Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luca Giordano , Elisa went on , thinking that she had placed her hosts at a disadvantage , was a particular favourite of hers and she could easily see why he was regarded as one of Naples ' finest painters . |
| 2 | It was the first time , since the 1916 split , that all the major political leaders within the Liberal Party — David Lloyd George , Sir Herbert Samuel and Sir John Simon — had placed their names upon a major economic report . |
| 3 | Lloyd & Co. had received their instructions from a member of Mr. Mahdi 's group who apparently described himself as the ‘ foreign minister ’ of the Somali Republic . |
| 4 | She had given her kisses to a clown , he wrote , and was much gratified when MacBride turned out to be a drunken bully . |
| 5 | There was only one way in , by the drawbridge and the gate-towers ; he had racked his brains for an alternative , but there was none , short of procuring an ally within the walls , and that idea he did not entertain for a moment . |
| 6 | On Oct. 31 , NATO officials in Brussels disclosed that France had dropped its objections to a pan-European security " forum " . |
| 7 | Sophia Arkwright did not give the details , which Paul was to learn later ; the madman had slashed his wrists with a razor which a careless attendant had left within reach . |
| 8 | More than five years of rebellions and civil war had honed his instincts to a fine edge , and he knew better than to ignore them . |
| 9 | Whitely has in his book The Theology of the New Testament a powerful image of an officer in the war who had to lead his troops across a dangerous minefield . |
| 10 | He had to relegate his criticisms to a position of secondary importance for the sake of his allegiance to the communist party … |
| 11 | ‘ It was a conversion experience , ’ he says , ‘ I had seen his carvings in a vague sort of way already [ Esterly was then a post-graduate student at Cambridge and surrounded by some of Gibbons ' best work ] but I found myself looking at them there in St James 's as if for the first time . |
| 12 | Many children were actually sold by masters into slavery in pits — Parents actually had to sell their children into a life of misery . |
| 13 | She felt as if someone had wrapped her thoughts in a blanket Reasoning seemed difficult ; actions were a major effort . |
| 14 | And right from day one , from the day Emily had been born , Josey had offered her services as a child-minder . |
| 15 | Mrs Lewis had got his shorts in a bag . |
| 16 | If , instead , the tax payers had sold their shares for a larger amount , sufficient to enable them to repay the loans , they are likely to have been personally better off , because of indexation allowance to reduce the additional gain deriving from the sale of the shares , and because they would not have suffered an income tax charge under either ss421 or 160 . |
| 17 | Fifteen of the monkeys had tied their tails into a giant knot and had to be anaesthetised while a vet took 20 minutes to undo it . |
| 18 | Steinar Bastesen , head of the Association , had invited his countrymen to a whale hunt on July 4 ; " then you will eat whale meat until you puke " he said . |
| 19 | She had raised her hands in a sudden fluttering gesture . |
| 20 | Ockleton had raised his hands in a placatory gesture . |
| 21 | Kenya , one of its main strongholds , could still boast of a 20,000 strong population at the end of the 1960s , but over the next decade , poaching on an unprecedented scale — mainly by Somali bandits armed with AK 47s — had reduced their numbers to a few hundred . |
| 22 | But that 's no consolation for thirty seven skilled workers who up until now had pinned their hopes on a management buy out , but now find themselves out of work . |
| 23 | The great triumphs of molecular biology have come about because the research groups centrally involved in the experimental programmes of the 1950s and 1960s had concentrated their efforts on a single simple organism , the common gut bug Escherichia coli . |
| 24 | Brian , who had shared my experiences as a child in Abyssinia , had no desire to return there . |
| 25 | He and I , together with that great boy , my father , had spent our lives in a world of eternal boyhood , being good chaps and climbing or sailing . |
| 26 | Benjamin looked in desperation at the gatehouse of St Bartholomew 's Priory : the balcony was already full of important , well-dressed people who had brought their children for a day out ; they had also brought sugared apples , dishes of marzipan and jugs of wine to make their enjoyment complete . |
| 27 | The head of the British liaison mission reported that Yoshida had indicated his views on a peace treaty and associated issues : |
| 28 | He could choose where to strike while Henry had to disperse his forces in an attempt to guard the whole of his long frontier . |
| 29 | He also announced that in its referendum campaign the CP would be working with the neo-fascist Afrikaner Resistance Movement ( AWB ) which had reversed its plans for a boycott of the vote . |
| 30 | Jane had removed her specs for a short myopic rest , but now put them on again , quickly . |