Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] had [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 The Canadian government had until 26th August to appeal against the ruling and has already lodged an appeal .
2 Her neighbour , after helping himself well to leg of mutton as the vast dish had at last come round to him , said ( confirming her ) , ‘ Our guest of honour is a real femme du monde . ’
3 Franco 's propagandists spared no efforts to demonstrate that the international community had at last recognized the rightness of his principles , or to extol what they called the enormous political skill of the man who had foreseen the Cold War years before it became reality .
4 Sergeant Charles Trumper was discharged from active service on 20 February 1919 , one of the early ones : the missing toe had at last counted for something .
5 The luxury tramcar had at last arrived !
6 More than one of the void screens had at last been overloaded .
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