Example sentences of "[adj] [indef pn] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immediately some commentators claimed that she and Prince Charles had succeeded in mending their marriage , while others sniffed cynically that in private nothing had changed . |
| 2 | He stuffed it hastily back , afraid someone had seen him reading it , and took ‘ To Mother Dear ’ and his two shillings up to the counter . |
| 3 | One woman , remarking on ‘ how wonderful it was , with what faith the Führer spoke ’ , was reported as saying it took just such a speech to show ‘ how faint-hearted one had become through the routine of everyday life ’ , and that she could now look to the future with confidence again . |
| 4 | ‘ I was afraid something had happened but I never imagined anything so … so awful . |
| 5 | For although the Home Rule movement did for a time grow apace , with an ever increasing number of SNP candidates being elected to Parliament and , under the Callaghan administration , the old High School building on Calton Hill being refurbished to accommodate a Scottish debating-chamber ( the old one had become incorporated in the Law Courts ) , the idea of Home Rule made many of my countrymen uneasy ; less , I think , about financial disadvantages ( for oil revenue would have compensated for that ) than at the prospect of feuding between east and west , north and south , and , for some , the prospect of a semi-permanent Labour administration ; and when in 1979 a referendum of the whole Scottish nation was held , the votes in favour of Home Rule did not attain the clear 40 per cent majority on which the House of Commons had insisted . |
| 6 | The Doctor had four balls in the air now , although nobody could see where the extra one had come from . |
| 7 | From that day on , the bewitched one had begun to grow , and was now ( said Grandma ) a fine man with a family . |
| 8 | And he thought he 'd landed but it was empty , it had likely somebody had got it before him . |
| 9 | When the children came back from school they found that still nothing had changed . |
| 10 | It was so late everyone had gone home except Cheryl . |
| 11 | Our friends told him that they were sure nobody had followed them since our last meeting . |
| 12 | ‘ Better get moving , ’ he thought He stopped as he turned Had he imagined it , no , he was sure something had flashed in the moonlight It must have been a good quarter of a mile away , towards the middle of the estuary . |
| 13 | He did n't even know what had happened last night , although he was damned sure something had to make Isabel so nervous of him . |
| 14 | The current one had served in hostels , children 's homes , approved schools and as district officer for many years . |
| 15 | Many judicial review cases concern situations of immediate importance to ordinary people — whether the Home Office could prevent people buying a new TV licence before their current one had expired in order to avoid a licence fee increase ; whether an immigrant will be allowed to enter Britain or will be sent back whence he or she came ; whether a landowner will be allowed to build on his or her land . |
| 16 | She considered telephoning Laura , and Kitty , both of whom were long on sympathy and short on cash — so strange that Peter 's orthodox solicitor father should have left his widow quite as poorly provided for as Anna 's unconventional one had left Laura — and decided that it would be unfair . |
| 17 | I 'd stuck to the rules arid nothing had happened . |
| 18 | Late that evening Liz returned to her flat , where she felt lonely and miserable , particularly when she remembered how happy everyone had seemed earlier in the day . |
| 19 | ‘ I was just angry someone had invaded our privacy , ’ said the 32-year-old mother-of-six . |
| 20 | She remembered what the fat one had said about Mallachy 's hands . |
| 21 | He was pleased nobody had asked for his passport . |
| 22 | On 11 April last year , Muller had not appeared to be her normal self and the following day it was apparent something had occurred in the staff lavatory . |
| 23 | Maybe the fact that she 'd remained the only one had rankled with him too . |
| 24 | I thought , I thought the other one had got it |
| 25 | One plant had to get light for eight hours per day and the other one had to get light for sixteen hours a day , so another wheel at this end did this job when this went around so many times . |
| 26 | One twelve-hour shift had knocked off and a new one had taken over the duties of maintaining the platform 's complex equipment . |
| 27 | Confronted with such vast heaps of material one had to think of it as a game . |
| 28 | Because there were some old ones there before the young one had 've gone there do you see . |
| 29 | Brighton 's Labour leader Steve Bassam was n't surprised nobody had enrolled . |
| 30 | It seemed likely that a second ‘ hundred flowers ’ movement was in the offing , thirty years after the original one had ended in disaster for thousands of Chinese intellectuals . |