Example sentences of "[noun] had [vb pp] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waiting just like the other four men Hitch had positioned at various places along the Thames . |
| 2 | The Air Djibouti flight from Addis Ababa had stopped at Dire Dawa but had picked up no passengers . |
| 3 | He he 's arguing I think on a basis of , of the experience of the past few years that the situation now in China was a , was a rather variable one , that land reform had proceeded at different rates in different areas and because areas where different that had to be taken into account and Mao explicitly was going back to the idea that in the newly liberated areas the policy would be one of rent reduction , interest rate reduction and that rent and interest rate reduction had to be established for some time until the position had consolidated around rent reduction , around interest rate reduction and once that had happened you would then be able to go into land reform itself . |
| 4 | She declined to say if the supermarket group had looked at alternative sites in the town . |
| 5 | Although the courts ' attitude to reports leading to legislation has varied , until recently there was no modern case in which the court had looked at parliamentary debates as an aid to construction . |
| 6 | The great issue of the next week was whether Law could agree to attend the Carlton Club meeting which Chamberlain had summoned at short notice for the Thursday morning , 19 October . |
| 7 | Mr Banks , a member of the North-East Regional Schools Security Group and vice-chairman of the Association of Local Authority Risk Managers ( Alarm ) , said the county had looked at various ways of improving security in schools . |
| 8 | However , since the presence of the deceased on the premises was in direct contravention of an express instruction issued by the brewery to their manager , the brewery were not liable ; his permission to remain on the premises had ceased at closing time , 10.30 p.m . |
| 9 | Their last , idyllic day on earth had started at magnificent Lake Sabaya , six miles inland from the ocean . |