Example sentences of "[Wh det] had [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a small touring company which had just suffered a couple of deaths in a carriage accident , and he was looking for two versatile and experienced ( yes ! ) players . |
| 2 | The ruling by the German athletic federation ( DLV ) came after a 14-hour hearing stretching over two days which had firstly proposed a reduction of the ban from four years to three months , before further deliberations resulted in the adjudication lifting the suspensions because of anomalies in the testing procedure . |
| 3 | Greenpeace , the environmental pressure group which had already made a name for itself by chasing whalers on the high seas , sent its own vessel , the Rainbow Warrior , to shadow the nuclear ship out into the Atlantic . |
| 4 | The beer industry , which had already absorbed a doubling of the federal tax in 1991 , flooded Congress with dire predictions of misery for the nearly 1m Americans who make or sell beer . |
| 5 | Even though more rapid population growth and poorer harvests occurred after mid century , by then the changing structure of employment was accentuating the trend towards wage-dependency , which had already reached a level quite exceptional compared with that in other countries . |
| 6 | It was the 11th time his four-party coalition had survived such a vote in eight months but the news had little impact on markets which had already discounted a win . |
| 7 | On June 17 Ayatollah Hassan Sanei , who headed the private Foundation of 15th Khordad ( June 5 ) , declared that his organization , which had already offered a reward of $US2,000,000 for the killing of the Indian-born British writer Salman Rushdie , would also reimburse all costs incurred in such an act . |
| 8 | The north-western suburbs , which had previously seemed a haven , came under attack in the latest fighting . |
| 9 | They had , naturally and by mutual consent , ceased to have any kind of physical relationship , something which had always meant a lot to them both . |
| 10 | Sara Coleridge saw the Wilberforce sons claiming antislavery for their brand of Clapham evangelicalism against Clarkson 's historical interpretation which had literally offered a diagram of numerous branches contributing to the cause . |
| 11 | The secondment of one member of the English Department , and the appointment of another , was seen by the College as a solution to both problems , which had together created a need for lecturers formally qualified as specialists in the study of English Language . |
| 12 | Rumours in the market said that Japanese banks which had initially indicated a willingness to put up some of the necessary funds , were behind the problems . |
| 13 | He knows that he wandered in places which had never seen a plane , a car , or a radio . |
| 14 | Pessimists had been saying that the war could last between four and seven years , and that Britain , which had never lost a war , would not lose this one either . |
| 15 | Poland emerged from the feudal soup of partition to the bright light of history and to the ongoing crisis of capitalism , which had apparently reached a peak in the horrors of the First World War . |
| 16 | The anonymous writer of 1497 said that apart from London there were only two towns of importance in the country , Bristol and York , but in this he was misinformed , as it seems likely that Norwich , which had undoubtedly had a period of difficulties in the early fifteenth century , had begun to recover about 1465 or 1470 , and was on the way to becoming the second wealthiest city in the land , as it was in the 1520s . |
| 17 | Bert started to move a huge pile of cardboard boxes which had once housed a variety of motor spares . |
| 18 | There was also a badly scratched veneered cabinet which had once housed a gramophone . |
| 19 | And there was a certain xenophobia informing the official English view of what had rapidly become a world game . |
| 20 | Then , on 23 September , the 86th general congregation began debate on what had now become a Declaration on Religious Liberty , promptly attacked by Cardinal Ruffini who insisted the title should be ‘ Religious Tolerance ’ rather than Liberty , for the latter could not be justified theologically . |
| 21 | What had once lasted a generation now lasted a year , what had lasted a year now lasted a month , a week , a day . |