Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I dared to go to the scales I discovered that I had lost a further ten pounds in five days . |
| 2 | But now , beyond my cancer loss , I had forfeited a further three-quarters of a stone . |
| 3 | I had expected a sharper tongue in the office , a brisker and more brittle approach to the anarchic thoughtlessness of the girls . |
| 4 | But I had to make a bigger adjustment to studying . |
| 5 | So I wanted to get that memory out of the way and I was just happy that I had had a better game ’ . |
| 6 | The paper selected was almost inevitably the Sunday Telegraph , which had displayed a greater sympathy for the Biafran cause than most . |
| 7 | The wording of the statement indicated a compromise between the US position , which had urged a stronger NATO commitment involving not only peacekeeping but also peacemaking ( through , for instance , the deployment of ground troops to stop fighting in conflict areas ) , and on the other the French position , generally opposing an enhancement of NATO 's role . |
| 8 | Argov himself had written an earlier letter of such hostility that it had to be returned by the paper because its contents were regarded by lawyers at The Times as potentially defamatory . |
| 9 | She had remained a stranger and her bouts of listless depression had grown along with her drinking . |
| 10 | If she had taken a tougher line with them at once , they would have known where to stop . |
| 11 | During the sixth century , craftsmen were increasingly operating from workshops , employed by those who had made a greater success in the agricultural way of life and were able to support a greater number of specialists and farmworkers . |
| 12 | The Executive Director of UNEP , Mostafa Tolba , who had advocated a shorter timetable , said that " the package [ was ] not enough " , adding that the depletion of the ozone layer by CFCs was " an unfair action to future generations " and that " we have done the damage ; we have to undo it " . |
| 13 | The students who , in the training trials , heard the buzz half a second before the shock , jerked their finger back more consistently than those who had had a longer gap between the buzz and the shock during training , and they did so much more markedly than those who heard the buzz at the time of the shock or after it ( see Fig. 24.1 ) . |
| 14 | Marked eels from Europe never reach the Sargasso sea , only their counterparts who had taken a shorter journey to the American mainland . |
| 15 | Some run efficient remedial courses , which could surely be used for youngsters who had taken a broader sixth-form course . |
| 16 | ‘ No doubt if you had made a speedier recovery , I might not have enjoyed such a free hand ; but then , your illness was prolonged by your feverish attack of conscience with regard to your precious daughter ! |
| 17 | We had planned an easier second day with some early climbing , then we had decided to follow the contours around and up Mount Cedric , ending with a descent to Lake Rotoroa . |
| 18 | Well , we had to make a better road through the forest , although I see through the window that it 's grown up a bit recently . |
| 19 | But they had received a further ‘ hammer blow ’ with a demand yesterday ‘ for thousands of pounds from the Inland Revenue for taxation which they had been told by Barlow Clowes had been deducted at source . |
| 20 | the ones who are , who have seen it all before , and done it from last year , because they had to split a smaller section of them up into the first year . |
| 21 | Up to 50 per cent of people with heart disease or cancer could probably have prevented or delayed the onset of their illness if they had eaten a better diet or stopped smoking . |
| 22 | By the time England won another Test they had played a further thirty , plus two that were rain-restricted and one washed out altogether . |
| 23 | He worried persistently about the poverty of his social life and bitterly complained : By June 1949 they had reached a further stage in their relationship . |
| 24 | Rangers , incidentally , are to issue every supporter travelling to Belgium with the club next week a booklet outlining the need for good behaviour in order to avoid an incident of the type in France which recently cost FC Brugge a UEFA imposed fine of £118,000 after they had reversed an earlier decision to have the match with Rangers played behind closed doors . |
| 25 | The PLO felt able to play what had been for fifteen years its ‘ last card ’ — recognition of Israel — because it had gained a stronger one through the Uprising . |
| 26 | Since the heady days of Henson it had become a duller and more local object . |
| 27 | It had become an older , slower , more exacting entertainment , if indeed it was still entertainment of any sort : no longer Mission Impossible but , as Senator Warren Rudman put it , ‘ like sitting on a winter night in New Hampshire with a blizzard raging outside and reading a Robert Ludlum novel ’ . |
| 28 | It would make the association feel that it had had a better hearing if it saw the Minister face to face rather than pursuing the matter in correspondence . |
| 29 | His successful bid was for £190,000 although he had made a higher prior offer which had been turned down . |
| 30 | He had taken a longer walk than he intended and by the time he returned to the coast road at Newlyn it was quite dark . |