Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [vb pp] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a bizarre leadership contest had dug up a dead Davidian and challenged his rival Vernon to bring the body back to life . |
| 2 | This factor … should make the court the more cautious before holding that the defendant had had both a factual possession and animus possidendi sufficient to confer on him a possessory title … |
| 3 | In another case , the Court of Appeal held that a prosecution had been properly discontinued when a defendant had taken out a private prosecution for perjury against a witness who had given evidence against him at committal proceedings . |
| 4 | It ran down between my eyes and made me see everything blood-red , even though seconds before my mind had conjured up a pleasing vision : the English boy 's sister . |
| 5 | By around 1910 the cultivation of rubber and tea had brought about a more permanent change . |
| 6 | The survey briefing had included only a verbal specification . |
| 7 | D'Arcy had invited Saint Julien to join them ; the Corsican had struck up a strangely abrasive relationship with Nadirpur , who appeared comforted by his mildly sarcastic wit and no-nonsense approach to the situation in which they found themselves . |
| 8 | This was , of course , the reason why eating had become almost a physical impossibility with the result that Molly was virtually starving . |
| 9 | Syl 's previous engagement had ended only a few months before . |
| 10 | She was awfully fond of her husband , of course , but there was no denying that their own lovemaking had become just a little predictable . |
| 11 | Labour had taken on a flagging government in the midst of the longest recession since the last world war . |
| 12 | In 1937 , a series of mass demonstrations in the oil industry had ushered in a period of severe labour unrest throughout the West Indies and this had led to the setting up of a Royal Commission , under Lord Moyne , to assess the social conditions on the islands . |
| 13 | The sun had already lost its warmth and the light had faded just a little , giving the empty farmhouse and its ramshackle outbuildings a forlorn look . |
| 14 | Rare Bear had fallen back a little . |
| 15 | There was no sign of Benny , but Ace assumed that the Professor had taken up a position on the other side of the stanchion . |
| 16 | The presbytery asked members of the church to note that the South Ronaldsay Parents ' Action Committee had set up a fund for legal aid to which they might like to contribute , and they asked their Social Matters Committee to look into the question of guidance to ministers in cases involving the Social Work Department . |
| 17 | Full of new hope that maybe our rethink might be working he struck into what appeared a solid fish , although this was a little misleading as the cat had picked up a little weed and once freed she quickly surrendered . |
| 18 | Colorado-based Miniscribe filed for bankruptcy protection in January 1990 when it emerged that its senior management had carried out a massive fraud . |
| 19 | The free style mining had brought about a situation quite undesirable to the Lord who claimed the mineral rights . |
| 20 | This document , written by Hornby , emphasized that the Council had set up a procedure for dealing with proposals which began with a detailed scrutiny of documents from the college and involved painstaking work by the subject boards , so that the Council ‘ might establish the standards of its degrees ’ . |
| 21 | He said the council had put up a wire fence at the place on the cliff-path . |
| 22 | But our judge might be able to guarantee this by making plain that he intends the new rule to govern all future cases , and that the exception for Elmer was made possible only by the fact that no judge had laid down a similar rule before Elmer committed his crime . |
| 23 | This did not mean their parents had happily shelled out the £2,000 for the trip — many had been sponsored by local firms and one girl had taken out a bank loan . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she said , when the shuddering had become only a shiver . |
| 25 | One other respect in which Pascal is a modem thinker is in his view , which he shared with the Jansenists , that language had proven too strong for mystery , so that theology had become merely a branch of rhetoric . |
| 26 | ‘ The team had put on a marvellous display out in Georgia and I thought we 'd get a few more than 6,000 . |
| 27 | Each period had thrown up a different set of relationships , different influences and different pressures on newspapers . |
| 28 | In August the Agitprop section of the Twelfth Party Conference had set up a commission to start a state subsidy for the politically reliable press . |
| 29 | As a piece , although the overall process had taken almost a century to unfold and the measures were sometimes half-hearted in terms of their practical realisation , these changes signalled the arrival of a distinctively modern penal system which rested on the reformative and deterrent influence of the prison as its major instrument . |
| 30 | Already the forest had taken on a menacing gloom . |