Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [vb pp] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bradley Allen set the tone in the first minute when he hit the post after Spurs goalkeeper Ian Walker had flapped at Wilson 's cross . |
| 2 | Donna had squinted at them as she 'd read . |
| 3 | Paul McStay grabbed the first goal with a first-time shot after keeper Bodo Illgner had punched at Tommy Boyd 's shot . |
| 4 | She spoke to reporters from a ‘ secret location ’ at the weekend , describing how Mrs Mandela had arrived at the house early in the morning . |
| 5 | Perhaps it meant that Cindy Hill had revealed at least some of whatever it was that bothered her , which was a good thing , really . |
| 6 | Shevardnadze in a strong speech at the UN General Assembly in New York on Sept. 25 characterized Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait as " an act of terrorism against the nascent new world order " , and , apparently going further than Gorbachev had suggested at Helsinki [ see above ] , stated that the Soviet Union was prepared to support the use of force against Iraq , in a UN framework , if the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait continued ; on Sept. 30 he confirmed Soviet willingness to join a UN force if necessary . |
| 7 | The Aborigines had suffered at the hands of the sealers — many of the women were kidnapped and put to work plucking birds for the feather trade — but they retained their custom of a spontaneous welcome for anyone who put into port on the island . |
| 8 | Now , as on other occasions , David had scoffed at her fears . |
| 9 | David had winked at Juliet as he passed Bobbie 's bed , where the physiotherapist had just finished . |
| 10 | On the one occasion she had broached the subject of his mother , David had looked at her with cold eyes , saying in a hard voice , ‘ My mother was her own worst enemy . |
| 11 | For the moment it is enough to observe that the Historie/ Geschichte dichotomy could very easily end up looking rather like Lessing 's between the accidental truths of history and the necessary truths of reason , or Fichte 's between the historical and the metaphysical , and thus lead to a position open to the same charge of Gnosticism that Baur had laid at the door of Hegel and Schleiermacher . |
| 12 | Ashton had tried to see him out after that , and even wanted to shake hands with him , but Steven had spat at his feet and made a rude sign at him . |
| 13 | Lucy had looked at her aunt in puzzled silence before saying , ‘ No doubt I could find this place — but what on earth do you expect me to do when I get there ? ’ |
| 14 | From 1833 , when he obtained his first two commissions including the period of his partnership with Moffatt between 1839 and 1845 , Scott had completed at least 167 new buildings and 65 restorations . |
| 15 | For all he knew , the one Mrs Wright had shot at . |
| 16 | There was an army display on for one day only , Mrs Blakey had said at breakfast : the car-park behind the fish-packing station had been taken over for it . |
| 17 | Alejandro had married at twenty . |
| 18 | It occurred to Helen — listening to Louise , contemplating the chest — that in all the years she and Edward had lived at Greystones they had fully occupied only their own bedrooms ; elsewhere , they perched . |
| 19 | But in October 1951 , when Ramsey had professed at Cambridge for exactly a year , Churchill came back to power . |
| 20 | Sigehere , king of the eastern Saxons ( HE II , 30 ) , appears there with Swaefheard , son of his co-ruler Saebbi ( so identified in ( CS 42 : S 10 ) , confirming the grant of land Caedwalla had made at Hoo ( CS 89 : S 233 ) ( see Appendix , Fig. 2 ) . |
| 21 | As Thorfinn had done at the start of his reign , in Fife . |
| 22 | Courtney had worked at the Whipps Cross and Charing Cross hospitals in England , at Dublin 's University College hospital , in Saudi Arabia and at the Royal Free hospital and medical school , where he was researching a project on caesarian sections . |
| 23 | Once , Bill Pertwee — again a staple member of the cast — remembered for me , Kenneth Horne made him write to the wife of an executive he thought Ken had insulted at a party given by the BBC for the Round The Horne cast . |
| 24 | In 1927 Welford Beaton was left in no doubt that the motion picture was ‘ a throbbing , living , human thing ’ after Janet Gaynor 's performance in Frank Borzage 's Seventh Heaven and especially by her grief as her husband left for the war ; Beaton had cried at the time and even as he wrote the spell was not broken . |
| 25 | The locals consisted of the party of Sloanes Molly had seen at Nancy Leadbetter 's and another English family with two teenage sons whom Haverford , loudly and explicitly , urged his eldest grand-daughter to ‘ get off with ’ or ‘ drag away to the disco ’ , although he did n't suggest where a disco might be found in Mondano . |
| 26 | Vesa had jumped at the idea . |
| 27 | Waiting just like the other four men Hitch had positioned at various places along the Thames . |
| 28 | In a statement quoted by Syrian Arab Republic Radio Arafat praised the pan-Arab position which Syria had expressed at the Madrid conference . |
| 29 | The Staffel had claimed at least 42 victories , of which 20 ( including one over Yugoslavia ) had been credited to Müncheberg , whose score now stood at 43 . |
| 30 | She had a sudden sharp memory of the unexpected sleeping arrangements during the weekend when Janice had stayed at Loch Lomond . |