Example sentences of "had [verb] [adj] in [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 | Paul , who had fallen asleep in front of the TV after making chips , was wakened by 11-month old Keely coughing . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Her eyes had opened wide in wonder , and the light entered their long-lashed blackness and turned it to a dusky , flecked gold . |
| 8 | On 20 April 1964 Lonsdale was exchanged for a British businessman , Greville Wynne , who had become involved in espionage and been imprisoned in Russia . |
| 9 | By that decade different religious and social elements had become prominent in antislavery from those who had taken the initiative in earlier years . |
| 10 | Some of the less educated women in Askham 's ( 1975 ) Aberdeen study had given up the pill as a result of such articles in popular newspapers and had become pregnant in consequence . |
| 11 | There was clearly some basis here for irredentist disputes of a kind that had become familiar in interwar Europe . |
| 12 | The founder was a man who had become interested in aviation during the thirties , spent the war in the South African Air Force and , on returning to civilian life , foresaw the opportunities that could be won with cheaply acquired and converted military aircraft . |
| 13 | That I did n't tell Richard , was partly for Sophie 's sake — to say she had become interested in politics would have been stretching his credulity too far — but also for my own . |
| 14 | These were James Geikie , the younger brother of Archibald , and John Young who held a medical degree but had become interested in geology . |
| 15 | The recurrent celebration of the martyrs ' feast days catered for the need to make the church 's past present , linked the sacred time of the Christian year into the sacred history of God 's holy people , and so helped to reconcile a triumphant faith which had emerged dominant in society , with the tenacious sense that blessedness lay in being persecuted for his name , and it kept alive a sense that Christ 's kingdom was not of this world . |
| 16 | and he thinks because I 've he 's pleaded had to plead guilty in court |
| 17 | His fiancee , Julie Craig , 26 , who lived with him at 34 Churchill Drive , Ardrossan , said that her boyfriend had gone wild in hospital when she visited him . |
| 18 | She had stood naked in front of him in the bedroom , tried to kiss him on another occasion and put her arms round him . |
| 19 | Lisa was actually naïve enough , just for a moment , to allow the possibility to creep into her mind that he had kept silent in order to protect her . |
| 20 | Paton told the court he could remember nothing of the crash and claimed he had lain unconscious in hospital for five days afterwards . |