Example sentences of "had [verb] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , in the last analysis he was most influenced by the composite picture he had formed of Iberian art he had seen , although one particular head which remained in the Louvre seems especially relevant to the central figures of the great canvas . |
| 2 | He had heard of that brand of peculiarity before . |
| 3 | But I had heard of similar excuses . |
| 4 | Paul felt his heart stop ; he had heard of such a thing ; he should have known ; that woman — |
| 5 | She had heard of such mistakes . |
| 6 | He closed his fist on the gun ; he had heard of such weapons though never had one within his reach before . |
| 7 | As I was permanently hungry , he used to make enormous treacle puddings — it was the first time in my life I had heard of such a dish — and always made sure I got a big helping . |
| 8 | The association said that it had heard of several cases in which EHOs had ordered unacceptable action from wine and drinks wholesalers under the 1990 Food Safety Act . |
| 9 | Long before anyone had heard of Bulgarian Cabernet Sauvignon or Australian Chardonnay , Alsace was producing well priced , clean , pure wines made from , and labelled by , single grape varieties . |
| 10 | In equal isolation at the Intercontinental Hotel , 16 miles away , Lebanese journalists found themselves restricted to the parliament 's two opening statements and a diet of gentle assurances from Prince Saud al-Feisel , the Saudi Foreign Minister , that optimism was the order of the day , but while he had heard of some disputes in the parliamentary chamber , he had every reason to believe the Lebanese would accept the Arab League peace plan . |
| 11 | Ewan had heard of some research projects that made him very uncomfortable about these people 's future . |
| 12 | He knew there had been fighting about Charleroi , and he had heard of some skirmishes being fought in the villages south of the Prince of Orange 's headquarters , but whether the French had invaded in force , or whether there was an attack coming in the direction of Mons , the Duke still did not know . |
| 13 | The ‘ Isle of Brasil ’ was mythical , but fifteenth-century Atlantic charts suggest that belief in lands across the ocean was not uncommon , and there is more than just possibility that the Bristol men had heard of some landfall in them before 1480 , perhaps when ships had been blown off course by abnormal wind conditions . |
| 14 | The fact that almost nobody had heard of this prerogative turned out to one of the judges to be a point in its favour : |
| 15 | Corbett remembered he had heard of this type of man , an ‘ Albus ’ , an all-white man or albino . |
| 16 | So all she had heard of this woman was true . |
| 17 | A spokesman for the British Field Sports Society said it was the first time he had heard of this happening ; which prompted Chapman Pincher to write in saying that the same thing had happened to him in 1961 ( Daily Telegraph , 21 and 24 December 1987 ) . |
| 18 | I had heard of this spirit creature . |
| 19 | I said that this was the first I had heard of this claim . " |
| 20 | It is most probably that the inhabitants had heard of this religion which had spread over Europe and had been known as early as the late Roman period in Britain . |
| 21 | He had heard of Chinese rooms , heard of Chinese Chippendale , but he had never seen a room furnished in the style . |
| 22 | Equally , names that no one had heard of emerged as important groupings . |
| 23 | He had heard of funny guys . |
| 24 | No one among the instructors or instructees at London 's trendy Pineapple Dance studios had heard of these things , or thought the idea would catch on . |
| 25 | Most respondents had heard of local authority homes ( 85 per cent ) or geriatric hospitals ( 68 per cent ) . |
| 26 | He had never thought to find himself discussing such a thing with a single young woman , but he had heard of American girls ' frankness , and he supposed that this was a sample of it . |
| 27 | As an ex-financial journalist , Lawson had opinions about the limitations of trial by jury formed by what he had seen of financial scandals when working as a City Editor . |
| 28 | She had , and she felt slightly uneasy about admitting it , she had sought the smartly intense , at the expense of the more solid and dowdy virtues ; she had been attracted by surfaces , by clothes and manners and voices and trivial strange graces , and she had imitated what she had seen of these things in others . |
| 29 | He also said that the envelope the Brownie had kindly picked up had dropped from the Earl 's pocket without being noticed by him , and that as the Brownie was so kind as to share her sweets with him the Earl was sending a tin of his own , which he felt sure from what he had seen of this Brownie would find their way into the mouths of all the other Brownies in the Pack too . |
| 30 | The spacious living area of his suite was as luxurious as everything else she had seen of this hotel — a pair of couches facing each other across a low table , two individual chairs at an angle close to the window , with a desk and a bar supplying practical touches . |