Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] had [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An estimated 1,500,000 adults in Australasia , North America and Western Europe were infected with HIV , while an estimated 250,000 or more had developed AIDS . |
| 2 | This lower use of hospital inpatient facilities was not accounted for by the older age of the people in residential homes although fewer of all those aged 85 or more had spent time in hospital — 64 per cent against 80 per cent of those under 85 . |
| 3 | Just over a third , 35 per cent , of those who had lived in an old people 's home for a year or more had had help from a nurse who visited the home in the year before they died . |
| 4 | With a golden tan and her hair sun-bleached rather than bottle-blonde , she looked thoroughly acclimatized , and today had dressed island-style in a bright multi-coloured sarong hand-printed with tropical flowers . |
| 5 | At the fall of France , Donald Caskie had refused a place on the last boat home and instead had gone south where , working from the Seamen 's Mission in Marseilles , he had hidden hundreds of allied servicemen and helped them to escape over the Pyrenees into Spain . |
| 6 | The Economic and Social Council of 144 members drawn from public life — businessmen , trades unionists , and others — was supposed to be consulted on Community policies , but actually had limited influence . |