Example sentences of "had learn a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , when a child who calls a stool ‘ chair ’ is corrected and introduced to its more accurate name and subsequently uses the term ‘ stool ’ , it would be reasonable to say that the child had learned a new word . |
| 2 | They had learned a new set of problem management techniques which they were beginning to use as a matter of course without seeing them as being a single method of solving a particular problem . |
| 3 | Oh , she knew she had learned a great deal during the last two years ; she also knew that a good part of herself was happy , mostly , she thought , because she had come to like Mrs Aggie and living in her house . |
| 4 | Several people mentioned that fellow students had learned a great deal about many aspects of disability through having them in the peer group . |
| 5 | During these past ten years , he had learned a great deal about his stepfather 's business ; not only did he trudge the streets collecting money , which he then took to the bank after it had been religiously recounted by Luther , but he was the one who made all the entries into the ledgers ; he was the one who always met with accountants and reported back to his stepfather , who constantly grumbled that he was ‘ too ill and racked with pain' to weigh himself down with the burden of meetings and ridiculous men in ridiculous suits , with their ridiculous ideas that a man should always invest the money he earns with the sweat of his brow … |
| 6 | He could now read and write in French , and had learned a little English from Edouard , but that was the extent of his achievements . |
| 7 | She had learned a fine way of sustaining the role of deprivation , but gratitude was an emotion beyond her range . |
| 8 | Somewhere along the line Montague had learned a valuable lesson : that money can fall off the back of a lorry . |
| 9 | He is always optimistic — last year he had to learn a good line in fighting talk to combat Kocinski 's outbursts . |
| 10 | We also had to learn a great deal of poetry by heart — poetry which I can still recall all these years later . |
| 11 | Christophe was extremely fit and used to the 100 per cent humidity , and had learnt a long time back to carry the absolute minimum — a battered still camera and two oranges for lunch — for a full day in the forest . |
| 12 | All these questions were dealt with fully during the course , so Derek and I felt that we had learnt a great deal of new and fascinating information that we just could n't have got out of books . |
| 13 | My time in submarines had brought me closer to people of a totally different background and I had learnt a great deal from my sailors about their home circumstances before the war . |