Example sentences of "[adv] had [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of this attitude by some of the die-hards , more and more money was being spent on new craft and equipment and our Technical Branch , which hitherto had concentrated on the maintenance on our fleet of small boarding launches , was being geared up to deal with the new cutter fleet . |
| 2 | If two together had happened upon a dead man , they could have spoken for each other . ’ |
| 3 | I literally had to plunge into the abyss and find out what I could about what they were doing to me , or what they wanted me to do . |
| 4 | UK deregulation meant that the smaller , traditional banks suddenly had to compete on a global scale , and very few had the financial power necessary . |
| 5 | It was as she was approaching the last crest before the house came into sight that she suddenly had to stamp on the brakes as a Land Rover came pitching round the hillside . |
| 6 | So much had happened in the last few months . |
| 7 | Thirty years , of course , divide the publication of Jane Austen 's novels from the appearance of Disraeli 's trilogy , and much had happened in the interim to make the Gothic house grow serious . |
| 8 | When the seventeen-year-old but returned to Iran after five years in Switzerland , much had changed under the impact of his fathers modernization , Teheran now had boulevards and electric lights in Iran was beginning to have some appurtenances of the work to the West . |
| 9 | So much had changed in the city . |
| 10 | By the time the first censuses were undertaken in Britain , much had changed in the structure of society as well as in the nature of the state itself . |
| 11 | So much had changed within the Judge family . |
| 12 | After her death , he advertised for a housekeeper with a view to matrimony but unfortunately the first lady who took the job decamped after a few days , taking with her his prized possessions and helped by a male friend who apparently had kept in the background . |
| 13 | But we then took a view about , about future years because in a sense we 've always been , obviously had to provide for the er , year impression . |
| 14 | Investigation of the feet of the fines ( property documents ) for the period revealed that in 1392/3 , 1398/9 and 1410/11 Andrew had indeed been involved in a series of transactions concerning an estate of some 200 acres , which obviously had belonged to the family for a long time . |
| 15 | The people there not only had to cope with the incidents themselves but living down the bad reputation . |
| 16 | But the England under-21 midfielder only had to wait until the 53rd minute to exact his revenge when he chipped in a telling cross for Goodman to score . |
| 17 | I only had to deal with a couple of vicious assaults over the telephone when the magazine I was writing for decided he was too dodgy to get involved with and , with mind-boggling nerve , he threatened us with legal action for breach of contract . |
| 18 | The Commission for the Transformation of the LCY not only had to contend with the opposing Slovene and Serbian proposals , but also with proposals that the party be reconstituted as a Socialist Party of Yugoslavia , or even split into a communist and a socialist party . |
| 19 | YOU only had to walk into the members ' lobby of the Commons yesterday to know what you 'd suspected for days . |
| 20 | It also meant he only had to walk across the Paddock when he went on night duty . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You only had to look at the faces sitting around the table at base camp to know that they were physically and mentally finished . ’ |
| 22 | They only had to look at the floor of her cockpit to prove that . |
| 23 | Marcus did n't care what Wilson said , you only had to look at the guy . |
| 24 | Suddenly , people were suggesting charity records for every tragedy that occurred , and while money was raised for worthwhile causes , such as the survivors of the Bradford City fire or the sunken Herald Of Free Enterprise ferry , one only had to look at the ropier ideas for fund-raising to question the motives involved . |
| 25 | Gazzer only had to stand in the middle of the towpath and wait as the man approached him . |
| 26 | Her skin seemed to glow , and she discovered she only had to smile at the male members of the staff and they were immediately more friendly . |
| 27 | They only had to wince at the racket for 20 minutes or so . |
| 28 | When I complained , the company said there was a clause on the processing envelope that said if anything went wrong , it only had to pay for the film . |
| 29 | She could n't find one , so had to settle for an orange juice . |
| 30 | They had missed the track the night before so had to sleep in the bush with but one blanket each . |