Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] had [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier a smaller number of Cardiff supporters had run on to the pitch in celebration of their side 's equaliser in a game which the Welsh club eventually won 4–2 . |
| 2 | Chatichai 's coalition , then comprising six member parties , controlled 229 seats in the 347-member House of Representatives , and survived the vote with the apparently overwhelming majority of 220 to 38 , but only after most opposition members had walked out in a mark of protest . |
| 3 | Only after hunger and labour strikes had broken out throughout the country in early May did the government finally agree to enter into negotiations with the opposition ( under the framework of a Consultative Council ) to seek a consensus on draft reform legislation . |
| 4 | Two five-dollar bills had fallen out from behind the encyclopedia just when she was needing money so badly . |
| 5 | A Press Trust of India ( PTI ) report claimed that Myanman troops had killed up to 36 Rohingyas on April 5 during an attack on Maungdaw , Arakan province . |
| 6 | ( The 39 Sandinista delegates had walked out in protest before the vote and three other delegates were absent . ) |
| 7 | However , turnover increased in 1990 due to UK entry into the European Exchange Rate Mechanism , which implied a shift in longer term inflationary expectations and a fortiori long rates of interest , combined with the fact that the public sector finances had moved back into deficit . |
| 8 | Then he went on to warn us that , during the cold snap earlier in the year , ice floes had swept in from the sea dragging buoys from their moorings . |
| 9 | It was so hot that Perdita would have liked to have worn shorts or a dress , but her mosquito bites had come up in huge red bumps and were oozing and itching like mad , so she settled for her pale pink jeans and a dark blue shirt . |
| 10 | PKK members had attacked a gendarmerie post in Sirnak 's Uludere district , and officials reported that surviving PKK fighters had fled back across the border into Iraq . |
| 11 | Numbers increased slightly in March ( to around 14,500 ) , but Kleiner was concerned that job shortages had caused up to 1,000,000 Soviet Jews to cancel or postpone emigrating to Israel . |
| 12 | er , if the , if the , er service charge costs had gone up in the meantime , obviously after you reached the end of the first accounting period you have some accounts to go on and you have a much better idea of what the costs are actually going to be |
| 13 | The city 's funeral barons had turned out in an unprecedented expression of their admiration and their sympathy , and Creed took full advantage of the fact . |
| 14 | But not long after ten hotair balloons had taken off from Lydiard Park in swindon drama struck . |
| 15 | Hoxha 's statue was pulled down , and there were clashes with police in which up to 20 people were injured according to opposition sources , although eyewitness reports said also that some members of the security forces had gone over to the side of the demonstrators . |
| 16 | The Turkish government declared that the security of its diplomats was threatened following the screening in March of a programme on West German television , which claimed that West German security services had uncovered up to 30 Turkish secret police , posing as diplomats , who were spying on the 1,500,000 Turks in West Germany . |
| 17 | Cabinet negotiations had broken down over the balance of power in the government , with the " small coalition " demanding greater control over the economy than the PSL was prepared to concede . |
| 18 | Union members had turned out in such numbers because they were angry at the way in which they had to deliver services to the public without adequate resources . |
| 19 | The defence lawyers had walked out on the grounds that the trial lacked procedural guarantees , and that the court , as a military one , had no jurisdiction . |
| 20 | Armed and unarmed Iranians streamed in-along with gusts of tear gas that the US marines had laid down around the door . |
| 21 | Claims for damages against British accountancy firms have proliferated since the 1970s , when the aggressively litigious environment that US accountants had operated in for many years spread to the UK . |
| 22 | In contrast to the costly and sophisticated technology employed by the major companies were simple but effective ‘ home studios ’ costing under £1,000 by 1985 , the average price of four-track recording machines had come down to £500 and over 20,000 had been sold in Britain . |
| 23 | Then it turned out there was a glut of oil ; within a week , petrol prices had fallen back to pre-August levels . |
| 24 | If one of the other mainline batsmen had chipped in with even a 50 or 60 , England would probably have saved the match . |
| 25 | The army trucks had passed through in convoy the previous evening , and any new fact or assumption about the happenings of the clinic 's ruins were now conversational gold-dust . |
| 26 | Within an hour Allan , Donald the smith , and the Logan brothers had set off down the strath to Weem with the petitions in a leather wallet , to add to the already thick bunch in James 's strong-box , and Cameron and James had got horses from a sympathizer in the village and rode off towards the narrow glen of Keltney . |
| 27 | right , erm Could you , you said that your payroll costs had come down by five million that 's figure is it ? |
| 28 | The sense of his living in a closed world , stylistically speaking , is beautifully conveyed when Falstaff , frustrated in his attempts to get a simple answer to a simple question , wanting to know his ‘ happy news ’ , is forced to move up to Pistol 's manner : — an effect not unlike that if W. C. Fields had turned up in a performance of Mourning Becomes Electra ! |
| 29 | The earth had been churned up black where forestry vehicles had passed through during the week , and there were cut and trimmed logs waiting for collection alongside the track . |
| 30 | The suspension of petrol sales , first adopted as a temporary measure on Jan. 24 [ see also p. 37759 ] , came amidst allied claims that bombing raids had destroyed up to 80 per cent of the country 's oil refining capacity . |