Example sentences of "[n mass] had [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The R.A.F. suspected that the aircraft had hit a hillside . |
| 2 | The next morning we found the aircraft had blown a gasket . |
| 3 | The Tranent folk had had a notion ( but look whit happened to them ) — say to the government , ‘ You can not trust us if ever you make us fight . ’ |
| 4 | The General Household Survey found that in one month in 1985 , out of people aged 65 and over , 34% had seen their doctor ; 5% had seen a nurse ; 1% had seen a health visitor ; 11% had seen a chiropodist ( footcare ) : 9% had seen a home help ; 2% had received meals on wheels ; and 5% had been to a day centre . |
| 5 | After 10 years during which the lira had enjoyed a fluctuation band of 6 per cent against its central rate within the European monetary system ( EMS ) , the government decided on Jan. 5 , 1990 , to adopt for the lira the narrower band of 2.25 per cent which applied to all member currencies except the Spanish peseta [ see also pp. 36741 ; 37196 ] . |
| 6 | The General Household Survey found that in one month in 1985 , out of people aged 65 and over , 34% had seen their doctor ; 5% had seen a nurse ; 1% had seen a health visitor ; 11% had seen a chiropodist ( footcare ) : 9% had seen a home help ; 2% had received meals on wheels ; and 5% had been to a day centre . |
| 7 | The head and senior staff had made a case for extra staffing and were successful in gaining an improved pupil-teacher ratio . |
| 8 | Students and staff had taken a break from lectures , others had travelled from Murray 's home town of Bath and the family home in Lancashire to attend the 40 minute service . |
| 9 | The main source of knowledge that there had been a quarrel was the reminders that people had made a peace ; and as the peace was between groups , it suggested that the quarrel was as well . |
| 10 | Blake tried to see but the people had formed a barrier preventing him from seeing what was on the ground . |
| 11 | It is clear that even five thousand years ago in Mesopotamia people had achieved a degree of subtlety of belief that defies analysis into one or two dogmas . |
| 12 | He said that the Supersight people had put a lot of money up front , and this was his share and plenty more where that came from . ’ |
| 13 | Bulgarian leaders raised further objections after up to 100,000 people had held a rally on Feb. 20 in Skopje , capital of Yugoslavia 's Macedonian republic , to show solidarity with Bulgaria 's Macedonians . |
| 14 | Mrs Austin claimed 1,000 people had signed a petition opposing the new building work and promised a fiery meeting tonight . |
| 15 | Two people had derived a moment of pleasure from the boy 's conception . |
| 16 | By the time he retired in 1977 , ITT 's sales had reached a record $17bn with earnings of an unprecedented $562m . |
| 17 | That day in 1958 the Northern Echo also reported that municipal busmen had turned down an extra five bob a week on their £8 15s , that Cliff Jones Britain 's most expensive footballer at £35,000 had broken a leg and carried a front page headline about the Royal family . |
| 18 | On his way down to take part in an official inspection , Wycliffe had monitored reports on his car radio and so arrived at the scene of crime before his headquarters had got a team together . |
| 19 | It appeared that Armenian militia had attacked a convoy of refugees from Khojali to Agdam ( a town in Azerbaijan close to the Nagorny Karabakh border ) . |
| 20 | His car was an extraordinary contraption , an ancient Ford truck from which some amateur carpenter ( or maybe the ship 's chandler ? ) had stripped off a ten-hundredweight body , and on the chassis had erected a kind of ambulance — with a stretcher bed in it and one chair firmly screwed to the floorboards . |
| 21 | The General Household Survey found that in one month in 1985 , out of people aged 65 and over , 34% had seen their doctor ; 5% had seen a nurse ; 1% had seen a health visitor ; 11% had seen a chiropodist ( footcare ) : 9% had seen a home help ; 2% had received meals on wheels ; and 5% had been to a day centre . |
| 22 | The General Household Survey found that in one month in 1985 , out of people aged 65 and over , 34% had seen their doctor ; 5% had seen a nurse ; 1% had seen a health visitor ; 11% had seen a chiropodist ( footcare ) : 9% had seen a home help ; 2% had received meals on wheels ; and 5% had been to a day centre . |