Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he finished tying the cravat into an acceptable knot he saw that one of the cheese-knives had stuck to the table linen by virtue of the butter that had been left on it . |
| 2 | Authors had to economize in the number of illustrations they used , and readers had to get into the habit of turning a number of pages to find a relevant picture . |
| 3 | On the ground floor of the tower block , soccer fans had crowded into a club to watch highlights of the weekend 's games . |
| 4 | When it was over , the top of his head ached where it had been crammed up against the headboard and there were red marks just below his knees where his legs had gone over the footboard . |
| 5 | Authors had to economize in the number of illustrations they used , and readers had to get into the habit of turning a number of pages to find a relevant picture . |
| 6 | Overall , more than nine out of ten ( 93% ) of the very recent ( post-1976 ) publications issued to readers had come to the Library under copyright deposit legislation , the remainder having been acquired by purchase ( 6% ) or donation ( 2% ) . |
| 7 | Under its terms , Communist or " front " organizations had to register with the Attorney-General ; their members were banned from employment in defence plants , and prevented from obtaining passports ; and no foreigner who had been a member of the Communist Party could enter the USA . |
| 8 | Textiles were in full decline ; the old metal trades had vanished to the point where no artisan could explain the traditional techniques . |
| 9 | The outcome of this work , which was carried out just after candidates had enrolled for the Batch 1 courses , is still awaited . |
| 10 | What local ‘ MPs and candidates had to say on the day the election date was named : |
| 11 | Two candidates had withdrawn from the contest , leaving him as sole contender . |
| 12 | According to the conventional wisdom , successful presidential candidates had to come from the middle of the political spectrum . |
| 13 | Lori 's cat-like eyes had narrowed in a way Paige remembered only too well . |
| 14 | If only there is a way — ’ And stopped , because Nuadu 's eyes had gone to the silver door . |
| 15 | All the problems that had beset them from that first moment their eyes had met in the courtyard on the day of her arrival had vanished , it seemed , giving way to the greater power of one fact — now they were lovers . |
| 16 | It was only when his eyes had adjusted to the brightness that Dexter could assess Stephen Blufton properly . |
| 17 | Either that , or my eyes had adjusted to the gloom . |
| 18 | There , when our eyes had adjusted to the gloom , we found the world of the river that we had just left . |
| 19 | Now that his eyes had adjusted to the light , Patrick could just about make out the vague shape of the young woman before him , her face a dim grey against the paler shape of her nightdress . |
| 20 | Lucenzo 's eyes had strayed to the child , who was contentedly wrapped in his father 's embrace . |
| 21 | Then he recognised that her eyes had strayed to the food , glistening a little . |
| 22 | The cat with the yellow eyes had disappeared into the forest the day the Germans came . |
| 23 | Alison 's eyes had brightened at the word ‘ divorce ’ and she said that she would go on seeing him . |
| 24 | Blanche 's eyes had focused on a group of American youths at the bar sporting baseball caps . |
| 25 | She laughed shrilly , seeing the way his eyes had darkened in a way that made the breath lodge hard and heavy in her throat . |
| 26 | A study of the Ecuadorian censuses for 1954 and 1974 estimated that production on the smaller units had grown by an average of 2.7 per cent per year during the period , but on the larger units , growth was at the rate of 1.2 per cent . |
| 27 | Traditionally pacifists had looked to the evolution of a transnational civil society and the gradual withering away of the nation state as the key to human progress — a view elaborated most influentially by Richard Cobden . |
| 28 | Dozens of drivers had stopped in the lay-by and thousands driven past . |
| 29 | Petrol shortages had begun in the north in late 1991 and had spread to Lagos and other southern areas by the beginning of April 1992 . |
| 30 | The men wore short kilts of grey homespun , their hair was flowing or knotted at the back , most were bearded : the uplanders had arrived from the Glen of Keltney . |