Example sentences of "had [verb] a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I grew up when that kind of modernism was running rampant — it still is — when to be a respectable composer meant that you had to acquire a defiantly difficult style and I just said to myself , ‘ surely there 's another way to do this ? ’ |
| 2 | Mrs Castle had formed a rather eccentric view about my scale of living . |
| 3 | And when I got Dawn , I did sense that I had formed an almost human relationship with her . |
| 4 | Think of this craft as an art form — if you had painted a really good watercolour you would n't nip down to your local chainstore and buy a very basic and somewhat unattractive frame for your work of art . |
| 5 | Barbados had witnessed a rather different Hanif a year earlier as he took out a 16-hour 10-minute lease on the crease and sculpted a monumental 337 against Worrell and Co . |
| 6 | Some of the doctors — alas not many — were essentially reasonable men ; but most of them had developed a positively insensate hatred for Mrs Castle . |
| 7 | He said he thought I had developed a very strong activity programme , and that my rapport with the guests was incredible . |
| 8 | The actual Indian designs were not , however , to the taste of the British at the time , who had developed a somewhat different image of Oriental peoples . |
| 9 | Gerry : Two reports on ethnic minorities had been produced and management had completed an extremely comprehensive draft EOP Employment Code of Practice . |
| 10 | Those who had been watching him work believed that in spite of the traumas , Hopper the actor was a star , and Hopper the director had completed an extraordinarily good film which , according to one description , included some ‘ hauntingly beautiful footage ’ . |
| 11 | As it happened I had heard a very similar point being put to a group of Belfast managers from top insurance companies a few days previously . |
| 12 | As the youngest royal brother , Richard had received a relatively modest endowment from Edward IV . |
| 13 | As the youngest royal brother , Richard had received a relatively modest endowment from Edward IV . |
| 14 | Until Saturday , Mr Yeltsin and his team had received a comparatively easy ride , thwarting attempts by the Communist-dominated parliament to assert its authority over the executive . |
| 15 | Despite his mother 's Catholicism , James had received an impeccably Protestant upbringing in Calvinist Scotland , and was personally extremely interested in religious issues . |
| 16 | But someone did , someone here did — someone who had overheard enough of the original plan ; someone who had sensed a wonderfully providential opportunity for himself , or for herself , and who had capitalised upon that opportunity . |
| 17 | Francis Pym , who had given a somewhat hesitant performance at the Foreign Office in the Prime Minister 's view , was removed from his post immediately after the election . |
| 18 | This Commission had undertaken an immensely detailed study of poverty and poor relief and had ended in conflict between the majority of its members and a minority composed of Beatrice Webb , George Lansbury , Frances Chandler and the Rev. Russell Wakefield , Dean of Norwich . |
| 19 | When I woke up it was with the certainty that I had solved an extremely important problem and was eager to try it out at once . |
| 20 | Both reformers and opponents had expected a more striking change in the size of the electorate but in so far as it introduced a new class to political influence the Great Reform Act deserves to be considered a revolution no less and perhaps more — than do the events of 1830 in Paris . |
| 21 | She had expected an equally sarcastic reply . |
| 22 | For many years teachers had occupied a somewhat ambiguous position . |
| 23 | ‘ Because , ’ said Henry , ‘ she had caught a very serious disease . ’ |
| 24 | And it had looked a perfectly normal tree from the outside , too . |
| 25 | He had come a very long way in the decade since his wife had failed to win a Belfast Corporation seat ! |
| 26 | She would be falsely modest not to acknowledge the fact that she had come a very long way since those days when she had been a thin , gawky adolescent . |
| 27 | Malcolm had designed a very nice women 's mac . |
| 28 | On Oct. 30 a controversial measure giving blanket immunity to anyone who had committed a politically motivated crime before Oct. 8 , 1990 [ see p. 39037 ] was approved by the President 's Council and thus became law , despite its having been rejected on Oct. 20 by the House of Delegates , the Indian chamber of the tricameral parliament . |
| 29 | Without resources , unable to earn a living , at the mercy of at least two Federal agencies determined to silence him by one means or another , and now set up as a government-approved target for any stray kook or fanatic , Coleman had to find a more defensible position . |
| 30 | However , she had met a very nice lady from Pinner who said why did n't she come along with the Lionisers ' visit to Fort House that afternoon . |