Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Faced with the threat of losing its Parliamentary representatives the NAC had to agree to a plebiscite of the membership on the issue . |
| 32 | The Easter Rising in Dublin and the government 's abortive plan to rush through a Home Rule settlement caused an even greater furore ; this time Bonar Law had to agree to a meeting of the Central Council , but only alter the cabinet had dropped the Home Rule idea , and with a stipulation in advance that questions would be allowed but not resolutions . |
| 33 | He found himself bitterly telling Graus of the horrors which he had witnessed during a war in which the Israelis still claim they never committed atrocities . |
| 34 | Lewis was perfectly correct , even politically correct , to insist that Bowe had reneged on a pledge to fight him first . |
| 35 | On Sept. 19 the RJO announced that it was freezing his release because Israel had reneged on a pledge to release 80 Arab detainees in the earlier transfer — 20 more than the 51 prisoners and nine bodies which were handed over . |
| 36 | The move was sharply criticized by environmental experts , who said it would set back research and also meant that NP had reneged on a pledge that work on environmental problems would not suffer under privatization . |
| 37 | The dour , austere Miss Sowerby was wiping her eyes with a handkerchief she had tucked under a sleeve . |
| 38 | Eventually , well into the afternoon , we found the route — but had to wait for a couple who pushed in front claiming they were ‘ HVS climbers ’ and would not take long . |
| 39 | He reached it without mishap but had to wait for a while , watching the day begin , until the ferrymaster arrived . |
| 40 | But they had to wait for a host of their rivals to commit pop suicide before they could begin the job of moulding this new discovery . |
| 41 | Well that was the , the erm union for us , erm I think erm one of the great assets of being in public transport was that we were in a local erm pension scheme , erm when , when we in the office started , we had to wait until we were eighteen and then we had to wait for a vacancy because there was a limited number of people that the Council were prepared to back by paying a similar amount . |
| 42 | Clare was fired for turning up late after she had to wait for a doctor because Josh had a temperature . |
| 43 | I had to wait in a corridor . |
| 44 | They believed I had to report to a camp near Dover . |
| 45 | Blanche shivered with unease , as though she had stumbled into a crypt . |
| 46 | In one disturbance that received wide publicity , a policeman had stumbled across a gang of about twenty youths , said to be known as the ‘ Chelsea Boys ’ who ‘ armed with sticks and stones were fighting a contingent of similar young ruffians from Battersea ’ at Cheyne Walk by the river . |
| 47 | It was Daphne who gave me my first art book , The Treasures of Italy , in exchange for several cream wafers , and from that day on I knew I had stumbled across a subject I wanted to study for the rest of my life . |
| 48 | But data stores , I had stumbled on a case of data suppression . |
| 49 | He had stumbled on a reference to it in an English journal — a painter had once disappeared into the peat fields to escape civilisation . |
| 50 | Before he cracked , Mr Rushdie had stumbled on a truth : that if free speech and free writing are to be defended in an age of increasing religious fervour , they must be defended with a zealot 's passion . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | She wondered , laughing as Sabina jogged her , for she had halted in a daydream , what it would be like to encourage him , to overcome the scruples he so kindly showed by not exploring her body . |
| 53 | Two main lines were carried on by Richard Chaloner , cooper , and George , the youngest son who inherited the cottage and smithy that his father had erected on a piece of waste land east of the church , together with the lease of 3 acres of land enclosed from Myddlewood . |
| 54 | This trend had culminated in a loss of A$1,300 million ( approximately US$1,020 million ) by Tricontinental , the merchant banking arm of the State Bank of Victoria , through which Cain had attempted to promote industrial regeneration within the state . |
| 55 | Recent internal disagreements within the MNR had culminated in a death threat which Lozada reportedly received , at gunpoint , from congressional deputy Ciro Humboldt Barrero after a turbulent meeting of MNR leaders in the southern city of Sucre , the official capital . |
| 56 | The voluntary hospital , the South Wing of Bedford 's new general hospital , had developed as a result of charity ; private for the most part , but also with financial support from the public sector ; the story of its development until it was combined with St. Peter 's in 1949 is the subject of the following section : |
| 57 | Cole 's extreme anti-semitism had developed as a result of his exposure to the Protocols when he had been involved with allied help to the White Russians in the Civil War in the 1920s . |
| 58 | ‘ The four of us had developed as a group within Arthur Young 's business services group , a department aimed specifically at the entrepreneurial owner-managed private business , ’ Andy explains . |
| 59 | That is why quantum theory did not make itself felt until physics had developed to a stage where minute systems of atomic dimensions could be probed and investigated . |
| 60 | This had developed from a side-interest of the original Weetman Pearson ( Lord Cowdray ) , a civil engineer and Liberal activist before and after the First World War . |