Example sentences of "had [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 They had powder enough — sixteen tons of it .
2 By the Cretaceous , insect damage is very pronounced as in the example of hundreds of cycad cones that have been examined : 22.2% of them had damage especially noticeable in those with mature pollen-bearing organs .
3 I probably , homework , because her daughter was dying or something and she , her daughter was quite seriously ill and taken to hospital , so we just had Miss so we were n't given any homework for that
4 The report says that one in 10 customers were charged incorrectly by their bank or building society , one in five had wrangles over standing orders and one in seven had money incorrectly removed from their accounts .
5 One in seven had money incorrectly removed from their account .
6 One in seven had money incorrectly removed from their account .
7 Maria objected strongly but Noreen had said it would only be for a little while until she went back to school in New York , now that Noreen had money enough to get them their own place .
8 And I suppose she had money there , must have been .
9 I had money only for something just short of a slum .
10 The doctor was very tall and had hair nearly the same colour as Corrie 's .
11 I thought all those warm-blooded young Latin ladies had hair as black as a raven 's wing . ’
12 Oh John you had hair there look .
13 How was it she had heart even to look at me , as tormented as she was ? ’
14 Like some of its west-European counterparts it had responsibility also for a number of domestic or quasi-domestic concerns such as relations with the Don Cossacks and with foreign merchants in Russia .
15 I had , as it happens , had experience just before Westland of another very well-known public company — John Brown — which had encountered difficulties .
16 Back in the building trade once again which I had experience before so I had no problem .
17 By 1780 the Excise had watch over 33,000 brewers and victuallers , 36,000 publicans , 35,500 tea and coffee dealers and several thousand chandlers , as well as smaller numbers in such trades as calico printing and paper making .
18 I had blood all over me .
19 But she also had living there a Colonel Stringer who was quite an important Scots Officer , three of his servants and a sergeant and one other soldier , so she had 6 extra people .
20 I had action very quickly on the cat rods in the margin on arrival but that died very quickly .
21 The US administration on Sept. 19 announced a ban on the import of fish caught by means of " drift nets " ; the ban had effect immediately for South Pacific catches , and for all catches from July 1 , 1992 .
22 I had popcorn there
23 Come in , we had tea then he went out again .
24 We had tea afterwards in a hotel in Berthing , but we failed to come to an agreement .
25 We had tea there and admired 100s of beautiful primroses , and hid little eggs for Roger Simpson 's ( the rector ) children who were to arrive later on .
26 ‘ We had tea there , before we came up West . ’
27 Then we had tea together with me sitting up in bed in my dressing-gown .
28 Had labour suddenly become a local authority , or did the S S A simply fail as an accurate way of assessing our spending needs ?
29 Yeah , it had football tomorrow .
30 They had recourse again , for the last time , to their favourite " father and child " analogy .
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