Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grief had swung at him and given him two red eyes . |
| 2 | His ex-wife had cried at him for three years . |
| 3 | In earlier times and into the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , many of the basic administrative and judicial activities were carried out through the arrangement of hundreds , hundred courts , and hundredal manors courts being held at hundred meeting places , where three men for every tithing or vill had to attend at three-weekly intervals . |
| 4 | Our exploration of the coast had begun at Saltburn , an elegant if truncated testimony to Victorian values and market forces . |
| 5 | The prosecution accepted that the notebook proved Mr Thompson had been involved in the distribution of obscene material , a charge the countess had levelled at him earlier in the trial but that he had denied . |
| 6 | The Princesse had looked at her curiously . |
| 7 | The case concerned a rusty old car which had belonged to one M. The structure of the car had rusted at the sides of the engine compartment and M had attempted to repair this with plastic body filler . |
| 8 | The car had stopped at some traffic lights . |
| 9 | The car had stopped at the quarry in the pitch darkness , and , Mr O'Donnell said , he had been dragged out and beaten again by the men , including McPherson . |
| 10 | By the time Bodie reached the dusk-lit Embassy in Kensington , the limousine had arrived at its front steps . |
| 11 | The Mersey building programme had continued at an impressive rate throughout 1990 with orders recently placed for the last 14 fibre reinforced composite ( FRC ) boats — due to be completed within the next 22 months . |
| 12 | It was strange ; everything he had done on the programme had seemed at the time to be imbued with an exact sense of logic and purposiveness , but now that he looked back on it , all the logical connections had disappeared , like secret writing when the special lamp is taken away . |
| 13 | Her business mind had jumped at the chance of a spot of international acclaim . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , some teachers claimed that the appraisal had produced little in the way of changes and some had difficulty in remembering quite what the adviser had proposed at their own feedback session . |
| 16 | Thirty three of the 36 patients in the study had died at the end of the study period , 21 ( 87% ) in the chemotherapy group , and all 12 in the supportive care group . |
| 17 | In May 1559 , Mary of Guise had hurled at her opponents the accusation that they ‘ meant no religion , but a plain rebellion ’ . |
| 18 | The snow had drifted at one end , at the beck of the wind , so that it reached almost to the eaves of the roof . |
| 19 | Two albums by David Bowie suggested possible options for this concentration on self : ‘ Diamond Dogs ’ ( 1974 ) made explicit the equation that the Velvet Underground had hinted at in the mid-sixties , namely that divergent sexuality of every type was only an inevitable consequence of a civilization at the brink of apocalypse . |
| 20 | Over the third quarter of this year , he told parliament , output by Soviet industry had risen at a rate of one per cent while wages were soaring at an annual pace of 15 per cent . |
| 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 | At the end of the first week Allaf was particularly critical of the Israeli delegation 's tactics , saying that the Israeli delegation had arrived at the talks with a " premeditated determination not to allow any progress " . |
| 23 | The crisis of modernism had arisen at the beginning of the century as a consequence of the profound , perhaps too rapid , infiltration of Catholic institutions and consciousness by the scholarly methods and intellectual attitudes and presuppositions which had developed earlier in predominantly Protestant and liberal milieus . |
| 24 | The Professor had glanced at him only once , and seemed oblivious to his challenging glare . |
| 25 | Perhaps of more significance was their estimate of the cost of the rise in unemployment from 1979 to 1985 : they estimated that if the figure had remained at the 1979 level , the cost to the Exchequer in 1984–85 would only have been £7.5 bn . |
| 26 | The first witness had decided at an early stage not to travel to Dublin ; the second only recently made his decision not to give evidence . |
| 27 | In October 1917 , minute 27640 states : The Acting General Manager mentioned that in connection with the aeroplanes which the Railway Companies had been asked to construct for the government , the L & NW had undertaken at Wolverton a share of the work , i.e. construction of wings . |
| 28 | A wedding had begun at St Machar 's — gowned shenanigans and excitements , the cars , and the relatives , and the best feet forward . |
| 29 | The water cooled too quickly for her to stay long in the bath , but afterwards she lay fully dressed on the bed for a while , listening , her spirits rising as she realised that the wind had dropped at last . |
| 30 | We do not know precisely what stage the likelihood of significant harm had reached at the time when Thorpe J. gave his judgment on 12 May 1992 , but , he spoke of the need to strike |