Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her legs had begun to acquire a nice , even tan , and she slipped her feet into a pair of sandals before brushing her still damp hair into a ponytail . |
| 2 | Republican Local soviets Supreme Soviet Armenia ( to be decided ) due on May 20 Azerbaijan ( to be decided ) ( to be decided ) Byelorussia March 4 March 4 Estonia Dec. 10 , 1989 March 18 Georgia due on June 17 ( to be decided ) Kazakhstan Dec. 24 , 1989 March 25 Kirghizia Feb. 25 Feb. 25 Latvia Dec. 10 , 1989 March 18 Lithuania ( to be decided ) Feb. 24 Moldavia Feb. 25 Feb. 25 Russian Federation March 4 March 4 Tadjikistan Dec. 24 , 1989 Feb. 25 Turkmenia Jan. 7 Jan. 7 Ukraine March 4 March 4 Uzbekistan Feb. 18 Feb. 18 *Second round run-off elections were held generally two weeks after the first round in constituencies where contests between more than two candidates had failed to produce a winner with over 50 per cent of the vote . |
| 3 | By the beginning of March , as many as 640 oil wells were alight and individual smoke plumes had combined to create a regional plume 1000–2000 km in length , extending frequently to the south-east and periodically to the north-east . |
| 4 | On Sept. 14 it was reported that six political parties had combined to form a United Front of Political Movements ( UNIFORM ) . |
| 5 | This was unexpected as previously ozone losses had tended to follow a two-year cycle , with shallower holes evident in even-numbered years . |
| 6 | Training on a task in which the subjects had to learn to make a finger movement in order to avoid shock generalized readily to B for the AE group but poorly for the AD group . |
| 7 | My parents had hoped to have a large family , but when I was born Mamma needed a Caesarean section . |
| 8 | The Communists had decided to pursue a policy which could not be followed by the ILP . |
| 9 | By 1987 trials had begun using a 2.6-metre model in the foundation 's test tanks in Tsukuba , the ‘ technopolis ’ north-east of Tokyo . |
| 10 | The summit was originally intended to improve EC foreign policy co-ordination after member countries had failed to present a united front during the Gulf crisis [ see pp. 37927 ; 37934 ] . |
| 11 | He went on to say that he had denied that Pakistan was providing weapons and training for Kashmiri insurgents and had assured Indian leaders of Pakistan 's commitment to the 1972 Simla Agreement ( whereby the two countries had agreed to respect a line of control in Kashmir resulting from ceasefire positions at the end of 1971 Indo-Pakistan war ) . |
| 12 | In early March Syria , Egypt and the six Gulf Co-operation Council countries had agreed to establish a joint Arab Gulf regional security force [ see pp. 38116-17 ] . |
| 13 | Christians had managed to set a moral example to their neighbours . |
| 14 | The Appeal Court also rejected the prosecution 's claim that the mutineers had tried to mount a coup d'etat . |
| 15 | Paul enjoyed the talk at the Professor 's house , the give and take of ideas ; presently he began to sketch out some of these at the lodging , and before many weeks had passed had a book on his hands . |
| 16 | Customs had tried to use a ‘ first supply ’ argument that the exempt supply prevented recovery of VAT on all construction and development costs but , following the High Court ruling , apportionment is allowable . |
| 17 | Perhaps too the journey had reminded her of the dreadful certainty that within a few years her beauty would fade , and all these inflated hopes and fears had combined to produce a mood of abandon utterly foreign to her that had found its culmination in that jungle storm . |
| 18 | ‘ If physicists had tried to discover a way to release nuclear energy before 1939 , they would have worked on anything else rather than the field which finally led to the discovery of fission , namely radiochemistry . |
| 19 | What Hamilton could see was that the talents of Warner Bros had combined to produce a film that was not so much about the Legion as ‘ about the kind of short-sighted , uninformed and well-enough-meaning men who have to be given an understanding of what democracy really is so that they will not go on and on providing tools for such legions ’ . |
| 20 | In the mid nineteenth century , Fermin Caballero attempted to divide agricultural Spain into three parts : the Cantabrian regions , where the hard-working race of ‘ gothic ’ small farmers had survived to create a stable peasant economy ; the basins of the Guadiana , the Guadalquivir , and Aragon , where the economic legacy of the Arab conquest was the latifundia ; the centre , where the two races had mingled and left an intermediary , medium-sized farm . |
| 21 | By then our approaching orgasms had synchronized to form a freak wave of emotion which threatened to wipe our personalities clean . |
| 22 | Since the start of the Troubles , a number of loyalist trade unionists had tried to create a province-wide organization of unionist workers and by late 1973 the plans of men such as Billy Kelly , a power workers ' shop steward , Billy Hull , ex-Northern Ireland Labour Party , and Hugh Petrie , a precision engineer from Shorts , were sufficiently advanced for them to propose to the loyalist politicians that the province could be brought to a halt by a strike . |
| 23 | For the first time she could sense what it must be like to possess the surgeon 's power almost of life and death , the satisfaction of knowing your actions had helped to save a life or bring a new one into the world , and she had been a part , albeit a small one , of the drama . |
| 24 | LORD President Hope , with whom Lords Mayfield and Cullen concurred , said that the pursuers had sought to buy a house with the assistance of a mortgage from the Alliance Building Society . |
| 25 | To that commonsense objection , the government and its lawyers had tried to make a convincing response . |
| 26 | The oldest tradition , which goes back to the contemporary historian John Foxe , claims that the queen and her Protestant councillors had intended to introduce a settlement based on the 1552 Prayer Book , but were later forced to make some concessions in the Catholic direction because of the implacable opposition of the bishops and some of the lay peers in the House of Lords . |
| 27 | During the first half of the fifteenth century , for example , though slaves had come to man a large part of the standing army and to hold the lesser vezirliks , it was only after the conquest of Istanbul and the consequent fall of the Grand Vezir Candarli Halil Pasa that it became more or less regular practice for the highest office of the central administration , that of Grand Vezir , to be held by men of slave origin . |
| 28 | Although all the major players had agreed to attend a conference , disagreements remained over guarantees and conditions sought by Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) . |
| 29 | It was reported on Sept. 17 that the Federation of European Stock Exchanges had agreed to initiate a shared electronic market information service for the 200-300 largest companies in the new EC equity market , but no firm timetable was set for the move . |
| 30 | Subsequently two foresters had attempted to arrest a townsman in Colchester and had accidentally killed him , whereupon the bailiffs and townsmen had arrested and imprisoned the foresters . |