Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The impasse had resulted in California having no budget for 65 days , during which time the state 's authorities had been forced to issue more than $3,000 million-worth of " warrants " ( IOUs ) in order to meet payroll and other contractual obligations . |
| 2 | Such an association had led in May 1986 to the removal of Stalker as head of a controversial inquiry team into allegations of a " shoot-to-kill " policy by the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) [ see pp. 36239-40 ] . |
| 3 | Within months , an Indian side had arrived in Harare to play the first historic Test and a reciprocal tour is being negotiated . |
| 4 | Launched under the slogan of " One Nation " , the programme was designed to counter the success of the so-called " Fightback Package " which the right-wing Liberal-National Party opposition coalition had unveiled in December 1991 [ see p. 38675 ] as an economic blueprint to pull Australia out of recession . |
| 5 | The coalition had to agree in principle to the report , announcing its determination to implement the report 's assumption that mass unemployment must be prevented . |
| 6 | The paralysis of the minority governing coalition had intensified in May , following the unsuccessful attempt in April to create a " 10-party coalition " [ see p. 38881 ] . |
| 7 | As Simon himself acknowledged , English public health administration had developed in a piecemeal and ad hoc fashion for much of the early nineteenth century , with national supervision divided between his own Privy Council Medical Office and the Poor Law Board . |
| 8 | A further — and connected — factor contributed to this change : the expense which the individual cavalryman had to incur in order to fulfil his proper role in war . |
| 9 | The company denied Greenpeace 's claim that the chemicals were carcinogenic ( cancer-causing ) and also that their misuse had resulted in the contamination of food supplies in importing countries . |
| 10 | Russian television reported on Sept. 26 ( citing Interfax news agency ) that shooting had resumed in the area of the Lachin corridor [ see map on p. 38925 ] . |
| 11 | Only a week after the strike , a clean-up of the more open violence had begun in the worst harassed loyalist districts . |
| 12 | In Parkin v. Norman where the defendant had engaged in masturbation within sight of a plain clothes policeman in a public lavatory , McCullough J. put the matter as follows : |
| 13 | 522 , the plaintiff sued the defendant , a Member of Parliament , for an alleged libel on television and sought to introduce evidence of what the defendant had said in the House of Commons as proof of malice . |
| 14 | Previous eruptions of the volcano had occurred in 1971 and 1973 causing the death of five people and affecting 35,000 hectares of land . |
| 15 | The total loss of these aircraft and crews was the bitterest blow Bomber Command had to suffer in the entire war , and it is difficult to understand why it happened . |
| 16 | So if the revenue had refused in the exercise of their discretion to make the repayment they did in the present case I am of opinion that in the absence of any other remedy it would have been open to Woolwich to claim repayment in proceedings for judicial review , and there would appear to be no reason why such proceedings would not have been successful . |
| 17 | Superficially it might have appeared as though two brawny giants , immobilised but for the sway of their torsos , were about to jab and slash at one another , piercing and flaying till the vampire bat device decided that sufficient flesh had been sliced , that sufficient blood had coagulated in slim cinnabar threads . |
| 18 | The blood had come in the middle of the night and she had still been appalled . |
| 19 | The lorry and a Rover car had collided in thick fog on the M61 near Bolton , Greater Manchester . |
| 20 | He turned and ran , darting to the side of the road , aware that the car had accelerated in pursuit . |
| 21 | He invited Patrick to sit down in the hall and took him in detail through events from the moment the car had stopped in front of the house . |
| 22 | Where the great rivers of molten lava had flowed in the distant past was now a jumbled mass of solidified rock-like structures which sometimes stretched for many kilometres . |
| 23 | If the programme had continued in the vein of Nightwalker , it would have been highly recommendable but after three examples of Hall in earnest , I felt bludgeoned into beating a retreat . |
| 24 | The simplest reason for the disappointing subscription is that the novelty of a kitchen maid poet had dissipated in the four years since the first subscription , especially among the gentry around Brackley who might now observe Philip Leapor enjoying the fruits of the first volume . |
| 25 | Sales optimism had rebounded in the UK , suggesting a recovery was set to take hold , said D&B 's chief economist , Joseph Duncan . |
| 26 | The French girl , to Thessy 's infinite embarrassment , had strolled stark naked about Wavebreaker 's deck while the lawyer had cowered in the stateroom cloaked like an Ayatollah with impetigo . |
| 27 | The US State Department issued a report on April 1 which claimed that a " major recipient " of US military aid had engaged in a " systematic and growing pattern " of unauthorized re-exporting of arms and technology to other countries . |
| 28 | The collapse of part of the roof had let in air which intensified the conflagration . |
| 29 | The stranger had arrived in the dead of night , a sick man unable to walk unaided and noisily man-handled through the darkened house by several other men . |
| 30 | The stranger had arrived in this world . |