Example sentences of "had [verb] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deep , deep shit to which Selwyn had referred concerned the collapse of a marina development in which her father had invested heavily . |
| 2 | They had talked for a while then he had given Green a lift back to his hotel . |
| 3 | The accompanying ‘ Syllabus of errors ’ had deemed erroneous the belief that public institutions devoted to reaching literature and science should be exempt from the Church 's authority . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | After Liza had made sure an ambulance was on its way to the Rafferty home , she became aware of Celia , thumb in mouth , standing in the doorway of the kitchen . |
| 6 | Thoughtful as ever , Dr Wirths had made available the annex of his own living quarters — a delightful apartment ( with its own kitchen and bathroom ) beyond whose patterned lace curtains stood a high white fence . |
| 7 | Prince Sadruddin announced in Geneva on Dec. 19 that Germany had made available the bulk of a $8,000,000 contribution to maintain a contingent of UN guards in northern Iraq . |
| 8 | by no means were all chairmen tyrants , but the opportunities were there and had made possible the emergence of uncontrollable ‘ powerhouse ’ figures such as Judge Howard Smith of Virginia , the chairman of the House Rules Committee , and Wilbur Mills of Arkansas , the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee . |
| 9 | As time had gone by , and Constance 's conversation had made clear the depth of her friendship with his great aunt , he had been afraid to tell her , fearing exactly the reaction he had now received . |
| 10 | On Sept 26 , a High Court in Peshawar had declared illegal the dismissal of the provincial government of the North West Frontier Province ( NWFP ) . |
| 11 | Mungo wondered if she had left unspoken the remainder of the sentence : ‘ … unlike you . ’ |
| 12 | In fact Dewey had left unassigned the section 539 , in the physics schedules , allowing , very fortunately , for future developments , and it was only later that the new subjects received their allotted positions in subsequent editions of the scheme . |
| 13 | Mr Harrison said the courts had to make sure the punishment fitted the crime for such serious offences . |
| 14 | The fire crew had to cut free the man with his legs trapped , after Rachel and Nina had set up an intravenous infusion and David had given him a pethidine injection to help control his pain . |