Example sentences of "had [verb] [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus while first-class patronage was encouraged , and more businessmen complained bitterly that they had to go first-class in order to enjoy their British breakfast , more humble individuals who merely wanted to enjoy the view from the train were not so generously treated . |
| 2 | I had to go direct from home to interview an important witness . |
| 3 | Paul , who had fallen asleep in front of the TV after making chips , was wakened by 11-month old Keely coughing . |
| 4 | She also added , without being asked , that Annunciata was not , in Pen 's opinion , found to be a substitute for his Lily and that the maid had fallen ill with fever soon after Wilson left and had been useless to anyone . |
| 5 | The Duke had to appear confident of victory or else every waverer in his army would run to be with the Emperor and the winning side . |
| 6 | She remembered , following the man 's visit , that she had sat dumb with rage , and had then rushed upstairs to his room , and every article belonging to him , even to his razor strop , she had brought down and thrown into the yard for the Saturday morning onslaught . |
| 7 | He took her , or began to , in the direct , unsentimental manner in which she had always understood men took their whores , hurting her slightly not from any particular roughness on his part but because her body had turned dry with protest , resisting him as her supple mind did not . |
| 8 | While the linen canvas , comprising six horizontal strips , proved to be in good condition , the original varnish had turned brown with age , dulling colours and giving an overall yellowish hue to the work . |
| 9 | Lan 's face had turned pale with apprehension and she stood open-mouthed , one tiny hand raised to her check , her face trembling on the brink of tears . |
| 10 | On July 26 , Cabinet ministers announced that a new committee would review the financial benefits that the previous government had made available in order to encourage settlement in the occupied territories . |
| 11 | Ipswich re-emerged five minutes after the end as if they had made certain of promotion . |
| 12 | Oag , formerly marketing director with a major computer industry concern in London , had grown tired of weekend commuting from Nairn , and began to look for a local company he could invest time and money in . |
| 13 | It had grown rich with sap inside the scaly trunk , buffeted by winds , rain weighting down the fronded branches . |
| 14 | I had told myself that heat was cleansing , because I had grown fearful of water . |
| 15 | But in some parishes it er had been useful for them to stand out because the parish council was made up of people who had grown old with parish priests and er it was a chance to make a new start . |
| 16 | During those early years of the colony 's existence we received very few of the homeless children who had grown accustomed to street wandering . |
| 17 | Peter had grown afraid of emotion ; he considered it messy stuff that could lead one into a fatal labyrinth of self-forgetfulness . |
| 18 | Even in the Regency , when Gothic had grown popular in architecture and literature alike , ancient houses are unspecific , atmospheric settings for the heroines of Gothic novels , inducing a depression of the spirits , if not worse . |
| 19 | He had grown stiff beyond belief . |
| 20 | But from the outset he had felt jittery about Event : it was not a project that he could trust to a dependable partner , as he could trust the record company to Simon Draper . |
| 21 | Chopra had felt ill at ease since entering the strange domain . |
| 22 | She had felt possessive of Spike 's help and company . |
| 23 | In transport , then , Margaret Thatcher 's first Government extended privatization far beyond what we had thought possible in Opposition , but there was no doubt what was the jewel in the crown . |
| 24 | The eyes that dwelt upon her had opened wide in surprise , perhaps even in amusement ; but the mind behind them was held and deeply exercised . |
| 25 | Her eyes had opened wide in wonder , and the light entered their long-lashed blackness and turned it to a dusky , flecked gold . |
| 26 | Even Pincher was surprised at the nature of this scoop and when he got back to his office telephoned Admiral Thomson , the secretary of the D-Notice Committee , in case Brown had become over-tired during lunch . |
| 27 | The furniture had all been renewed , upholstered for preference in red velvet , and in all the state rooms the great ceilings , which had become grimy through neglect , had been regilded and repainted . |
| 28 | Before he had become involved with Sien he had used her for some time as a model . |
| 29 | On 20 April 1964 Lonsdale was exchanged for a British businessman , Greville Wynne , who had become involved in espionage and been imprisoned in Russia . |
| 30 | One of Linskog 's patients had a lymphatic tumour which had become resistant to radiotherapy ; situated in the jaw , it was making eating and breathing difficult . |