Example sentences of "[verb] had [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier an El Al spokesman had refused to confirm reports that the aircraft which crashed had suffered a mid-air engine fire in late July . |
| 2 | None of the families interviewed had experienced a sudden infant death . |
| 3 | Mr Allan told the court Say had spent a normal and happy weekend with his wife before the incident and had been given no indication she was leaving him . |
| 4 | Three shadow boxes Monday 's deaths column recorded the passing of Chris Hunter , who for donkeys years or so it seemed had had a sweet shop between our house and the football ground in Shildon . |
| 5 | He reported 88 per cent of schools he sampled had adopted a Total Communication approach and these , by and large , relied on the development of sign systems which more closely reflect English syntax . |
| 6 | Over the years , tailoring had proved a superb cover , and Kirov 's specially cultivated clientele the source of much useful information . |
| 7 | An artist with delusions of grandeur and a virtual airbrush to match had provided a holographic picture of a ruined temple on the flipside . |
| 8 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 9 | He did n't feel like eating , and even breathing had become a painful labour . |
| 10 | Nobody he had questioned had seen a second piper . |
| 11 | Lloyd George 's absence in Paris had accentuated the arguments about policy ; peacemaking had produced a major Unionist rebellion in a telegram to Lloyd George from 233 Unionist Mrs in April 1919 , urging stronger action on reparations ; the appointments of F. E. Smith as Lord Chancellor ( as Lord Birkenhead ) . |
| 12 | At the same time he declared that the government 's economic polices had had a sufficient impact particularly on consumer spending and imports , to allow " a sustainable fall in interest rates " . |
| 13 | The mud surrounding the building site where Ruggiero Miletti had been murdered had proved a rich source of impressions . |