Example sentences of "had [verb] [adj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When John Peter , no doubt in a state of some alarm that his scholarship had provoked such a response , offered to publish a retraction , Eliot 's solicitors wrote in March that their client considered it " neither necessary nor desirable " for any such retraction to appear ; their client would take the very gravest view of any " further dissemination " of the article or its contents , which he had read " with amazement and disgust " . |
| 2 | Corbett had heard such a sound many times during his war in Wales and , without thinking , threw himself on his face . |
| 3 | They had talked for a while then he had given Green a lift back to his hotel . |
| 4 | Dorcas had given this a lot of thought as teams of nomes sweated to pry the lids off the paint-streaked tins . |
| 5 | As early as 1746 he had pondered such a work , writing in his preface to the Ode for Musick on St. Cecilia 's Day of the ‘ fine subject … that is David 's playing to King Saul when he was troubled with the evil Spirit ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ I said some time ago that there was a mile to go and we had to go half a mile each , and the Community went more than its half a mile . |
| 7 | He and Francis had joined such a retinue . |
| 8 | Whoever was about to emerge from beneath the dripping straw roof of this tiny hut on this minute hamlet on the eastern edge of this unknown volcanic islet was the first person in the world to rise on this February Saturday morning : Homo Pacificus , the symbol of all I had travelled half a world to see . |
| 9 | The action seemed to calm her slightly , and when she spoke again her voice had dropped half a tone . |
| 10 | Its bare outlines were that in a Luton car park a gang of four men had shot dead a sub-postmaster while trying to obtain from him the post office keys . |
| 11 | The SD station at Kitzingen in Lower Franconia , for example , which in its special report directly on the speech had declared that ‘ the rumours about the Führer are presumably disposed of ’ mentioned in its regular report a few days later that some workers had been heard saying that , from the speed and tone of voice , it had not been the Führer himself , but a substitute who had spoken , and Hitler himself had suffered such a shock from Stalingrad that he had to be kept under closely guarded house arrest on the Obersalzberg . |
| 12 | This was the first time Panama had attended such a meeting as a full participant , its President Guillermo Endara Galimany guaranteeing Panama 's future active , if " gradual " , participation in the process of Central American integration . |
| 13 | And the wise old bird , who had seen many a bully brought low in the twenty years since he was hatched , clicked his beak and closed his eyes . |
| 14 | They sat together , in the small-sized chairs brought up by Balor , and ate their breakfasts and told one another was n't this the finest meal ever and would they all look at the roasting oxen , because it was a long time , well it was years , really , since any of them had seen such a sight . |
| 15 | If you had done that a quarter of a century ago you would still be pleased with yourself . |
| 16 | She could n't understand why we had done such a thing . |
| 17 | Arguing once more from the personal to the universal , he concluded that those who had done such a thing to him were the enemies of all civilised society . |
| 18 | But few in Dowd 's experience had made such a commonplace of it as Godolphin . |
| 19 | For the next hour Fabia was alternately angry that he could take her to such heights only to call a halt when she responded too readily , and despair that he had made such a nonsense of her that she had n't known where the dickens she was . |
| 20 | The Irish Times on Oct. 26 published a taped interview , dating back to May 1990 , in which Lenihan admitted he had made such a call . |
| 21 | No wonder she had made such a fool of herself by fainting in the middle of Luke 's proposal . |
| 22 | Shelley watched them go , her heart full of admiration for his humanity and his talent — and bitterness because he had made such a fool of her . |
| 23 | It did not include a threat to cut off aid to governments guilty of human rights violations , although the UK reportedly had made such a threat outside the conference . |
| 24 | After six months we had made such a success of our little business that we took on a fourth girl and moved into the garage , as we now needed more space . |
| 25 | As soon as the area had been measured and surveyed , the work of cutting the new streets through the old teeming and tortuous maze of the centre had never before been attempted on such a scale , though Christopher Wren had made such a plan for 17th-century London . |
| 26 | Even if Crabb 's next-of-kin had been dissatisfied with the official explanation and had made such a fuss that the government was forced to hold some sort of inquiry the truth would still not have been told . |
| 27 | She laid her coat across a table then stood , not knowing what to do , wondering irritably why she had made such a fuss about coming … |
| 28 | It was not a whistle that could have come from human lips , but a chilling scalpel shriek he had heard only once before in the Fifth Dominion , when , some two hundred years past , his then possessor , the Maestro Sartori , had conjured from the In Ovo a familiar which had made such a whistle . |
| 29 | Chinese Charlie had altered the lot to fit him , and he had pressed it , too , and it had made such a difference to Ben . |
| 30 | Hitherto he had felt such a step to be premature , and one that might dangerously provoke the USSR . |