Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] had [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This dream had at last come true , for Lennie anyway , perhaps not in the way he had expected though . |
| 2 | But the news , later in the day , that the first of at least 10 chartered trains had at last crossed the border into Czechoslovakia revived the East Germans ' spirit of solidarity in the face of inconvenience and discomfort . |
| 3 | Sources close to the talks said this idea had at first been opposed by Iran and Nigeria . |
| 4 | Form an equation and solve it to find how much Gregory had at first . |
| 5 | Her neighbour , after helping himself well to leg of mutton as the vast dish had at last come round to him , said ( confirming her ) , ‘ Our guest of honour is a real femme du monde . ’ |
| 6 | The Canadian government had until 26th August to appeal against the ruling and has already lodged an appeal . |
| 7 | The Palace had been unable to fill the outside-left berth adequately after George Clarke 's long reign had come to an end , but there was no doubt in any supporter 's minds that a worthy successor had at last been found when Bob Bigg made his Palace debut . |
| 8 | Franco 's propagandists spared no efforts to demonstrate that the international community had at last recognized the rightness of his principles , or to extol what they called the enormous political skill of the man who had foreseen the Cold War years before it became reality . |
| 9 | Sergeant Charles Trumper was discharged from active service on 20 February 1919 , one of the early ones : the missing toe had at last counted for something . |
| 10 | The luxury tramcar had at last arrived ! |
| 11 | To Robyn it seemed that critical theory had at last moved to its rightful place , centre-stage , in the theatre of history , and she was ready to play her part in the drama . |
| 12 | A uniform system had at last been achieved . |
| 13 | More than one of the void screens had at last been overloaded . |
| 14 | By the accession of Philip VI of Valois , therefore , the old Angevin and Lusignan fiefs had at last been absorbed by the French crown . |