Example sentences of "had [verb] [adj] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French influence here was even greater than in Spain and in the eleventh century the northern region had broken free to become a satellite of Burgundy , though later it became independent . |
| 2 | She had fallen ill following a dinner at her son 's house and had shown symptoms of arsenic poisoning . |
| 3 | The spinners had to work hard to keep the weaver , a man , at work . |
| 4 | On the first lap , the Italian veteran was edged into fifth place by Jean Alesi 's Ferrari and , for the next 30 minutes , he had to work hard to win the place back . |
| 5 | Lynch , who fell at the first fence on his only other Grand National ride in 1981 , had looked likely to miss the race after Auntie Dot , one of his regular mounts , had been promised to Mark Dwyer , who finished third on her in last year 's race . |
| 6 | When her brother had looked likely to become a chip off the old block , he 'd been given all the support of a loving father intent on realising his own dreams through his son . |
| 7 | Above all he turned his anger towards Kenamun , who , on grounds of security , had forbidden Huy to visit the scene of the third murder when it came to light , where he might have had a chance at last of studying the circumstances of death . |
| 8 | The presidium had named Skundric to take the place of Stefan Korosec ( Slovenia ) as its secretary on Feb. 16 . |
| 9 | In their sales pitch for such stocks , some dealers would make out the recommendation hailed from their own research department , but by coincidence , The Times had seen fit to tip the stock as well . |
| 10 | In the immediate aftermath of this squalid affair a former Stipendiary Magistrate of Jamaica , Mr H. Pringle , had felt obliged to lift the veil from the ‘ abominable and ferocious ’ treatment of black people in the Caribbean . |
| 11 | Apart from providing the military leadership in the formation of NATO , Britain had felt unable to join the march to a united Western Europe because of her family connections with the Commonwealth and her special relationship with the United States . |
| 12 | Not one of the organizers had thought fit to provide a carafe of wine . |
| 13 | Guard dogs hurled themselves against the wire and then chased the car the length of the property , barking frantically , while Cinzia told Zen how she had persuaded Gianluigi to buy a place in the country although he could n't see the point , but to her nature was not a luxury but something fundamental , a source of sanity and order , did he understand what she meant ? |
| 14 | You had to look hard to find a car that did n't boast an £80,000-plus price sticker , plus a 200mph-plus top speed or , as was usually the case , both . |
| 15 | The Labour leader , Shimon Peres , had proved unable to achieve a majority [ see pp. 37391-02 ] and Shamir was invited to try on April 27 . |
| 16 | After her marriage Signor Cantoni 's mother had seemed unable to bear a child so she took a large bunch of carnations to the Madonna and asked her for the gift of a baby . |
| 17 | The big Dalek Killer had seemed determined to bring the shuttle in at the top of the space station . |
| 18 | He wished all the units had gone self-governing to allow the district to concentrate on its needs assessment and purchasing role and predicted that the units might be expecting a cosier relationship than he anticipated . |
| 19 | She had to brake hard to avoid a milk-float that loomed ahead of her suddenly . |