Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As Simon himself acknowledged , English public health administration had developed in a piecemeal and ad hoc fashion for much of the early nineteenth century , with national supervision divided between his own Privy Council Medical Office and the Poor Law Board . |
| 32 | In Russia imperialism had developed alongside a semi-feudal agrarian structure and the bourgeoisie had proven too feeble to overthrow the absolute monarchy . |
| 33 | ‘ Freda- through-the-wall ’ was her nickname for her neighbour whom she frequently invited in , particularly when she had to cope with a sticky social situation . |
| 34 | But she had to cope with a foreign language too . |
| 35 | They had parted in a friendly enough way , promising to see each other from time to time , but Jenna very much doubted if it would ever happen . |
| 36 | Norbert was sent back into the real world , but within weeks he had registered as a disabled person and returned to the hospital . |
| 37 | He said : ‘ The car had crashed through a wall and had overturned in a marshy field . |
| 38 | The attitude of Patullo , a conventional , observant , middle-class intellectual , is a familiar one , and so is his ambiguous attitude to this kind of reading , expressed in a later comment on the unexpected heroism of the man he had regarded with a certain scorn : |
| 39 | In that country the original intention was to oppose the compulsory arbitration system which employers had regarded as a fundamental challenge to management rights , and subsequently to disseminate information and advice to association members ‘ in interpreting the maze of awards , classifications and legislation that the system was producing ’ ( Plowman , 1980 , p. 253 ) . |
| 40 | Otis had heard about a special policy being offered by The Legal Protection Group , which you can add on to your motor insurance policy . |
| 41 | Luckily , I had heard of a suitable den on the River Wye . |
| 42 | Our Pharmacist , Miss Alice Gilliatt , sister of the Royal gynaecologist , had heard of a small flat in Fulham . |
| 43 | She had heard of a German drug called Aslocillin which she thought could help and so she pulled every string to find a supply . |
| 44 | We had heard of a municipal university , and of a university of the East Midlands , and newcomers were welcomed by the Chairman of the College Council who , I think , was also a City or County Councillor . |
| 45 | He went on to say that he had heard from a mutual friend whom he had met in Alexandria that I had a good job , and added : ‘ Mother said , in an old letter which took months to reach me , that it was in the Foreign Office . |
| 46 | Thirty minutes earlier the radio had crackled with news of a definite sighting of the escapee Burrows , who had broken into a deserted farmhouse between Retford and Gainsborough . |
| 47 | Police said the thieves had broken through a rear entrance and stolen an electric typewriter , an answering machine and £40 cash . |
| 48 | The Tree Spirits were discernible now ; it was as if they had broken through a thick veil , through a smothering black curtain , and they were recognisable as distinct forms , moving slowly in and out of the forest . |
| 49 | It 's , no it had broken off a little bit , yeah . |
| 50 | Once , when they had gone on a nature walk , Eve had pointed to a small cottage and said that it was her house . |
| 51 | But in the final analysis , things had not changed since Wellington had pointed to a British infantryman before Waterloo with the words ‘ It all depends on that article ’ . |
| 52 | Eventually he was referred to a consultant who took a careful case-history and wondered if there might be some connection between the heavy doses of antibiotics he had received as a young man and the continuing diarrhoea . |
| 53 | The cause of death had been the terrible bludgeoning he had received from a blunt instrument . |
| 54 | He mentioned the insults his father had received from a young man near Trantridge who had a blind mother . |
| 55 | The Finance Act 1969 provided , in effect , that on the death of a beneficiary what in 1974 became capital transfer tax , and by the Finance Act 1986 inheritance tax , should be payable upon the proportion of the capital which corresponded to the proportion of the income which the deceased had received within a certain period before his death ( usually seven years ) . |
| 56 | This whole area had blossomed as a great region for settlement , in which the Spanish language was steadily being forced upon the survivors of the original population and to which Spanish emigrants went out as regular reinforcements to maintain the conquests of Cones and Pizzano . |
| 57 | He did not resume his role as a major lender until after 1689 but meanwhile he had blossomed into a Kentish landowner and re-entered Parliament . |
| 58 | Then he had gone , and the Curator had stared for a long time after him , and then at the golden eagle who stared blankly back at him . |
| 59 | This unequal but in general legitimated social hierarchy had depended on a healthy capitalist economy and benign , prosperous welfare State . |
| 60 | Denis Healey , nevertheless , had to contend with a wide range of critics , from socialists such as Benn who claimed that his successes resulted from such right-wing nostrums as a wage freeze and cutting public spending , to the monetarists of the Policy Studies Committee who attacked him for being far too dirigiste . |