Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] had [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the proposals contained within Roh 's message were not made public , it was confirmed that the South Korean President had requested an early meeting with Kim — in Pyongyang or Seoul ( South Korea ) or in a third country — for talks aimed at normalizing relations between the two states . |
| 2 | The overall tone of noble criticism remained moderate , yet political consciousness had taken a momentous leap since Nicholas 's death . |
| 3 | Iskandarov 's Islamic coalition had survived an attempted coup in October by supporters of the former communist President Rakhmon Nabiyev , whose removal from power in September sparked off a smouldering civil war [ see pp. 39097-98 ; 39147 ] . |
| 4 | In the first brief item the court heard that a 27-year-old chef had strangled a 25-year-old homosexual friend with a dog choke-chain after a ‘ slave and master ’ sex session . |
| 5 | And although my department and British Rail had produced a joint report , this did not mean we automatically accepted BR 's views . |
| 6 | I particularly wanted to know Sir Alec 's views now that British Rail had submitted a scaled-down plan . |
| 7 | On Sept. 15 , Egyptian radio had reported that members of the Kuwaiti resistance had assassinated an Iraqi Baa'th party official , Najib Khalaf , in Baghdad , the first such attack inside Iraqi territory . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , the students of Paris saw to it that the French President had to beat an undignified and premature retreat from Bucharest . |
| 9 | Bitterness set into their relationship after a mid-week international , when Morgan returned to Manchester from Hampden to find that the Daily Mail had run a sensational story about a behind-the-scenes bust up between Morgan and his boss . |
| 10 | There social science and social research had become an established and thriving part of the academic community from the beginning of this century . |
| 11 | The endowment of her darling girl had meant a surprising depletion in her income . |
| 12 | One English girl had fallen a few yards behind her companions and , as thirty spectators looked on , lost her daysack , with its camera , cash and diary , in a tug-of-war with the thief . |
| 13 | Later , it emerged that Caledonian Mining had sought a controlling interest rather than an outright takeover , but had been turned down by the consortium . |
| 14 | By 1991 , the IWC scientific committee had developed a revised management procedure ( RMP ) to provide adequate safeguards and had estimated the population of Antarctic minke whale at 760,000 , well above the number needed to resume commercial whaling ( see Nature 357 , 532 ; 1992 ) . |
| 15 | An old wino had stopped a young man in his late teens who was carrying a huge sack of groceries . |
| 16 | In his four months in residence Old Red had done a great job of dashing girlish hopes . |
| 17 | If the hon. Gentleman had wanted a detailed comment on it , he would have invited me to look at it before he asked his question . |
| 18 | Since the reign of Henry VII , the French King had paid a substantial sum to England , which was increased to 150,000 francs per annum when Tournai was returned to France in 1519 . |
| 19 | In 1655 an expedition was sent out to attack Hispaniola ( San Domingo ) ; this was the first time the English government had sent a naval expedition to seize the colonies of another European nation , and lack of experience led to lack of success . |
| 20 | On top of the recession , British Gas had lost a large part of its industrial commercial market as a result of an investigation by the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 21 | But Mandy 's gift for drama and her change to a quavering old voice had brought a reluctant smile on to Charity 's lips . |
| 22 | On April 10 , the French government had extradited a former ETA leader Juan Lorenzo Lasa Michelena , known as " Txikierdi " , who had already served seven years in a French prison and faced several murder charges in Spain . |
| 23 | In February Old Kewlany had intersected a two inch vein in Fleming 's Level — a quartz string believed to be associated with the vein ahead . |
| 24 | Certainly Gladstone 's view of society was less useful in 1880 when he returned to power for a second time , then , as Chamberlain reminded him , social legislation had become a parliamentary issue . |
| 25 | Only in 1532 did he alight on the policy of the royal supremacy : the idea that the English monarchy had enjoyed an unlimited authority over the church within its realm for centuries and only now needed to start exercising this on a more regular basis . |
| 26 | A year earlier in the World Cup meeting in Rome , British sprinting had received a tremendous fillip when Allan Wells , running for Europe , won the 100 metres , with tiny Ernie Obeng who , though representing Africa , lived in Britain , coming second . |
| 27 | Yet by the time Gorbachev became General Secretary in 1985 , the historical profession had advanced a long way from the crudities of Stalin 's era . |
| 28 | In recent years the size of Greece 's foreign debt had become a significant factor in its economic problems , as EC transfers and loans were no longer able to cover widening deficits . |
| 29 | He considered that the established two-party system had become a rigid tyranny that lacked public support and was injurious to our economic performance — the adversary politics thesis . |
| 30 | For twenty years his widowed mother had kept a small shop in a St Helens slum , only accepting an occasional small amount of money and putting off other help with ‘ the same naive reply : ‘ It 's very good of you , dear lad , and I appreciate it , but as long as I can manage it , I shall prefer to have my feet under my own fender . ’ |