Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [verb] [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her own parents had played such a game , but in their case it was her father who had played the mild , the foolish role . |
| 2 | One of the stewards had cried all the way through it , she said , so it must be good . |
| 3 | Harry slipped the book into his pocket , wondering as he did so which previous patron of the Skein of Geese had handed such a thing on to Heather . |
| 4 | Half-way through one driver came in and said that the Minister for Human Resources had spent half an hour longer than he had agreed . ’ |
| 5 | The two plain-clothes officers had drunk half a bottle of scotch and several cans of lager on the train journey from Glasgow to Telford to escort a prisoner back to Scotland , said Estelle Hindely , prosecuting . |
| 6 | In due course he was returned to normal health , except that the acids had removed all the pigmentation from his exposed skin . |
| 7 | I sped again on the bus to the races and found that overnight Assiniboia Downs had sprouted all the ballyhoo of Woodbine , T-shirt stalls , banners and besashed bosoms Support Canadian Racing included . |
| 8 | Hakluyt was exaggerating when he said that Englishmen had excelled all the nations and people of the earth in their explorations , but he was quite right when he asked : |
| 9 | The old oak girders had taken such a clouting |
| 10 | Vacations had proved such a strain that she stopped going home at all in the end , applying for any holiday jobs which offered accommodation . |
| 11 | JEB Fasteners had purchased all the shares in a private company having relied on its accounts for a period of about a year since incorporation . |
| 12 | Its bare outlines were that in a Luton car park a gang of four men had shot dead a sub-postmaster while trying to obtain from him the post office keys . |
| 13 | Dorcas had given this a lot of thought as teams of nomes sweated to pry the lids off the paint-streaked tins . |
| 14 | Mr Harrison said the courts had to make sure the punishment fitted the crime for such serious offences . |
| 15 | Since this meant warming up some freshly collected rain water , it was early evening when everything was ready by which time the adults had eaten all the eggs . |
| 16 | Council staff and others had interviewed all the rest , if possible with their relatives , in an attempt to match them with other accommodation . |
| 17 | Before the match the Aussies had established such a reputation that people began to believe they were unbeatable . |
| 18 | Mrs Ayers is convinced the raiders had seen all the publicity about the bandleader 's death and had broken in , hoping to find money or jewellery . |
| 19 | I was very lucky , though , to be given a key ; some of my colleagues had to rouse both the bodies and the ire of their landlords at this unsocial hour . |
| 20 | Council staff and independent advocates had interviewed all the rest , if possible with their relatives , in an attempt to match them with other accommodation . |
| 21 | At another camp on the Kenyan border the deaths had reached 10 a day . |
| 22 | If consumers had to suffer all the pollution caused by the products they bought , they would n't buy them in such damaging quantities . |