Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] a [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They crashed to 4p on news that the recession-bashed property group had plunged to a £41.6m loss ( from £7.15m profit ) . |
| 2 | Which is why I should have welcomed the students who wanted to talk to me about the poetry of George Darley , which a misguided colleague of mine had included in a series of lectures on the early nineteenth century , and in so doing had worried the more discerning of my students , who were failing to see any merit there . |
| 3 | Regarding Massawa as an essential channel for aid to northern Ethiopia , Western government representatives at the UN on April 24 called for a ceasefire around the port , which had come under a series of government bombing attacks [ ibid . ] . |
| 4 | His memory had grown into a series of fading snapshots . |
| 5 | Virgin had grown through a series of developments that business schools call ‘ vertical integration ’ , but which Branson saw as just common sense . |
| 6 | ‘ A plant does n't need to be taught how to grow ; and neither does a child have to be taught , in the old-fashioned meaning of teaching ’ , Herbert Casson had written in a series of articles for Teacher 's World in 1918 . |
| 7 | Like a raider , he had swooped on a series of nightclubs , probably before their owners even had time to fully appreciate what had hit them . |
| 8 | It was an opportune moment to return because the citizens of Aberdeen had embarked on a series of ambitious street improvements at the same time as the technology had developed to enable the exploitation of the plentiful local granite for building purposes . |
| 9 | The party conference , for instance , had called for a series of constitutional changes , particularly in the USSR Supreme Soviet 's Council of Nationalities . |
| 10 | At the beginning of February the Coastguard sector officer in Kirkcudbright had to deal with a pair of canoeists from a college in the middle of the Lake District who strayed into the Abbey Head ranges on the north side of the Solway Firth two days in succession . |
| 11 | Soon after its talks with Wells Fargo fell through , Security Pacific announced that it was cutting back its international operations , once a big growth area , because of bad loans in Britain and Australia that had contributed to a $230m fourth-quarter loss . |
| 12 | ‘ Michael was on a dock , fully dressed in tweed jacket , tie , trousers and hush-puppies , and had to put on a pair of water skis , be pulled off the dock into the water , by a rope attached to a motorboat that roared past , and ski away . |
| 13 | With the prudishness of the day , I glanced aside until he had pulled on a pair of greyers . |
| 14 | This revealed that the University Grants Committee , the UFC 's predecessor , had breached Treasury rules in allowing 20 universities to re-employ the lecturers and professors who had benefited from a £130 million early retirement programme . |
| 15 | The company had asked for a £2,000 grant . |
| 16 | The Cuban President had asked for a $500 surety per refugee , plus a subsidiary guarantee to cover food and lodging during the period of transit on the Isle of Pines . |
| 17 | Lloyd won his fourth toss and , after Greenidge had gone for a duck , Richards shared in three century stands . |
| 18 | It had happened in a split-second . |
| 19 | But how many Sixties and Seventies brides had to wrestle with a £500 stationery bill after the confetti had settled ? |
| 20 | By the time Bernice and her colleagues had arrived , it had degenerated into a series of unconnected fragments which drifted apart over thousands of years , gradually leaking their atmospheres into the vacuum . |
| 21 | Industry sources said KLM had insisted on a 40pc share , while BA wanted an 80/20 or , at the very least , a 70/30 split . |
| 22 | He had changed into a pair of pale trousers and a dark cotton coat . |