Example sentences of "[adv] that [pers pn] had a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The little reporter realized suddenly that she had a real story for her editor and went pale with fear as she remembered that lady 's ruthless slashing up of her last offering , the report of an insignificant wedding . |
| 2 | So that we had a few tiles that we knew what their pattern and date was . |
| 3 | The lower jaw of these fish is loosely slung to the brain case so that they had a very wide ‘ gape ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ They sent two of our men off — and then they played for an extra ten minutes so that they had a chance to equalise . ’ |
| 5 | She took her jacket off the hook and poked it above the suitcase , so that she had a free hand … |
| 6 | Mrs Allen was encouraged to speak to the nurse in charge or doctor at least weekly so that she had a realistic idea of Mr Allen 's progress . |
| 7 | A sense of adventure remained with Sara for the next few days , a sense of adventure tempered with trepidation , so that she had a sensation of flying high . |
| 8 | ‘ I ca n't believe it ! ’ he cried , but held on to her firmly so that she had a very concrete impression that , if it happened that it was the truth , he had no intention of letting her go , not now . |
| 9 | Each of these was then further subdivided so that he had a total of thirty-eight — each group corresponding to one of the thirty-eight remedies which he subsequently discovered . |
| 10 | ‘ No doubt , ’ murmured Dr Neil , who was finding that this interchange , far from dowsing lust , was fuelling it , so that he had a terrible desire to fall on his knees before his skivvy , crying , ‘ Be mine , McAllister , be mine , immediately , ’ like a hero , or perhaps a villain , in a stage melodrama . |
| 11 | The exercise was designed to make a student stand in front of class , sing his song and force each syllable out in an elongated manner so that it had a beginning and an end ; this , Landau explained , ought to enable the student to go into neutral , physically and mentally , so that tensions could be released and what was happening inside could be heard through the voice changes . |
| 12 | Always shrimps , bread and butter , a bowl of mustard and cress and a rich , light , golden sponge-cake baked that morning in the oven with the Sunday joint so that it had a faint savour of burnt meat fat . |
| 13 | There is not much evidence of a determined drive by the Communists to control NICRA and even less that they had a great deal of influence . |
| 14 | This changed when he became aware not only that he had a personal problem , but that he was that problem . |
| 15 | Now playing at inside-right , Whitworth was top scorer with 16 goals , but he also combined with Frank so effectively that we had a comfortable 2nd Division season , and then he headed our scoring chart again in 1924–25 . |
| 16 | Although the criteria did not have the status of legal rules , Cox argued nevertheless that he had a legitimate expectation that the Home Secretary would follow them when deciding whether the applicant 's telephone would be intercepted . |
| 17 | Rose had begun to sob gently , not at all like her usual wild self , and someone must tell the poor mother downstairs that she had a grandson , but not a daughter . |
| 18 | It 's just that she had a headache and was a bit reticent about it , which is unlike her . |
| 19 | Not that I had a bad opinion of his character , ( I do n't know him ) , it is just that I feel most other clubs would not have even responded to you . |
| 20 | However , when one of the assembled men had suggested that they could have used more men , Springfield had assured them their numbers would be quite sufficient for the job in hand , adding enigmatically that he had a few aces up his sleeve which would reduce the odds against them . |
| 21 | Full of good intentions I declared quite sincerely that I had a dog in my rucksack . |
| 22 | ‘ Amin , my friend , did you not mention once that you had a relative in the Immigration Service here ? ’ he asked him . |
| 23 | Ltd. v. Hawkins ( 1859 ) 4 H. & N. 87 was authority for the proposition that it was an ordinary incident of all corporations ( including municipal corporations ) that they might sue for libel ; that case was only authority for the proposition that a trading company might sue for libel by which its property was injured ; ( 3 ) in holding that the Manchester Corporation case was decided per incuriam when there was no basis for so holding and he should have followed it ; ( 4 ) in holding that in bringing an action for libel not alleged to have caused actual damage , no valid distinction could be made between trading corporations and municipal corporations , which ignored the true basis on which a trading corporation was permitted to sue for libel , namely that it had a trading character , the defamation of which might ruin it : South Hetton Coal Co . Ltd. v. North-Eastern News Association Ltd. [ 1894 ] 1 Q.B. 133 , 145 . |
| 24 | New developments in the production of clothing and footwear , involving the manufacture of cheap commodities for a mass market , meant that people were better clothed and also that they had a purchase on ‘ style ’ — including , as we shall see , ‘ youth styles ’ . |
| 25 | I trust that you have now received a list of the Social Work Centres and also that you had a profitable meeting with regarding the design of the front cover . |
| 26 | The effects of Esther 's stroke were not obvious at first , which made the doctors wonder if she had suffered a second stroke when they found later that she had a very severe left hemiplegia . |
| 27 | The auditors picked up that we had a pink purchase order form which was neither a commissioning letter nor a contract . |
| 28 | McLeish , more sharply than he had meant , pointed out that he had a girlfriend but not a wife . |
| 29 | It turned out that he had a small dredger , an even smaller budget , and a very primitive brand of mowing machine . |
| 30 | It pointed out that he had a good defence to the action , namely that he was not responsible for publication . |