Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] had [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Two five-dollar bills had fallen out from behind the encyclopedia just when she was needing money so badly . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But not long after ten hotair balloons had taken off from Lydiard Park in swindon drama struck . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Then it turned out there was a glut of oil ; within a week , petrol prices had fallen back to pre-August levels . |
| 18 | If one of the other mainline batsmen had chipped in with even a 50 or 60 , England would probably have saved the match . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | right , erm Could you , you said that your payroll costs had come down by five million that 's figure is it ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I got , I got the impression that he was fairly exasperated at the way things had gone up to now . |
| 24 | If all Preston 's childhood friends had lined up against a wall , as when they were waiting to be picked for football , Preston would most likely have left William to pretty near the end and then put him at left back , or somewhere he would do the least damage to his own side . |
| 25 | We 'd have got away with it if we had noticed that the polystyrene tiles had slipped out of alignment — but having shifted dozens of tanks around we made the fatal error of complacency and did n't check the underlay . |
| 26 | It was not possible to ascertain directly how many halogen moieties had ended up on the football . |
| 27 | By Feb. 9 sympathy strikes had broken out at higher education establishments in several cities . |
| 28 | Perhaps the most notorious was a forger ; Coiner Varley who escaped sliding down a rubbish tip which the market traders had pushed up against the wall of the gaol . |
| 29 | By mid-May OPEC production levels had dropped by between 700,000 and 900,000 bpd , with Saudi Arabia alone cutting back 430,000 bpd to reach its agreed quota of 5,380,000 bpd . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't know , ’ Ellie denied numbly as she recognised the note Gramps had put in with the package to Mrs McMahon . |