Example sentences of "[adj] had [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most reasonable assumption was that the French had pushed a cavalry raid across the frontier . |
| 2 | This had caused a ripple of protest . |
| 3 | This had necessitated a rerouting of most rail traffic from France or the Netherlands into Germany . |
| 4 | This had become a wilderness of weeds and bushes but hidden deep inside was a derelict conservatory demanding to be restored . |
| 5 | We had instilled in all of us a very strong sense of timing , which had to be to the second , and this had become a habit . |
| 6 | This had become a source of irritation to her companions and only added to their resentment . |
| 7 | For example , Lord Crowther-Hunt considers that the Queen would be perfectly " justified " in withholding her consent from a bill which sought to abolish the House of Lords even if the government proposing this had secured a mandate through the manifesto set before the people at a general election . |
| 8 | This had given a couple of extra feet of clearance , but it had also left the steel ends of the support joists exposed . |
| 9 | As in 1933 , he accused the Jews abroad of stirring up agitation and boycotts against Germany , and claimed that this had made an impact on Jews inside Germany itself , whose public provocative behaviour had stirred up countless complaints and calls for action by the government . |
| 10 | Once this had yielded a conclusion , there was no room for further debate . |
| 11 | Ricky had recently received a small legacy and with this had bought an Opel car with a convertible roof . |
| 12 | This had left a problem in raising public awareness about the shortage because people saw a lot of nurses ( mainly trainees ) around the RVH ; but they are not all qualified to carry out the work . |
| 13 | In the words of Zohreh Tabatabai , Chief of Public Services of the United Nations in New York ; ‘ If this had come a year ago , we would have said ‘ no way ’ . |
| 14 | Brinson , before taking over the Gulbenkian Foundation in London in 1972 had chaired an arts committee of the Foundation , set up to discuss and provide financial help to the performing arts , and particularly to dance , which had had , in his words ‘ a raw deal ’ . |
| 15 | Their prospects were hopeless because the British had developed a command of the sea that was much more effective than anything seen in earlier wars . |
| 16 | After the British had signed an armistice with the Vichy administration , a number of Gaullist " explosions " ( the most celebrated of which was a stormy interview between de Gaulle and the British minister of state in Cairo , Oliver Lyttelton ) forced a modification of the armistice terms so as to accommodate the General 's objections . |
| 17 | After being educated in private schools he was apprenticed to a mechanical engineer , and before the age of twenty-one had attained a position of responsibility in the works . |
| 18 | The account he had written of his experiences at Waimea on 18 January 1985 had won a prize . |
| 19 | In one day 's march thirty-eight mills had had their plugs drawn in Dewsbury , the masters standing amazed in their empty sheds while the workers streamed out to join what to some had become a Crusade , to others a Pilgrimage ; an opportunity for revenge ; an exciting chance for a holiday . |
| 20 | Twenty-two patients complained of angina ( 16 with Grade 1/2 using the New York Heart Association classification ) , 5 had cardiac dyspnoea ( all Grade 2 ) , and 2 had suffered a reinfarction within the first year period . |
| 21 | , Paul ( 1770–1844 ) , manufacturing silversmith , was baptized in St Marylebone , London , 28 October 1770 , one of several children of Thomas Storr ( died 1803 ) , a silver-chaser who by 1788 had become a victualler , and his wife Sarah . |
| 22 | A sepoy here was trying to remove a silver fork from one of his lungs , another had received a piece of lightning-conductor in his kidneys . |
| 23 | Guardian angels had survived the Reformation , though they led a less secure existence than in the Catholic Church , which in 1621 had decreed a festival of guardian angels , to be celebrated annually on 2nd October . |
| 24 | Sometimes the measure would be evidence that the Japanese had changed a regulation ; sometimes that the number of distributors of foreign goods had grown , or the rate of acceptance of foreign bids for contracts . |
| 25 | BY HIS DECISION TO SEPARATE THE COURT from the machinery of government , Napoleon III had erected a barrier against all court influence on the making of policy . |
| 26 | At his election Celestine III had inherited a college with only twelve masters out of a college of thirty-five . |
| 27 | Even when Archbishop Thomas died , he was succeeded by a new archbishop , Gerard , who was already bishop of Hereford , and as such had taken an oath of obedience to Anselm . |
| 28 | By the end of the century , however , trade unionism had been virtually eliminated from agriculture , following the determined resistance of farmers , who in 1874 had instituted a lock-out in East Anglia which effectively broke Arch 's union . |
| 29 | During a three-day trial , the court had heard how a family argument flared into midnight violence in the hamlet of Aberargie , where the accused had occupied a caravan beside his brother 's cottage . |
| 30 | Two years later Harris and his wife Mary became residents of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution for Aged Freemasons in Croydon ; he had been an active Freemason since 1818 , and in 1849 had published a set of designs for lodge tracing boards , which became standard for many years . |