Example sentences of "had [vb pp] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , Felicity , who had attended an independent girls ' school where all the teaching staff were women , said : |
| 2 | The realization that he was the mouse came instinctively , quickly followed by the slightly ludicrous observation that someone had made a gigantic balls-up . |
| 3 | The Portuguese had built a public gallows adjacent to the shrine 's tank , which itself survived until 1805 . |
| 4 | Yet within nine months of taking office the Government had introduced a New Towns Bill , which took precedence over the promised measure on compensation and betterment ( Cullingworth , 1979 ) . |
| 5 | The Middle East Economic Digest ( MEED ) of April 12 reported that the United States administration had announced a new arms deal , subject to approval by Congress , worth US$919,000,000 and comprising exclusively spare parts and engineering support . |
| 6 | A man of various talents , he had run a ramshackle ship-chandlers establishment at Cyclops Wharf on the West Ferry Road . |
| 7 | Mark , whom I have already quoted in my discussion of the lab work , was a final-year student at A who , although he had obtained A level grades of AAAB , eventually failed his degree . |
| 8 | They had constructed a new personnel file . |
| 9 | On July 10 the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda had quoted a senior police official as saying that up to 800 people were missing , presumed dead , from the June violence throughout Osh oblast . |
| 10 | On July 4 the National Assembly had endorsed a political parties bill guaranteeing a limited form of democracy . |