Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She came to the house in response to a card Miss Matlock had placed in a local newsagent 's window and Miss Matlock took her on to replace a cleaning woman who had recently left . ’ |
| 2 | The leader of the small Social Democratic Party , Zardusht Ali Zade , had withdrawn as a presidential candidate on July 17 , as the opposition sought to deny the elections any semblance of legitimacy . |
| 3 | This proposal found support in the work of Lord Kelvin , the pioneer Victorian geophysicist , who attempted to calculate the age of the Earth from its probable rate of cooling on the assumption that it had formed as a molten offshoot of the Sun . |
| 4 | By the end of 1922 the figure had jumped to a remarkable 155 , showing that recovery was on the way and economic activity increasing . |
| 5 | So she had jumped to a few incorrect conclusions about Piers . |
| 6 | It was Eric 's turn next : his presenter appeared in jogging track suit , and false beard , and needed to do little more than puff heavily round the stage several times intoning ‘ no , not on the roof , no , not on the roof , to bring the house down , rousing laughter even from those who did not know that these were the mysterious words that the Warden had uttered in a loud cry when abruptly roused from slumber during a session of group therapy . |
| 7 | It was where he spent his last years , here at Gads ' Hill Place , in the house which he had coveted as a poverty-stricken child . |
| 8 | This she had painted in a warm red tone , which complemented the dark wood and brass handles of her grandfather 's furniture . |
| 9 | Rain was impressed by the amount of information he had gathered in a short time . |
| 10 | The High Court 's Sept. 2 judgment ( following a petition filed by Win Chadha , one of those named by the CBI as centrally involved in the scandal ) had intervened as a cantonal court in Geneva was due to deliver its verdict in response to the CBI 's request for assistance . |
| 11 | Already , within a week of being launched , what the conspirators had intended as a smooth , swift , surgical coup d ‘ état was turning into a full-scale civil war . |
| 12 | Devonport 's plan is to use land Rosyth had intended for a new £267 million Trident refitting facility for the oil tanker work . |
| 13 | The Head Gardener , Andrew King , had arranged for a local woodcarver , Dave Meekes , to be on spot to craft the wood into bowls as the tree was sawn up by a team of tree surgeons . |
| 14 | The builders , overcome by the tragic outcome of their vast conception , had devolved into a shelled race who spent their nomadic existence migrating from one fragment of the sphere to another , living in the ruins of their once great cities and seeing the cosmos as a gigantic jigsaw puzzle being slowly assembled by God . |
| 15 | He had stumbled into a deep peat hole , hidden by heather , and worse , the heather had closed above his head , hiding where he had fallen . |
| 16 | Instead , they had stumbled into a veritable snake pit . ) |
| 17 | The train had halted for a full five minutes on the western side of West Acton and all that time Dean had been lying on the roof in the rain . |
| 18 | This trend had culminated in a joint communiqué issued at the UN on Sept. 30 , in which South Korea and the Soviet Union had announced their intention to establish diplomatic relations at ambassadorial level with immediate effect . |
| 19 | And I realised , well I had realised for a long time that dieting was n't the answer for me . |
| 20 | The tradition of literary criticism had developed with a comparable aesthetic presumption . |
| 21 | By 1684 it had developed into a key centre with its own voevoda , a full range of administrative buildings , warehouses , baths , a merchants ' hall , cottages for the garrison and civilian inhabitants , a guard house and a church in the centre . |
| 22 | By late 1989 the Bofors affair had developed into a major electoral issue [ see p. 36976 ] and in late December , some three weeks after being elected , the new National Front government issued a notification excluding Bofors from entering into future weapons contracts with the Indian government [ see p. 37126 ] . |
| 23 | Since its inception , however , it had developed into a complex web of regulations which prevented civil servants from participating in most political activities . |
| 24 | This meant that , by 1980 , the country had developed into a modern territorial state under strong central control . |
| 25 | His quest for a wife had developed into a national pastime . |
| 26 | Within the orbit of the late Roman world , Christianity was primarily receptive ; it inherited a set of institutions ready-made , conformed to a social and political structure which had developed over a long period , and learned to live with a culture which it had little part in creating . |
| 27 | Leading up to the introduction of the Payroll/Personnel database , the personnel information system , despite various limitations , had developed to a considerable degree of sophistication . |
| 28 | In Russia , on the other hand , commanders such as Rumyantsev and Suvorov had developed to a high pitch of effectiveness by the end of this period the more aggressive method of attack in column with the bayonet ( though the contrast between Russian and West European tactics has been greatly exaggerated by some Soviet historians ) . |
| 29 | Thus , within a period of about 300 years , the Franks had developed from a general confederacy of Germanic invaders with mere tribal links , into a fully-fledged kingdom . |
| 30 | As Simon himself acknowledged , English public health administration had developed in a piecemeal and ad hoc fashion for much of the early nineteenth century , with national supervision divided between his own Privy Council Medical Office and the Poor Law Board . |