Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Myeloski , still unsteady on his feet from the effects of the flight , had weakly harangued a local taxi-driver into driving them to the police station . |
| 2 | Lord Denning M.R. circumvented section 441(3) by finding that the judge had misconstrued the words in section 411 , had thereby made a jurisdictional error , and therefore , relying on Anisminic and Pearlman , the ‘ no appeal ’ clause was ineffective . |
| 3 | But now , rather like recording afresh over the existing programme on an audio or visual cassette , Sylvia had superimposed a successful situation and had thereby made a significant change in the data recognized by her subconscious . |
| 4 | The father she had always known would no longer have anything to do with her so she had eventually got a tiny room in a house in London which served as a hostel for single girls . |
| 5 | The defendants admitted the validity of the will of 30 June 1978 but contended that the deceased had duly executed a further testamentary paper being a first codicil on 18 April 1986 and counterclaimed for the pronouncement in solemn form for the codicil . |
| 6 | In a development connected to the election campaign it was revealed on Dec. 18 that the Justice Department had secretly appointed a special prosecutor to investigate whether senior White House officials had been involved in a search of Clinton 's passport records . |
| 7 | I had secretly harboured a vague desire to be a subject ( Vague desire ? ! |
| 8 | Iraq had successfully tested a modified Soviet Scud-B missile ( the al-Husayen ) in 1987 , effectively doubling its 300-km range , thereby placing Tel Aviv , Tehran and Damascus within range . |
| 9 | They think , perhaps , more in terms of what knowledge and skills they would hope to find in a secondary school entrant rather than of those one might expect from a child who had successfully completed a primary school course . |
| 10 | By refusing to keep open two-way radio links , the crews had effectively ended a proper emergency service . |
| 11 | He had metaphorically shaken a large fist , impotently , at some looming energy-field , and got on with his work , his work . |
| 12 | It was a routine call on the bereaved Mrs Place who had lost her father and who might soon be a widow , who had perhaps shed a few tears , but not very many . |
| 13 | The SDP leader Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson had declared that his party could not continue to participate in the previous PP-SDP-PA centre-left coalition arrangement without a clear consensus on two key policy issues : Iceland 's position in EFTA negotiations with the European Communities ( EC ) , in which he had personally played a leading role as Foreign Minister , and a proposed US$1,000 million project to build a new aluminium smelting plant south of Reykjavik . |
| 14 | The Times , which had hitherto kept a dignified silence on such a distasteful subject , pronounced itself well-pleased with the modified outcome . |
| 15 | After four weeks every group had interviewed four of the original subjects , plus others who came in for a single session , and they had all accumulated a great amount of material . |
| 16 | But they had all made a serious error , himself included . |
| 17 | They had all had a normal haemoglobin concentration . |
| 18 | In recent years we met less often and yet he could conjure up an incident which made us both feel it had all happened a few days ago . |
| 19 | She 'd tacked a few scraps of old cotton into a baby-gown too and sent it round next door for the new Rattrie baby , born very inconveniently , as it turned out , the day after the funeral , her fit of generosity entirely misplaced , since the child had only lived a few hours and the gown — upon which Odette had worked a few hasty stitches of embroidery — had ended up in the pawnshop — Cara had seen it herself in the window — to help pay , she supposed , for yet another infantile disposal . |
| 20 | The Council felt that it had only achieved a limited success in achieving the aims determined above . |
| 21 | The mention of Seville had only aroused a small murmur of protest in her left ventricle , and that was an improvement on a few months back when open heart surgery had seemed the only cure for her suffering . |
| 22 | He had only gone a short distance , when he found himself stepping into a small moonlit clearing , some twenty yards across . |
| 23 | We had only gone a few steps when a voice called out from across the street . |
| 24 | ‘ I suppose I first started thinking about this when I was at university in the late '70s : that getting rid of a set of prejudices about women had only reinforced a whole bunch of prejudices about men . |
| 25 | They had only met a few days ago . |
| 26 | He seemed to be having difficulty with the second pint , and had only drunk a third of it when he looked at his watch . |
| 27 | ICI claimed this was not harmful to residents in the area and they had only received a small number of complaints from people who had inhaled the gas . |
| 28 | We should remember that it was ill the employers " interests to claim that it was not worth providing women with a long training because they would waste it by leaving early ; while it was in the trade union 's interest to claim that women were incompetent because they had only received a short training . |
| 29 | Afterwards McWilliams said : ‘ Before today I had only ridden a 250 machine round Kirkistown and I found the grand prix bike a hot handful . ’ |
| 30 | Afterwards McWilliams said : ‘ Before today I had only ridden a 250 machine round Kirkistown and I found the grand prix bike a hot handful . ’ |