Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [adv] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , although the House had capital status , La Scala always had the advantage of having vital commerce on its doorstep . |
| 2 | One called John lived at Cheddington , owning land worth £1 with goods of £20 , another at Linslade , assessed at £2. 6s. 8d. and £6. 13s. 4d. respectively ; either could have been the owner of £1. 6s. 8d. in land at Soulbury , where William Turney also had the same income from land , together with £5 in moveables . |
| 3 | The days were getting shorter and colder , and with Christmas approaching there was so much to do in the kitchen Sarah rarely had a spare minute . |
| 4 | As the Renfrew field only had one runway the forecast predicted a change in wind direction which would make landing difficult , if not impossible . |
| 5 | The only worry Mum ever had was getting enough to go round . |
| 6 | I though Tyler was the best writer NME ever had and I 've since found out that him and Ian McDonald were the ones that gave the NME its style in the first place . |
| 7 | Ian Wright also had food for thought as he made a hasty exit from Arsenal 's demoralised dressing room . |
| 8 | In action , the field artillery particularly had even less cover than the infantry ; often reduced still further by officers of the old school of that notably proud French arm , ‘ La Reine des Batailles ’ , who believed ( and there were still many like them ) that to take cover under fire was almost cowardice . |
| 9 | ‘ Take Me , I 'm Yours ’ , an eight-minute guitar tirade later had its name shortened to ‘ Take Me ! ’ ( although it was actually lengthened in playing time to nine minutes on the LP ) after the 100th person pointed out to Gedge that Squeeze had a song of the same name . |
| 10 | In its annual update on the incidence of HIV and AIDS , published on Jan. 3 , 1990 , WHO had reported that the total number of reported AIDS cases worldwide had reached 203,599 by the end of 1989 , an increase of 36,942 or 22.2 per cent on the previous year [ for 1988 figures see pp. 37019-20 ] . |
| 11 | A telephone call from Taylor 's assistant Lawrie McMenemy soon had Ince travelling south , along with United team-mate Gary Pallister , a late replacement for Arsenal 's Tony Adams . |
| 12 | They were standing on the lawn in front of the lovely red-brick house with its weathered old red tiles and its tall chimneys , and Miss Honey still had the pair of garden clippers in one hand . |
| 13 | Everyone knew that Duke William still had his hands full with Anjou and Aquitaine , but a victory was a victory , and the Normans drank deeply that Christmas , but not so deeply , as Osbern cheerfully assured his employer , that they would not be able to defend Scotia against anyone who tried to interfere with it . |
| 14 | The significant lowering of interest rates reducing our investment income also had an adverse effect . |
| 15 | The silver car ahead had disappeared . |
| 16 | These doctors must be grossly overpaid , unless — yes , Toby Latimer clearly had a private income which allowed him to indulge his tastes to the full . |
| 17 | Mr he had a lot to do with this and the Royal Artillery Club here had and er I thought it were a nice gesture . |
| 18 | And apart from that rent Boy hardly had any money . |
| 19 | ‘ Every club years ago had a tough-tackling defender in their side but they did n't resort to the tactics he is talking about . |
| 20 | By March 1990 Navan Resources still had not told the islanders the extent of the gold find or their plans for it . |
| 21 | David Mellor naturally had a soundbite up his sleeve . |
| 22 | Irving Moss now had what he believed would be his final instructions . |
| 23 | Seven or eight years later , by the time he preached his remarkable sermon ‘ The Weight of Glory ’ C. S. Lewis clearly had a full belief in the Eucharistic Presence , or there would be no force in the rhetoric of his ‘ Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself , your neighbour is the holiest object presented to your senses . ’ |
| 24 | Richard Baxter also had a great burden for foreign missionary work . |
| 25 | Although after Jutland Britain still had more ships than Germany , as the Kaiser remarked , ‘ The spell of Trafalgar has been broken . ’ |
| 26 | It was suggested Goldsmith interests already had two per cent and were planning to build a significant shareholding to encourage the Grand Met board to consider a breakup . |
| 27 | Bearing in mind recent noisy Opposition condemnation of steel plant closures , has the Opposition spokesman yet had the guts to give the people of Scotland an unequivocal assurance that , given the chance , they would prevent such closures — |
| 28 | Dune sands also had positive skewness but were finer than beach sands . |
| 29 | Miss Danziger also had it in her favour that she was in all things the opposite of Bo-Bo . |
| 30 | The investment bank therefore had a powerful incentive to make sure its client won its bids , regardless of whether it was paying too much . |