Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally he enjoyed staying over at the firm 's northern hospitality suite which was situated above their offices — bloody hell , he had treated a few girls to his own style of hospitality there enough times — but tonight it was all wrong . |
| 2 | As far back as 1904 Winston Churchill had foreseen the same change when he predicted the tariff reformers ' coming takeover of the party . |
| 3 | Not until 1859 , when he was forty-eight years old , did he publish it and even then he was driven to do so only because another younger naturalist , Alfred Wallace , working in Southeast Asia , had formulated the same idea . |
| 4 | Recalling the defeat of the 1991 coup , Yeltsin said that he had outwitted the former KGB chief , Vladimir Kryuchkov , whom he identified as the main organizer of the attempt . |
| 5 | As soon as he had completed a few successful assignments , word was passed around and more business came his way . |
| 6 | On April 10 , the French government had extradited a former ETA leader Juan Lorenzo Lasa Michelena , known as " Txikierdi " , who had already served seven years in a French prison and faced several murder charges in Spain . |
| 7 | I had heard a few comments , such as : ‘ Oh ! |
| 8 | Lugh had heard a few extremely surprising tales about Her Majesty and Fergus , but he had not gossiped , because Longhands did not gossip . |
| 9 | ‘ The Missus ’ was about as inappropriate a soubriquet for Onyx Muggeridge as could be imagined , and Mike Pumfrey , who had heard a few scraps about her already , registered this . |
| 10 | Erm there 's another one that a lot of came up with one or two had heard a few before and they all groaned and then accused you of making them all up ! |
| 11 | The two men exchanged experiences and found that they had heard the same noises of heavy breathing and the kick on the door . |
| 12 | None of the pupils seemed to guess that they had heard the same speaker more than once . |
| 13 | The man 's foot had broken a few spokes and the chain had come off , but there was no other damage . |
| 14 | Aubrey , watching the three excitedly making plans , was sensitive enough not to mention the news he had received a few days ' earlier from his mother — that Madeleine and Dunbar were coming home with the regiment . |
| 15 | She had received a few blows in her time , but after the first shock she had swung back . |
| 16 | Rising to his feet on the floor of the penthouse Nicholas staggered for a moment , while his wrists were being wrenched back and lashed ; and knew from the way John was standing that he had received the same treatment . |
| 17 | Both rooms had received the same brutal searching treatment . |
| 18 | The irony of the position described by my hon. Friend the Member for Makerfield ( Mr. McCartney ) is that , if Wigan had received the same amount in grant as was received by Wandsworth and Westminster in the year in which it was capped , it would not have had to levy a tax at all ; indeed , it might have been able to give money back from the previous year 's levy . |
| 19 | At Tiverton in 1809 they had claimed they had received the same rate for 300 years ! |
| 20 | Coun George Robinson claimed that if the council had received the same level of Government support grant that it had in the 1970s , the poll tax would have been about £100 . |
| 21 | ‘ Did anyone know that Mowbray had received the same warning as Sir Ralph ? ’ |
| 22 | He said McPherson had stopped a few hundred yards on , gone to the boot of his car , returned and suggested they go back to Tarbert . |
| 23 | Hawke immediately denied the allegation to the federal parliament , claiming that he had given no such promise and that a decision about the tax was not made until a month after the lunch . |
| 24 | He had never been to a theatre in London , but he knew now , after the performance she had given a few minutes ago , that Mother Bombie was the greatest actress in the world . |
| 25 | I have got to know him : he would not go round there unless she had given the all clear . ’ |
| 26 | The Adjutant was able to sound thankful where Charles had given the least impression of unwillingness . |
| 27 | Dr. Hicks of Baldock had given the same opinion ‘ in words of less meaning ’ , and Gibbon of Bedford had not felt qualified to give any opinion at all . |
| 28 | On 3 May he gave an address on Milton at the Frick Museum in New York , in which he recanted his previously low opinion of the poet , and on this occasion he seemed to one observer " incredibly refined , visibly aged " — he had given the same address two months before to the British Academy , and thus had saved himself additional effort . |
| 29 | So , on 12 September 1971 , at National General Pictures ' international conference for foreign film distributors in Hollywood , Dustin signed to become a partner , following Steve McQueen , who had joined the same year . |
| 30 | They had travelled no more than a few hundred yards — the Kurd leading , Miss Logan bringing up the rear — and were crossing a patch of rough scree , a descent more tiring than dangerous , when Miss Fergusson fell . |