Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Nightingale had been a wartime soldier in a fairly respectable regiment ( George 's opinion as an excavalryman ) and while he had filled out to a pink-and-white chubbiness he still wore a small military moustache that had stayed loyally ginger as a reminder of the Desert campaign . |
| 2 | The Chinese had dyeing down to a fine art as much as 5,000 years ago , and there are herbs grown today whose names record their colouring ability , such as dyer's-greenweed and dyer's-bugloss . |
| 3 | I immediately asked Dennis if he was OK , and pointed out that I thought that the ball had jumped up from a good length . |
| 4 | She had run the country for 11 years ; and he had coasted along to a fourth Conservative victory on the back of her achievements . |
| 5 | It was as if all the stifled rebellion on which the great flat and heavy city had pressed with its pompous facades since the time of those artisans whom Peter the Great had sent to perish in building it in the swamp , had boiled up in a single night . |
| 6 | In the heat of a sultry evening , Britain had the fitness and the heart to outlast the clever Koreans and it was Sixsmith who got the winner , poaching in the area after the ball had pinballed around from a short corner . |
| 7 | The movies had broken through to a vast new public and everything was on a different scale . |
| 8 | It was making her heartbeat erratic , and her whole body had broken out in a fine dew of perspiration . |
| 9 | Had to go up to a hundred . |
| 10 | So you actually had to go on to a smaller boat ? |
| 11 | No matter the weather , one had to go out to a privy next to a coalshed in the backyard . |
| 12 | It was as if she had fallen out of a generous sky . |
| 13 | He could always get old Benny Robinson , his helper , to sweep the place up and tie up the piles of cardboard , but Benny had already swept up twice that day and he was now busy sorting out bundles of twine which had fallen out of a damaged carton and become unwound . |
| 14 | But she had done it in a very peculiar way : she had booked in to a private Well Woman Clinic under an assumed name . |
| 15 | On the shores of uncharted CCT requirements the Computer Co-ordination Section has realised that it had to come up with a leaner , meaner , faster name for the Section . |
| 16 | The combined force of the rhythm section and the group 's percussive sound meant that Tyson had to come up with a different approach to his playing . |
| 17 | Injuries have hit the club , and coach Billy Lomax had to come on as a substitute midway through the second half . |
| 18 | and erm I used to do erm , keep a check on the flying times of the planes cos every forty hours they had to come in for a different check . |
| 19 | Washington , he said , stood by its commitment to overcome the division of Europe , Germany and Berlin , but this had to come about in a gradual process which satisfied German aspirations and met the ‘ legitimate interests ’ of all concerned . |
| 20 | What had started out as a dramatic sea chase and developed into a running battle had fizzled out in a disappointing anti-climax . |
| 21 | He was , however , full of enthusiasm for the resumption of operations as soon as possible and had come up with a new idea . |
| 22 | Such crassness was inevitable but for all that the Warner Bros team had come up with a powerful film . |
| 23 | Other people and think-tanks had come up with a similar recipe before and never had much impact . |
| 24 | Wallace had come up with a great zoological truth . |
| 25 | Merkel had come up with a sinister final solution to the population explosion . |
| 26 | By this meeting Nigel had come up with a further solution : rather than abolish SERPS , he suggested that we modify it to the point that it could be afforded . |
| 27 | The production team , which again included writers Robert Lord and Abem Finkel , had made a film which depoliticized the Legion by making its motive force sheer racketeering rather than political control and by making the violence and executions personal rather than political but nevertheless they had come up with a realistic depiction of how a weak man could be drawn into a recognizably Fascist organization . |
| 28 | Much of this had come about as a direct result of the introduction of the GCSE , as these comments from the Head of Art at ‘ Pope John Paul ’ reveal : |
| 29 | Last weekend she had gone home to visit her parents , and had come back with a huge bag crammed with brightly wrapped parcels from her mother and father , her three older , married sisters , and all the nieces and nephews they had produced between them . |
| 30 | It also seemed , from the feathers on the kitchen floor , that one of the pigeons had come down for a warm and had got too close . |