Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [noun] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she 'd learned that Ben and Carole Meadows were staying at their beach-front cottage Laura had somehow assumed that it would be a very small , modest building . |
| 2 | Later there were claims that armed Fatah supporters had entered the campus in order to sway the results of student council elections . |
| 3 | In fact , the top eight Guardian constituencies had an average Labour swing of 3.8 per cent , and the top eight Sun constituencies had a swing of 4.7 per cent . |
| 4 | The pro-OLF radio Voice of Oromo Liberation reported on April 7 that EPRDF soldiers had killed 200 civilians and wounded 300 others during a peaceful OLF rally in the eastern Harerge province . |
| 5 | In effect , the American gentleman was putting forward the view that M. Dupont was being manipulated by his lordship and other participants at the conference ; that M. Dupont had been deliberately invited late to enable the others to discuss important topics in his absence ; that even after his arrival , it was to be observed that his lordship was conducting small private discussions with the most important delegates without inviting M. Dupont . |
| 6 | Edward the First had sacked the town in 1296 , as an example to the rest of the country of what to expect if his take-over was opposed ; but thereafter that megalomaniac prince had found it useful as a staging-point for his occupation of the northern kingdom . |
| 7 | The question of a separate European defence identity had also dominated meetings in Paris on May 27 between Cheney and senior French officials . |
| 8 | European defence co-operation had been made less likely in 1973 by the admission of neutral Eire to the EC . |
| 9 | They were never united in their opposition to the king , and they never found a leader comparable to Hereford and Norfolk in 1297 or Thomas of Lancaster in 1310–11 ; but their opposition reveals the fragility of the political settlement Edward had achieved after 1330 , and the danger that his close associates who had helped him to power might now be seen as a new court clique , the king 's familiares . |
| 10 | He wanted to give comfort , and protect her from the cruel blow life had dealt her . |
| 11 | Cos it 's an outdoor job , it 's a three shift system for those on the bottom , er early , morning and late , cos the eight hour day had come in at this time . |
| 12 | Now it was also interesting that after he forgot that two weeks ago we had his own Minister , David Hunt , crying on the steps of Brussels about the fact that the forty eight hour week had been passed by a majority vote , with only him opting out . |
| 13 | According to official army estimates on July 3 more than 500 LTTE rebels had been killed , 200 in the course of a single assault , since the start of the operation . |
| 14 | ‘ That arsehole Etienne had stored the TARDIS in his armoury , and I thought it would be best not to waste the time we had in there . |
| 15 | This seems ironic , but letters and later statements show how little faith Eliot had in his own literary output , however confident he might sound in verse , or in the ex cathedra pronouncements of ‘ Tradition and the Individual Talent ’ . |
| 16 | In effect the European computer industry had already by summer 1984 obtained IBM 's agreement to the OSI requirement and this — not anti-monopoly — was now Europe 's chosen route . |
| 17 | In that moo , Jinny caught an echo of the bellowing noise Florence had made earlier in the year when they took her calf away . |
| 18 | That afternoon Rodie had arranged grand outdoor tea in honour of the English guests . |
| 19 | In the summer of 1988 Linford drove to the West London Stadium in the Escort XR3i that Budget Rental had loaned the British Olympic Association for the use of potential team members . |
| 20 | ACET 's local representative , Ana Ureche , reported that she was ‘ greatly encouraged ’ that course participants had been lecturing to schools and other groups and had passed much of the literature obtained form the course to other colleagues for their use . |
| 21 | It was the first complete sentence Annie had said . |
| 22 | Vonadk reported on Jan. 8 that resistance fighters had carried out a grenade attack in Phnom Penh on Jan. 6 , killing a number of " traitorous Vietnamese puppets and lackeys " . |
| 23 | All four sources also independently confirmed that on 9 December 1988 , Israeli Defence Forces had captured documents in a raid on a PFLP — GC base near Damour , Lebanon , which disclosed plans to bomb a Pan Am flight out of Frankfurt by the end of that month . |
| 24 | The Financial Times of July 27 reported that the Israeli Defence Ministry had confirmed that plots of land in the occupied territories were to be given free of charge to Jewish people wishing to settle . |
| 25 | Blanche listened patiently , like the elder sister Dexter had never had but always wished for . |
| 26 | The 1861 census enumerator had caught the family at the height of its expansion ; 10 years later they were down to two children , one of whom would be leaving home very shortly . |
| 27 | Foster has concluded that by the second decade of the nineteenth century , the well-organised mule spinners had " fought themselves " to near parity with London 's building craftsmen . |
| 28 | Talks between GM and other European truck manufacturers had failed to produce the collaboration that GM wanted . |
| 29 | Space was at such a premium here that the narrow side streets had long since been filled with structures . |
| 30 | Patients were disimpacted and then treated with dietary fibre and daily milk of magnesia , and the laxative was slowly discontinued once normal bowel movements had been accomplished . |