Example sentences of "had [vb pp] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1701 Myddlewood had attracted a squatters ' colony of fourteen cottages that formed a distinct , new settlement between Myddle village and the hamlet of Marton . |
| 2 | After further meetings it was reported on July 20 that the Liberian government had accepted an ECOWAS peace proposal , providing for ( i ) a ceasefire ; ( ii ) the deployment of a regional peacekeeping force ; and ( iii ) the immediate formation of a government of national unity . |
| 3 | Brinson , before taking over the Gulbenkian Foundation in London in 1972 had chaired an arts committee of the Foundation , set up to discuss and provide financial help to the performing arts , and particularly to dance , which had had , in his words ‘ a raw deal ’ . |
| 4 | Another student , who had attended a girls ' grammar , felt that there were important differences between single-sex schools and mixed schools . |
| 5 | Cross-examined by the defence QC , Donald Macfadyen , Mr Runciman disagreed that after the executive committee meeting , while he had decided a profits warning should be issued , the two other members had not made up their minds . |
| 6 | On Dec. 12 it was announced that the railway authorities of France , Belgium and the UK had agreed a pounds 580,000,000 order for 30 high-speed locomotives , intended for use on such routes . |
| 7 | Although he had not definitely declared his candidacy , Perot had ignited a grassroots campaign involving the collection of the hundreds of thousands of signatures necessary to include him on the ballot in all 50 states . |
| 8 | One day a trunk-load of winter woollens turned up , a gift from Johannesburg where a news item in the local paper had inspired a ladies ' circle to start knitting . |
| 9 | Associates were shocked by the transformation , and joked that he had become a plain-clothes policeman . |
| 10 | The details of his early life are not known , but by 1450 he was apprenticed to Robert Botiller , a goldsmith in London , and by 1458 had become a lowys ( the term used in the records of the Goldsmiths ' Company to describe someone allowed to practise the craft ) . |
| 11 | By next morning , the normally tranquil common near Malvern , had become a travellers shanty town . |
| 12 | At the press conference , Waldegrave recalled a visit to a UK university , where he had noted a visitors ' book full of Japanese names . |
| 13 | He announced at the beginning of that year that ‘ if Hitler had worn a dhoti he could have mistaken his mystical approach to life for that of Mr Gandhi ’ . |
| 14 | Mr Sugar was not at the house yesterday but it is believed his wife , Ann , was at home as a woman had driven a sports car into the grounds earlier , which bore the registration 1 AS . |
| 15 | By the time 1972 was out I had found a Vets club in join , the VAC as it was called , and I began to pick up something about the scene — where to find the minor races , who to go to for training advice , the way to use blocks and how to seek out physios for repair purposes — and I took up steady training . |
| 16 | He had found a mews flat in Fulham , convenient for his work , but he often returned to his family only at weekends . |
| 17 | For example , if you had started a savings plan in 1900 for £1 per month at 8% interest you would receive £249,033.53 in 1993 with an earnings ratio of 22214.83% ! |
| 18 | On the first occasion I had been down to visit an isolated village , on the south face of Kala Agar ridge , that had been abandoned the previous year owing to the depredations of the man-eater , and on the way back had taken a cattle track that went over the ridge and down the far side to the forest road , when , approaching a pile of rocks , I suddenly felt there was danger ahead . |
| 19 | On other occasions he had taken a drugs overdose and slashed his wrists . |
| 20 | Barrow , he said , had tried a concessions scheme but the League had banned it . |
| 21 | A letter I came across in the Houghton Library at Harvard bemoans to his father an incident in which , for some reason , he had offended a women clerk to whom he had consigned some typing . |
| 22 | Cheney 's announcement was made shortly after US President Bush had unveiled an arms control plan for the Middle East [ see p. 38217 ] . |
| 23 | And he said he had ordered a police investigation after reports that a set of traffic lights near the scene of the accident were not working . |
| 24 | That art was demonstrated wth conspicuously different talents by British editors and journalists in the aftermath of the revelation that Jeffrey Archer , best-selling novelist and deputy chairman of the Conservative party , had paid a Shepherds Market street-walker £2,000 to leave the country . |
| 25 | His widow struggled to run the business herself until her brother , who had established a dry-goods store in Knoxville , Tennessee , persuaded her in 1865 to emigrate with the children . |