Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a legendary monster said to have been born to a wealthy lady who had referred to a beggar 's child as a nasty pig . |
| 2 | When the pass came and I had arranged for a fortnight 's holiday I travelled to the Pacific coast in a day coach : overnight to Calgary , and on for another 24 hours through the glorious panorama of the Rockies to Burrard Inlet , English Bay and Stanley Park , Vancouver . |
| 3 | She looked over at the pile of burned clothing she had shed like a snake 's skin , and shuddered . |
| 4 | The Major began to feel that Onyx Muggeridge was not quite what he had come to a Parents ' Evening for , and was quite grateful when the headmaster disengaged himself with palpable reluctance from the Fromes and sailed in his direction , exuding Manner . |
| 5 | Yorkshireman Martin Sterne , from Ripon , had come for a week 's golfing holiday with three friends , bringing their own golf professional with them from England . |
| 6 | He lived with Val , whom he had met at a Freshers ' tea party in the Student Union when he was eighteen . |
| 7 | Police discovered later that Lorna and Vernage had met at a children 's home years earlier . |
| 8 | Ruth had already decided to bring her own children to be photographed today , and then approached all her friends with young families , suggesting they might like to do the same — so it had turned into a children 's party . |
| 9 | The jury at Bristol Crown Court was told that Mantack took with him a tape he had made of a woman 's voice crying for help . |
| 10 | He had slept on a friend 's floor and spent a very uncomfortable night . |
| 11 | Breathless , she slowed to a walk through the lemon groves near the complex , and by the time she reached Monte Samana she had slowed to a snail 's pace . |
| 12 | John Mumford had been a curate in the Church of England with a significant ministry and had gone for a year 's sabbatical to California . |
| 13 | Perhaps he had run into a pensioners ' outing . |
| 14 | One policeman from an area outside Easton once stated that he had ‘ sort of fixed it ’ for a lorry driver who had run over a lady 's leg because ‘ the lady was n't very nice but the lorry driver was dead on ’ ( FN 22/2/87 , p. 1 ) . |
| 15 | Leo had dragged himself up from the East End , where his father , a first-generation Jewish immigrant from the Ukraine , had worked as a tailor 's cutter ; James , on the other hand , had had one of those privileged English upbringings . |
| 16 | The first was a Carol Pearson , of Muswell Hill , interesting to him because she had worked as a hairdresser 's improver at a shop in Eastcheap . |
| 17 | She had worked as a children 's nurse in Wirral hospitals for 20 years before taking a post with the local social services department , assisting young families in need . |
| 18 | From about 1909 he was a friend of ( Sir ) John Beazley [ q.v. ] , with whom he once combined to buy a Sienese picture they had discovered in a dealer 's ; and he often travelled in Italy to look at pictures , sometimes in the company of his friend Scholfield . |
| 19 | Yet , within a few years , the whole affair had degenerated into a foodies ' free-for-all . |