Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] had " in BNC.

  Previous page   Next page
No Sentence
31 The People 's Party and the Czechoslovak Socialist Party , which functioned as proper political parties before 1948 and have since had a satellite existence , have begun to flex their muscles .
32 MANY of us were brought up on stories of great inventors and individualistic engineers , and have since had to reeducate ourselves to understand the development of science and technology as a social process , or even to believe that inventions are ‘ socially constructed ’ .
33 I did art right up until the end of school and have always had an interest in architecture .
34 ‘ We 've acted for the club for a long time and have always had a good relationship with them .
35 In this sense we want to tie the structural changes in political economy that have marked most nations in the last decade and have commonly had their most profound consequences in cities , to attempts to demarcate a space that corresponds to the political , social and academic construction of a traumatised inner city .
36 I have travelled thousands of miles on and off road and have never had any problem ( other than the occasional nail ) with Michelin tyres on cars or Land/Range Rovers so can recommend them from experience .
37 I have carried my own personal tapes and cassettes in NO SMOKING carriages for nearly 20 years and have never had a problem .
38 But perhaps someone from Midland can explain how they hope to attract accounts from youngsters in their first jobs who have not passed their driving test and have never had a passport .
39 Lizzie says : ‘ I have 20 years ’ experience and have never had a single complaint . ’
40 I only did this because I know the outlet where I purchased the fish from has its own excellent quarantine facilities and I have used this shop for over 10 years and have never had any trouble with fish purchased from there .
41 I have had my glassfish about 18 months , and have never had any trouble in getting them to take dried food as opposed to live .
42 We are always together , and have never had enough of each other 's company .
43 Young people three , four years out of college and have never had a job .
44 Some people have been in hospital for 34 years and have never had their independence .
45 In recent years US unions have not been inactive in the political sphere and have actually had a large degree of impact on influencing legislation concerned with broader social and economic issues ( Lewin , 1978 ) .
46 Another helpful procedure would be to let children who are learning to read silently have some experience of reading aloud , to one another , passages of their own choosing , not ‘ from cold ’ , as a test of reading skill , but after they have become familiar with a text in general terms and have perhaps had a chance to look closely at syntax or vocabulary found to be perplexing .
  Previous page   Next page