Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she was from a neighbouring Emirate which had a far less critical attitude toward the participation of women in education , Girl ‘ A ’ , it was discovered , had taught in an infant school after finishing her own schooling . |
| 2 | Mutely he blessed her for the information and , after quickly slaking his appetite , he was drawn — as if he had no will of his own — to the pothouse , where he picked up Joanna , went out with her into the fields , and made love with a sweating savagery which seemed to satisfy even her and delivered him of a madness which had gathered like an abscess . |
| 3 | He opened a yard to receive consignments of iron ore , which he had arranged through an agent in Sweden , and contacts from his time employed as a salesman were invaluable in developing his trade . |
| 4 | It was as though Biff had devolved into an animal , even a reptile , temporarily torpid since there was no spur to action , yet springloaded to respond … |
| 5 | Hugo had been perfectly happy to talk at length on the Margie Llewellyn Show about the days when he had played on the streets of the Bronx , and how in this unlikely setting a talent for sketching had developed into an interest in designing clothes . |
| 6 | At one time , he was taken as a founding figure for American sociology of a quite different complexion ; while , more recently , interest in his work had developed from an assessment of his considerable influence on Lukács and , through him , to a certain tradition of Western Marxism . |
| 7 | My patient presented in March 1991 with a raised red lesion on the back of her leg , which she believed had developed after an insect bite on holiday in Malta in 1990 . |
| 8 | Three months later , Allison was travelling home by train from London , where she had enrolled at an agency for temporary secretaries , when labour pains began . |
| 9 | The Tories , on the other hand , put oaken boughs in their hats , claiming they did this not merely to commemorate Charles II 's famous escape at Worcester in 1651 ( where he had hidden in an oak tree to avoid the Parliamentary forces ) , but also to show " that with hearts of oak at the bottom , they will stand fast to the old English constitution both in church and state , in opposition to the miscellaneous tribe of atheists , deists , republicans … who triumph in their stolen wool " . |
| 10 | One Harvard dealer had registered with an employment agency which stupidly sent his curriculum vitae to Harvard . |
| 11 | His basic salary as Naval Officer was only $800 a year which was not high for the importance of his position but compared favourably with the $180 a year he had received as an army Captain 3 years earlier . |
| 12 | A defence solicitor said McHugh bought the drugs with compensation he had received following an accident and intended to supply the drugs to friends at the Donegal rave . |
| 13 | Lowe blamed the newspapers and television for transforming the storm clouds of revolution he had sensed as an undergraduate at Sussex University into this thin drizzle of social democracy . |
| 14 | They had stopped at an inn close to Minster Lovell to buy a grand meal and sup a few tankards of ale . |
| 15 | She said the driver had stopped at an intersection , got into the back seat with her and assaulted and raped her . |
| 16 | Indeed the Secretary of State used his influence and sought to reverse the approval the Authority had given to an advertisement featuring a Cabinet colleague , ’ he said . |
| 17 | It would still not have been an In re O. situation , unless the director had joined as an applicant for the order . |
| 18 | It would still not have been an In re O. situation , unless the director had joined as an applicant for the order . |
| 19 | Other member countries had pressed for an increase to help cover the cost of integrating east German agriculture into the common agricultural policy ( CAP ) . |
| 20 | But then Mr Clancy and Mr Venables , who had been standing by to offer encouragement , had fallen into an argument concerning position . |
| 21 | Even so , it had taken some little effort on his part , for here was this relatively obscure relation who had fallen into an estate , which , although small , was of no mean value , and he had fallen into it by a series of dead men 's shoes . |
| 22 | ‘ He had fallen from an upstairs window and he had fractured his skull , ’ said Mr Goldring . |
| 23 | Gairy claimed that Arlin had resigned in an attempt to pre-empt his expulsion from the party after confessing his role in " taking up arms " against the GULP government during the 1979 coup . |
| 24 | There had been in the brilliantly brave ace at 5–6 in the first set tie break , which denied Sampras the set point he had earned with an ace of his own . |
| 25 | She had come on an errand and was greeted by a mad woman , an amazon . |
| 26 | We had come to an arbour of bougainvillaea and morning glory at the end of the kitchen-garden terrace , set back and obliquely . |
| 27 | He listened — at first with a curious air of detachment , as if he was an observer from another civilisation , or someone whose own experience had come to an end , someone who was waiting to embark on a journey and looked at the world with vacant eyes , his mind already in transit . |
| 28 | It appeared that the rapid growth associated with the British industrial revolution had come to an end and that the theory of demographic transition , which predicted a phase when death rates and birth rates fell to low levels , was correct . |
| 29 | Edward VII thought it possible that his son might be the last British king , and during the reign of George V , Harold Nicolson reckoned that five emperors , eight kings and eighteen minor dynasties had come to an end . |
| 30 | The association of skins and blacks in a common form of music had come to an end . |