Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remarked that Royal Jubilees were unlucky for him : at the Georgian celebrations he had been injured by stone throwing . |
| 2 | For while Creggan had been attacking the hooded crow he had been watched and now he in his turn was being stooped upon . |
| 3 | Her talk of moving , and the indefinable detachment he had felt in her when they had met , worried him . |
| 4 | And now it was coming true , because he was smiling … and she decided there and then that it was one of the nicest smiles she had ever seen . |
| 5 | Some of her friends had fairly eccentric ideas of bed-sitter decoration , and had done far better than the Chianti-bottle , British Railway-poster effort , but none of them had ever conceived of anything like this : and the nicest room she had ever seen had been the drawing room of a friend 's mother in Sevenoaks , which had been distinguished by a bare and gentle colour scheme , and some pretty Georgian furniture . |
| 6 | Sergeant Dubrulle , the Jesuit priest , was revolted above all by the hideous indignities he had seen TNT perpetrate upon the bodies God had created . |
| 7 | Reced er the precedent for the situation that we are in now , yes indeed there is one and it was when er the Labour government was last in power in nineteen seventy eight , when we had er er er to er set up the European constituencies we had a limited time to do it in and all the countries in Europe had to agree to bring forward the same kind of agreement and put it into effect at the same time . |
| 8 | The deal seems to mean that with the Scottish base , AST no longer needs the European plant it had planned . |
| 9 | The woman 's face cleared like magic and she smiled back at him , not missing the subtle compliment he had paid her , and Fran had to bite back an urge to grind her teeth . |
| 10 | It was the 15th bone he had broken in his career and it is now held together by two bolts and an 18-inch steel pin . |
| 11 | I could n't eat the damn meal I had erm steak and kidney puddings , no steak and kidney pastry pie . |
| 12 | They all hoped Zebedee would leave his calling card in the painted square they had picked for £1 . |
| 13 | When he arrived that morning David appeared cool towards her — so cool , in contrast to the friendly relationship they had previously established , that Nina noticed it and mentioned it while she and Rachel were working out a list of appointments for management medicals . |
| 14 | In spite of the strong antagonisms he had aroused , he had been a key figure in the religious and political reorientation of Evangelicalism and in its forging of an alliance with the resurgent Conservative party around the defence of the Protestant Established Church . |
| 15 | Mr Birt said yesterday he had been ‘ enormously heartened ’ by the strong support he had received in from colleagues at the BBC . |
| 16 | Still behind her , Luke had bent his head and had been murmuring his taunts close to one ear , while the strong arms he had bound about her waist were tightening securely , making her captivity a torment . |
| 17 | but the strong impression I had is walking over the hill from Kettleborough where the gun club now is walking down into this valley and seeing that view of this little end of the village nestling in the hollow and I can remember feeling a extraordinarily strong sensation that I could easily live there |
| 18 | It was like interviewing someone who had answered one of her frequent advertisements for a daily maid , trying to create a spurious atmosphere of equality and friendship that would compensate for the low pay she had to offer . |
| 19 | I thought when I first saw Mr. Belville at the masquerade that he was the finest gentleman I had ever seen . |
| 20 | He was the finest man she had ever seen ! |
| 21 | She was , without question , the finest shot he had ever seen . |
| 22 | As ever , it would be the climax ; this time the climax of one of the finest performances he had ever witnessed . |
| 23 | He was intent on taking north the largest army he had ever gathered , to crush the Scottish rebels , hang their leader , the Red Comyn , trap the Scots in their glens and burn their villages . |
| 24 | He was the largest Mbuna I had ever owned , a wild-caught fish measuring a good six inches and one of a ‘ pair ’ which arrived at my local shop from the first importation of the species into the UK . |
| 25 | The enormous main door of the house stood open , its metal-lined bulk held by the largest safety-chain he had ever seen . |
| 26 | It was a bedroom , containing the largest bed she had ever seen . |
| 27 | At the rear of many French houses I had noticed several rabbit-hutches containing the largest rabbits I had ever seen , certainly larger than anything in Britain . |
| 28 | He flung open a pair of doors she had not even noticed in the gloom and revealed the largest room she had ever seen , endlessly high , and filled with the grey light of the sea . |
| 29 | But it was in the following year , 1952 , that Eliot reached the largest audience he had known : The Cocktail Party was broadcast on television , and was watched by an estimated three-and-a-half million people . |
| 30 | He was at one end of the largest burrow he had ever been in ; sandy , warm and dry , with a hard , bare floor . |