Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reputation for energy and honesty which Truman gained from this work helped him win the nomination for the vice-presidency in the 1944 election , after more prominent candidates had cancelled each other out . |
| 2 | Our solitary eyes had arranged this meeting at the restaurant of Hostal Rosario , La Paz . |
| 3 | I dared not move until my eyes had made more sense of the place . |
| 4 | The black eyes had recovered some spark of life , a question in them , as the old woman lay looking at her . |
| 5 | The vaults were then changed at night or when the bus had finished service and then were counted by a different means , they were counted by machine coin counters and er so , instead of say erm what , sixty or seventy conductors paying in their money , this was all erm on the bus , so there may have been five or six drivers had worked that bus that day and all the takings he 'd taken during the time was all in this night safe in this vault . |
| 6 | It emerged that Michael Heseltine , Kenneth Clarke , Malcolm Rifkind and Tristan Garel-Jones from the Trade , Home , Defence and Foreign Ministries had signed public interest immunity certificates to keep the Whitehall memos out of court . |
| 7 | I said that they must n't be sad because he had , after all , crammed so much into his short life , that his parties had given enormous pleasure to so many people , that Conor was the sort of person Jack Kerouac might have loved , he was one of the ones who are mad to live , desirous of everything at the same time , ‘ the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing , but burn , burn , burn , like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars ’ . |
| 8 | Space , however , was limited and Malc and I and the kids had to share one bedroom and keep praying for a council house of our own . |
| 9 | And more often than not , out of the sun would come the yellow-nosed Messerschmitts , long before our fighters had had sufficient time in which to gain their best operational height . |
| 10 | In Vienna , emancipation began with the liberal reforms of 1848 , and by the 1860s Jews had obtained full freedom of migration . |
| 11 | Endeavours to enforce assimilation to Graeco-Roman culture upon the Jews had provoked fierce resistance . |
| 12 | These seven officers and ten or so ratings had done rudimentary training with gear they bought mostly in the Cairo bazaar , and they were most interested in the COPPist 's equipment , which included some new suits designed by Siebe Gorman but not tested fully by the wearers . |
| 13 | Some who had subsequent pregnancies had refused any kind of test , despite in some cases being aggressively pressurised by the hospital . |
| 14 | For a week the superpowers had played nuclear poker as President Kennedy warned Soviet leader Krushchev to dismantle Russian missiles based in Cuba . |
| 15 | Specifically , for the verbal task , subjects had to report 3-letter nonsense syllables presented in either the left or right hemifield and , for the spatial task , they had to locate the position of a dot in a rectangle exposed within one or other visual field . |
| 16 | This result was interpreted in terms of meaningfulness ' by Matsumiya , Tagliasco , Lombroso and Goodglass ( 1972 ) who showed in a separate study that inter-hemispheric asymmetry was greatest when subjects had to understand each stimulus word , and minimal when they could ignore the semantic content . |
| 17 | The vote had the effect of removing from the top of the political agenda , if only temporarily , an issue which for many months had caused divisive debate in the country at large , and had threatened to overshadow Pope John Paul II 's visit to his homeland , due in June . |
| 18 | It led through still more lofty halls and winding corridors quite big enough for a dragon ( and dragons had come this way once , it seemed ; there was a room lull of rotting harness , dragon-sized , and another room containing plate and chain mail big enough for elephants ) . |
| 19 | In the post-war period , these districts had undergone precipitous decline from their pre-war position as thriving communities servicing the world 's largest port . |
| 20 | Reports on Aug. 8 said that UN-IAEA inspectors had discovered sophisticated centrifuge technology used to produce enriched uranium at al-Farat , 30 km south-west of Baghdad [ see p. 38211 ; 38307 ; 38360 ] . |
| 21 | he had a way with him and he was , got on very well with Mr and er he told us afterwards that erm the whole trouble was that the children 's baths had leaked that morning |
| 22 | The Catholic and especially Buddhist revivals were partially reactions to earlier activities of Protestant missionaries , who as part of their strategy to gain converts had produced polemical literature and established schools , including those which provided the best available English-language instruction . |
| 23 | The rush in central London reached fever pitch even though shoppers had to endure constant disruption as a consequence of the IRA 's campaign . |
| 24 | He reached this conclusion notwithstanding the fact that the defendants had received this information as agents for Mr. Brant and that they owed accordingly a duty to Mr. Brant not to disclose the information to others . |
| 25 | The allegation was that the defendants had supplied contaminated water to the plaintiffs thereby causing them personal injury . |
| 26 | Perhaps the old man with the torn shoe was not some desperate down-and-out with fists full of stolen mushrooms ; maybe he was just an ordinary person whose shoes had split that lunchtime , while shopping . |
| 27 | I had no idea of doing anything else but study there for the first three years after school , for which my hardworking and frugal parents had saved enough money . |
| 28 | His parents had neglected this aspect of his upbringing , having largely abandoned their religion but for a few outer forms before he was born . |
| 29 | In some cases there was little domestic support for communist policies and a new administration had effectively to be installed by the Red Army ( this was the case in the GDR , Poland and Romania ; Bulgaria , where the communists had enjoyed some support , took the German side during the war and here too a communist government was imposed by the Red Army ) . |
| 30 | At the Liverpool centre , his close acquaintances had included 1 girl who had attended the Canadian CF camp in 1990 and who had been colonised with the epidemic strain on her return . |