Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She had heard of a German drug called Aslocillin which she thought could help and so she pulled every string to find a supply . |
| 32 | We had heard of a municipal university , and of a university of the East Midlands , and newcomers were welcomed by the Chairman of the College Council who , I think , was also a City or County Councillor . |
| 33 | He went on to say that he had heard from a mutual friend whom he had met in Alexandria that I had a good job , and added : ‘ Mother said , in an old letter which took months to reach me , that it was in the Foreign Office . |
| 34 | Thirty minutes earlier the radio had crackled with news of a definite sighting of the escapee Burrows , who had broken into a deserted farmhouse between Retford and Gainsborough . |
| 35 | Police said the thieves had broken through a rear entrance and stolen an electric typewriter , an answering machine and £40 cash . |
| 36 | The Tree Spirits were discernible now ; it was as if they had broken through a thick veil , through a smothering black curtain , and they were recognisable as distinct forms , moving slowly in and out of the forest . |
| 37 | It 's , no it had broken off a little bit , yeah . |
| 38 | Once , when they had gone on a nature walk , Eve had pointed to a small cottage and said that it was her house . |
| 39 | But in the final analysis , things had not changed since Wellington had pointed to a British infantryman before Waterloo with the words ‘ It all depends on that article ’ . |
| 40 | Eventually he was referred to a consultant who took a careful case-history and wondered if there might be some connection between the heavy doses of antibiotics he had received as a young man and the continuing diarrhoea . |
| 41 | The cause of death had been the terrible bludgeoning he had received from a blunt instrument . |
| 42 | He mentioned the insults his father had received from a young man near Trantridge who had a blind mother . |
| 43 | The Finance Act 1969 provided , in effect , that on the death of a beneficiary what in 1974 became capital transfer tax , and by the Finance Act 1986 inheritance tax , should be payable upon the proportion of the capital which corresponded to the proportion of the income which the deceased had received within a certain period before his death ( usually seven years ) . |
| 44 | This whole area had blossomed as a great region for settlement , in which the Spanish language was steadily being forced upon the survivors of the original population and to which Spanish emigrants went out as regular reinforcements to maintain the conquests of Cones and Pizzano . |
| 45 | He did not resume his role as a major lender until after 1689 but meanwhile he had blossomed into a Kentish landowner and re-entered Parliament . |
| 46 | Then he had gone , and the Curator had stared for a long time after him , and then at the golden eagle who stared blankly back at him . |
| 47 | The appeal to the EAT was based on the issue of whether the Tribunal had relied on a correct statement of the law when it referred to an excerpt from Harvey on Industrial Relations and Employment Law ( based on the EAT decision in Richmond Precision Engineering v Pearce ( [ 1985 ] IRLR 179 ) which stated that ‘ [ t ] he crucial question is whether the terms offered were those which a reasonable employer could offer ’ . |
| 48 | Marx and Engels , like all their contemporaries , including anthropologists and archaeologists and Morgan in particular , felt that information gained about contemporary peoples whose life depended on a simple technology was valid for understanding the social institutions of prehistoric populations who had relied on a similar technology . |
| 49 | All were owned by the city of Weimar which , unable to afford the insurance premium , had relied on a private security firm and improved alarms to guard the valuable works . |
| 50 | They had stopped on a small rise , at Bernice 's insistence , to compare stories and devise plans . |
| 51 | He was reminded of the statements of the stableman who had joined him for a drink at the Bull , situated at the end of Cross Street , and of the café owner where he had stopped for a fried breakfast . |
| 52 | Cranston , who had stopped at a local tavern to refill his miraculous wineskin , was full of chatter and speculation . |
| 53 | She had stopped in a busy street in Cardiff city centre after a shopping trip , and left the engine running after hearing a strange noise . |
| 54 | The low fertility families in social class III had courted for a long time , decided carefully about marriage , moved house seldom , and tended to be upwardly mobile in their jobs . |
| 55 | As a result , she had been able to put away a few shillings every week , and over these past three years the shillings had mounted until now the bag of coins which she kept hidden under the bedroom floorboards had swollen to a tidy sum . |
| 56 | The mosquito bite on his leg had swollen into a scarlet hillock . |
| 57 | Some youths astride shining motor-cycles had congregated outside a closed motor-cycle shop . |
| 58 | The weather had changed ; summer in its glorious profusion of colours had transformed the land that Corbett had travelled through a few weeks before . |
| 59 | The demonstrators had marched on a key pumping station at the start of the " Friendship Pipeline " which carried oil from Tatarstan 's oilfields to eastern Europe , and amid chants of " Tatar oil for Tatarstan " they had attempted to put it out of action . |
| 60 | It was important , for instance , to know how the salary profile of Company A or the age profile of Division B had altered over a particular period . |