Example sentences of "[adv] had [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If two together had happened upon a dead man , they could have spoken for each other . ’ |
| 2 | UK deregulation meant that the smaller , traditional banks suddenly had to compete on a global scale , and very few had the financial power necessary . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Similar results were reported by Bowers , Neilman , Satz and Altman ( 1978 ) who observed a bilateral but asymmetrical impairment on finger tapping when subjects merely had to listen to a story knowing that they would subsequently be asked to recall its contents . |
| 5 | Grabow and Elliott therefore carried out an experiment similar to that of McAdam and Whitaker and found that movements of the tongue to left or right induced asymmetric scalp potentials which were not observed when subjects merely had to think of a word . |
| 6 | But within a few days , all her mother 's youth and vigour were gone and the energetic , independent woman whose health and dependability she had taken for granted for so long had turned into a helpless invalid , unable to hold down the thinnest gruel , unable to sleep more than a few minutes at a time , unable even to answer the calls of nature on her own , so that she had to be lifted like a child onto the pot and lifted back into the jumble of stinking bedclothes . |
| 7 | He just had to get to a table in the restaurant and sit down . |
| 8 | Both she and Patsy still had to sleep in a cot because their father had not bothered as yet to buy them each a proper bed . |
| 9 | Bright , drafted in for his first start following injuries to David Hirst and Paul Warhurst , put them in front , but Trevor Francis 's men still had to settle for a point at Stamford Bridge . |
| 10 | The end-of-year panic on discovering that other teachers had covered more had led to a general feeling that the quicker topics were completed the better . |
| 11 | The skipper of the Lady Hamilton also had to cope with a bird 's nest on his reel halfway through the fight and had to strip off yards of line before he could resume the battle . |
| 12 | However , it also had to act in a way that would not jeopardize its chance of winning the next election . |
| 13 | Whilst projects were delighted when they got pump-priming money they also had to draw on a range of local resources . |
| 14 | By the later part of the nineteenth century the pattern of inter-generational exchanges which had characterized pre-industrial and early industrial society clearly had shrunk to a pattern of very limited contributions by children to the household economy , except for those children who were allowed to work as ‘ half timers ’ until this possibility was also removed in 1918 ( Hurt , 1979 ) . |
| 15 | Jenny did not reappear and Sara began to think that she really had gone for a walk . |
| 16 | Horsley was being slowly crippled by a rare type of paralysis spreading from his ankle , which meant that he now had to walk with a stick , and which it was feared would eventually put him in a wheelchair . |
| 17 | He now had to think of a decisive way of finishing what he had tentatively started or he too ran the risk of losing face . |
| 18 | She often had to act as a buffer between father and son , especially when frustration and bitterness was felt by the younger man at the lack of delegation of responsibility , etc . |
| 19 | Yet morale in the European shops was never as high as in their UK counterparts and they often had to beg for a booster visit from their patrons . |
| 20 | Umpire Douglas Sang Hue , who interestingly had moved into a square-on position and thus was perfectly placed to adjudicate , gave the startled batsman run out . |
| 21 | She felt embarrassed about this when travelling around London with younger colleagues as they frequently had to resort to a taxi if no bus were available . |
| 22 | The Lancashire skipper then had to wait for a tense two minute trial by television to decide whether he could continue his burgeoning innings . |
| 23 | Having driven past in the usual manner , the driver then had to go through a second time in reverse so that the mourners on the other side could also take a look . |
| 24 | Susan , a part-time school cook , then had to put on a brave face for a holiday in Spain with her children Emma , 10 and Jonathon , 13 . |
| 25 | Then had entered upon a wise and just rule , marked by church endowments and by pilgrimage . |
| 26 | A table nearby had erupted into a burst of crashes and screams . |
| 27 | About 80% had always had an off-farm job and of the others most had started at a time of extra financial pressure on the farm , for example low prices for produce , loss due to weather or stock health problems . |
| 28 | Many of those present had found it hard to pick up the thread of what he was saying and instead had thought with a shiver : " Needles driven into your belly ! |
| 29 | Hunterston footballers played their annual match against Barrow-in-Furness teacher training college … and again had to resort to a penalty shootout to declare a winner . |
| 30 | Faced with this inexorable decline , the Labour Party from 1984 onwards had embarked upon a massive programme of deregulation which included ( i ) scrapping import licensing ; ( ii ) reducing or abolishing tariffs or export subsidies ; ( iii ) floating the currency ; ( iv ) deregulating the banking sector ; ( v ) reforming the tax system ; ( vi ) establishing an independent central bank ; and ( vii ) privatizing large state-owned companies including Air New Zealand , NZ Telecom , NZ Steel , the government-owned energy group , Petrocorp , and two banks . |