Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her sidelong glance had caught a quick exchange of looks between them as if Father Devlin were silently saying , ‘ I 've done my share ; now it 's your turn . ’ |
| 2 | Most important was that the Association had lost a high proportion of the key members by death or removal from the area , and failed to attract the younger men coming home from war service who found an outlet in more direct political activity . |
| 3 | It was only the fourth time that one horse had completed a clear round . |
| 4 | His horse had taken a dozen blows and was weakening . |
| 5 | By 1750 the buying and selling of government stock had become a straightforward routine . |
| 6 | The pulling-back of 6th Armoured Brigade had given the Divisional Commander the force he needed to destroy the enemy . |
| 7 | It was obvious the aging side had peaked the previous season ; a major overhaul was needed , either at playing staff or managerial level . |
| 8 | The home side had taken an early lead through tries from Ian Blease and Arthur Bradshaw . |
| 9 | The further side had offered a fair-sized patch of flat ground . |
| 10 | Virus F/x-01–74482 , soon referred to as , simply , the Mahon virus was , as far as she could understand , a unique example of something that up till now had only been postulated : that deep in the ocean , under the terrific pressure and in temperatures approaching absolute zero , there had remained chains of biochemicals , primitive viruses that had been part of the great ‘ organic soup ’ at the creation of life , remaining unchanged as the rest of the primordial swamp had undergone the long evolutionary journey to form all the complexities of life on earth . |
| 11 | Among the lands earlier ceded to the abbey of St Denis was the Vexin français , that natural bulwark between the French royal demesne and the now hostile Norman duchy , which had been held as a Norman fief , had formed part of Simon de Crépy 's state ( see p. 216 ) , and finally was reclaimed for the French crown by Philip I. The Vexin had had a comital family , in origin probably the advocates for the abbey ; but Philip had bypassed their claims , granting the territory to the young prince Louis , who met with such opposition in the area that it was not until 1119 that his possession was secured . |
| 12 | Iskandarov 's Islamic coalition had survived an attempted coup in October by supporters of the former communist President Rakhmon Nabiyev , whose removal from power in September sparked off a smouldering civil war [ see pp. 39097-98 ; 39147 ] . |
| 13 | Coalition had become a political habit that would be quite difficult to break and had sapped the party 's confidence in itself . |
| 14 | An identical opposition coalition had backed the victorious Rengo-no-kai candidate in the Nara prefecture by-election on Feb. 9 . |
| 15 | The Middle East Economic Digest ( MEED ) of April 12 reported that the United States administration had announced a new arms deal , subject to approval by Congress , worth US$919,000,000 and comprising exclusively spare parts and engineering support . |
| 16 | Rubino , attempting to show that his client was the victim of a political vendetta by the Bush administration , had sought access to classified government documents , to obtain evidence that the US administration had maintained a formal or covert relationship with Noriega . |
| 17 | Reports on May 13 , quoting United States government officials , said that the US administration had sought no new funding for the mujaheddin in its proposed budget for 1992 . |
| 18 | The all-Ireland Catholic Primate , Dr Cahal Daly , said the shooting had shamed the national celebrations . |
| 19 | Fair enough , perhaps , but your ex-wife had got a rich new boyfriend . |
| 20 | But the fighting had left the British and French armies even weaker . |
| 21 | So , at the beginning of October , Susan saw a trichologist ( hair specialist ) , who said the salon had used the wrong chemicals . |
| 22 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that on the plain words of section 2(1) ( a ) of the Rent Act 1977 a statutory tenant enjoyed that status so long as he remained in occupation of the dwelling house as his residence , and , therefore , the defendant had remained a statutory tenant after the possession order had been made ; that since she was neither a statutorily protected nor an excluded tenant within the meaning of the Protection from Eviction Act 1977 she was entitled to the protection of section 3 of that Act and could not lawfully be removed from the premises until the possession order had been executed in accordance with rules of court ; that since the only method of enforcement provided by the County Court Rules 1981 was by execution of a possession warrant in accordance with Ord. 26 , r. 17 , the plaintiff was not entitled to re-enter by other means ; and that , accordingly , the defendant was entitled to damages for unlawful eviction under section 27 of the Act of 1988 ( post , pp. 879B , 881D–E , G–H , 882A–B , B–C , 883C–E ) . |
| 23 | In Havering London Borough v. Stevenson ( 1970 D.C. ) the question was whether the defendant had applied the false trade description ‘ in the course of a trade or business . ’ |
| 24 | An employee of the second defendant had fitted an incorrect part to the tool and the plaintiff was injured . |
| 25 | The second defendant had made a large number of deliveries to and collections from the premises on Capricorn 's account . |
| 26 | The trial judge directed the jury if at the time he collected the coins the defendant had formed the dishonest intention of keeping them for himself he was guilty of theft . |
| 27 | The defendant had moved a few weeks before to another address in the same town , but this fact was not discovered at the time . |
| 28 | As a juror , would you find that a defendant had committed a serious crime on such a basis ? |
| 29 | It must have been obvious to the jury that these witnesses were in a special position , one as the husband of a woman with whom the defendant had had an intimate relationship and the other as the sister of the deceased , whom the defendant had shot , according to himself , accidentally . |
| 30 | The defendant had taken no serious steps to prevent them as most were his customers . |