Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ For bloodshed resulting from ethnic power struggles in 1963 and 1973 see pp. 20085-86 ; 25814 ; for massacres in Burundi in 1988 , where the Tutsi-dominated government had since embarked on a power-sharing experiment with the Hutu , see pp. 36328-29 . ] |
| 2 | Wijeratne 's other enemies included the Janata Vimukti Peramuna ( JVP ) , the Sinhalese group whose southern-based insurgency he had effectively destroyed in a ferocious campaign in late 1989 [ see pp. 37042 and 37353 ] , and the gambling industry , a casino operator having been deported in February . |
| 3 | The councils had effectively agreed to a ministerial veto in sensitive areas including ‘ matters liable significantly to involve ministers including highly contentious and politically sensitive matters of moment ’ . |
| 4 | The fetid stench of the darkened hut , the mind-dizzying rice alcohol , even Paul 's mocking laughter had all fused into a delicious composite memory now . |
| 5 | ( Over the past two days , the platoons had all competed in a punishing forced march against the clock , followed by a shooting match . ) |
| 6 | She and her husband had only moved to a government-sponsored caravan park south of Miami after Hurricane Andrew destroyed their home last August . |
| 7 | Clevedon Veals skipper Ray Bazeley had only planned for a small squad outing after their first choice match on the Nene at Peterborough was cancelled . |
| 8 | He said it was clear that the government had only joined as a last resort to try and solve the country 's economic problems . |
| 9 | The kingdom of Italy , the second big new state to emerge from the wars of the mid-century , had only to deal with a few French-speaking communities and some Germans in Venetia ; it did not yet have to face a minorities problem . |
| 10 | I was excited to use it since I had only painted onto a stretched canvas once before , and I stretched it eagerly and tightly . |
| 11 | Though dawn was approaching , he had only loomed as a huge shadow to her . |
| 12 | If it did n't , I thought re-reading had better keep for a rainy day . |
| 13 | A constant eerie keening sound , which she had been only vaguely aware of until then , had suddenly risen to a blood-chilling shriek , before being abruptly cut off . |
| 14 | It was as if two distant times had suddenly met in a single second and two different women in a single gesture . |
| 15 | Maybe Matthew would look at her with fresh eyes , realize that the innocent freckled little creature he used to take swimming ( or riding , or bicycling or something ) had suddenly grown into a beautiful woman . |
| 16 | Lewis was enjoying that Tuesday , the day on which Morse had suddenly spurted into a frenetic flurry of activity . |
| 17 | The red stripes on the overall 's outer seams had long faded to a dull purple . |
| 18 | Bissett had once met the gaunt technician from A45 who had apparently received through a faulty glove a particle of plutonium the size of a pinhead and whose body had been cremated six months later before there could be an inquest . |
| 19 | A female cuckoo , ready to lay her egg , had apparently fixed on a particular reed warbler 's nest as her destination . |
| 20 | Mayr ( 1963 ) puts this more succinctly : " the different chromosome numbers and habitat preferences had apparently developed during a previous isolation of the 13- and 18-chromosome types without , however , leading to reproductive isolation . " |
| 21 | The ship 's captain , Benjamin Saint Clair , who was among those who managed to swim to the coast , said passengers had apparently panicked during a heavy rainstorm , contributing to the disaster . |
| 22 | Enough remained to show that the northern one was at least g by 7. 5 m ( 292 by 242 ft ) , with two rooms of unequal size at the back , while its southern counterpart , of which only the rear 2.5m ( 8 ft ) was recovered , had apparently lain in a walled compound measuring 13 by 6 m ( 42½ by 19½ ft ) . |
| 23 | This process had already begun with a mass mobilization in a literacy campaign which brought the illiteracy rate down from 50.2 per cent to 12.9 per cent by 1981 ( see page 245 ) . |
| 24 | The salmon had already turned into a ravening wolf , eating at my innards . |
| 25 | I had already moved onto a better job by then , along with all the other officers who had worked on the loan . |
| 26 | Murdoch 's motivation was simply profit , and his cynical attitude had already led to a mass exodus of high-minded journalists . |
| 27 | But Karl Hufbauer has provided a thoughtful analysis of how , before Germany was unified and chemistry professionalised in the 19th century , German chemists had already coalesced into a national , discipline-orientated community . |
| 28 | She had already applied to a Physical Training College when a hip dislocation shattered her plans , and she found herself instead working for Prudential Assurance in Holborn for eight years . |
| 29 | Yet urban , industrial polarization had already developed to a considerable degree before 1917 , creating awareness of the political centre among the more sophisticated peasant strata such as village teachers , zemstvo clerks , bookkeepers , doctors ' and veterinarians ' assistants . |
| 30 | He retired in 1863 and , like other well-known professional cricketers of the age , had already embarked on a small-scale business venture . |