Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] had [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it was little surprise to me when one evening after a skirmish Mum had blown up at Dad with more than her normal vehemence . |
| 2 | Before we reached the BUPA hospital in Paddington , I felt I knew every temperature change Salome had gone through in the past five days , what her grandmother — phoning twice daily from Jamaica — thought about life , the universe and young people driving around in fast cars , and how difficult Frank had found going to the launderette . |
| 3 | The Budget and Scientific Policy Minister , Hugo Schiltz , announced on Jan. 3 , 1990 , that the 1989 budget deficit had turned out to be BF397,000 million , which was substantially lower than forecast [ see p. 36775 ] . |
| 4 | He then noticed Mrs Wilks at the telephone box and , in his rear-view mirror , he saw that the grey saloon car had pulled on to the hard shoulder and was heading towards her . |
| 5 | A small jazz combo had popped out of nowhere and were arrayed around Lord Roger . |
| 6 | Coun Dixon ( Lab ) said the borough council had paid up to a week 's salary in overtime in November and December last year for officers patrolling shops on Sundays . |
| 7 | Coun Dixon ( Lab ) said the borough council had paid up to a week 's salary in overtime in November and December last year to monitor Sunday opening . |
| 8 | Not a real law of course , but a rule Carrie had made up for herself and had stuck to , until she forgot it today . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Clothes had n't mattered for years , of course , but towards the end of the eighties , the phrases power-dressing and anti-stress eating program had filtered through to her and now Alex dressed and ate for every occasion . |
| 11 | Fellow student Keith Gregory responded to an advert Gedge had pinned up on a university notice board which sought an ‘ Introverted bass player , influenced by The Fall , The Chameleons , The Velvet Underground and The Sound . ’ |
| 12 | One of the most important concerns the ending , which was to have been based on an Old Believer melody Mussorgsky had taken down from a friend . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Some like Sunday long ago , the child Simon had crept up to his Indian step-grandmother when she was asleep in the same wheelchair and thrown a blanket over her , shouting that she was a canary in a cage . |
| 15 | Two five-dollar bills had fallen out from behind the encyclopedia just when she was needing money so badly . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Maybe she believed him , for Rufus had once caught her lifting the lid and looking into the jar at the wood ash Adam had scraped up from the site of the handkerchief man 's last bonfire . |
| 18 | Upon seeing it — some said a question mark had fallen off on its way to printing in North Wales — she sat down and wept . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ Even if the poetry reading had turned out to be a giant bore , the audience itself would have been an event ’ , McGrath added . |
| 22 | Another throw-back to the past was reported by the Roslavl' Party cell in January : at a volost' meeting an ex-member of the Kadet Party had spoken up against taxation . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | On 28 May 1986 , Amnesty 's 25th Anniversary , St Clement Danes Church in the Strand , London , rang 5,000 chimes , roughly one for every POC case Amnesty had worked on during the year . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Community architecture had come about as a reaction to the tower blocks of the 1960s which were clearly not working : they had led to vandalism and mugging and terrifying isolation for the people who lived in them . |
| 27 | By this meeting Nigel had come up with a further solution : rather than abolish SERPS , he suggested that we modify it to the point that it could be afforded . |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But not long after ten hotair balloons had taken off from Lydiard Park in swindon drama struck . |