11 | By the end of the 1787 season the White Conduit Club had merged with the new Marylebone Cricket Club . |
| 12 | Mr Goddard said the ESC had apologised to the Civic for causing any inconvenience . |
| 13 | Where the great rivers of molten lava had flowed in the distant past was now a jumbled mass of solidified rock-like structures which sometimes stretched for many kilometres . |
| 14 | His restless mind had returned to the unfinished business of Benghazi and the possibility of destroying shipping which he had so far signally failed to achieve . |
| 15 | Sheikh al Hassan 's mind had returned to the important meeting before him . |
| 16 | The simplest reason for the disappointing subscription is that the novelty of a kitchen maid poet had dissipated in the four years since the first subscription , especially among the gentry around Brackley who might now observe Philip Leapor enjoying the fruits of the first volume . |
| 17 | The stranger had arrived in the dead of night , a sick man unable to walk unaided and noisily man-handled through the darkened house by several other men . |
| 18 | News of Dr Khan 's murder had eddied amongst the foreign specialists on the project . |
| 19 | The forced retreat of Selim III indicated the extent to which the authority of the Sublime Porte had declined since the glorious days of Suleiman in the sixteenth century . |
| 20 | Greek tragedy , he impressed on his audience , had been a total art form , a Gesamtkunst ( Wagner 's slogan , although Wagner 's name was not mentioned ) , to suit an age of whole men:a poetic drama that made use of architecture ( the theatre ) , painting ( scenery and costume ) , song , dance and music ; a drama created amid " perfection and harmony " by " artistic man " , who , at least in the earlier part of the fifth century , the time of Aeschylus , was poet , composer , conductor , producer and actor in one ; a drama performed at the communal festival of Dionysus before an audience which brought to the theatre something of the instinctive , rapturous spirit from which , in the Dionysiac celebrations , tragedy had originated in the first place . |
| 21 | Another day of dreadful toil had come to the industrial ghettos of early Victorian Glasgow , a world often forgotten and ignored , a world echoed throughout Britain where families lived and died bounded by a few streets , walled from the world of green and life by an invisible fence , a dead hand that bound them in chains of language , and rags , and marked them for life more surely than any thief was ever branded at Glasgow Cross . |
| 22 | I felt a touch of the sinister that rules so many of the islands ; there was no reason to shiver in that warm spot , but I did , and experienced a slight sense of embarrassment , as though I had been intruding , thinking perhaps not of Tiare but of the great love all those years ago which had produced her : forty years ago when the water was cascading over the same cliff in just the same way as it had today , Princess Tiare 's mother and her lover had bathed in the same secret pool and later , perhaps , made love in the cave behind . |
| 23 | We were conscious of how far we were from the Rothern hut , and of how soft and how avalanche-prone the snow had become in the late afternoon . |
| 24 | What was worse , wearing it had obliged him to fasten the top button of his shirt , an exercise which had drawn his attention to an extra half inch of fat his neck had gained since the last such occasion . |
| 25 | Tass meanwhile reported that the rioting had spread to the neighbouring Namangan region , with up to 2,000 people involved in riots in its regional capital . |
| 26 | The recession abruptly derailed the gravy train on which most in the record industry had ridden through the 1970s ; the generous salaries , inflated expenses and transcontinental junkets . |
| 27 | The industry had responded to the great challenge of a whole era of ‘ Busybodies and Meddlers ’ by not only cleaning up minor abuses but by becoming itself an agency of social improvement . |
| 28 | Among the actual owners of the horses , disbelief had set in the quickest . |
| 29 | But in the massive ballroom across the way there were only a few chairs and a sideboard or two , and even on a dismal day the light had fallen on the intricate design of a wooden parquet floor and pretty chiaroscuro frescoes painted into the panels of gracefully arched walls . |
| 30 | It occurred to her hazily that her own condition was like that of a bulb she had once seen when the power had been suddenly cut down and the light had dimmed to the faintest red glow in the filament . |