Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I got home I found , among the mountain of letters ( mainly telling me I had filled in a blue form when it should have been a yellow one or asking for information I had already given ) , one from the BBC asking me to get in touch with the Punters office in Bristol as soon as possible . |
| 2 | She had to carry along a spare one which belongs to her mum yesterday , in case the one she has had since 1984 became damaged . |
| 3 | She is also claiming compensation because doctors had to carry out a lifesaving hysterectomy . |
| 4 | For the mid-air leap , Crawford had to drive up a narrow thirty-foot ramp and jump from a height of seven feet over a wall . |
| 5 | Gone are the days when you had to slide down a muddy bank and hold an old mercury one at arms length . |
| 6 | He dominated the conversation , holding the Hackett and Townshend women spellbound as he told of how he had broken up a white-slave ring in Dublin , and how he had rescued an innocent young girl from a fate worse than death . |
| 7 | The polemic in the newspapers had begun not over the kidnapping but over a fight that had broken out a few days previously in a bar much frequented by the young Sardinians who hung around the city and by the city gangs who sold them drugs . |
| 8 | I had given up a good job to go there and when I came back after the adventure I had looked forward to for so long , I was very disappointed with myself . |
| 9 | All right , yes , ’ knowing that she would n't be able to do it ; there were so many factors against it : the old woman along the corridor depending on her ; Charlie , who had given up a good part of his life waiting for her . |
| 10 | I had had a whole afternoon spent upon me , been the centre of attention , cost the State a fortune and my wife had given up a whole day of precious work to be with me . |
| 11 | After Richard Eaton had cancelled out a second minute opener from Kenny Morris on 20 minutes , John Stephens shot Annadale into the lead with a superb finish to two minutes into the second period . |
| 12 | Chelsea looked worthy of at least a point after Mick Harford 's 72nd minute goal had cancelled out a first half Saunders header . |
| 13 | Barker grew very quickly , and had to work off a tremendous amount of energy every day , and since Danny was much too young to take him out for walks , this duty fell upon Connor . |
| 14 | We had to work out a short monologue in the voice of a character , and then afterwards we sat around and were asked who would volunteer to stand up and read their piece . |
| 15 | His Pilgrim 's Progress was by far the most popular book in the cottages of the poor , and in Apollyon he had conjured up a monster fit for any fable : scaled , bear-footed , dragon-winged and breathing fire and smoke from a lion 's mouth . |
| 16 | From then on , as though that had conjured up a bleak picture of him never having a life with his love , he began to sound quite despairing . |
| 17 | It ran down between my eyes and made me see everything blood-red , even though seconds before my mind had conjured up a pleasing vision : the English boy 's sister . |
| 18 | The task did n't stop here — Fiona also had to write up a detailed log of the trip , complete with samples , photographs and complex scientific data showing when the river had high and low tides and why it flowed in a certain direction . |
| 19 | Somehow , the old man had let out a dangerous secret , one which could not be discussed in a room on an Air Force base . |
| 20 | And when she protested she never lay like that and had proceeded to demonstrate how she did lie , crossing her legs and pulling her knees up , she had let out a high squeal when the side of Sister Mary 's hard hand came across her knees in a whacking thump . |
| 21 | I thought that once , when I did my first removal because the boss was away , and I went to a house wh and they had more more mirrors in that house than I s ever seen since , and because I was only learning and I had n't been taught I put all the other furniture in and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors till at the end there was so much furniture in there was n't room to put the mirrors on the floor and I had to come back a second time to actually do that because I did n't dare put them anywhere else . |
| 22 | And it seemed Fergie 's ten man heroes had squeezed out a momentous victory until the soccer fates suddenly stabbed them in the back in the pouring rain of Moscow . |
| 23 | In the intervals between his military activities Karadjordje had carried on a successful business as a livestock trader , selling pigs across the border into Austria , and he had acquired a modest level of prosperity . |
| 24 | The auditors had carried out a specific investigation of the Gimco bills and with regard to recoverability , they had no more than an assurance from Gimco , an Abu Dhabi entity , that the bills would be honoured ‘ within three to four months or earlier when able ’ and an unsupported statement by G that he believed Gimco would pay . |
| 25 | Grollet said a laboratory in Utrecht had carried out a second test on 14 September and that , too , had been positive . |
| 26 | The Politis editor , Mr Jean-Paul Besset , said his magazine had carried out a long investigation into dangerous waste dumping , including the discovery in 1983 of barrels of earth impregnated with dioxin from Seveso that were illegally shipped to northern France by an independent contractor . |
| 27 | Serbia had carried out a partial mobilization of the JNA reserve in Serbia on Sept. 28 . |
| 28 | While all this had been going on , Steve had carried out a thorough inspection of the locomotive , had oiled up the axle boxes and attended to the brake gear . |
| 29 | It was then that Chuck had carried out a quick examination of the unconscious Grant , to ascertain the extent of his injuries . |
| 30 | They had carried out a large number of ferrying and bridging operations , in addition to the more usual Engineer jobs of demolitions and dry bridging using the Medium Girder Bridge . |