Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Parliament had eventually passed a Pistols Act in 1903 , the police were persuaded in 1907 to bring a charge against the London firm of Gamages at Holborn who were advertising pistols for sale through the post . |
| 2 | Souness had verbally agreed a £2.3m deal with Villa boss Ron Atkinson on Tuesday . |
| 3 | In 1974 , only 18% of the population had completed primary and 3.6% secondary schooling and 0.8% had successfully completed a university degree . |
| 4 | Originally a three-year trained teacher , by 1976 he had successfully completed a part time B.Phil degree and subsequently had tried , unsuccessfully , to obtain the pastoral experience which he considered to be necessary in order to move up the comprehensive school hierarchy . |
| 5 | Real incomes fell by 36 per cent in January , since the government had effectively imposed a wage freeze for the month , with wage increases restricted to one-fifth of the rate of inflation in succeeding months . |
| 6 | The dog , who had perhaps feared a pavement perambulation , sniffed the air too and became frisky . |
| 7 | Prosecutors on March 18 opened another investigation into claims that Christopher Drogoul , the former head of BNL 's branch in Atlanta , had personally telephoned a US company on Aug. 7 , 1990 ( i.e. after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait ) , to offer help with circumventing the newly implemented US sanctions against Iraq . |
| 8 | By the time I had finished my Kachin fieldwork I had only to attend an animal sacrifice as a passive observer and then notice how the meat of the sacrifice was shared out among " the congregation and I could know , even down to quite line detail , the precise hierarchy and mutual relationship of everyone present , which might be thirty or more individuals altogether . |
| 9 | One had only to buy a Wedgwood coffee service or a piece of Bohemian crystal and the other would have the same the following week . |
| 10 | Perhaps this is one experiment that had better remain a computer simulation , at least for now . |
| 11 | We do not want to lose any explorers of the quantum world on the way so I think I had better issue a survival kit before we start . |
| 12 | But that day his mother had suddenly flown a warning flight , while his father rose into the air and swooped into the valley and back beneath the cliff edge , and suddenly a man was there with something green in his hand which rose into the sky above him and came down towards him . |
| 13 | Finds of Hamstone and lead coffins at Northover House had long suggested an inhumation cemetery north of the river , where excavation in 1982 revealed a ditched enclosure measuring c. go by 50 m ( 294 by 165 ft ) , which surrounded an estimated 1500 burials , apparently laid in rows east-west , some in coffins of lead , Hamstone or wood , others in lias limestone cists . |
| 14 | Another amusing incident to come out of ‘ Space Oddity ’ was when I got a phone call from David one day , who said he had to record an Italian version of the song because two kids in Italy had apparently done a cover version of it and as it looked as if it was going to do quite well , the Italian record company wanted a version by the original artist and said they would send someone along to teach Bowie phonetically how to sing the song . |
| 15 | He had already served a prison sentence in New Zealand . |
| 16 | United Motors had already built a component plant in Dublin a few years before , at the specific request of the Chairman , but it had never operated profitably . |
| 17 | In Greece recruits to the diplomatic service , who had already to hold a law degree , were subjected , at least in theory , to a competitive entrance examination from 1868 onwards . |
| 18 | The first of the tries came after six minutes after Neil Jenkins had already landed a 30-metre penalty . |
| 19 | The lava had already damaged a tourist complex and put a cable car out of action . |
| 20 | The NHS in Scotland , for example , had already set a waiting list target of 18 months compared to the two-year target adopted for England and Wales . |
| 21 | I had already performed a literature search on t-butyl OOH , and we have done some experiments with it on our parasite systems … some of our experiments on the parasites worked well and will appear in The Lancet . ’ |
| 22 | All of a sudden , I found myself in a festive gathering , as I had absent-mindedly gatecrashed an exhibition launch at the Gallery of Photography . |
| 23 | A child of Svetlana had desperately needed a bone marrow transplant . |
| 24 | Cohen had meanwhile made a surprise afternoon announcement to the press in London that the US government was " recommending that the forces of the EPRDF enter the city as soon as possible to stabilize the situation " . |
| 25 | It was alleged that Gaudin had corruptly employed an opposition supporter during the campaign to investigate Tapie 's political and personal life . |
| 26 | It still surprised him a little that his aunt had finally bought a television set . |
| 27 | It was amazing how much Eliot knew about history , as I , who had just completed a History degree , my second qualification , had reason to know . |
| 28 | Dental worker Keith Dunkin , 42 , from Horsell , near Woking in Surrey , had just lit a gas fire before settling down to watch The Italian Job . |
| 29 | He had just done a smear test on her . |
| 30 | We had just cleared a jungle overhang , and slipped beneath it like a snail under a mushroom , when we awakened an enormous colony of giant fruit bats — the " flying foxes " with a wingspan of over three feet . |