Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun] [conj] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | It arranged with the manufacturers that he would be allowed to see technical data that had been carefully doctored to include major errors . |
| 2 | She had seen pictures in books and on television of gaudily painted narrow boats and had warmed to the romantic life they portrayed . |
| 3 | Although they were not avowedly political , they did make political pronouncements and had a ‘ privilege of approaching the Throne ’ which , by the end of the nineteenth century , had lapsed through disuse . |
| 4 | Critics of the privatization plan claimed that it was improvised , lacked clear conditions and had suffered from poor regulation . |
| 5 | He lacked social graces and had no small talk but this , to some extent , was compensated for by his unfailing memory . |
| 6 | The broader-based Latin American Free Trade Area appeared to increase intra-industry trade but had few other perceptible consequences . |
| 7 | By 1991 , the IWC scientific committee had developed a revised management procedure ( RMP ) to provide adequate safeguards and had estimated the population of Antarctic minke whale at 760,000 , well above the number needed to resume commercial whaling ( see Nature 357 , 532 ; 1992 ) . |
| 8 | Thus the implantation of the intendant system weakened rather than strengthened the hold of metropolitan Spain , by ending corrupt practices that had allowed creoles control of their own affairs , and by creating bitter rivalries between the new officials and their subordinates . |
| 9 | The development of these courses involved widespread consultation and had required a major commitment by college staff . |
| 10 | Out of the honed hard grain that had nothing in it . |
| 11 | There were two women with cholecystectomy who reported frequent urgency and had objective evidence of diarrhoea in that their estimated intestinal transit times were 20 and 18 hours . |
| 12 | The following also has poor starts but had scored their maiden half-century by their 12th innings : |
| 13 | Most studies focus on school achievement , but this may be misleading because there is evidence to suggest that Afro-Caribbean and Asian students are more likely than white students to stay on in further education and some do manage to obtain academic qualifications that had eluded them at school ( Craft and Craft , 1983 ) , while one investigation suggests that young black people in inner city areas had gained better academic qualifications than white youth in the same areas ( Roberts , Duggan and Noble , 1983 ) , a finding borne out more generally by some other studies ( Brown , 1984 ) . |
| 14 | At school the students were never given standard equipment and had to make things in the lab for themselves . |
| 15 | They had checked similar seats that had been subjected to the rough and tumble of Metropolitan Police life , and ones that had supported over 70,000 miles , and they were all right as rain . |
| 16 | When nylon underwear first became popular I produced similar fireworks and had to earth myself to radiators when nobody was looking . |
| 17 | At first LEAs made annual bids and had to ensure that money was passed to schools . |
| 18 | The burly and balding policeman told the court he suffered sexual obsessions and had had sex with more than 1,600 women in three years . |
| 19 | Although the proceedings reinforced Castro 's dominance of the PCC , some decisions ratified by the congress , in particular accepting direct election of all delegates to the National Assembly of People 's Powers , were interpreted as signs that he had either made tactical concessions or had recognized the need for gradual change . |
| 20 | GEORGE Bernard Shaw wanted to simplify English spelling and had such a bee ( a spelling-bee ? ) in his bonnet that he bequeathed his royalties for its promotion . |
| 21 | In animals it had marked effects on autonomic function , reduced motor activity and had marked anticholinergic properties . |
| 22 | I 've always ridden bikes off the road on to trails to get far into the heart of the country , but they were big , creaky , clanking old things that had to have a puncture repaired every 20 minutes . |
| 23 | Time and again those brought to trial reveal proper trades and had completed apprenticeships . |
| 24 | Details of the assaults , which were compiled by the US Army Criminal Investigation Command and reported in the press on July 21 , showed that , as had been the case in the Tailhook incident , the military authorities had discouraged victims from lodging official complaints and had shown a reluctance to investigate in instances where an official complaint had been filed . |
| 25 | To coincide with the launch of the Constitution , the government lifted the state of siege , imposed in 1984 in response to the violent activity of drug traffickers , right-wing paramilitary groups and left-wing guerrillas ; this had curtailed civil liberties and had given extraordinary power to the President to re-establish public order . |
| 26 | ‘ He was n't , but I told him that Sean 'n' Michael was havin' hard times and had to draw in the reins a bit . |
| 27 | We had made good time and had to ease speed to avoid closing the island in darkness . |
| 28 | Furthermore , quite irrationally , some retired husbands begin to harbour dire suspicions about their wives ' working colleagues , imagining romantic entanglements that had never crossed their minds before . |
| 29 | Under Chatichai such unions had wielded considerable power and had caused serious disruption to the government 's privatization plans . |
| 30 | Robyn 's mother , Vera Williams , of Wilton Village , who is now looking after Penny , said since her daughter had her baby she had suffered postnatal depression and had been taking various prescribed drugs . |