Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | London has so far had luck on its side with three massive IRA bombs failing to detonate . |
| 2 | Surely Somalia deserves more assistance from the international community than it has so far had ? |
| 3 | While SunNet Manager is widely used in local network-based and local network interconnect environments , it has so far had little support in wide area networking and telecommunications , where Hewlett-Packard Co 's OpenView is seen to have won greater interest . |
| 4 | While SunNet Manager is widely used in local network-based and local network interconnect environments , it has so far had little support in wide area networking and telecommunications , where Hewlett-Packard Co 's OpenView is seen to have won greater interest . |
| 5 | Mrs Lamport has so far had 26 rejection slips for her book . |
| 6 | This sociologically naive view has long since had to be abandoned . |
| 7 | In practice , the minister has only once had to issue such a directive ( when the Conservatives after 1951 stopped any further action by the Iron and Steel Board ) as these reserve powers are quite sufficient to make the boards listen carefully to any suggestions made in a less formal manner by the minister . |
| 8 | It has only ever had one edition in the Russian — in 1920 — and one German translation in 1922 . |
| 9 | In all this time it has only ever had three owners . |
| 10 | Mr Keith ‘ Cheggers ’ Chegwin , the televisionist non-pareil who not too long ago spent ‘ several weeks ’ in a clinic being treated for ‘ stress ’ , has once again had to seek medical treatment . |
| 11 | The Food , drink and tobacco manufacturing sector has once more had an excellent year . |
| 12 | Secondly , the suitably defiant-sounding Women Call the Shots series screened by Channel 4 in 1990 demonstrated that there is a whole world out there of women 's cinematic practices which has hardly yet had a look-in from the predominantly White and Western body of academic feminist criticism and theory . |
| 13 | Testing of children has always legitimately had separate purposes : diagnostic — to enable the teacher to calibrate their own assessment of a child 's difficulty and judge the next best line for development ; setting of tests to establish mastery of a particular piece of learning when of concept , skill or information ; and standardised to set one 's own information against some comparators . |
| 14 | However , it has also unexpectedly had to rewrite code for the vast numbers of device drivers and peripherals supported in the Intel iAPX-86 family of microprocessors . |
| 15 | Readers will be interested to know that Mr Mant , now in his 90th year , has also recently had published a book on the fall of Singapore in 1942 , another historic event to which he was witness . |
| 16 | Despite the tougher trading conditions I am pleased to report that Healthcare has yet again had a profitable year , and we are poised for further expansion of our business in the coming year . |
| 17 | This was one aspect of her following human emotions where they took her , into many depths and intensities , that has yet hardly had a place in a novel . |
| 18 | He recommends the phrase ‘ care of the body ’ to be used in discussion with clients and continues to surprise us by telling us that in his experience of funeral-arranging he has never yet had anything but a positive response to , ‘ Would you like us to look after mother in our usual way , so that you will be assured of having an everlasting memory of her sleeping peacefully and at rest ? ’ |
| 19 | Having been waited on hand and foot for most of his life and had people jump whenever he called , he has never really had the opportunity to be anything else . |
| 20 | With the shamelessness of the truly selfish man who has never really had to consider another 's feelings he stopped the Archdeacon dead and , taking his fork from his fish , said , ‘ What about Gray ? ’ |
| 21 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 22 | and I mean I then I 'd only just had my operation an and to actually drive for longer than about twenty minute journeys was killing so |
| 23 | Well on the Wittering job he said he wanted somebody there you know er myself as manager to oversee the job but on the Sheffield Wednesday job , incidentally I 'd I got the contract from them both , the Sheffield Wednesday job was done I 'd only ever had to visit it once and that was at my request not at anybody else 's and either way both erm the Wittering and the Sheffield Wednesday er there have been other drivers going . |
| 24 | Oh absolutely marvellous we watched the house go up brick by brick , you know , we , we used to come down here and think oh my goodness wo n't it be marvellous to be able to run some water and have a bath in the normal way you know cos we do n't , we 'd both always had electricity and baths and everything else until this happened and erm , we er , oh it was wonderful , really wonderful absolutely marvellous |
| 25 | She thought you 'd probably never had a bathroom to yourself and that you 'd appreciate something a bit special . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd never really had a guitar hero before then . |
| 27 | It has been lucky in its track record , having apparently never had the necessity of reinstating a completely failed assignment . |
| 28 | These are the new rate books , we 've literally only had them through this week . |
| 29 | I would be grateful if at some point Mr you were to deal with er Doctor 's er most recent comments on the Greater Crested Newt , since of course I 've only just had those er more or less on coming into this room , and I have n't had a chance |
| 30 | ‘ I 've only just had my tea . |