Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [noun] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only in such circumstances that I would feel assured that the matter had received consideration at the highest level and that there was no risk that the criminal law would be impeded . |
| 2 | She had met Greg at a film-club meeting , where they had laughed through a leaden documentary on Cuba . |
| 3 | Mr Chad told the jury that Faye Whitehead , 17 , of Torrs Park , Ifracombe , Devon , had met Harris at the Imperial Hotel where they both worked . |
| 4 | Two of the bigger boys from Thorpe Street had once tried to outswing him for a dare , but Barry Lock had turned chicken at the last minute and Valance Fraser , who fancied himself as the cock of the street , had managed only a partial swing that left him dangling by his arms in the dirt . |
| 5 | Launching a sugar plantation took a great deal of capital and the planters were always short of money ; many of them had bought estates at the high land prices of the boom , and most of them felt they owed it to themselves to live in a gentlemanly way that ignored debts . |
| 6 | Seven thousand people who had bought tickets at the cheap rate in the following week were obliged to pay a surcharge . |
| 7 | It was William who had convinced Preston at an impressionable age that little girls , as they grew up , also grew ‘ two tits and a willy ’ , a fantasy which Preston had accepted as gospel for at least two years and which he sometimes thought still influenced his relations with the opposite sex . |
| 8 | She had found Doreen at an early stage , and paid her over the odds to keep the house running smoothly . |
| 9 | Bevin emphasised the accumulating problems resulting from the fact that little progress had been made : he had encountered difficulties at the British Commonwealth conference held at Colombo in January 1950 and there were criticisms of the United States for not having given a lead . |
| 10 | On every occasion there was a suicide attempt , we would find out that the other had attempted suicide at the identical time , even though they may have been hundreds of miles apart and not seen each other for months . |
| 11 | The vast majority of participants have not had previous experience of higher or adult education , and had left school at the minimum age . |
| 12 | The purchaser may be tempted to take a stance it might not have chosen if the same negotiations had taken place at a later stage . |
| 13 | A number of protests had taken place at the Soviet presence in the country , including an attack on Jan. 28 on the Soviet consulate in Krakow . |
| 14 | ( Elections in five states , Uttar Pradesh , Sikkim , Goa , Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka , had taken place at the same time as the general election in November — see pp. 37124-25 for results . ) |
| 15 | The big obstacle to Britain gaining the gold medal was the Russian favourite Aleksandr Yevgeniev , a man who had set a world best earlier in the season and who had beaten Mafe at the initial World Indoor Games in the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy one year before to win the gold medal . |
| 16 | The award to David Robinson , now 25 and paralysed from the neck down , came after Deputy Judge Patrick Bennett , QC , had expressed amazement at the initial failure of negotiations to reach a settlement in his damages claim . |
| 17 | He liked America , he had studied agriculture at the top University of Utah after the Second World War . |
| 18 | The son of a bookbinder from Augsburg , Leopold had studied philosophy at the Benedictine university in Salzburg , but the academic life did not suit him , and he was expelled in 1739 . |
| 19 | They had acquired Isvik at a knock-down figure , spent about the same again completing the fitting of her out to their requirements , and Iain Ward had picked her up for not much more than they had originally paid for her . |