Example sentences of "had [vb pp] one of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas Charles Paris , who knew that he had given one of the best performances of his career in The Hooded Owl , was a name that the punters would n't know from a bar of soap . |
| 2 | A hastily assembled group of the famous 75s had been pushed forward on to Froideterre , and its lethal barrage had given one of the fresh divisions of XX Corps just enough time to move up through the ebbing debris of de Bonneval 's 37th African Division and establish a firm line from Bras to Haudromont . |
| 3 | England had failed to qualify for the finals , Scotland had defeated Wales in an emotional match at Liverpool 's Anfield Stadium and Ally McLeod , a supremely patriotic manager given to hyperbole and heart-wrenching nationalism had amassed one of the finest footballing sides for years . |
| 4 | ‘ She knew if she had attended one of the public services she would have been the centre of attention and the last thing she wanted was to be photographed as the woman alone . |
| 5 | Here was the team which he had come to when it was struggling pathetically at the bottom of the First Division ; the team which he had made one of the greatest in the history of football , beaten by a fifth-rate side . |
| 6 | Cardiff looked back to see that the other man had opened one of the metallic cases and taken out what seemed to be earphones , which he was now wearing . |
| 7 | As we saw earlier ( Ch.7 ) , wool taxation to raise war funds had provided a protective tariff for the textile industry , and the war had damaged one of the main Continental cloth-manufacturing centres in Flanders . |
| 8 | By the late 1230s he had become one of a small group of professional lawyers practising in the Common Bench in Westminster . |
| 9 | From being the palest child in her school , Martha found that she had become one of the darkest . |
| 10 | By this time it had become one of the principal Manchester manufacturers of engines and boilers , with a considerable export trade to Russia and India ; up to 1866 it had built over 1,800 boilers and about 200 engines since starting in business in 1835 . |
| 11 | By the middle of the thirteenth-century Milan 's ruling commune had lost its power , and the city had become one of the first to fall to the signori , the city lords . |
| 12 | By the early 1950s , the Essex Federation had become one of the strongest in the District , in terms of the enthusiasm and sense of purpose of its Executive Committee , composed of members elected from constituent branches at the annual general meetings . |
| 13 | By 1951 he had become one of the strongest champions of the special relationship in the cabinet — despite continuing differences on many economic issues . |
| 14 | Although he was still sufficiently trusted to be appointed as one of the young Edward 's guardians when the prince was sent abroad to do homage for his father 's French lands in September 1325 , a year later he had become one of the leading backers of Queen Isabella in her invasion of England . |
| 15 | Soon it had become one of the main topics of conversation . |
| 16 | By the fifteenth-century , the ducal patronage that supported the Renaissance had provided one of the finest artistic climates ever to have occurred in world history . |
| 17 | She had reached the place where the Dalek Killer had entered one of the six squat buildings that made up the central complex . |
| 18 | In 1820 the firm won a Gold Medal from the Royal Society of Arts for its introduction of a feldspathic glaze to replace the lead glaze which had caused one of the occupational hazards of workers in the china industry , the disease they called ‘ potter 's rot ’ . |
| 19 | Once more Reg Pybus was given command and many believed he had inherited one of the great Whaddon sides . |
| 20 | In 1238 John Biset , Justice of the southern forests , reported to Henry III that there were ‘ manifest evil-doers in the forests of Chippenham , Melksham and Braydon ’ , who had hamstrung one of the royal foresters , badly wounded another , killed the Abbot of Stanley 's horses , and committed many other crimes . |
| 21 | Vietnam 's co-operation in the Cambodian peace process had removed one of the major obstacles to normalization , but there remained the issue of approximately 2,300 US service personnel reported missing in action ( MIAs ) in the war and still unaccounted for . |
| 22 | It had rejoiced , as alien coteries naturally do , in its own intellectual isolation ; and in disdaining narrative , or at least fast-paced narrative , it had disavowed one of the native strengths of the tradition . |
| 23 | Without having courted war , the new tsar had achieved one of the greatest Russian successes in the century-long history of Russo-Persian enmity . |
| 24 | They had chosen one of the coldest Decembers ever recorded in England to make their journey , and Coleridge , plagued once more with neuralgia and illness , was suffering at the time from a face ‘ monstrously swoln ’ . |