Example sentences of "the [noun sg] had [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goremykin , the premier had become a mere figurehead in charge of no major department , and individual ministers reverted to reporting independently and in haphazard fashion to the Tsar . |
| 2 | Yesterday Buckingham Palace confirmed that the Prince had accepted a long-standing invitation to address the annual conference of the Scottish Crofters Union which has almost 2,000 members in the Western Isles . |
| 3 | As well as having undertaken the nominated activity within 1990 and being members of the BAPC , entrants for the award had to assemble a small report giving the ‘ whys ’ and the ‘ hows ’ of their particular project . |
| 4 | It is not clear what view of the section the court would take in a case in which there was a clash between shareholder and employee interests , and there was evidence that the board had favoured the latter . |
| 5 | During the preceding years the hairpin had perforated the inner end of the vagina and eventually turned through 180° . |
| 6 | In November 1558 , she was succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth , who within a few months of coming to the throne had authorized a new religious settlement which once again left the country officially Protestant . |
| 7 | ‘ It would have been a different story if the brewery had done the earlier repairs . ’ |
| 8 | Yeast from the beer beer in the brewery had caused a scaly rash to grow on her forearms and across the backs of her hands . |
| 9 | The case had made the front page ; eight column inches in the bottom right-hand corner : |
| 10 | A magistrate , Ian Baker , said the case had aroused a great deal of interest because of the film . |
| 11 | Judge Geoffrey Rivlin QC , sitting at Southwark Crown Court , said the case had disclosed a disturbing picture of the use of ‘ a wide range of dangerous drugs ’ by customers at Darby 's parties . |
| 12 | The LTTE had launched a major assault on July 10 on the Sri Lankan government 's army base at Elephant Pass . |
| 13 | As the sun went down over the trees , everyone in the squadron had enjoyed a hard day 's military training and , after a good dinner and some well-deserved beers , they were very happy and were looking forward to the challenges of the next day . |
| 14 | The , by contrast , normally sober reports of the District Leader of Augsburg City added that belief and trust in the Führer had reached an unprecedented level , and that ‘ if an increase in feeling for Adolf Hitler was still possible , it had become reality with the day of the return to Berlin ’ from the western Front . |
| 15 | The decision had seemed a natural one at the time . |
| 16 | Simon the tiler had done a good job . |
| 17 | By the time Pie had played both the children to sleep , and rose to come and join his guest at the table , the liquor had brought a pleasant buzz to Estabrook 's head . |
| 18 | The camp had acquired a new ‘ amenity ’ since Seb 's last visit : ale and spirits were being dispensed from a wooden-sided enclosed wagon by a leather-aproned vendor . |
| 19 | The hook had ripped a great tuft of flesh from his throat . |
| 20 | The coin had found the central stem of the bolt , the rust shell was dispersed . |
| 21 | The largest thunderclap of the storm had followed the Prime Minister 's words ‘ Right , gentlemen , this means war ’ , and the subsequent flash of lightning , it was remembered later , had lit up the entire room , despite the blackout curtains . |
| 22 | Even the Guardian had advocated a Conservative victory , albeit with a ‘ small majority ’ , in 1983 ( Roberts , 1989 , p. 37 ) . |
| 23 | I was therefore instructed to discontinue the action on the basis that each side paid their own costs , although the Guardian had suffered a continuous reverse in their attempts to maintain the right to press freedom and to maintain secrecy about their informant . |
| 24 | By the time Johnstone was helped ashore , the manager Willie Ormond had been alerted and the story had taken the first few faltering steps into football mythology . |
| 25 | The driver had seen the green flag and had opened the regulator to ease forward , yelling at Albert to come on . |
| 26 | She did n't want to think too closely about what she would do if Luke opened the door , but the driver had left an old anorak on the passenger-seat and she slipped it on , pulling the hood up to cover her hair . |
| 27 | The sepoy was a large and powerful man , Fleury had been weakened by the siege ; the sepoy had led a hard life of physical combat , Fleury had led the life of a poet , cultivating his sensibilities rather than his muscles and grappling only with sonnets and suchlike … |
| 28 | The United States representative , as I recall , had a background in a state university , the Russian had run a vast collective farm and the qualifications of the French representative did not emerge during my short acquaintance with this example of Allied teamwork . |
| 29 | As it happened my ‘ tablees ’ were fine and fun-filled and the only remaining knee jerk came after the Duchess had made an excellent speech and I was called up before 150 people for the photo call , which turned out to be a speech . |
| 30 | Those traders were relieved yesterday to see the Bundesbank had held the 8.25 per cent rate unchanged . |