Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [vb pp] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she said , when the shuddering had become only a shiver . |
| 2 | One other respect in which Pascal is a modem thinker is in his view , which he shared with the Jansenists , that language had proven too strong for mystery , so that theology had become merely a branch of rhetoric . |
| 3 | As a piece , although the overall process had taken almost a century to unfold and the measures were sometimes half-hearted in terms of their practical realisation , these changes signalled the arrival of a distinctively modern penal system which rested on the reformative and deterrent influence of the prison as its major instrument . |
| 4 | There was no light apart from a guttering candle , because the war had ended only a month or so before and the electricity supply had not been restored . |
| 5 | His wife had died suddenly a couple of years back . |
| 6 | Being a replacement had become almost a way of life . |
| 7 | Apparently , an unseasonable deluge had washed away a section of river bank , exposing the perfectly preserved carcass of a woolly mammoth . |
| 8 | He pointed out to us , quite rightly , that the celebrated ‘ Destruction of the Country House ’ exhibition had illustrated just a fraction of Welsh losses and no extensive record of demolished country houses in the principality had ever been published . |
| 9 | His colleague , Lord Beloff , asked why the Government had brought forward a bill without support in either House for a scheme the vice-chancellors had repeatedly told them was impossible . |
| 10 | His voice had become almost a screech of anger and frustration . |
| 11 | TTT , carefully nurtured in the early days of PNP — especially after our fourth report had provided both a label and a framework for its development — became less prominent as coordinators returned from a collaborative to a solo teaching role . |
| 12 | The Fr300,000,000 grant had covered almost a quarter of the venture 's costs . |
| 13 | Smitten by war , the plains of Kyrenia were barren , and the sponge-divers of the Karpass had made barely a living . |
| 14 | When the true meaning of the custom had been forgotten , and the maypole had become merely a part of the holiday festivities , people saw no reason for felling a new tree every year and began to leave one erected permanently , merely decking it with flowers and fresh greenery on Mayday . |
| 15 | Sprague turned the last word into a throat clearing noise because the minister had finished just a head of him . |
| 16 | Yesterday , Fairlie confirmed that her disappearance had occurred exactly a year before Joanna 's , and added : ‘ The coincidences between what I did and this affair in England are far too great to dismiss . ’ |
| 17 | The couple had met just a couple of months ago and appeared completely devoted . |
| 18 | Protests demanding the cancellation of the Bush visit had started over a week before his scheduled arrival . |
| 19 | On Sept. 23 , the Slovak National Party had put forward a motion in the Slovak Parliament to declare Slovakian sovereignty . |