Example sentences of "had [vb pp] at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cranston , who had stopped at a local tavern to refill his miraculous wineskin , was full of chatter and speculation . |
| 2 | Snizort , on his own account , offered the Twelve Knights who had sat at a round table so that no one of them should be at its head and no one at its foot . |
| 3 | The MoD had claimed at a public inquiry in 1988 that they needed the land for training and in 1991 asked to extend the area further . |
| 4 | On April 6 Parys had claimed at a televised meeting with army officers that politicians were preparing to use the army for " political intrigues " , offering officers promotion in return for their support . |
| 5 | That was after Joe , HISY 's lawyer had claimed at a previous hearing that yet another G Tec rival , Scientific Games , had been told not to bother bidding by lottery officials . |
| 6 | Already during the uncanny calm of the ‘ phoney war ’ in the winter of 1939–40 , Hitler had hinted at a successful end to the conflict during 1940 , and at the same time had further blamed England and France for deliberately prolonging the war through their influence on previously neutral countries . |
| 7 | It would take too long and she would n't understand ; besides , she had phoned at a bad moment — Anne was obviously in a hurry to go out . |
| 8 | Clayton 's development as a photographer had accelerated at a rapid pace and within 12 months he won 12 awards , including : |
| 9 | Consumer prices had accelerated at an annualized rate of 5.5 per cent in January 1990 , and the visible trade surplus in 1989 was the lowest recorded for 10 years . |
| 10 | ‘ Dorset , ’ someone had said at a recent dinner . |
| 11 | Count Tolstoy 's co-defendant , Nigel Watts had said at an earlier hearing that he had never intended to push the whole debt on to the historian . |
| 12 | In the previous four years GNP had grown at an average rate of about 3 per cent per annum which was lower than the preceding years and unemployment had reached a peak of 8.3 per cent in 1970 . |
| 13 | In 1979 , the World Bank published a glowing report , Romania : Industrialization under Socialist Planning , which claimed , on the basis of official Romanian government figures , that in the quarter century between 1950 and 1975 , the Romanian economy had grown at an average compound annual rate of over 9% . |
| 14 | The first witness had decided at an early stage not to travel to Dublin ; the second only recently made his decision not to give evidence . |
| 15 | If the deceased had led a reasonable life and had died at a good age without too much trouble , leaving a reasonably good family behind him , what was there to be miserable about ? |
| 16 | Lamenting ‘ the feeling of morbid sympathy with criminals which at the present moment undoubtedly exists ’ , The Times ( 18 November 1856 ) had arrived at a sorry conclusion : ‘ Philanthropy , like crinoline , has become the fashion . ’ |
| 17 | They had arrived at a first floor landing . |
| 18 | Gould found he ‘ had arrived at a good time , the birds having just commenced breeding ’ , and was immediately off to resume his researches with Natty and Jemmy in the cedar brushes of the Liverpool Range and on the nearby stretches of the Dart Brook . |
| 19 | For by now we had arrived at a big army hut by the side of the road . |
| 20 | It was the first time the monarch had ever used a Thames passenger ferry — and one of the few occasions when she had arrived at an official engagement by public transport in the UK . |
| 21 | I was afraid Richard would mind , but , as it turned out , my election had happened at a convenient time . |
| 22 | This friend suggested that there might be something which had happened at an earlier stage in Kirsty 's life which was causing her health to deteriorate now . |
| 23 | Wendy had worked at a local hospital as a clerk in medical records before giving up work to look after her children . |
| 24 | No mother of a case had worked at a nuclear establishment before her child 's conception , and no mother had a record of being monitored for exposure to ionising radiation at any time before diagnosis ( table V ) . |
| 25 | Apparently my mother had worked at a big house somewhere and fallen in love , but it had all gone wrong . |
| 26 | If the probe moves along a radius with , then For simplicity it can be imagined that the probe would have been be at rest if it had started at an infinite distance from the hole ; then the kinetic energy parameter T vanishes and the equation reduces further to where , as usual , . |
| 27 | This was the first time that the nuclear industry had admitted at a public inquiry that the electricity from one of its future reactors would be more expensive than the output from an equivalent coal-fired station . |
| 28 | In 1862 the Mercury was appalled that one drunken excess had continued at a public house until seven in the morning ! |
| 29 | The Mersey building programme had continued at an impressive rate throughout 1990 with orders recently placed for the last 14 fibre reinforced composite ( FRC ) boats — due to be completed within the next 22 months . |
| 30 | She was , as Clara had discovered at an early age , colossally inconsistent ; and sometimes Clara thought that it might have been easier to live with a true religious fanatic , whose fads and fancies would be at least predictable and well-marshalled , with the backing of some kind of external authority , from which there could be some appeal . |