Example sentences of "[noun] had [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had n't been paying much attention to what Throgmorton had been talking about on the way here , but he recalled his ears had caught the unpleasant words ‘ casting vote ’ , and ‘ your important role as president ’ . |
| 2 | The pulling-back of 6th Armoured Brigade had given the Divisional Commander the force he needed to destroy the enemy . |
| 3 | It was obvious the aging side had peaked the previous season ; a major overhaul was needed , either at playing staff or managerial level . |
| 4 | Virus F/x-01–74482 , soon referred to as , simply , the Mahon virus was , as far as she could understand , a unique example of something that up till now had only been postulated : that deep in the ocean , under the terrific pressure and in temperatures approaching absolute zero , there had remained chains of biochemicals , primitive viruses that had been part of the great ‘ organic soup ’ at the creation of life , remaining unchanged as the rest of the primordial swamp had undergone the long evolutionary journey to form all the complexities of life on earth . |
| 5 | Although a number of embassies in Kuwait had defied the Iraqi orders that they should close by Aug.24 [ see p. 37639 ] , all but a dozen ( including the USA , Canada and eight EC countries ) had abandoned them by Aug. 12 because of conditions there . |
| 6 | Partnerships had enabled the use of community schools at Liphook and Bordon to be run so as to offer their facilities to the public throughout the year , and the new methods had reduced the inevitable deficit of the sports centre to well below the national average . |
| 7 | An identical opposition coalition had backed the victorious Rengo-no-kai candidate in the Nara prefecture by-election on Feb. 9 . |
| 8 | The all-Ireland Catholic Primate , Dr Cahal Daly , said the shooting had shamed the national celebrations . |
| 9 | But the fighting had left the British and French armies even weaker . |
| 10 | By June , when the war was over , the Falklands had entered the British vocabulary : a word with mixed connotations of heroism , waste , duplicity , valour and a desperate , atavistic yearning for national pride . |
| 11 | So , at the beginning of October , Susan saw a trichologist ( hair specialist ) , who said the salon had used the wrong chemicals . |
| 12 | In Havering London Borough v. Stevenson ( 1970 D.C. ) the question was whether the defendant had applied the false trade description ‘ in the course of a trade or business . ’ |
| 13 | The trial judge directed the jury if at the time he collected the coins the defendant had formed the dishonest intention of keeping them for himself he was guilty of theft . |
| 14 | The first defendant had known the deceased for some seven years and said in evidence that for the 3 or 3½ years before the deceased 's death he had been looking after the deceased . |
| 15 | ( 2 ) That the court 's discretionary jurisdiction to stay criminal proceedings should be exercised very sparingly and only in exceptional circumstances ; that , while the longer the delay was the greater was the likelihood that the prosecution was at fault and that the defendant had suffered prejudice and the less the prosecution could explain the delay the easier it would be to infer fault , the question whether the defendant had discharged the heavy burden of demonstrating that it would be an abuse of the process of the court for the proceedings to continue , was to be considered in the light of all the circumstances without applying shifting burdens of proof ; and that , accordingly , since the district judge had correctly taken into account all the relevant factors , and had made no error as to the burden of proof , there were no grounds on which the High Court judge could have reversed the district judge 's decision not to grant a perpetual stay of the 1989 prosecution ( post , pp. 261B , 264E–F , G–H , 265A–B ) . |
| 16 | Donna had re-attached the back door to its frame as well , while Julie mopped up the blood in the hallway — although she finally passed out during the task . |
| 17 | The most important indicator was the role of the Commission which under the guidance of Walter Hallstein had played the active role hoped for by ardent Europeanists , overcoming the diminution of the supranational element in the EEC as compared to the ECSC . |
| 18 | It was widely agreed that the episode had damaged the public image of Congress and had discredited the confirmation process . |
| 19 | The Nationalist high command had disrupted the normal functioning of the country 's political , economic , cultural and social life , but had given no thought to the construction of alternative infrastructures and super-structures on their own organizational patterns . |
| 20 | She muttered incoherently but the sound was happy , and her eyes had lost the terrible haunted stare of madness . |
| 21 | A thousand eyes had watched the brief altercation , and now the whispers began in earnest . |
| 22 | William Lee of the Nottinghamshire parish of Calverton had invented the basic frame in 1589 but the craft first took hold in London and did not really spread to the Midlands until after the restoration of Charles II . |
| 23 | The judges took only 80 minutes to decide the level of fines after ruling the journalists had breached the strict provisions of the 1981 Contempt of Court Act . |
| 24 | Even recently a white South African registered surprise on hearing that Nelson Mandela could speak , 40 years on , with fresh enthusiasm of a Neil Harvey innings , 151 at Kingsmead , Durban in 1951 , that Mandela had seen the young Harvey score . |
| 25 | Mahmood 's rival candidacy for the Walton seat had angered the Labour Party leadership , which had sought to eliminate the unofficial left-wing Labour supporters ' group Militant Tendency with which she was associated . |
| 26 | Reporting the Lithuanian response , the official Soviet news agency Tass on March 19 announced that Gorbachev had ordered the Soviet government to implement " a number of immediate measures " in the light of information which " bears witness to the fact that the present leadership of the republic has embarked on a path of crude violations of constitutional order and of arbitrarily deciding matters which affect the interest of the USSR " . |
| 27 | The Frenchman 's dark aquiline features and unsmiling silences made him think of history-book pictures he 'd seen of the warrior heroes of ancient Greece and Rome , and the dismay he had felt at first when their car had struck the Annamese villager had increased his sense of awe . |
| 28 | He did not know where , and did not particularly care , except that it meant that the Establishment was on Amber Black , and every car had to have the magic mirror wand shoved underneath the chassis . |
| 29 | When the car had left the front door and they had promised to behave , Michael was sent to check on Mrs Murphy , up to her sleeves in the sink . |
| 30 | Political unrest and opposition-organized strikes in April had been provoked by economic hardship , for which the opposition had blamed the Nepali Congress Party . |