Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weather conditions precluded this , so he had to wait for the next scheduled plane from Wick to Kirkwall . |
| 2 | Geoffrey had stopped outside the fourth ground-floor window from the garden door — Loretta was relieved to observe a lack of lights in the rooms adjoining it — and was already slipping his ruler into the gap between the two parts of the sash window . |
| 3 | According to the 1990 report of the UN Economic Commission for Africa ( ECA ) , 100 million people , one-quarter of Africa 's population , were receiving less than 80 per cent of daily food needs , and per capita incomes had fallen for the 12th successive year . |
| 4 | The new US position led to a closing of ASEAN ranks , with little evidence of the internal quarrelling over Cambodia which had surfaced at the 22nd annual meeting of Foreign Ministers in Brunei in 1989 . |
| 5 | His swift rise to international acclaim was nevertheless tragically cut short when at only 42 he died of a heart attack just when ‘ poised to take his place alongside Barere , Friedman and Horowitz as the natural successors to Hofmann , Rachmaninov , Rosenthal , Godowsky and Lhevinne , all of whom had contributed to the last golden age of pianism ’ as Bryan Crimp , the dedicated compiler of this anthology of Levitzki 's total surviving electrical recordings for HMV , puts it in the accompany booklet . |
| 6 | She did not know exactly how she had arrived at the last overwhelming conviction , only that she had . |
| 7 | The day before his election Kim had presided over the 18th plenary session of the sixth Korean Workers ' Party central committee which approved the appointment of Choe Kwang and Han Song Yong to the politburo . |
| 8 | ( ‘ The first assistant director , ’ he says when I query his qualifications for the role , ‘ just had to shout at the second assistant director . ’ ) |
| 9 | This was fortunate , since his father had served on the second high court of justice in February–March 1649 , which had tried and condemned James ( first Duke of Hamilton ) , Henry Rich ( first Earl of Holland ) [ qq.v. ] , and other Royalist leaders in the second civil war of 1648 . |
| 10 | When stewards realised what had happened after the second false start there was ‘ a period of shocked dismay ’ before anyone tried to stop the runaway field . |
| 11 | When stewards realised what had happened after the second false start there was ‘ a period of shocked dismay ’ before anyone tried to stop the runaway field . |
| 12 | The choreographer was Onna White , who had worked on the first musical version of a Charles Dickens book , Oliver ! , the 1968 British film starring Ron Moody and Oliver Reed — for which she won a special Oscar — and had staged Half a Sixpence in New York , featuring Tommy Steele . |
| 13 | He desperately needed a drink but he knew he had to get through the next little while — ten minutes , half an hour , an hour — completely sober . |
| 14 | Thus the atoll , which had existed in the last interglacial , reformed in the Post-glacial period ( Fig. 8.35C ) . |
| 15 | Although January had ended with the first significant ground fighting of the war — the Iraqi offensive against Khafji — the Iraqi forces made no further offensive moves , and the allies continued with the air assault which they had begun on Jan. 17 . |
| 16 | Theda 's hands rubbed furiously at one of the posts of the bed in the second of the chambers she had tackled in the last unnumbered days . |