Example sentences of "had [verb] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We had received a number of approaches . |
| 2 | Sunday Life has learned that detectives had received a number of complaints against the businessmen after cheques bounced at banks . |
| 3 | ‘ We had received a number of complaints about bouncing cheques and made a few inquiries into the businessmen and their activities . |
| 4 | Mr Bergg said he had received a number of complaints from people who received both leaflets , adding : ‘ I am sure there are many more who were equally shocked but did n't bother to reply . ’ |
| 5 | He had compounded a number of venial failings with the mortal sin of adultery . |
| 6 | David Ross Stewart , the chairman of ESII , said the board had examined a number of options to ensure that shareholders received a payment to reflect the value of the company 's liquid assets , while achieving a satisfactory long-term solution in respect of the unquoted portfolio . |
| 7 | Shams al-Din al-Jazari , and an ambassador bearing a letter from the Mamluk sultan to Mehmed I. al-Makrizi adds that during his stay , Molla Fenari had given a number of lessons in and in the Basiti mosque . |
| 8 | For our last week in NZ and as a final fling , as it were , we had booked a number of events in the Wellington International Festival . |
| 9 | England had lost fewer players than most countries to World Series Cricket and had won a number of rubbers as a result but , when the armistice was signed , England 's limitations were soon exposed . |
| 10 | At this time the villagers had to work a number of days for the Bishop and among their duties , they had to send one man from each household to pick the grapes from his vines . |
| 11 | Last night , a spokesman for the association conceded that the map had contained a number of errors . |
| 12 | In the meantime he had designed a number of small Episcopal churches . |
| 13 | The Court had considered a number of similar cases , of which the most helpful was Murphy ( 1988 ) 10 Cr.App.R . |
| 14 | The point was , however , that Cumberbatch and Bates had named a number of video-nasties that did not in fact exist , and yet the children claimed that they had seen them . |
| 15 | I was co-ordinating operational activities in the Institute , an international project on commodities last year , and I had to visit a number of research institutes in Asia , erm in Africa and in the Americas , where they were conducting studies on the commodities they produced . |
| 16 | In 1794 she published her Collection of Poems and Fables , by which time she had suffered a number of domestic calamities , including the death of a child and apparently the imprisonment of her husband . |
| 17 | Nevertheless it is clear that Anglo-American relations had suffered a number of shocks since 1950 , while Churchill was quite wrong in his expectation that the Americans would be happier to work with him than with Labour . |
| 18 | While I ca n't give a cause of death at this stage , I can say the dead man had suffered a number of lacerations about his face and body and a stab wound to his side . |
| 19 | During the drive , Ellwood had turned a number of ideas and opportunities over in his mind . |
| 20 | In early July the Moroccan authorities had freed a number of prisoners previously deemed to have " disappeared " , who had been secretly detained for up to 15 years . |
| 21 | Eurotunnel had declared its need for an additional £2,500 million of funding to cover increased costs beyond the £4,800 million estimated in November 1987 , while in February 1990 the group had undergone a number of financial and management changes [ see p. 37261 ] . |
| 22 | In other words , the exercise had revealed a number of difficulties associated with what information was needed or produced , but these were not under local control . |
| 23 | At this point in the exercise , the use of the instruments had revealed a number of factors in terms of the requirements of the IPS , and the problems that could affect its implementation and effectiveness . |
| 24 | His houses are always monuments of excellent craftsmanship , but as one eighteenth-century critic who had seen a number of them observed , although ‘ all of them [ are ] convenient and handsome … there is a great sameness in the plans , which proves he had but little invention ’ . |
| 25 | But then they had seen a number of man-things leap from the line of vehicles in front of the blazing building , and spread out in a loose line . |
| 26 | He had seen a number of figures dressed in blue , patrolling the streets . |
| 27 | Bernice had seen a number of films where that had succeeded , and more importantly thought it likely that everybody had seen at least one film where that less than daring idea had been tried . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , however , another career strand had become woven in back at McKinseys where , he said , he had done a number of health service assignments with John Banham ( the future first head of the English Audit Commission before he became director of the Confederation of British Industry ) . |
| 29 | In theory , the committees were to provide opportunities for skilled and apprenticed employment , though members admitted that formal apprenticeship , at least , was not always possible , partly because it appeared to many observers that machines had eradicated a number of handicrafts , turning the worker into a ‘ machine-tending artisan ’ , and partly because ‘ skill ’ was a relative concept , demanding different degrees of training . |
| 30 | The police soon traced the couple 's movements and found they had made a number of telephone calls to Paris . |