Example sentences of "had [verb] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boy looked at the pictures of the moustached and uniformed characters with some relish ; but he could n't finish the text , and so missed the single paragraph that Mother had circled in black ink . |
| 2 | Zuno had been convicted at an earlier trial but Rafeedie had set aside the verdict on the grounds that the prosecution had referred in closing arguments to matters not in evidence . |
| 3 | With a touching faith in our law-abiding qualities the demonstrators had gathered in large numbers with their eggs and tomatoes around the hospital entrance marked IN . |
| 4 | True since the early 1960s the British had gathered in wet fields to hear jazz , and rock and the movie Jazz : On A Summer 's Day with its tantalizing performance by Chuck Berry helped break the hold of cool on popular music . |
| 5 | The Hindu of Feb. 24 reported that United States officials had intervened in late January to dissuade the Pakistani Army from intervening in Kashmir . |
| 6 | When the path narrowed , we had to proceed in single file , and I found myself leading the way , with my aunt following closely behind and my father behind her . |
| 7 | This point had become confused and lost in the over-socialized conception of man which had developed in modern sociology . |
| 8 | These sciences , he argued , had developed in historical progression . |
| 9 | And then of course , the other characteristics that go with religion , and that he had emphasized in other books on Totem and Taboo , like guilt , the feeling that you ought to obey the moral commands of the parents , because after all the parents were n't just benevolent entities who looked after you and rewarded you and praised you , but they were your judges and censors as well . |
| 10 | When it came to explain why millions of ordinary people had joined in student-led unrest in the capital , the Communist Party resorted to the line already used to explain away outbursts of discontent in Tibet — the masses were deceived and manipulated by a ‘ tiny handful ’ of ‘ evil-doers , ruffians and counter-revolutionaries ’ . |
| 11 | The duty on spirits had fallen in real terms in every year since 1982 — a total fall of more than 20% — raising worries about the health implications . |
| 12 | Support was evident from small business people whose firms were bankrupt , housewives who found themselves queuing for the basic necessities and civil servants and skilled workers whose salaries had fallen in real terms as a result of the inflation . |
| 13 | Several unions , conscious that their membership had fallen in recent years and looking round for new areas of recruitment , homed in on " non-standard " workers . |
| 14 | He had decorated in international taste ; she saw African statues , bronze statues from India , from Peru — even a tall redwood statue of a Sioux Indian . |
| 15 | The platform adopted by the convention on July 13 was very much in Clinton 's moderate image , and was devoid of many of the minority-related positions which it had included in recent years . |
| 16 | ‘ Everyone had to work in separate rooms , and given the physical layout of the place , sometimes an advisory team was in one part of the Centre and its support staff in another part entirely . |
| 17 | There were not enough classrooms and staff had to work in overcrowded conditions . |
| 18 | He looked out through the open shutters at the grey January sky over the strait , where the islands had vanished in frosty mist . |
| 19 | One of their colleagues had vanished in mysterious circumstances and all they could do was make up imaginary England cricket teams . |
| 20 | In his book On the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton of 1846 Owen postulated a basic vertebrate pattern or archetype that the Creator had modified in different directions to create the various species . |
| 21 | The special place that they had enjoyed in traditional sports was much reduced . |
| 22 | GNP had dropped in real terms by 35 per cent from 1981 to 1986 , overall state expenditure by 58 per cent and education expenditure by 48 per cent . |
| 23 | Previous generations had dined in black ties in the panelled dining rooms of observatories that were male preserves ; the new breed ate ‘ primeval pizza ’ in basements around physics labs . |
| 24 | The ancient boiler had sat in sullen silence for ten days , a drifting cave under a mountain would have offered more comfort . |
| 25 | The system of creating life peers began in 1958 as a way of rewarding people who had excelled in political service , work with charities , industry or at the top of the professions . |
| 26 | The Minister of Labour and Social Security , George Kinga Logokwa , who had resigned in late July , on July 30 was replaced by Maj.-Gen. |
| 27 | Here , too , Nazi propaganda had succeeded in good measure in inculcating into large sections of the population the fear of what a new defeat would bring . |
| 28 | On July 11 , acknowledging the strength of recent protests by peasant farmers who had succeeded in blocking roads throughout the country , the government made several conciliatory gestures . |
| 29 | Her hair was the same bright copper glow , and yet , below it , her face had collapsed in heavy folds , like cloth . |
| 30 | To do this successfully , the soldier had to be ready : he had to train in military skills which he might be called upon to use . |