Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv] had the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The obvious introductions were made , and what ensued was to bring more pleasure to Repton than any job he had ever done — ‘ such a specimen of my art , ’ he wrote of his work at Sheringham , ‘ as I never before had the opportunity of displaying ’ . |
| 2 | I suppose I got more bullied into it through me family really , to get off it , so I never really had the push to come off it . |
| 3 | I never really had the drive or the ambition to go any further . |
| 4 | She no longer had the money to make ends meet . |
| 5 | We never even had the courage to send De Gaulle a copy of one of our books . ’ |
| 6 | They had lost significance for her yet still had the power to bring her to the verge of tears , reminding her of what they had once meant : of one Easter when the scent had been a gift , of autumn afternoons when she had taken her baby in a pushchair from one to another of the now disappeared junk shops , buying Victorian china , pieces of old lace and old books , looking forward to the future . |
| 7 | I could n't believe that he just about had the audacity to phone this guy up . |
| 8 | Maria Filippa understood his lassitude , condoned his inertia ; and for that he felt an overwhelming gratitude , because he knew other wives who would have grown impatient with such a husband , who had begun so promising , so full of the future and then … what with headaches , lack of nerve , had found he no longer had the energy , the stomach for getting on . |
| 9 | He no longer had the strength to yell instructions to the men on the catamaran . |
| 10 | Even Ipuky could not arrange for him to see this body , and he no longer had the cachet of officialdom with which to browbeat the embalmer . |
| 11 | A formal party vote might not be necessary to remove him : senior members of his party might make it clear to the Prime Minister that he no longer had the confidence of the parliamentary party ( as , in a sense , happened with Churchill in 1955 ) , or the lack of support might become clear as the result of a Commons vote ( as in 1940 , when Chamberlain obtained a drastically-reduced majority in a vote of confidence ) . |
| 12 | And he no longer had the photograph . |
| 13 | Such an uninspiring vista to bring so much heartache , and she found now that the sight of it no longer had the power to hurt her . |
| 14 | On June 3 , 1990 , the national committee of the Social Democratic Party voted to suspend the party 's constitution because it no longer had the membership or popular support to continue as a democratic national party . |