Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [vb pp] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new congress did lack consequential leaders and congressional reform and the further weakening of political parties had brought about a variety of undesirable developments . |
| 2 | Vonadk reported on Jan. 8 that resistance fighters had carried out a grenade attack in Phnom Penh on Jan. 6 , killing a number of " traitorous Vietnamese puppets and lackeys " . |
| 3 | The previous day the Yugoslavs had put up a proclamation in Klagenfurt claiming that Carinthia was part of Yugoslavia . |
| 4 | In earlier times many miners had worked only a part of their time digging coal ; the rest of their income came from labouring jobs or from a smallholding . |
| 5 | Ellen tapped her heel , where the strap of a new pair of sandals had rubbed up a blister . |
| 6 | The Fine Gael TD for Westmeath , Paul McGrath , told the Dail that a group of terrorists had set up a firing range on the shores of Lough Derravarragh last week and fired off 1,000 rounds of ammunition from Kalashnikov rifles . |
| 7 | AMID a confusion of conflicting reports , Russia yesterday denied one of its planes had carried out a raid that killed one man and wounded eight people in Sukhumi , capital of the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia . |
| 8 | The Docks Board was the biggest company in the ports industry and with its Southampton operations and its Humber and South Wales ports had secured about a quarter of the market . |
| 9 | Anyway , when things had calmed down a bit , Kathleen made a quiet suggestion . |
| 10 | Gordon Brunt and his friends had taken away a wall without putting in the proper structural support , so the whole of the left side of Château Quigley had collapsed . |
| 11 | Mr Grant said that his association and its members had contributed quite a lot of money for advice over a number of years . |
| 12 | A short time before , estate agents ' men had put up a board to say that five houses were to be built — but they had erected it in the flower garden of the house instead of in the field as they had been instructed . |
| 13 | Mr Penna told the inquest : ‘ A fact which obviously must be considered is that the deceased by any standards had consumed quite a lot of alcohol . ’ |
| 14 | The police had rounded up a circle of drug users and suppliers . |
| 15 | No it is n't but what was not put was that er if the police had got there a couple of days earlier they would have caught because I was half . |
| 16 | Mind you the , the erm , the wages had risen quite a bit during the time . |
| 17 | The children had brought in a number of dead barn owls , so there was already a bit interest . |
| 18 | No I think , I thought we still had a chance , albeit you know the odds had gone down a bit or increased , but er no I thought we still had a chance , it was gon na be harder because if we lost any more by the wayside then you know you 're gon na be , it would 've been very awkward . |
| 19 | The nomes had raised quite a lot of children in the quarry . |
| 20 | It was also the last test flight for the station 's long serving test pilot … and his colleagues had lined up a surprise . |
| 21 | One of the counters had fallen down a snake to the bottom of the pit . |
| 22 | ( This decree had in fact been proposed by the BSP in response to threats by opposition protesters to set fire to themselves if the symbols were not removed ; on the very day of its approval workmen had taken down a hammer and sickle crest adorning the facade of the BSP headquarters . ) |
| 23 | Preparations had started almost a year earlier , but it was not until winter 1916/17 that they were fully implemented . |