Example sentences of "had [vb pp] of [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The County Council 's environmental consultants had said of the inner northern routes , rather than damaging an irrepr irreplaceable sensitive landscape as could happen with the other routes , the inner northern route could be seen as a means of improving the landscape . |
| 2 | ‘ We fast for them on their feast days ’ , Augustine had said of the few remaining pagans , ‘ so that they themselves might become the spectacle ’ . |
| 3 | The German Commandant had dreamt of a mute Jewish whore and when he was issued one for the duration his cup overflowed . |
| 4 | It was a bridesmaid 's dress , left over from her cousin 's wedding in Charters Towers last year , and she had not worn it since , but the brief glimpse she had had of the other female guests had told her that her more casual outfits would not do tonight amongst the Hamiltons ' sophisticated entourage . |
| 5 | Then he remembered how Bigwig , after his reconnaissance on the previous day , had spoken of the little white sticks in the grass . |
| 6 | His Excellency showed me a film he had taken of the three northern islands of the Tonga group which — being some 300 miles north of the main island — are invariably overlooked by such few visitors as Tonga receives . |
| 7 | Up until this time the filtration had consisted of a gravity-fed brick-built filter with three compartments — settlement , brush and Flocor chamber . |