Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Major began to feel that Onyx Muggeridge was not quite what he had come to a Parents ' Evening for , and was quite grateful when the headmaster disengaged himself with palpable reluctance from the Fromes and sailed in his direction , exuding Manner . |
| 2 | Police discovered later that Lorna and Vernage had met at a children 's home years earlier . |
| 3 | Ruth had already decided to bring her own children to be photographed today , and then approached all her friends with young families , suggesting they might like to do the same — so it had turned into a children 's party . |
| 4 | On Sept 25 , 1989 , a Swiss inquest found that Barschel , who had been found dead in a Geneva hotel room in October 1987 shortly after he had been forced to resign as Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein , had died of a drugs overdose and that there was no evidence to suggest that he had been murdered . |
| 5 | The boy — dubbed Houdini — had escaped from a police cell last week . |
| 6 | Or they might hear she had walked into a police station somewhere later in the day . |
| 7 | Since our last meeting June Bascombe , Hilda Lodge , Joan Daniels and Janet Rogers had appeared before a Sports Council ‘ panel ’ and answered many questions with reference to our development plan . |
| 8 | They 'd all got off the bus together ; this one had gone into a truckers ’ cafe for cigarettes and a carton of coffee . |
| 9 | Perhaps he had run into a pensioners ' outing . |
| 10 | She had worked as a children 's nurse in Wirral hospitals for 20 years before taking a post with the local social services department , assisting young families in need . |
| 11 | Simon Templar had lived in a mews . |
| 12 | Yet , within a few years , the whole affair had degenerated into a foodies ' free-for-all . |
| 13 | As a result , he accelerated the Centre 's latest move into the SIP building , a former scientific instruments factory on the fringe of industrial Geneva and near to the opera house , which the city had acquired for an arts and exhibition complex . |
| 14 | Warne 's wonder ball was all the more special because it was the first he had bowled in an Ashes contest . |