Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] had [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was n't interested in numbers , he used strategic analysis as the basis for fundamental decisions , which was the biggest change I had to get used to . |
| 2 | The fiction I had read predicted gaudy roles for me — as private tutor at the old stone mansion where peacocks roost in the yew hedges and chalky bones are discovered in the sealed-up priest 's hole ; as gullible ingénu at an eccentric private establishment on the Welsh borders stuffed with robust drunkards and covert lechers . |
| 3 | And of course I had to get another lens , a piece of glass about the same size , in order to grind it , because you grind the glass with another piece of glass with a grit in between . |
| 4 | At university I had done Moral Philosophy , English , French and German . |
| 5 | As a journalist I had seen many countries overseas , all smaller and poorer than ourselves , being granted self-government ; and I had hoped that Scotland would not be denied even the limited self-government that was then being dished out to the Cook Islands and the Faeroe Islands and the Cameroons . ’ |
| 6 | It must have bewildered the matron , who watched practically every mouthful I ate , that by the end of term I had lost another two pounds . |
| 7 | The same sort of guilt by association which had tainted Keynesian economics in the wake of the Phillips curve débâcle has tainted the rational expectations hypothesis owing to its close connection , through Keynesian eyes , with the policy inefficacy proposition of the new classical macroeconomics . |
| 8 | It was cold in the large panelled hall , in spite of the early breath of spring which had brought purple and gold crocus spears into the rough grass . |
| 9 | On June 9 Mount Pinatubo , a 1,460-metre volcano which had lain dormant for 600 years , began to erupt . |
| 10 | In legislative elections in March 1987 the RPR won seven seats and formed a government in coalition with the UPL which had won six seats . |
| 11 | The budget was part of a seven-year restructuring programme which had secured International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) approval in principle in October and which was outlined by Finance and Customs Minister Basil Jardaneh on Dec. 11 [ see p. 38215 for May 1991 visit by IMF team ] . |
| 12 | The Authority was less successful in its attempt to ensure that disciplinary proceedings were brought against a detective superintendent , whose early retirement from the Metropolitan Police in 1989 meant that he avoided questions about his links with drug smuggling and criminal gangs , queries that had arisen after a World in Action television programme which had made serious allegations about corruption in the London police . |
| 13 | The part of the programme which had received highest priority was the introductory course in information retrieval for the engineering undergraduates . |
| 14 | She wore grubby jeans , torn at the knees , and an unironed acrylic sweater which had seen better days . |
| 15 | He is picking his way through the Moscow Record of 27 November 1869 , and there he reads about a murder which had occurred six days earlier . |
| 16 | In early 1986 the Research and Statistics branch of the Inner London Education Authority presented a study which had taken three and a half years to compile , based upon the schoolwork of 2000 pupils in 50 randomly selected primary schools . |
| 17 | The bulldozer which had stood dormant for the past two days coughed into life and rumbled towards the prison gates . |
| 18 | This was another , remote area of the complex which had remained untouched by Roirbak 's artistic caprices , and was still furnished in a bare , functional style . |
| 19 | The Titfords were more than lucky , in a sense , to have picked up their legacies from Benjamin 's will in that year , since the nation as a whole was suffering from a period of deep depression following a boom which had peaked six or seven years before . |
| 20 | That early hour also avoided having to go to the schools to take children , an action which had caused such controversy in November 1990 . |
| 21 | Collins was the other striking contributor within Scotland 's side , tirelessly continuing at international level where he had left off for his club in Saturday 's Old Firm game and looking unaffected by the demands of a workload which had caused wholesale disruption to the national team elsewhere . |
| 22 | Captain Tupper , calling off a strike of fishermen in which he was engaged in August 1914 declared simply that " our fight was not with the employers but with another force which had attacked all that was ours " . |
| 23 | 16 patients with sarcoidosis who had undergone diagnostic biopsy of lung , skin , or lymph node and 16 patients with squamous cell carcinoma or Hodgkin 's disease to act as controls . |
| 24 | When these things did n't work , he got her fixed up with a particularly incompetent agent who had ruined some of his friends ' contracts through laziness . |
| 25 | Mr Bailes ' little place was situated about half way along Highburn village and to get into the farmyard you had to walk twenty yards or so between five-foot walls . |
| 26 | The election of Aristide , a 37-year-old left-wing priest who had survived numerous assassination attempts , followed a series of short-lived governments , three of which were military administrations and none of which was the product of free elections . |
| 27 | A former Roman Catholic priest who had spent eight years as a missionary in Africa and then seven years in England and Scotland , he arrived in Kingsley four years ago at the start of the project to breathe new life into the empty village school . |
| 28 | It was his fault she had to go all the way back to the house . |
| 29 | The new President 's favoured candidate for prime minister , Jan Olszewski , a lawyer who had defended anti-communist dissidents for years , was unable to agree terms with him , however . |
| 30 | Among the participants were many noted specialists in English and Linguistics , including ( Puna ) , ( Varanasi ) , ( Delhi ) , ( Indian Institute of Technology , Delhi ) , ( College of Commerce , Delhi University ) , ( CIEFL Hyderabad ) , and ( Trivandrum ) , a well-known poet who had travelled three days by train to get there . |