Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [vb pp] several [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the Illustrated London News shows that Guest & Merriman 's experiment had included several microphones and a selector system , but the surviving disc shows no sign of active ‘ mixing ’ . |
| 2 | Sidacai and the remaining Altun who were to ride with the command had arrived several days earlier , but since his return he had spoken to none of them . |
| 3 | Chiodini took the diary from the pile of documents on his desk and showed him that the lawyer had marked several pages during the previous three months with a red asterisk , the last being two days earlier . |
| 4 | Elected only ten months ago , the current council had made several changes . |
| 5 | By March 1962 , however , the Soviet military had taken several steps — nuclear weapons ' tests , the development of the ‘ global rocket ’ , the redeploying of launch sites — to bolster the credibility of the Soviet deterrent , and commentators once again ‘ buried the myth of the invulnerability of the United States of America ’ ( Pravda , 31 March 1962 , in Zimmerman : 1969 , pp. 189–90 ) . |
| 6 | Membership had brought several years of sustained economic growth , with a high level of foreign investment . |
| 7 | While Francis had been gazing into the unseeable distance , the wall had extended several metres across the clearing . |
| 8 | The waning of enthusiasm for higher education had begun several years before , but this was the first time there had been fewer applicants than places offered . |
| 9 | Here they discovered that their last great king had died several years previously , and still lay rotting in his widowed queen 's home . |
| 10 | Although work on the NEW DEVELOPMENT had begun several years before , with much champagne bottle breaking and blue ribbon cutting , nothing very much had happened since . |
| 11 | but bbc 's ceefax service last night had a new article saying that grizzly gazza was not for sale and that lazio had contacted several clubs but just at a very premature state . |
| 12 | When an apprentice , after leaving school at thirteen , my father had spent several years as a striker — using a sledgehammer . |
| 13 | The tunnel had taken several months to build and some of the accusations which had been made against these same people now looked rather silly . |
| 14 | The front of the farm had received several hits by shrapnel . |
| 15 | ‘ It would help , ’ the Doctor had announced several times , ‘ if the corridors were straight . ’ |
| 16 | On the plane his employer had downed several drinks : Morgan was a man who drank heavily . |
| 17 | The doorbell had sounded several times while she was changing and , as she descended the stairs , a hum of voices was audible from the drawing-room . |
| 18 | Once the hunting season was over he had gone straight off to Ireland to fish , and then , on the outbreak of war , had promptly rejoined his regiment , and as their colonel-in-chief had made several sorties to France during the next three years . |
| 19 | This patient had experienced several episodes of palpitations although she was otherwise well . |
| 20 | To prevent protests and disturbances , the Home Office had ordered several detachments of police to stand by . |
| 21 | Results for the 22 state and federal territory governorships indicated that the ruling Democratic Action ( AD ) party had lost several governorships , while the opposition Social Christian party ( COPEI ) in alliance with the People 's Electoral Movement ( MEP ) had won at least 10 . |
| 22 | By mid-1863 , therefore , the regime had given several indications that its interest in remodelling the state 's institutions had survived the shock of emancipating the serfs . |