Example sentences of "had [verb] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But within the clearing it was warm and safe-feeling ; Clumhach had lit their usual fire , which was burning up brightly , and somebody had placed a cauldron of spiced wine to simmer over it . |
| 2 | Once she started writing her a letter and had filled a sheet of paper before she realized that Maggie could n't read so there was no sense in sending it . |
| 3 | And now Sutton had formed a coterie of cronies round him and was appointing the wrong staff , which had to be stopped at once . |
| 4 | The fire had formed a bed of glowing ash , a core on which from time to time they threw a branch . |
| 5 | They had traced a relative of Miss Needham 's already , a Miss Frances Needham-Burrell . |
| 6 | They had traced a son of Ivan Makarov to Milan of all places . |
| 7 | It was almost uncanny the way he had painted a picture of her teenage appearance . |
| 8 | Additional accusations by the Libyan leader , Col. Moamer al Kadhafi , of the possible involvement of the West German intelligence services had provoked a demonstration of an estimated 2,000 people outside the West German embassy in Tripoli on March 15 . |
| 9 | A similar 10 per cent tax had been announced in 1987 [ see p. 35723 ] with effect from January 1989 but was dropped in April 1989 after it had provoked a flight of capital abroad [ see pp. 36597-98 ] . |
| 10 | Someone had arranged a scatter of sea-shore pebbles on a low trunk , trying for a random pattern to make it look as though they had been cast like dice . |
| 11 | Chamberlain also believed that he had arranged a mini-concordat of his own with Beaverbrook . |
| 12 | To help cope with the demand , the shop assistants had arranged a line of trestles outside the shop , each one piled high with the Gunthe Wallah 's stickiest and most sickly sweets . |
| 13 | The welcoming party for Ali Bacher , first off the plane , and the 94-strong South African party was only a small one , comprising Jamaican and West Indian Board officials and assorted media , but all present knew they had witnessed a piece of history that only recently seemed destined for the next century . |
| 14 | To this end he had formulated a plan of action in his devious mind . |
| 15 | Benny had elected to carry only a revolver , though she had tucked a couple of grenades in the pockets of a second safari jacket she had pilfered from the TARDIS 's wardrobe . |
| 16 | He had to wait a quarter of an hour , but six or seven minutes after that he was climbing the weedy steps to the quay on the other side . |
| 17 | Yeah oh yeah I did n't work anywhere else in Willenhall at all , and erm but we 'd got to be in for seven o'clock and if erm you were n't in for seven o'clock and sometimes I used to hear the bell began ringing when I got to go around the corner and get into the , but you had to wait a quarter of an hour before they would let you in and that was stopped off your money and my wage was eight and fourpence a week . |
| 18 | And he only had to wait a couple of erm points left on his licence so if I 'd taken the dangerous thriving or something he could have lost his licence but erm that 's besides the point . |
| 19 | In response to public unrest and dissension within the Cabinet over Vargas 's policies , which were supported by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank , President Rafael Angel Calderón Fournier had reversed in October some of the most controversial measures , including cuts in university budgets , which had caused student strikes , and had halted a programme of public-sector redundancies . |
| 20 | His car was an extraordinary contraption , an ancient Ford truck from which some amateur carpenter ( or maybe the ship 's chandler ? ) had stripped off a ten-hundredweight body , and on the chassis had erected a kind of ambulance — with a stretcher bed in it and one chair firmly screwed to the floorboards . |
| 21 | We found that the natives , After we 'd reoccupied the village , Had erected a sort of shrine for Celia Where they brought offerings of fruit and flowers , Fowls , and even sucking pigs . |
| 22 | He had to attend a meeting of senior officers , but he 's looking forward to meeting you . |
| 23 | This usually entailed placement at a very tender age , because it would be difficult for some parents to deal with the issue of race and colour if the child had developed a sense of racial identity and pride in his or her heritage . |
| 24 | Madeleine , now she was in France , had developed a way of sighing , bringing her hands up to clasp the back of her neck , then breathing out explosively . |
| 25 | Perhaps that foul seductress had developed a way of doing it absolutely noiselessly , and without movement . |
| 26 | Malcolm had left Trinidad for the United States in the 1920s and whilst educating himself at Fisk and Howard Universities had developed a temperament of a distinctly militant revolutionary nature . |
| 27 | W R Grace gained a patent on neem extract , which it called Margosan-O , in 1988 , claiming that it had developed a means of stabilizing the extracts . |
| 28 | They had developed a method of inserting memories into the brains of amnesiacs , but first those memories had to be recorded with full sensory data on to microchip , and then projected by laser into the brain . |
| 29 | Large bowel cancer is uncommon among Japanese eating their traditional diet , but it was found that , within a generation , Japanese eating the American way had developed a risk of large bowel cancer equal to that of Americans . |
| 30 | In short , he had developed a habit of increasing muscular tension whenever he started reciting . |