Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun prp] [conj] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the continent his troupes were popular in Germany and had regular bookings at the Paris Olympia and the Casino de Paris . |
| 2 | Edward 's downfall had been sudden and complete ; yet its instigators , the queen and Mortimer , had never been popular in England and had enjoyed little if any overt support there until they landed in September 1326 . |
| 3 | Esther , who had always been deeply bored with Delia and had no wish whatsoever to keep in touch with her , sat quietly in the smooth , upholstered , comfortable , large toffee-brown Volvo , which smelled of dog . |
| 4 | He went sick in September and had not returned to work since . |
| 5 | He went sick in September and had not returned to work since . |
| 6 | Her duties as a chaperone had become less evident now that she was accustomed to Paul and had been spoken to kindly . |
| 7 | He was married to Hester and had a son and three daughters , leaving to them property in Durham when he died in England in 1666 . |
| 8 | The boys were with Mrs Titcombe and young Thomas reported that his father was concerned about Rhoda and had gone in search of her . |
| 9 | Mr Rawlinson said NACRO was busy in Harwich and had recently undertaken work to clear up the town 's Bobbitt 's Hole nature reserve and The Hangings beauty spot . |
| 10 | The Guardian of Jan. 9 , for example , reported that Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) documents circulated internally in late December had been critical of Gorbachev and had blamed him for the " subversion " of socialism in Eastern Europe . |
| 11 | The fact that three of these families had been moderately wealthy in Palestine and had managed to acquire the same social status in their exile — that they behaved and looked like millions of middle-class couples in Europe , or indeed in Israel — only compounded my error . |
| 12 | Jackson was restless at Aberdeen and had ambitions to play in England , but he threatened to return to America , where he had lived earlier , if he was not released . |
| 13 | Van in those days was remote from Constantinople and had been visited by few Europeans . |
| 14 | Visits from drug users who were positive for HIV and had AIDS were not eligible . |
| 15 | The HSE 's review of the first year of COSHH concluded that most firms were aware of COSHH and had tried to comply with the regulations , though many had not gone beyond the collection of information about hazards . |