Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] had [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life for Ginger had become a roller-coaster but she was a survivor . |
| 2 | His political troubles deepened at the weekend after conservatives had won a series of victories at an emergency session of the legislature , the Congress of People 's Deputies , which had paved the way for his powers to be curbed . |
| 3 | The state of Tennessee had passed a law forbidding the teaching of the theory of evolution on the ground that it " denies the story of the divine creation of man as taught in the Bible " . |
| 4 | The end of power-sharing had left a vacuum , which the constitutional convention had failed to fill , and Ulster staggered on with a vicious IRA campaign , tit-for-tat assassinations , unconvincing direct rule , and no obvious sense of direction . |
| 5 | On 3 July the men of Huntingdonshire had made a perambulation in their county , which had until then been entirely forest , a perambulation which was declared to be ‘ in accordance with the Charter of the Forest ’ . |
| 6 | On the previous day , Alfred Hobson of Sheffield had told a party lunch that |
| 7 | If there was a Libyan involved , the police proceedings were accompanied by self-help action , although the influx of foreigners had created a number of potential offenders and victims who did not fit into the system . |
| 8 | The Witch of Jura had forced a man called MacPhie of Colonsay to stay on the island . |
| 9 | She forgot that she was tired and cold , that there was neither food nor fuel in the house , and that her only respectable pair of shoes had sprung a leak . |
| 10 | The town of Knossos had reached a size of not less than 45 hectares by the time its first temple was built in 1930 BC , which would have given it a population of 12,000–18,000 . |
| 11 | A survey by the Confederation of British Industry showed that only 2% of companies had used a factor . |
| 12 | In 1988 the Consumers ' Association found that only 25 per cent of parents had attended a parent-teacher association meeting in the past twelve months and only 9 per cent had attended a school governors ' annual meeting . |
| 13 | We found , however , some cases where the definition of reasonableness had become a bone of contention and subject to tense renegotiation , especially by Japanese investors . |
| 14 | By that time his feelings of resentment against his mother were fixed for life , and the imaginative intensity with which he called up the Devon landscape as a lost Eden of content had become a habit of mind . |
| 15 | The O'Donnells of Donegal had built a stone Tudor mansion on the site of a twelfth-century castle , and the walls that remained were of surprising elegance . |
| 16 | In 1990 69% of farmers had made a purchase within seven months of their visit to the Royal , 81% were likely to make a purchase within 19 months of their visit . |
| 17 | Loyalist opposition was minimal ; Major Ronald Bunting 's Loyal Citizens of Ulster had threatened a counter-demonstration but this was banned by Minister of Home Affairs William Craig , and the RUC sealed off the stairways to the top of the walls and erected barriers which would prevent any clash . |
| 18 | The London School of Economics had provided a trailer for what was to come , black activism within Britain was on the rise , and three years of Labour Government was decimating its support amongst students and the young intelligentsia . |
| 19 | In Rooke 's Case' commissioners of sewers had repaired a river bank and taxed R for the whole amount despite the fact that other landowners had benefited from the work . |
| 20 | Though I still felt drunk , my stomach ached and my throat felt like a couple of hedgehogs had had a fight in it , I did feel a lot better . |
| 21 | The ban was imposed by Minister of Home Affairs William Craig after the Apprentice Boys of Derry had announced a procession at the same time and over the same route as the civil rights march . |
| 22 | She would be fifty-three or four now and I find it difficult to believe that any woman who had had three children would n't show some curiosity about what happened to them once the glamour of life had worn a bit thin . ’ |
| 23 | Philip of France had sent a force of Brabançons to help his brother-in-law , the opening shot in a campaign which he was to wage for the next thirty years . |
| 24 | On Monday , the Suriname News Agency reported that a group of men had commandeered a bus carrying aluminum workers 60 miles south of Paramaribo . |
| 25 | How strange that since the eighteenth century the peasants of Møn had had a taste for English ware . |
| 26 | In truth the government of Danzig had become a labyrinth sown with pits for the unwary . |
| 27 | Austria-Hungary , supported by her more powerful ally , Germany , sought redress and proof that the government of Serbia had instigated a plot . |
| 28 | In the last months of John II 's reign Charles of Navarre had raised a rebellion over the succession to Burgundy , which Navarre claimed by virtue of descent from the great-aunt of the last Capetian duke , Philip of Rouvres . |
| 29 | The Court of Chancery had become a byword for administrative delay ( for example , Walsh v Lonsdale ( 1882 ) — see Chapter 4 , p. 85 ) , as famously depicted by Dickens . |
| 30 | Mr Seeley said Mr Smith had called the police after a friend of Steventon-Rogers had revved a motorcycle outside his home . |