Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greg Thomas came close to a wicket three times in his first over in Test cricket , but Greenidge and Haynes survived to give their usual start before Greenidge had to retire with a cut forehead after mishooking Botham . |
| 2 | Meticulous Jeff had hoped for a fine , calm evening — but it was misty and windy . |
| 3 | The weather had changed ; summer in its glorious profusion of colours had transformed the land that Corbett had travelled through a few weeks before . |
| 4 | Kuwait 's Oil Minister Hamud Abdullah al Raqaba disclosed that Kuwait had asked for an 800,000 bpd oil loan from the Gulf Co-Operation Council ( GCC ) , worth US$14,000,000 a day , to help meet reconstruction costs incurred by the Iraqi invasion of August 1990 [ see pp. 37631-41 ] . |
| 5 | Indeed , Mr Voss had last year written to The Daily Telegraph extolling the place — ‘ for patrons who wish to relax in comfort and splendour and enjoy the delights of haute cuisine ’ — and complaining that it was n't fair that Paddy Burt had written about a nearby Dorset establishment ( albeit unfavourably ) . |
| 6 | Following township rumours that the Mandelas had been living apart for some weeks , the Sowetan newspaper said Mrs Mandela continued to live in the mansion she had built in a better part of Soweto but Mr Mandela had moved into a well-guarded home in Johannesburg 's affluent northern suburbs . |
| 7 | Tony Zanetta : ‘ David had moved into a little house in Chelsea in New York and called Michael Lipman . |
| 8 | But Lucy had moved to an easy chair and sat , chin cupped by an exquisite palm . |
| 9 | My first visit to Vancouver had resulted in a great liking for the west coast , and I was determined to return . |
| 10 | He studied the cruel falcon face framed by the iron-grey hair , watching those slightly slanted eyes , one half-closed — a mannerism Edward had acquired as a young man . |
| 11 | In January of 1825 Barratt had decided upon an ambitious and costly project ; a deep adit level to be driven as a cross-cut , some 230 yds. downstream from Taylor 's Level into the eastern bank of Red Dell Beck and in a northerly direction , to come in below the old workings and to explore the vein , especially below that section expected to be opened up by Taylor 's . |
| 12 | Dustin had to suffer under a fourteen-piece latex mask , which took five hours a day to apply under the hot , steaming make-up lamps . |
| 13 | In the absence of appropriate provision by other bodies , the WEA had grown as a social movement which sought to provide those opportunities for people , denied access to further and higher education , either through its own efforts or cooperatively , but without patronage , in partnership with the universities , LEAs , and other agencies . |
| 14 | Richard had concluded with a large exclamation mark . |
| 15 | In 1244–5 Richard was in the marches of Wales , and received another blow when Richard de Clare , sixth Earl of Gloucester , lord of Glamorgan , had him arrested and confiscated his Glamorgan estates , on the grounds that Richard had sided with a Welsh magnate of the area against the earl . |
| 16 | It was the first time Dana had stayed in an English house , and I think he was delighted with the difference between it and his home in the United States . |
| 17 | Dana had sailed under a blue sky for too long to have any defence against storms , and this man was the worse kind of cyclone . |
| 18 | During the first half of the year , Aoun 's " war of liberation " against Syria had degenerated into a bloody and pointless battle with the Lebanese Forces ( LF ) militia for control of the Christian heartlands . |
| 19 | In April he and Constanze had moved to a smaller , less fashionable apartment on the Landstrasse , and Constanze was once again pregnant . |
| 20 | Ireland had hoped for a three-day match but this was not possible . |
| 21 | Ireland had crashed to a 145-90 defeat at the hands of the English losing out on all six rinks , and looked to have little chance when they took on the Scots , who had beaten defending champions Wales 130-100 in their opener . |
| 22 | On 12 June 1990 , the morning after Scotland had lost to an unfancied Costa Rica side in their critical opening match in the Italia '90 World Cup , the Daily Record led with an agonising front-page story which wallowed in alliteration and dredged the dire , dismal and deplorable depths of defeat . |
| 23 | Scotland had opened with a 24-21 victory over ACT , with tries from Mark Appleson , Gregor Townsend and Derek Stark ( 2 ) , and a conversion each from Townsend and Appleson . |
| 24 | Once , when they had gone on a nature walk , Eve had pointed to a small cottage and said that it was her house . |
| 25 | Heather had changed into a raspberry-coloured linen suit , and she and Rob circulated , saying goodbye to their guests . |
| 26 | The changes that were made for the Oval game took the number of England players used in the series to twenty-three and , as Cowdrey had to withdraw with a bruised foot , Graham Gooch was appointed the fourth captain of the series . |
| 27 | What Tallis had taken for a forked beard she could see , now , were curved tusks of wood growing from each side of the round , wet mouth . |
| 28 | But in 1795 and 1796 , after seeking the answers to his problems from Godwin 's book and finding none , Wordsworth had come to a full stop : he had become ‘ Sick , wearied out with contrarieties ’ ( Prelude 1805 , x , 900–1 ) and finally ‘ yielded up moral questions in despair ’ . |
| 29 | When Camille had choked on an Aztec cuff-link , a sizeable piece of jewellery such as had then been fashionable , Constance 's mum had held her upside down by the ankles and banged her until she disgorged it , while Scarlet had knelt in the unutterable anguish of one about to be bereaved , determining to destroy herself without hesitation should Camille not survive the experience . |
| 30 | There had been games , a lovely feed , gifts for children at the local orphanage , and , finally , a Hallowe'en play in which Carol had appeared as an old witch . |