Example sentences of "[noun] had [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The right-wing Hindu-backed Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) formed the state government in Uttar Pradesh , and BJP Chief Minister Kalyan Singh had invited an all-party delegation to visit the site after coming under criticism from nearly all political parties for allegedly violating court orders regarding the disputed plot . |
| 2 | Her sidelong glance had caught a quick exchange of looks between them as if Father Devlin were silently saying , ‘ I 've done my share ; now it 's your turn . ’ |
| 3 | PLYMOUTH had to survive a spirited comeback from Peterborough last night to earn an FA Cup third round tie at Ipswich Town . |
| 4 | Nellie had packed the two children 's bags and left them at the door . |
| 5 | Most important was that the Association had lost a high proportion of the key members by death or removal from the area , and failed to attract the younger men coming home from war service who found an outlet in more direct political activity . |
| 6 | I KNEW that Earl Spencer had made a special provision in his will . |
| 7 | Cunningham had spent an agreeable week in the country with his friend Van Cheele . |
| 8 | It was only the fourth time that one horse had completed a clear round . |
| 9 | His horse had taken a dozen blows and was weakening . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | By 1750 the buying and selling of government stock had become a straightforward routine . |
| 12 | The pulling-back of 6th Armoured Brigade had given the Divisional Commander the force he needed to destroy the enemy . |
| 13 | It was obvious the aging side had peaked the previous season ; a major overhaul was needed , either at playing staff or managerial level . |
| 14 | The home side had taken an early lead through tries from Ian Blease and Arthur Bradshaw . |
| 15 | The further side had offered a fair-sized patch of flat ground . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Creed had requisitioned an open car , and he stood for the entire procession , as a mark of his own personal respect for the deceased . |
| 18 | Fakrid and Jinkwa had spent an anxious hour waiting for the Doctor . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Iraq eventually announced on Aug. 28 that Kuwait had become the 19th Iraqi governorate ( liwa ) . |
| 21 | When Matey had ventured a favourable comment about his midnight drinking having stopped , he had simply said , ‘ You must thank McAllister for that , ’ and so her influence seemed to be a good one . |
| 22 | Among the lands earlier ceded to the abbey of St Denis was the Vexin français , that natural bulwark between the French royal demesne and the now hostile Norman duchy , which had been held as a Norman fief , had formed part of Simon de Crépy 's state ( see p. 216 ) , and finally was reclaimed for the French crown by Philip I. The Vexin had had a comital family , in origin probably the advocates for the abbey ; but Philip had bypassed their claims , granting the territory to the young prince Louis , who met with such opposition in the area that it was not until 1119 that his possession was secured . |
| 23 | The Yenan Koreans had formed a separate party , the New Democratic Party . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Iskandarov 's Islamic coalition had survived an attempted coup in October by supporters of the former communist President Rakhmon Nabiyev , whose removal from power in September sparked off a smouldering civil war [ see pp. 39097-98 ; 39147 ] . |
| 26 | Coalition had become a political habit that would be quite difficult to break and had sapped the party 's confidence in itself . |
| 27 | An identical opposition coalition had backed the victorious Rengo-no-kai candidate in the Nara prefecture by-election on Feb. 9 . |
| 28 | Eight months previously ZTT 's Paul Morley had used the XL image factory and Katherine Hamnett to plaster fragments of his prose on to the chests of the nation 's youth . |
| 29 | The Middle East Economic Digest ( MEED ) of April 12 reported that the United States administration had announced a new arms deal , subject to approval by Congress , worth US$919,000,000 and comprising exclusively spare parts and engineering support . |
| 30 | Rubino , attempting to show that his client was the victim of a political vendetta by the Bush administration , had sought access to classified government documents , to obtain evidence that the US administration had maintained a formal or covert relationship with Noriega . |