Example sentences of "[coord] had [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Possibly she had pulled her stitches , or had developed an infection in them . |
| 2 | In each case quoted the patient was either dying , in pain , had fallen out of bed , was bleeding or had suffered a heart attack . ’ |
| 3 | He treated all his passengers with the same cheerful courtesy ; if you had VD or had lost an ear in a knife-fight , it would all be the same to him . |
| 4 | The pilot-in-command held a West German Commercial Pilot Licence with instrument and instructor ratings endorsed as valid for flying Swiss registered aircraft and had accumulated a total of 2,600 hours flying experience , including 400 hours on the accident type . |
| 5 | The co-pilot held a West German Commercial Pilot Licence with instrument and instructor ratings , and had accumulated a total of 2,550 hours flying experience including fifty hours on the accident he had flown 120 hours , of which fifty hours were on the accident type . |
| 6 | and had seen a TV programme the previous evening relating to death . |
| 7 | The Commissioner had gone too far and had given a ruling that would have had the effect of preventing the Crown from leading evidence which , as a matter of law , was admissible . |
| 8 | When JTR returned to the Boathouse that night he ‘ had walked thirty-five miles , and had given a place in the sketchbook to eight subjects . ’ |
| 9 | It was , therefore , unfair to dismiss Winsper after his conviction for dangerous driving because the court had refrained from suspending his driving licence and had imposed a fine of only £20 . |
| 10 | The commons alleged that they had lent the king 20,000 marks at 33 per cent interest , that they had sold licences to export wool to ports other than Calais , and had imposed a charge of 11 s per sack for each licence granted . |
| 11 | This had begun receiving payments in October 1990 and had reached a peak of $2,100 million in March 1991 , he said . |
| 12 | As we have seen , during the years from about 1080 to 1095 , Anselm had given much thought to the problem of liberty , and had reached a definition of free will which left no room for that freedom of choice which is commonly regarded as its essential feature . |
| 13 | By 1899 he had completed and tested a 4-hp engine weighing only 40 lb. and had built a triplane in which to mount it . |
| 14 | Although Beckenham U.D.C. had powers to construct a tramway system , which they might have leased to the B.E.T. , and had built a power station in Churchfields Road , they now had second thoughts about tramways and were thinking in terms of permitting the B.E.T . |
| 15 | David was , by this time , playing a major role in developing the fast-growing U S retailing operation ; Nick was taking a larger hand in design strategy and had built a team of extremely young , artistic friends around him . |
| 16 | After she went out one afternoon they decided to steal the equipment and had arranged a buyer for it for £130 . |
| 17 | The Ulster public was critical and unhappy at the way they had been passive and ineffective as Heath 's government had set up a ‘ power sharing ’ administration complete with Irish republican ministers and had arranged a semicondominium with the Irish Republic in the Sunningdale Agreement and Council of Ireland scheme . |
| 18 | He had great force of character , and had become a legend in his own lifetime . |
| 19 | By then , he had been a Recorder for ten years and had become a QC in 1974 , continuing in active practice until January 1985 , since when Sir Anthony — he was knighted last year — has acted as both Ombudsman and Health Service Commissioner . |
| 20 | By the winter of 1920–1 the application of compulsion to the workers and peasants had become absolutely counterproductive , and had become a factor in the general collapse of the economy facing the Bolsheviks . |
| 21 | By the time Rune had unclothed her completely Gina 's whole body knew the intimate touch of his mouth and hands and had become a conflagration of need for the ultimate knowledge of the man himself . |
| 22 | After serving as US permanent representative at the UN , Young had spent two terms as mayor of Atlanta , an eight-year period during which the city had been transformed into a magnet for domestic and foreign investment and had become a symbol of the " New South " . |
| 23 | William Penn , a son of the admiral who captured Jamaica , was a friend of the Duke of York and had become a Quaker of the quieter second generation that followed George Fox in his beliefs but not in his attacks on all symbols of the established order . |
| 24 | When I told them that I was born in a similar bed and had become a doctor afterwards they were more convinced . |
| 25 | Gratitude because of the unhesitating generosity with which Doreen gave him the hospitality of her body ; responsibility because he had ceased to be a passing visitor to that body , taking what he could get , and had become a guest , leaving behind something as a token of their intimacy . |
| 26 | By the later nineteenth century , these dangers were much less ; and perhaps more striking is Davy 's other remark , about how in his lifetime chemistry had ceased to be a science of furnaces and large quantities , and had become an activity to be carried on with spirit-lamps and test-tubes in the drawing room . |
| 27 | But there was also a growing disaffection among the younger poets and critics : he had ceased to be a poet and had become an institution , and the only thing to do with an institution is to attempt to pull it down . |
| 28 | He began work as a boy at the Pensher coalmine of Charles Stewart , third Marquis of Londonderry [ q.v. ] , and had become an overman by 1837 . |
| 29 | Papandreou , who was president of the main opposition party , the Panhellenic Socialist Movement ( Pasok ) , and had headed a Pasok government in 1981-89 , had consistently refused to appear in the courtroom or to send lawyers to represent him [ see pp. 38157-58 ] . |
| 30 | Of the four transplant candidates who were alive at the end of the study period , one with primary biliary cirrhosis had been referred and had received a liver transplant . |