Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] [conj] [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | They noticed that background radiation in the laboratory appeared to rise by up to 50 per cent while the experiment was running but they had no means of knowing whether or not this had anything to do with the experiment as the natural background radiation from cosmic rays can vary substantially during long time periods . |
| 2 | Eleven-year-old Michelle Redshaw from Yorkshire had n't been swimming since part of her small intestine was removed and she had an ileostomy bag fitted . |
| 3 | Our use of some light music on the Fort San Programme was excused because it had been requested for those patients recovering in hospital . |
| 4 | An important aim of the study was to see if there had been any growth in the use of temporary working in Britain in recent years . |
| 5 | The House of Lords held , in effect , that since the applicant was arguing that he had a contractual right under his lease to remain at the lower rent , he was asserting private law rights and so could raise the defence in the possession proceedings in the County Court and did not have to raise it by means of an AJR . |
| 6 | But when the defendant appeared at the Bow Street Magistrates ' Court to answer an information that he had committed the offence under section 5(1) ( a ) of the Act of 1988 of driving with excess alcohol in the blood , he pleaded not guilty and at the close of the case for the prosecution a submission was made that he had no case to answer on the ground that the officer 's requirement at Vine Street Police Station that he provide a specimen of blood had not been validly made in accordance with section 7(4) . |
| 7 | Asked what had happened , she answered : " The horse was shot because it had a broken leg . " |
| 8 | He says that the law was broken and they had to prosecute . |
| 9 | and the sun was shining and everyone had got pla plastic bags , anything they could get to slide on you know |
| 10 | She turned away , leaving Peggy standing stiff and cold , although the sun was shining and it had been in the seventies all day . |
| 11 | Craig made his way at once to the study , the desk was locked as he had expected . |
| 12 | He tried to argue , but everyone in the room knew that the battle was lost before it had even begun . |
| 13 | Work had already started on the bridge when the error was spotted and it had to be raised at enormous cost . |
| 14 | The doses of 20 mg enalapril and 25 mg hydrochlorothiazide were chosen because they had a similar hypotensive effect in a previous short term pilot study we conducted in diabetic patients with similar characteristics . |
| 15 | Her immediate reaction was to fear that something had happened to one of their parents . |
| 16 | Robert Courtney Edwin Robertson writes : Whenever I answered the telephone in the fifties and sixties and heard the anxious voice at the other end saying ‘ Here is Hartvell ’ ( he never quite managed that English ‘ W ’ ) , I knew that either my deadline for an article was passed or he had some exciting new book for me to review . |
| 17 | Robert Courtney Edwin Robertson writes : Whenever I answered the telephone in the fifties and sixties and heard the anxious voice at the other end saying ‘ Here is Hartvell ’ ( he never quite managed that English ‘ W ’ ) , I knew that either my deadline for an article was passed or he had some exciting new book for me to review . |
| 18 | Sure , his confidence was dented and he had lost a little of his self-assurance and cockiness ; but these returned soon after his home-coming . |
| 19 | His body was fading and he had need of his own son beside him . |
| 20 | In that case a fork-lift truck with a fail-safe device failed ; the plaintiff was injured and he had no idea what had gone wrong . |
| 21 | The coroner was told that he had drunk between twelve and sixteen pints of lager . |
| 22 | The court 's heard that she had been taking cocaine and drinking whisky . |
| 23 | The men had been dead for at least a week and speculation is mounting that they had suffocated after locking themselves in the container . |
| 24 | The court was told that he had killed the girl after taking part in sex play with her and then discovering that she was under age . |
| 25 | After the war , ‘ unfilled ’ vinyl was used because it had much less surface noise , and a few sets of unfilled vinyl 78s were made for early hi-fi buffs . |
| 26 | The two ladies had each paid 500 dollars for the privilege of a ten-minute consultation , during which one was told that she had been a quartz crystal in a former life while the other was informed that she had been an E flat ! |
| 27 | He looked down at the man still standing nervously in front of him , and noticed his jacket was patched and someone had put leather binding round the edges of the sleeves . |
| 28 | A short adventure may take several hours to complete , and that does n't count the times your character was killed and you had to start again . |
| 29 | Miss X had taken out the mortgage because her father was retired and she had intended that her fiance should move in with her and her parents . |
| 30 | My aunt was explaining that she had come up to visit me . |