Example sentences of "had [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Still less would it have been true if Labour had formed a government . |
| 32 | In the months since the December Maastricht summit complications had arisen in several EC countries , not least because of uncertainties surrounding general elections in Italy and the United Kingdom ; Belgium had formed a government only in March , following its November 1991 election . |
| 33 | The DP ( which in April had formed a government with support from the Social Democratic Party — SD — and the Republican Party-RP ) retained a slight overall lead in terms of the overall vote , with 43 per cent compared with 41 per cent for the SPA . |
| 34 | Five of the practices had formed a fundholding team consisting of the practice manager , lead clinician , and one or two secretarial staff . |
| 35 | Meanwhile , Germany 's employer , trade and industry associations said they had formed a committee to fight xenophobia , which is now said to be putting off foreigners from investing in the country 's impoverished East . |
| 36 | Another Nassauer battalion had formed a line to the right of the stream . |
| 37 | Pressed to do so in a television interview on Thursday night with Sir Robin Day , Mr Kinnock allowed that he had formed a view , but he was not prepared to disclose it . |
| 38 | My state was an unhappy one compared with the other members of my family : my mother had become attached to the grim Porua , and Alec had formed a liaison with Nuria . |
| 39 | Behind the creation stood the familiar figure of Lloyd George who in the previous December had formed a coalition with himself as Prime Minister to replace the previous government of Herbert Asquith which had become discredited by criticisms of its conduct of the war . |
| 40 | The Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) and Greens , which had formed a coalition government in Hesse for 14 months up to February 1987 , benefited from pacifist support immediately after the outbreak of the Gulf war . |
| 41 | The new parliament would have 240 seats instead of the 400 in the outgoing Grand National Assembly , to which Bulgaria 's first free elections had been held in June 1990 [ see pp. 37543-44 ] , and in which the BSP had held 211 seats to the UDF 's 144 ; BSP and UDF deputies had formed a coalition government in December 1990 [ see p. 37923 ] . |
| 42 | In the few minutes that he had been preparing dinner , the water drippng from his clothes had formed a pool round his feet . |
| 43 | I crept out from under the chair and smelt the dark liquid which had formed a pool on the hearth and soaked into the rug . |
| 44 | Unnecessary jealousies had formed a chasm that nothing could bridge . |
| 45 | Blake tried to see but the people had formed a barrier preventing him from seeing what was on the ground . |
| 46 | In 1935 he had formed a group , the International African Friends of Ethiopia , to oppose the fascist aggression of Mussolini and with the help of his good friend , George Padmore , he later organised the International African Service Bureau ( I.A.S.B. ) , whose journal , ‘ International African Opinion ’ , he edited . |
| 47 | In November 1990 the DPP had formed a Taiwan Sovereignty Independent Movement Committee to advocate what the party asserted was Taiwan 's " independent sovereignty " which excluded mainland China . |
| 48 | In 1911 , following six months ' military service with the Danish infantry , Rambush was invited to England by Arthur H. Lymn , who had formed a business in London to further develop and exploit commercially existing processes of gas production for industrial purposes . |
| 49 | ‘ Before I got on the plane , I had to treat a woman on the island of St Thomas , when she fell from a balcony , fracturing her skull . |
| 50 | Through the centuries politicians , protestors and agitators of every sort found them invaluable for smiting the public eye ; and , in their most debased form , they were used by such printers as James Catnach ( 1792–1841 ) of the Seven Dials , London , to convey to sensation seekers scaffold speeches by murderers and other criminals , often before the rogues had uttered a word or given any sign that they intended to . |
| 51 | I had observed with what relish he had improvised a rape — of a Soviet actress — for a scene in one of our novels . |
| 52 | Later in the 830s , Bernard had improvised a career in Septimania , outside Pippin 's kingdom , abandoning his old base in Barcelona for a new one in Uzès , where his wife Dhuoda was installed , and acquiring resources by appropriating local church lands in the Narbonnais . |
| 53 | He had to carry a clothes prop to feel where the ditches where . |
| 54 | Modern mass-produced media such as cassettes or compact discs could never be marketed if each one had to carry a stamp . |
| 55 | And if one had to put oneself in a vulnerable situation , like rugging or grooming him , the handler had to carry a cane . |
| 56 | Also , when presented with questions like ‘ What eats less , a horse or a bunny ? ’ , or a practical situation like ‘ Pretend you had to carry a bucket full of dirt and it was really heavy . |
| 57 | They had to carry a table out with them , which was set up the required ten metres from the shed wall , and the pistols were laid out , and the targets pinned up . |
| 58 | Everyone had to carry a gas-mask at all times , and an air-raid practice was held on that first afternoon . |
| 59 | For example , Pete Coleman had to carry a shooting-stick for Greg Norman to sit on in the 1982 Australian Open , and in Zambia a caddie I saw on my Safari Tour travels carried an extra that could have proved an even bigger life-saver than the carrots that are pulled out of the bag by Sam Torrance 's caddie Malcolm Mason ( the carrots are supposed to calm Sam down on the greens ) : the Zambian caddie was carrying President Kaunda 's bag in a pro-am , and surreptitiously tucked away was a gun , just in case somebody tried to assassinate the golfing president while he decided on a four- or a five-iron . |
| 60 | Vi had never imagined she could think kindly of any submarine again , but if it was one of your own then surely it was right and proper to wish it well , and raising her hand she had traced a blessing on the early morning air . |