Example sentences of "the [noun sg] had [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Park had closed at 4.30 p.m. the previous day , the detectives learned , yet it was not unknown for nimble adolescents and desperate adults to gain access to the Parks from half-a-dozen possible places . |
| 2 | The stranding had left at least 28 pilot whales dead . |
| 3 | They contained no nasty surprises , since the board had warned at the time of the Evode bid that profits would fall to £86 million . |
| 4 | The watch had stopped at three o'clock . |
| 5 | The PS had decided at the end of August to preserve a loose electoral accord with the Communist Party ( PCF ) . |
| 6 | Mr Thomas also claimed the taxpayer had lost at least £29 million as a result of the 1990 sale of the Post Office 's Girobank operations to the Alliance & Leicester building society , in preference to the Co-op Bank 's bid . |
| 7 | Analysis of the handmade red-brown pills which the hakim had prescribed at a dose of six daily showed each to contain 30–42 mg of inorganic mercuric sulphide ( table ) . |
| 8 | The other men in the canoe had laughed at his impatience and berated him for pointing . |
| 9 | By six the same evening the route had received at least five repeat ascents , and because of its relatively modest grade should stay very popular . |
| 10 | She said the driver had stopped at an intersection , got into the back seat with her and assaulted and raped her . |
| 11 | Because when I read the leaflet on that crucial afternoon , it turned out that I could n't start swallowing the pills on any old day : the course had to begin at a particular point in my menstrual cycle . |
| 12 | The snow had drifted at one end , at the beck of the wind , so that it reached almost to the eaves of the roof . |
| 13 | Perhaps of more significance was their estimate of the cost of the rise in unemployment from 1979 to 1985 : they estimated that if the figure had remained at the 1979 level , the cost to the Exchequer in 1984–85 would only have been £7.5 bn . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , some teachers claimed that the appraisal had produced little in the way of changes and some had difficulty in remembering quite what the adviser had proposed at their own feedback session . |
| 15 | The water cooled too quickly for her to stay long in the bath , but afterwards she lay fully dressed on the bed for a while , listening , her spirits rising as she realised that the wind had dropped at last . |
| 16 | The case concerned a rusty old car which had belonged to one M. The structure of the car had rusted at the sides of the engine compartment and M had attempted to repair this with plastic body filler . |
| 17 | The car had stopped at some traffic lights . |
| 18 | The car had stopped at the quarry in the pitch darkness , and , Mr O'Donnell said , he had been dragged out and beaten again by the men , including McPherson . |
| 19 | Thirty three of the 36 patients in the study had died at the end of the study period , 21 ( 87% ) in the chemotherapy group , and all 12 in the supportive care group . |
| 20 | It was strange ; everything he had done on the programme had seemed at the time to be imbued with an exact sense of logic and purposiveness , but now that he looked back on it , all the logical connections had disappeared , like secret writing when the special lamp is taken away . |
| 21 | The prosecution accepted that the notebook proved Mr Thompson had been involved in the distribution of obscene material , a charge the countess had levelled at him earlier in the trial but that he had denied . |
| 22 | The Professor had glanced at him only once , and seemed oblivious to his challenging glare . |
| 23 | Our exploration of the coast had begun at Saltburn , an elegant if truncated testimony to Victorian values and market forces . |
| 24 | By the time Bodie reached the dusk-lit Embassy in Kensington , the limousine had arrived at its front steps . |
| 25 | The Princesse had looked at her curiously . |
| 26 | The princess had arrived at Althorp , the Spencer family seat earlier in the day . |
| 27 | The plot had arrived at Beirut . |
| 28 | No wonder the girl had stared at her and drawn her own conclusions . |
| 29 | The girl had struggled at first , but Bernice had reassured her : They 'll bring me to you in just a minute , she 'd said . |
| 30 | Once a deal was struck between matchmaker and the parents , the girl had to stay at home until her marriage . |