Example sentences of "had [verb] at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cranston , who had stopped at a local tavern to refill his miraculous wineskin , was full of chatter and speculation . |
| 2 | Snizort , on his own account , offered the Twelve Knights who had sat at a round table so that no one of them should be at its head and no one at its foot . |
| 3 | The MoD had claimed at a public inquiry in 1988 that they needed the land for training and in 1991 asked to extend the area further . |
| 4 | On April 6 Parys had claimed at a televised meeting with army officers that politicians were preparing to use the army for " political intrigues " , offering officers promotion in return for their support . |
| 5 | That was after Joe , HISY 's lawyer had claimed at a previous hearing that yet another G Tec rival , Scientific Games , had been told not to bother bidding by lottery officials . |
| 6 | Already during the uncanny calm of the ‘ phoney war ’ in the winter of 1939–40 , Hitler had hinted at a successful end to the conflict during 1940 , and at the same time had further blamed England and France for deliberately prolonging the war through their influence on previously neutral countries . |
| 7 | It would take too long and she would n't understand ; besides , she had phoned at a bad moment — Anne was obviously in a hurry to go out . |
| 8 | Clayton 's development as a photographer had accelerated at a rapid pace and within 12 months he won 12 awards , including : |
| 9 | ‘ Dorset , ’ someone had said at a recent dinner . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , the farmers had to sell at a controlled price and vast sums were retained by Britain , exporting cocoa for dollars . |
| 11 | If the deceased had led a reasonable life and had died at a good age without too much trouble , leaving a reasonably good family behind him , what was there to be miserable about ? |
| 12 | Lamenting ‘ the feeling of morbid sympathy with criminals which at the present moment undoubtedly exists ’ , The Times ( 18 November 1856 ) had arrived at a sorry conclusion : ‘ Philanthropy , like crinoline , has become the fashion . ’ |
| 13 | They had arrived at a first floor landing . |
| 14 | Gould found he ‘ had arrived at a good time , the birds having just commenced breeding ’ , and was immediately off to resume his researches with Natty and Jemmy in the cedar brushes of the Liverpool Range and on the nearby stretches of the Dart Brook . |
| 15 | For by now we had arrived at a big army hut by the side of the road . |
| 16 | Knowing that I had to start at a new school in the city , with new people and new teachers , I began to worry all over again . |
| 17 | I was afraid Richard would mind , but , as it turned out , my election had happened at a convenient time . |
| 18 | Wendy had worked at a local hospital as a clerk in medical records before giving up work to look after her children . |
| 19 | No mother of a case had worked at a nuclear establishment before her child 's conception , and no mother had a record of being monitored for exposure to ionising radiation at any time before diagnosis ( table V ) . |
| 20 | Apparently my mother had worked at a big house somewhere and fallen in love , but it had all gone wrong . |
| 21 | This was the first time that the nuclear industry had admitted at a public inquiry that the electricity from one of its future reactors would be more expensive than the output from an equivalent coal-fired station . |
| 22 | In 1862 the Mercury was appalled that one drunken excess had continued at a public house until seven in the morning ! |
| 23 | Once they had to stop at a red light , and they heard Donald whimpering . |
| 24 | And they had a system where erm they got this information and they It was that they I think there there was something about the time element , it had to happen at a certain time |
| 25 | Because when I read the leaflet on that crucial afternoon , it turned out that I could n't start swallowing the pills on any old day : the course had to begin at a particular point in my menstrual cycle . |