Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [conj] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1963 , Butler and Stokes began a series of surveys which set a new pattern , and a new standard , for the study of voting behaviour in Britain : their sample was large , nation-wide , and was interviewed several times between 1963 and 1970 ; and the authors were concerned to apply a rigour that had been absent from most of the earlier single constituency studies of electoral choice . |
| 2 | Most working men claimed to know someone who had once been given a trial or had been ‘ on the books ’ of a club for a spell . |
| 3 | She particularly hated the small kitchen , which was little more than a passageway and had no worksurfaces or cupboards . |
| 4 | Thus began the last chapter of a case that had started as a simple bank robbery , then extended into one of murder and fraud , and drugs . |
| 5 | They were jointly engaged in a burglary and had contemplated resisting arrest . |
| 6 | In order to help accommodate the costs of the Navy 's new carrier , CVA 01 , and Polaris , and the RAF 's TSR 2 , such projects as the Army 's Blue Water artillery missile were cancelled in August 1962 ; and , despite the pressure on Army manpower , it was decided to run down the Gurkhas from 14,600 to 10,000 rather than cut any more British battalions — a decision that had to be reversed nine months later to meet the needs of the Borneo campaign . |
| 7 | As we entered the kitchen Pat looked up at the roof and the large gaping hole caused by a shell that had passed through two floors then smashed through the kitchen door , ending up in the garden . |
| 8 | What about the last we did yesterday actually designers and training , it 's quite a , it 's quite a struggle that had a long day , been sitting here for a couple of hours I du n no it seems longer and there you are and you 're actually struggling |
| 9 | A senior academic was arrested ‘ for carrying unsigned tracts ’ of a kind that had been circulating throughout the city for a month . |
| 10 | Filled with shock of a kind that had not been with him since the actor-manager 's first refusal , Paul took himself out into the snow . |
| 11 | There was clearly some basis here for irredentist disputes of a kind that had become familiar in interwar Europe . |
| 12 | The issues at stake could hardly have been greater , and they concerned the other members of the world community just as much as they concerned the USSR : for it was not only in the USSR that an answer was being sought to the question as to whether there could be a ‘ third way ’ — a socialism that ensured a decent and equitable living for all its members and yet avoided monopolistic concentrations of power of a kind that had led to political repression in the USSR and other communist-ruled nations . |
| 13 | He had a beard that had got slightly out of hand , growing a little longer on one side : he twisted the hairs into tiny Bluebeard curls ; there was something in his face — a certain quality — that seemed ingrained , weathered in . |
| 14 | It was the end of a trail which had had its beginnings in those first rumblings of Henry Fairlie against the Establishment and Malcolm Muggeridge against the Monarchy ; a trail that had led on through the Angry Young Men and all the resentments sown by Suez , through the heyday of affluence , through all the mounting impatience with convention , tradition and authority that had been marked by the teenage revolution and the CND and the New Morality , through the darkening landscape of security scandals and What 's Wrong With Britain and the rising aggression and bitterness of the satirists , in ever more violent momentum . |
| 15 | Mrs Parkin left , blaming Ellen for having turned her son from a faith that had sustained her family through death , famine , hardship , war , bereavement . |
| 16 | In a memorable analogy the black African nationalist ( and socialist ) leader Leopold Senghor had said that the French Union must not be built like a cage that no one would care to enter ; but in the Ho-Sainteny agreement the Vietminh were in effect being asked to take up the tenancy of a building that had not yet been constructed . |
| 17 | She was dressed in trousers and a trenchcoat and had a mane of fair hair beneath a tight-fitting beret . |
| 18 | John had dreams of being a writer and had tried his hand at poetry , including an epic poem on the Battle of Largs . |
| 19 | He also fancied himself as an inventor — a pastime that had his mother caught between maternal pride and an almost uncontrollable urge to murder him . |
| 20 | We found a computer that had mysteriously been left untouched by the Iraqis ( they took anything that they thought might be valuable broke everything else , as a rule ) . |
| 21 | The murder case slipped easily into its next phase , as if it had been programmed by a computer that had access to several personal files and knew where they interacted . |
| 22 | The farmer sent him to keep a flock of larks off a field that had just been set with winter corn : ‘ It was late November or early December ; and when it got dark about half past four time I made my way back to the farm thinking my job was done . |
| 23 | It was woven to represent a field that had been horse-ploughed in the old narrow stetches . |
| 24 | Often times when I was going into the country after orders and so on in the autumn , I 'd look at a field that had been freshly ploughed up after the harvest ; and I 'd think to myself how much like a piece of Doncaster Cord it was — colour , straight lines and everything . ’ |
| 25 | In total about twenty-six copper coins were recovered from this section , which is quite a lot from just one part of a field that had no habitation on it . |
| 26 | ‘ Then he got injured in a field and had to be off for a year , but everything seems to be going well now . |
| 27 | That being so , and the items being so basic , their lordships held that the parties had not intended to make a contract but had simply agreed to agree . |
| 28 | The defence counsel , Robert Anthony , said that McCormack was not a drinker and had acted out of character after consuming alcohol that night . |
| 29 | The early Byzantine pendants and a necklace that had graced some medieval nobleman 's wife . |
| 30 | In Cuzco International Airport , the ‘ queue ’ for the flight to Puerto Maldonaldo , gateway to the jungle , swelled before me : a snake that had gorged itself over and over . |