Example sentences of "had [vb pp] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Now , for a second great war , she found herself in a country which was not her own ; although she had made a few friends , it was not at all like living among her own people . |
| 32 | He had made a few calls , but could n't have chosen a worse time to be setting up a casual liaison . |
| 33 | Only once the others had become used to her , once she had made a few allies , would she risk stirring up so sensitive a subject . |
| 34 | None of the questions highlighted above by Bukharin can be abstracted from state policies in a Soviet type economy , even that of the mid-1920s , therefore once one had made a few generalisations about the need to transfer surplus from the private sector to the state sector of the economy , all else came down to precise policies which are not self-regulating but consciously decided upon . |
| 35 | The realization that he was the mouse came instinctively , quickly followed by the slightly ludicrous observation that someone had made a gigantic balls-up . |
| 36 | She smiled down at him and realized that in the few weeks he 'd been with her he had not only put on weight but had grown a few inches in height too . |
| 37 | ‘ It is chilling to go among strangers , ’ he had written a few days earlier , ‘ & I leave a lovely country . ’ |
| 38 | It was a New England trawler , the Valhalla , based on Gloucester , Massachusetts , from which it had sailed a few days earlier . |
| 39 | The Portuguese had built a public gallows adjacent to the shrine 's tank , which itself survived until 1805 . |
| 40 | The defendant had moved a few weeks before to another address in the same town , but this fact was not discovered at the time . |
| 41 | The Lake District , which she had visited a few times before her marriage and toured with friends , seemed a golden and available corner of gentility . |
| 42 | Last year he was invited to hold an exhibition of his work at Urbino , in central Italy , at the house once owned by the Renaissance painter Raphael , which he had visited a few years before . |
| 43 | Frederick II himself had argued a few years earlier that ‘ useful hard-working people should be guarded as the apple of one 's eye , and in wartime recruits should be levied in one 's own country only when the bitterest necessity compels ’ . |
| 44 | I should mention that I had bought a few items of clothing that morning , before the trial began . |
| 45 | House Martins nest in many villages and some larger towns and in 1971 three pairs were found nesting 1.2km. from the site of a gas works that had closed a few months previously . |
| 46 | It was a time of great personal sadness ; his first wife had died in 1927 ; he had married Katherine Harrower-Peters the following year , but she too had died a few months later in an influenza epidemic . |
| 47 | The programme concluded with a snatch of birdsong , a low trill , repeated several times before dwindling into silence ; this , the presenter announced , was the song of the dusky seaside sparrow , a species of which the last survivor had died a few days before in its aviary at Disney World in Florida . |
| 48 | On the other hand , Lindsey found herself thinking , if Niall smiled at her the way he had smiled a few minutes ago , the dear lady probably would n't even need an anaesthetic ! |
| 49 | To preserve her anonymity they had agreed on the pseudonym Vesta , and if at first he had thought a few days in the East End might dampen her enthusiasm he had been proved wrong . |
| 50 | Gerry Fitt reiterated the point about Czechoslovakia ( the Soviet invasion had occurred a few days before ) . |
| 51 | Thinking now of the battles she had fought with her own children , especially her daughter , Margharita , she felt a pang of remorse over the woman she had buried a few hours earlier . |
| 52 | It was an exchange they had had a hundred times during childhood at the end of some day 's adventure in remote fields . |
| 53 | When he was killed he had had a hundred pounds on him . |
| 54 | He had had a few hopes for Sally-Anne Tunstall himself , had been sorry to see her go . |
| 55 | When he had had a few drinks , though not otherwise , Peter talked about how he knew he ought to have the test to find out if he was HIV negative , as he hoped , as he desperately hoped , but he had not had it yet . |
| 56 | On our drizzly recce day another stunning ‘ climb-me ’ crackline had got a few hearts fluttering — a beautiful , curving hand crack as a main course , a direct finish for dessert and a few spaced rings for spice . |
| 57 | With that , bayonets glistening , they began to charge , converging from every angle of the hemisphere ; before they had advanced a dozen yards squadrons of lancers had overtaken them racing for the ramparts . |
| 58 | I had forgotten my way and had to look all round me slowly until I recognized the street which I had used a hundred times before . |
| 59 | Lance Percival was in the audience the night that Ken descended on the stage from a rope , curled up his lips , flared his nostrils and in the snide voice he had used a hundred times in the Hancock shows slipped in a ‘ Hello ’ that had the Williams fans rolling . |
| 60 | Her books Married Love and Wise Parenthood , published with difficulty in 1917 and 1918 , had sold a million copies by World War II . |