Example sentences of "had [verb] a [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Blackman hesitated , and by the time he had formed a limited partnership to launch his schismatic fair , the would-be faithful had signed on with CIAE 's crosstown competition , David and Lee Ann Lester 's three-year-old Art Chicago International . |
| 2 | I had to wait a long time shut in . |
| 3 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
| 4 | They said Labour had squandered a golden opportunity to improve part of the town centre which could be hard hit when the new Cornmill Centre opens in a few months ' time . |
| 5 | Not long after her arrival in Scotland she had to attend a New Year meeting in Aberdeen , far to the north over mountainous country . |
| 6 | He observed that few libraries had developed a comprehensive approach to stock management , and that , on average , university libraries were acquiring eight times as many materials as they discarded . |
| 7 | Since 1954 the Soviets had developed a new proposal to resolve European security problems , whereby all existing European borders would be recognised in an arrangement involving Eastern and Western bloc states . |
| 8 | Gascony had developed a specialized economy dominated by viticulture , with some production of woad and iron , but its corn production was inadequate to meet its full needs . |
| 9 | Adherents of the current PAL broadcasting standard , including the UK Sky Broadcasting Corporation , had clashed with the electronics manufacturers Philips and Thomson which had developed an improved system known as HD-MAC . |
| 10 | Although subjects in the study could almost all subsequently remember seeing the weapon they were worse at identifying the person holding it than in a comparable condition where the subjects had heard an ordinary conversation followed by a person passing through the room carrying a pen . |
| 11 | Sir Mark had received a terrible death wound on the side of his head , caused by a battle axe or mace , but I am certain it was he . ’ |
| 12 | It has been shown that 10 per cent of the 400 people interviewed in Birmingham had given a lower age to gain admission to Britain , and now can not gain a pension at the proper time ( Bhalla and Blakemore , 1981 ) . |
| 13 | As a young army officer Prestes had joined an abortive rebellion to depose the repressive regime of President Artur da Silva Bernardes ( 1922-1926 ) . |
| 14 | I once met an aged man who had waged a single-handed crusade to get the Fellowship to change its official line that Dr Manette 's house ( A Tale of Two Cities ) is based on the old Carlisle House , Soho Square , in favour of No 1 Greek St. He said he felt prouder than if he had won the Nobel prize on the day they admitted they were in error . |
| 15 | His ship had been in Japan just after the surrender and he had enjoyed a couple of visits to the bath houses in Yokohama A part of the treatment there had included an exhilarating massage carried out by a young girl who , by standing on his inert naked body , and by using her body weight as a substitute for arm muscle , had given him an unforgettable massage with her bare feet . |
| 16 | From Winnipeg — where he had to work a bootlegging ruse to get a drink — he hitched to New York to stay with some friends of Philip : they were in Vermont and so he busked a few days in Manhattan , perhaps even sang for his supper in Greenwich Village . |
| 17 | He had to write a tiny snippet insisting that it was irony and the editor printed a token letter by a woman who had pointed out that if only young girls were left — and not enough of them to go round — only rich old men would have any chance of sex . |
| 18 | It was magical in June , at Towyn , to see the faces of youngsters who had boarded a two-coach DMU headed by No. 75069 . |
| 19 | Merciful saints , she had let a complete stranger hold her , kiss her … |
| 20 | Saddam claimed on Sept. 2 that Iraq had repelled an Iranian attempt to infiltrate the southern marshes , and on Sept 8 he warned that Iraq would " inflict losses on anyone trying to tamper with its unity " . |
| 21 | Joe 's father had worked for her father , and Joe himself had earned a few shillings helping out , when he was a scrawny boy with a runny nose . |
| 22 | Nevertheless he had persisted with the Saturday Benediction , and Lent had impelled a respectable number to attend . |
| 23 | We went along the river bank : two smugglers were being hanged near Billingsgate and this had attracted a large crowd to watch their last dance . |
| 24 | Its pressure paid off , but Whitehall had to find a face-saving formula to cover its miscalculation . |
| 25 | Our first problem was one the water was quite cold and so everyone had to find a wet suit to fit them , which caused a slight problem . |
| 26 | We had to find a proper bin to chuck it in . |
| 27 | Yesterday Buckingham Palace confirmed that the Prince had accepted a long-standing invitation to address the annual conference of the Scottish Crofters Union which has almost 2,000 members in the Western Isles . |
| 28 | The decision came after the UN Security Council had accepted an Iraqi proposal offering to release the inspectors in exchange for a joint inventory of all confiscated documents . |
| 29 | The Britons claimed to discern a ‘ hidden hand ’ in British government which had delayed the victory against Germany in the war , and argued that Jews had organized an international conspiracy designed to promote anarchy and disorder in the world . |
| 30 | The early kerosene market was dominated by the American Standard Oil Company and Marcus Samuel realised the potential of Black Sea oil as a rival but had to design a new tanker to overcome stringent safety regulations operated by the Suez Canal . |