Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But suppose Lorton had intended from the first to rob Newley , to murder him , and to present the police with a strong case against someone else ? |
| 2 | Weather conditions precluded this , so he had to wait for the next scheduled plane from Wick to Kirkwall . |
| 3 | So we had to wait for the next bus , which was six o'clock . |
| 4 | Goals in the first five minutes by Dennis Greene and Keith Scott set the Buckinghamshire side on the path to victory , but they had to wait until the 68th minute before Simon Stapleton settled the issue . |
| 5 | Women had to wait until the Second World War before invading station employment once more . |
| 6 | Although enjoying the bulk of the possession Ipswich had to wait until the 29th minute before forcing Wright to make his first save , Zondervan hitting a long-range shot which the Newcastle goalkeeper tipped over . |
| 7 | Dominating for most of the tie , Eppleton had to wait until the 47th minute before Neil Scott forced a way through a resolute Cleadon defence . |
| 8 | FORMBY always looked the better side but had to wait until the 85th minute before they gained their just reward , Paul Proctor scoring . |
| 9 | Regeling , who had one nasty fall , had to wait until the last race for his first win . |
| 10 | Marty Tabb almost grabbed an immediate equaliser when he rattled the crossbar from 18 yards , but the Reds had to wait until the 55th minute to get back on level terms . |
| 11 | But the England under-21 midfielder only had to wait until the 53rd minute to exact his revenge when he chipped in a telling cross for Goodman to score . |
| 12 | Liverpool enjoyed almost total domination but faced with a team who pulled all 11 players back behind the ball they had to wait until the 38th minute before adding their second . |
| 13 | We had to wait until the next day before we got the results . |
| 14 | They and the Carters were to have shared it that year with the computer analyst and his wife , but one of this couple 's children was involved in an accident and they had to cancel at the last minute . |
| 15 | Dozens of beleagured businessmen in the midst of a painful recession were due to hear Michael Hesletine speak at this conference in Oxfordshire , but the President of the Board of Trade had to cancel at the last minute and the delegates instead got a DTi stand-in . |
| 16 | Further , on appointment he had realised for the first time that the eastern parts of the District remained largely undeveloped by the WEA . |
| 17 | The basic logic of her programme since 1979 had been to reverse the main lines of her country 's history as it had developed since the Second World War . |
| 18 | Some kind of crisis had developed in the last few minutes , and she did n't know why she felt afraid . |
| 19 | Berkeley 's philosophy marks the turn of the tide against the world picture which had developed in the seventeenth century , and which had reached one of its classical expositions in Locke 's Essay . |
| 20 | Bush droned on about good and evil , right and wrong , Hitler , Munich , appeasement , using all the same phrases that most of us thought we had heard for the last time , after the revolutions of 1989 . |
| 21 | Branson was fully aware that even if the Americans decided to grant permission , it was likely that it would not be given until a day or two before the flight — retaliatory treatment for the way the British government had delayed until the eleventh hour and fifty-ninth minute permission for People Express to fly into Britain . |
| 22 | The second time I was pulled over I showed the ‘ producer ’ I had received from the first policeman , but to no avail . |
| 23 | At home , amongst his people , Mr Kinnock 's speech provoked the most spontaneous and enthusiastic standing ovation he had received in the last three weeks on the campaign trail . |
| 24 | It had taken her four years to get over him ; four years to get to the point where she could tell herself with some conviction that she had shaken off the last of the memories and was really ready to get on with her life . |
| 25 | Above him , Jimmy had stopped on the first landing and was looking back . |
| 26 | Geoffrey had stopped outside the fourth ground-floor window from the garden door — Loretta was relieved to observe a lack of lights in the rooms adjoining it — and was already slipping his ruler into the gap between the two parts of the sash window . |
| 27 | The Dodger and Charley Bates , not wanting to attract attention to themselves by running down the street , had stopped round the first corner . |
| 28 | But the distribution rules said shares or discounts had to go to the first named . |
| 29 | I had to go to the next yard to fetch Jonesy . |
| 30 | Having driven past in the usual manner , the driver then had to go through a second time in reverse so that the mourners on the other side could also take a look . |