Example sentences of "had [vb pp] a [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the eve of poll he had placed a £5 bet at 16–1 with a Bristol bookmaker that the Tories would win an overall majority of between 20 and 25 seats . |
| 2 | In his budget speech Neville Chamberlain had justified a £10 increase in the tax allowance for second and subsequent children by saying that he saw a time not too far distant ‘ when countries of the British Empire will be crying out for more citizens of the right breed , and when we in this country shall not be able to supply the demand . |
| 3 | W R Grace gained a patent on neem extract , which it called Margosan-O , in 1988 , claiming that it had developed a means of stabilizing the extracts . |
| 4 | The current governor ran into a storm when it was revealed he had received a 17% pay increase in 1991 . |
| 5 | A county spokesman did point out that the authority had given a £10,000 grant to the railway last year which went towards a footbridge at Medstead station . |
| 6 | During the final year of office of the previous Director , Ralph Youngman , Charles had given a series of public lectures at the school on Canaletto . |
| 7 | His political troubles deepened at the weekend after conservatives had won a series of victories at an emergency session of the legislature , the Congress of People 's Deputies , which had paved the way for his powers to be curbed . |
| 8 | I had caught an eider duck that had been sheltering on a lochan and was flying back with it against the wind when I grew tired . |
| 9 | Explaining how he had instituted a series of business briefs , which go out to CBI members by fax every week , he said each message ‘ should be conversational , it should be easily accessible and it should have some value to the reader or the listener ’ . |
| 10 | Baghoomian had claimed a 50% interest in all Basquiat 's work based on an agreement he and the artist made before Basquiat 's death . |
| 11 | The DHAC was a coalition of radicals from the local Republican Clubs and the left wing of the NILP ; they had organised a series of imaginative protests in Derry to draw attention to bad conditions and discrimination in housing . |
| 12 | The most reasonable assumption was that the French had pushed a cavalry raid across the frontier . |
| 13 | Throughout the early and mid-1950s when national fuel policy emphasized volume of production this remained , but by the late 1950s with a national shift towards cheap oil the NCB had began a series of closures . |
| 14 | Throughout 1990 and the first half of 1991 the SLORC had imposed a series of legal restrictions on the NLD and other opponents which effectively frustrated their political ambitions . |
| 15 | On Friday , it was announced that the firm had secured a £20 million contract which would safeguard about 100 jobs , most of them in Edinburgh , for the next few years . |
| 16 | At a dinner for Liberal candidates on March 1st , Lloyd George announced that the Liberal Party had prepared a series of public-works projects , which could be put in hand the moment a Liberal Government came to power , and which would reduce unemployment to ‘ normal proportions ’ in a year . |
| 17 | The former had taken a golf-club to a smooth , level patch of grass a short distance from the house which Philippe Bonard , anxious to cater for his clients ' leisure needs as well as their thirst for learning , had laid out as a green ; she had donned a pair of heavy-framed spectacles and was practising putting . |
| 18 | All the child 's socks were dirty so she had turned a pair inside out and put them on her . |
| 19 | One of the Norwegian girls , Riborg , was the daughter of a ship owner , but had attended a folk high school , along with children whose parents were cobblers and other manual labourers . |
| 20 | Mortimer had attended a staff meeting with Admiral Caperton which had lasted through the night . |
| 21 | W H Smith came in for some surprisingly harsh comment from the financial press last week after the group 's interim results had revealed a 20% drop in pretax profits . |
| 22 | Most of the police station meeting was taken up by discussion between council officers and the police on security for the Ks and ways of dealing with the club — to which the council , just to complicate matters further , had indemnified a £100,000 loan . |
| 23 | At the end of Chapter 3 it was pointed out that the 1960s had seen a series of reform proposals in British government and that by 1980 most of these had been carried out in some form though the question of devolution had still to be settled . |
| 24 | The students I talked to here were Bryony Langworth who had designed an attractive coffee and tea service ; Christina Kirk , whose glass I admired ; Steven Keegan who had done a series of animal sculptures , one of which he sold to Dame Mary Soames ; Julie Sellars whose water sculpture for Shaftesbury Avenue 1990 looked most attractive ; Theresa Czyzewicz whose jewellery entailed the finest workmanship and was very pretty ; Clive van Heerden who was in a wheelchair near his exhibition as I arrived . |
| 25 | Private Eye is appealing against the record £600,000 damages paid to Mrs Sutcliffe after a seven-day trial last May , in which she alleged the magazine had libelled her by claiming in its ‘ Street of Shame ’ column that she had made a £250,000 deal with the Daily Mail for her story after a night of ‘ carousing ’ with the paper 's journalists in a hotel . |
| 26 | During subsequent interrogation it was revealed that Ann Lynn had made a rendezvous during the night with a Dutch cargo vessel , had stowed the contraband below for later disposal , and calmly taken out the anglers for a day 's fishing before unloading the loot . |
| 27 | They also confirmed that an American named David Lovejoy had made a series of calls to Hussein Niknam , the Iranian chargé d'affaires , about a team of American agents , led by Charles Dennis McKee and Matthew Kevin Gannon , who had arrived in Beirut on a mission concerned with the hostages . |
| 28 | It was stated that the directors of Britannia Hotels , Mr Michael Morton and Mr Alexander Langsam , had received rises of 98 per cent , taking their pay to more than £4 million each , at a time when their company had made an £8.5 million loss . |
| 29 | Earlier in 1912 Apollinaire had written a series of articles for Les Soirées de Paris and these were gathered together with some additional material to form the bulk of his Les Peintres Cubistes which was issued in March of the following year . |
| 30 | The Bakers , Food and Allied Workers ' Union had threatened a series of one-day strikes . |