Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [verb] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lori 's cat-like eyes had narrowed in a way Paige remembered only too well . |
| 2 | She laughed shrilly , seeing the way his eyes had darkened in a way that made the breath lodge hard and heavy in her throat . |
| 3 | National statistics released this week showed the cost of vandalism and arson attacks on schools had doubled in a year from £60m. to £120m . |
| 4 | He found that his feet had cramped in a clench of anguish . |
| 5 | The report suggested that corruption had reached such a point that several officers had connived in a plot to topple the government in the early 1980s . |
| 6 | Until ten years or so ago a bundle of similar envelopes had lain in a drawer of her desk ; one day in a fit of vigour she had torn them up and thrown them away . |
| 7 | The old tiger himself pronounced it a good idea , even if his friends had to listen in a state of uncharacteristic sobriety . |
| 8 | All I knew at that stage was that the girls had drowned in a sailing accident . |
| 9 | Two men had met in a London flat : customer and supplier . |
| 10 | What about the father who arrived home to find his four children had died in a fire ? |
| 11 | And , one that Dorcas had found in a book and was rather proud of : Unexploded Bom . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , there were widespread claims that , despite the government 's officially stated position of neutrality , the authorities had intervened in a variety of ways to support the candidacy of Kim Young Sam . |
| 13 | A basis for such costing investigations had existed in a team at the Electrical Research Association , jointly supported by the more forward-looking pre-nationalisation undertakings . |
| 14 | On 9 February 1956 a large group of Falangist students had gathered in a street in the university quarter of Madrid to commemorate the anniversary of the death , in 1934 , of one of the party 's first martyrs , the student Matias Montero . |
| 15 | She claimed at the time that colleagues had lied in a bid to get her fired because she was unpopular . |
| 16 | A federal grand jury on Sept. 10 determined that employees at the Post Office of the House of Representatives had engaged in a conspiracy to defraud the government , and had used public funds to benefit members of Congress . |