Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [vb pp] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no doubt that Jennie Walker had played quite a part in John 's life before they were married . |
| 2 | Bella had stayed there a bit , though , along with her ghastly cronies . |
| 3 | He caught the glint of a smile from Fael-Inis at that , and felt a sudden delight , because the fire was surging up all about them , and Fael-Inis had taken up a stance at the fore of the Chariot , and he was gathering up silken reins between his hands , only the reins were of living colour and shifting light , and there were certainly spells within them as there had certainly been spells in the Chamber of the Looms … |
| 4 | Hoskyns had built up a computer company and been active in the Centre for policy Studies before joining Mrs Thatcher . |
| 5 | Later , the spectra of other stars were examined , and before the end of the last century astronomers at Harvard College Observatory in the United States had drawn up a system of classification which is still used . |
| 6 | Agreeing that the cakes should be protected , Mr Pinkney had set up a sort of crêpe paper barrier along the front of the display . |
| 7 | Then there was the news that El Daba airfield was not being used , though Jellicoe had brought back a couple of German prisoners who freely volunteered the information that this was the most important of their forward airfields . |
| 8 | Barrie Nye from Woughton on the Green in Milton Keynes had flagged down a lorry with smoking tyres on the M-One near Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire . |
| 9 | A National Communications Union official , Rachel Ashworth , told the Women 's TUC annual conference in Blackpool that British Telecom had set up a Freephone number to deal with inquiries from potential operators . |
| 10 | In a case which occurred some time between 1037 and 1054 , the abbot of Marmoutier complained in Geoffrey Martel 's court that a certain Bouchard had seized back a mill which his brother , with Bouchard 's consent , had earlier bestowed on the abbey . |
| 11 | Jim and Tina had made up a foursome with Jean Hay and Bruce Mackenzie . |
| 12 | Mannheim had set out a project for the sociology of knowledge that opened up a potentially stimulating area of sociological inquiry . |
| 13 | The Russians who went to war on their side were now regarded as their enemies , and he contended that the reason why the British government was trying to prevent the Russian Government trading with this country and was using Polish forces to fight the Russian people was because the people of Russia had set up a form of Government which was antagonistic to a capitalist Government like theirs . |
| 14 | But Anton Rogan scored his first goal for the club with a perfectly-hit volley from the edge of the box in the 31st minute after goalkeeper Digweed had punched away a corner from a jaded-looking Atkinson . |
| 15 | ‘ At least you left Fernando on good terms , ’ he went on as he pulled up in front of the stone steps of the mansion that Ruth had fled down a century ago . |
| 16 | Chester had put together a deal for the centre which would have cost the Government nothing because it was tied in with private sector development . |
| 17 | Lord Justice Watkins , sitting with Mr Justice Garland , also rejected criticism made by Mr Justice Henry at an earlier hearing that Mr Saunders had set up a trust fund to render himself less likely to face litigation and reduce his ability to pay legal costs . |
| 18 | Edward , brooding , remembered a summer long ago when Helen had brought back a schoolfriend and he had felt pushed aside , abandoned . |
| 19 | Within 12 minutes , Aled Williams had banged over a second penalty goal as a prelude to a tremendous Swansea surge which brought the second try from Jenkins . |
| 20 | ‘ The wife of one of the guys who lives in Lowestoft had sent out a video of his son 's birthday party which also had a bit of my Help programme for Anglia TV on it . |
| 21 | Jarvis had set up a trestle table on that terrace where pupils had once assembled for the annual school photograph . |
| 22 | Geoff Cooke left him out of the first international squad gathering on the grounds that Skinner had dropped down a division to play with Blackheath and therefore was obviously not too bothered about his international prospects . |
| 23 | Blanche had summoned up a tearful of sympathy for Christine Mills when she learnt of her father 's death . |
| 24 | Mr. Barlow and Ena had had quite a giggle about those . |
| 25 | In his heart , Gedge had mapped out a life for Rigby and himself . |
| 26 | Davide had turned up a coin , one afternoon , when he was mooning around ; it was a common enough type , the professor told him in the museum at Riba , where he took it for an opinion . |
| 27 | French relief workers claimed that the Djibouti government and French army officers stationed in Djibouti had sent back a group of refugees across the border into an inhospitable desert region of Ethiopia on June 2 ; however , the French Foreign Ministry denied that there had been any forcible expulsions from Djibouti . |
| 28 | It made it worse when we knew Watson had picked up a shot here . |
| 29 | God had worked out a way which showed the futility of human manoeuvring . |
| 30 | Before the Colonel and his wife had helped themselves from the sideboard to cakes and sandwiches , and Fru Møller had put down a pot of tea on the table in front of them , Elisabeth Danziger had found the strength to rise and walk slowly out of the drawing-room and up the stairs . |