Example sentences of "of [noun] [conj] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite this application of man power , it was not possible to achieve the same rate of progress as had been made in the Lowlands . |
| 2 | Hari shook back a strand of hair that had fallen from the pins . |
| 3 | Flavia Sherman brushed away a strand of hair that had fallen across his eyes and smiled fondly at him . |
| 4 | But it was still unreal when he reached out and , bending over her , gently pushed back the wisps of hair that had loosened from beneath her headband . |
| 5 | The light of hope that had flickered in Tubby 's eyes died and he shook his head wearily . |
| 6 | Buried within the plastic explosive had been a miniature detonator , or minidet , later extracted from within a fragment of vertebra that had been itself buried in the spleen . |
| 7 | It was the kind of story that had brought an endless succession of journalists and film crews to Liverpool throughout the turbulent Militant-in-control years of the 1980s . |
| 8 | Surely it was kindness of heart and had nothing to do with complexes . |
| 9 | The 1977–81 material is thought to be essentially complete , except for the exclusion of 12% who had a previous history of malignancy or had undergone gastric surgery or who were given the drug for another diagnosis than a peptic ulcer related disease . |
| 10 | Running back down the avenue , daffodil leaves yellowing on its verges , young beech leaves playing with the light overhead , Nicandra felt purged of the morning 's unfortunate happenings : of all of them except the thrust of horror that had pierced her before the death of a lamb . |
| 11 | They were built mainly of brick but had columns , capitals , entablatures and wall coverings of marble and stone taken from the numerous ruined Roman secular buildings ; most floors were of Roman mosaic . |
| 12 | ‘ Ah well , ’ said Rory , slowing to avoid a pair of sheep that had come dribbling across the road . |
| 13 | There were extraordinary numbers of roads that had no signposts . |
| 14 | Actual demographic trends also contributed to the outward movement , as the rearing of the 1960s baby boom children increased the demand for houses with gardens and as falling average household size reduced the population capacity of cities that had only limited sites available for new housing construction ( Champion , 1987b ) . |
| 15 | The demographic trends outlined earlier in this chapter also played a part , as the rearing of the 1960s baby-boom children increased the demand for houses with gardens and as falling average household size reduced the population capacity of cities that had only limited sites available for new housing construction . |
| 16 | For instance , Alex was shown pairs of objects that had nothing in common and asked ‘ What 's the same ? ’ |
| 17 | He himself had bitten his tongue from what he could feel in his mouth , probably loosened a couple of teeth and had a flesh wound over his eye . |
| 18 | The Bishop of Hereford was an associate of Mortimer and had been brought before parliament in 1324 to face charges that members of his retinue had helped Mortimer to escape from the Tower . |
| 19 | Matthew Arnold , staring out at the Channel , thought of Sophocles and the sea of faith that had since receded . |
| 20 | Uncle Bill had run a car for her on his company while he was alive but of course that had all stopped when he died . |
| 21 | Of course that had been mostly created by the lack of money , but the instability she saw in Joe was n't that kind of lack , it was something she could n't put her finger on . |
| 22 | Of course that had always been the case , the young always did set the fashion ; but never before did it change so rapidly , never before were the older generation so pathetically afraid of being left behind . |
| 23 | He came back and used another word I knew of course but had never heard my father , or any adult , say before . |
| 24 | If Rome , during the time of Constantine , began to assume the characteristics of the old Herodian Sadducee priesthood , Egyptian Christianity beyond the city centres diverged increasingly towards the kind of framework that had served the Zadokites or Essenes of Jesus 's time . |
| 25 | He had once said that he did n't know whether his passion for water-power was a result of meanness or had some deeper Freudian significance . |
| 26 | The treacherous oak swayed above , the tree that had promised the milk of Paradise but had stood guard instead overtop the spilling of other fluids . |
| 27 | His mother had been silent when she first saw it , and his father had been angry at the lack of enthusiasm and had arranged to take Stuart fishing for a day to a small loch where he could borrow a boat . |
| 28 | The vast majority of research in the 1960s in America and the 1970s in Britain was based on relatively small-scale , retrospective clinical studies of cases that had come to the attention of health and welfare professionals . |
| 29 | The slender loins and wide shoulders kept their elegance of shape and movement , the skin was clear of wrinkles except for the lines of experience that had graved themselves into his face ; but the flesh was drying and withering now , hardening between weathered skin and shapely bone . |
| 30 | Charles Caldecott , who owned the Whetstone Park Stud , was an odd character whom Kelly had met a couple of times and had never really taken to . |