Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Bob Tait in presenting the cup complemented all the teams on the high standard of their project presentations which they had completed over a six week period . |
| 2 | The Commission had pressed for a 35 per cent reduction , while the latest compromise proposal by the Portuguese government ( which held the presidency of the EC Council of Ministers for the first half of 1992 ) argued for a reduction of 27 per cent . |
| 3 | A new cross-cut had been started at Paddy End ( probably Courteney 's Cross-Cut ) , and this had come into a 6 inch vein carrying chalcopyrite . |
| 4 | The sounds had come from a hundred yards east of the dell . |
| 5 | Well over a hundred of Oxfordshire 's lowest paid and angriest health workers attended a mass meeting to hear that almost all the region 's clerical staff had voted for a one day strike . |
| 6 | Many big chains had pushed for a 2 per cent reduction , but believe the 1 per cent cut could still help . |
| 7 | Poor Owen Rowlands , the first-day leader , had slumped to a 76 and dropped to sixth place . |
| 8 | The number of detectives on the case had risen to a dozen and before it was finished that number might rise to fifty or sixty . |
| 9 | In Victoria mid-week , the President 's XV , with Graf kicking three of his four penalties , had moved into a 14–3 lead before two errors , a missed tackle mid-field and then a missed touch kick allowed Swansea to turn the tide with tries by wing Simon Davies and centre Scott Gibbs . |
| 10 | Ireland had crashed to a 145-90 defeat at the hands of the English losing out on all six rinks , and looked to have little chance when they took on the Scots , who had beaten defending champions Wales 130-100 in their opener . |
| 11 | Jessie cos he or she had got about a six foot long tree trunk in its mouth . |
| 12 | Scotland had opened with a 24-21 victory over ACT , with tries from Mark Appleson , Gregor Townsend and Derek Stark ( 2 ) , and a conversion each from Townsend and Appleson . |
| 13 | Mr Hill , a joint master of the Aylesbury Vale Hunt , had held the reins of his wife 's horse Max after it had landed on a five barred gate during a hunt . |
| 14 | February figures showed growth in bank and building society lending had slowed to a 5 per cent annual rate against 12.4 per cent a year ago . |
| 15 | The Australian had raced into a 14–6 lead but was pulled back to 17–16 at one stage . |
| 16 | Wigan began so explosively that they had raced into a 34–0 lead within a mere 20 minutes as they ran in six memorable tries . |
| 17 | Now the skin had puckered into a million wrinkles , and on her shapeless face was the stamp of unutterable age . |
| 18 | The Zombie ( played by a well-known Horror Film Specialist ) had walked for a thousand years in a subterranean cavern which was broken open by an earthquake in Lisbon . |
| 19 | Kuwait 's Oil Minister Hamud Abdullah al Raqaba disclosed that Kuwait had asked for an 800,000 bpd oil loan from the Gulf Co-Operation Council ( GCC ) , worth US$14,000,000 a day , to help meet reconstruction costs incurred by the Iraqi invasion of August 1990 [ see pp. 37631-41 ] . |
| 20 | Doug Laughton 's outfit , with six men making their debuts , had battled into a 12-11 lead soon after half-time when the game exploded in their faces . |
| 21 | He had served on a dozen worlds , rooting out aberrant psykers and heretics scrupulously and astringently — never succumbing to excess of zeal , though zealous none the less . |
| 22 | Higher prices had resulted in a 76 per cent rise in Nigeria 's earnings from oil exports in 1990 , to US$13,200 million from $7,500 million in 1989 . |
| 23 | By the end of October this had resulted in a 20 per cent devaluation of the lempira against the US dollar , to which it had been tied at a fixed exchange rate since October 1989 . |
| 24 | According to the Peruvian press , however , the budget bill had allowed for a 300 per cent increase in Fujimori 's own salary and for a 17-fold increase in spending by the presidential office . |
| 25 | The visiting shooter hit excellent from during the second quarter , but so did Hawtin and Talbot in the third and Ants had edged into a 24–21 lead at the start of the last quarter . |
| 26 | In the eighteenth century Aragon , where agriculture was prospering and olive groves had doubled in a hundred years , had become an industrially depressed region . |