Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , that 's a good start ! ’ she thought , looking around in the hope that someone had witnessed so successful a landing , but of course they had n't . |
| 2 | For to revile this troublesome boy at this moment was to damage whatever claim Ramsey had to the stake for which the bold wretch had made so perilous a bid . |
| 3 | There was little scope left for the condottiere , no possibility of the rise of a new crop of Wallensteins or Mansfelds , the warlords and military entrepreneurs who had played so great a part in the struggles of the 1620s and 1630s . |
| 4 | Certainly he refused to implicate himself in the development of a theory in which he had played so great a part . |
| 5 | When he arrived in America , Weill did not automatically expect New York ears to take to the music of the Berlin avant-garde in which he had played so prominent a part : instead he set himself the task of learning to write music with an American accent . |
| 6 | Perhaps he was contemplating his own life with Vivien here just as , when he connected McKnight Kauffer 's death with a sense of " the void " , he was once again returning to his own feeling of emptiness which had played so large a part in his religious conversion . |
| 7 | Thus Poland , which had played so important a role in the debates on the national question , slipped into independence by courtesy of German arms without playing any role in a revolution in Germany or in Russia . |
| 8 | The sight of a jubilant Mota completing a victory lap with flag and flowers in hand and a glorious grin on her face had become as familiar a spectacle as the opening ceremony itself . |
| 9 | A substitute had been required , therefore , in haste — and Daniel , who had never reached France or Italy after all but had spent the last two years at the London office of the Chartist Northern Star , had seemed as good a choice as any . |
| 10 | And when she had said it — when she had put so pathetic a value on herself — he would still drive off and leave her standing there , with those steep , chilly miles to go . |