Example sentences of "[noun sg] had at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her general practitioner had at one time treated her unsuccessfully for this with an antidepressant . |
| 2 | All those who went through the ordeal had at some time survived an accident or illness when their lives had been despaired of . |
| 3 | INITIAL shock gave ground to more considered calm in the market after Mr Lamont 's forecast of a £50 billion public sector borrowing requirement had at one stage wiped 14 points off the FT-SE 100-Share Index . |
| 4 | Councillor Matheson also asked if any social workers presently in the employ of Orkney Islands Council had at any time in their careers , attended conferences , seminars or other courses organised by the Reachout Trust ? |
| 5 | I would imagine that the site had at one time been occupied by a large merchant 's house as four of the houses were built over a medieval cellar . |
| 6 | The grounds of the appeal were that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law in holding that the plaintiff had at common law a cause of action in negligence against the defendants arising out of physical injury suffered by her before her birth and whilst still an embryo of about six weeks ' gestation en ventre sa mère and ( 2 ) the judge ought to have held that no cause of action was recognised at common law in favour of a living plaintiff in respect of physical injury suffered antenatally . |
| 7 | There were two outbuildings across the yard ; one looked like a converted barn and the other had at one time styed pigs . |
| 8 | This student had at one time worked in catering until her love for learning foreign languages prompted her to tackle French and Spanish as a mature student . |
| 9 | Although the subject was something not discussed , almost everyone in the road had at one time or another been confided in and had helped Mrs Browning as far as they could , although she seemed to feel she should not worry any particular neighbour too much so went from one to another , as it were in turn . |
| 10 | Her skin had at one stage , unusual in a redhead , been almost chocolate-brown and silk-smooth , but she was a northern redhead , and had passed beyond the russet and the Negro , back to a strange peeled patchwork , toast-cinder brown , radish-crimson , freckled bone and the translucent grey of flaking skin still shifting . |
| 11 | It is this belief that enables Fay to say that her tutor had at one time known ‘ everything there was to know about chemistry ’ and that ‘ history does n't change … apart from you add a bit on to what happened last year ’ . |
| 12 | We are told that the animal had at some time been shot and wounded , so today it had been put out of its misery . |
| 13 | We are told that the animal had at some time been shot and wounded , so today it had been put out of its misery . |
| 14 | One might be forgiven the thought that Wagner 's theoretical position had at this point compounded too many incongruities to make criticism necessary . |
| 15 | When he sought to appeal , a preliminary objection was raised that an appeal did not lies , as the appeal was in a ‘ criminal cause or matter ’ in respect of which the Court of Appeal had at that time no jurisdiction . |