Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Friday , the gym was freezing and all the children 's legs had turned pink and orange and mauve like a winter sunset . |
| 2 | Resentment at press-gang methods had caused sporadic revolts in rural Java , though the full extent of this horror was not yet known . |
| 3 | A few weeks before , her brothers had deposited some things in her kitchen for safe-keeping , and while they were there Barbs had called and had asked , in her friendly and inquisitive fashion , what the cardboard boxes contained . |
| 4 | Two Brothers had mounted those duelling blocks , stepping into those boots encased in heavy steel . |
| 5 | The infirmary and stables had become dilapidated during the wars , having been occupied by enemy cavalry , and were empty . |
| 6 | Repeat elections were needed where neither a sole candidate nor either of two candidates had secured 50 per cent of the vote in the first or second round . |
| 7 | The reputation for energy and honesty which Truman gained from this work helped him win the nomination for the vice-presidency in the 1944 election , after more prominent candidates had cancelled each other out . |
| 8 | Demonstrators reacted violently to the news that two NDP candidates had won local seats , and attempted to burn down a police station ; four supporters of independent candidates were killed , and some 60 civilians and seven policemen injured . |
| 9 | Even by the beginning of the Cambrian period , when fossils start to become easy to find and many different kinds of animals had acquired preservable hard parts , it is possible to classify the fossils found in the rocks into broadly similar groups . |
| 10 | She seemed to have taken a turn for the worse , her eyes had gone dull and slitty again with a third kind of lid coming half across . |
| 11 | And later , when they had mentioned the unicorn to the Friar his eyes had become angry and he had demanded to know what reason they had for believing the unicorn was in the forest and had not been calmed until they explained . |
| 12 | My eyes had become accustomed to the now semi-darkness , so I could pick out shapes about seventy-five yards away . |
| 13 | Putting the light on would be too risky , but the curtains were drawn back and by now their eyes had become accustomed to a darkness in which could be made out the shapes of furniture and smaller objects , a darkness of monochrome and black spaces and faintly gleaming edges . |
| 14 | Her eyes had become accustomed to the dark , and she could see , as she peered down it either way , that to the left this road opened out . |
| 15 | By the time Charlie 's eyes had become accustomed to the darkness he began to study the moon and , more importantly , the movement of the clouds . |
| 16 | Our solitary eyes had arranged this meeting at the restaurant of Hostal Rosario , La Paz . |
| 17 | I dared not move until my eyes had made more sense of the place . |
| 18 | His eyes had grown ice-cold . |
| 19 | The Rat 's eyes had grown redder , and its hindquarters were bunching . |
| 20 | When my eyes had grown accustomed to the darkness I saw its silhouette and I reached out to touch it , it was rough and had nodules growing from it . |
| 21 | The bewitchment , if any , had evaporated as soon as those black eyes had extinguished that first interested glance and substituted it for one of rampant dislike . |
| 22 | The black eyes had recovered some spark of life , a question in them , as the old woman lay looking at her . |
| 23 | Lacuna 's eyes had snapped open , and she whirled towards the Doctor . |
| 24 | Her eyes had opened wide in wonder , and the light entered their long-lashed blackness and turned it to a dusky , flecked gold . |
| 25 | Where previous designs had riveted aluminium-alloy plates for the structure and gas turbine engines , the AP1-88 employs marine construction methods and diesel power . |
| 26 | The armed forces joint command announced on Dec. 12 that army units had inflicted heavy casualties on guerrilla forces in the previous 48 hours in the Huallaga valley , about 500 km north of the capital , Lima , and that about 100 Sendero activists had surrendered . |
| 27 | He wished all the units had gone self-governing to allow the district to concentrate on its needs assessment and purchasing role and predicted that the units might be expecting a cosier relationship than he anticipated . |
| 28 | The government-controlled Working People 's Daily reported on Jan. 29 , 1990 , that police and Army units had seized illegal drugs worth US$14,000,000 in 1989 . |
| 29 | Thirteen of the survivors had suffered severe burns . |
| 30 | The earlier Welsh campaigns of 1277 and 1282–3 had cost a sum approaching £150,000 , while the building of the castles had added another £80,000 to this throughout the reign . |