Example sentences of "who had [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ballroom had been thrown wide to accommodate the funeral guests , and Mrs Diggory was busy serving refreshments to the gentlemen who had just a short time since returned from the graveside of the deceased Lady Merchiston . |
| 2 | Galway Plate winner The Gooser runs for Paddy Mullins who had n't a great record in the race while Arthur Moore who is something of a specialist in the other Liverpool races ca n't have very high hopes of New Mill House . |
| 3 | The evidence given to the Select Committee showed that in Norway and Belgium it was the practice to keep in solitary confinement prisoners ( whether sentenced for murder or for other crimes ) who had not a criminal record , but this method was adopted for reformative purposes and for protecting such prisoners from contamination by other prisoners . |
| 4 | We selected 100 patients in this series who had both a known primary site and synchronous or appropriate non-synchronous metastatic disease . |
| 5 | Again , the police ( who had only a marginal role in enforcing the new order , and who sometimes perhaps accepted it with less than utter enthusiasm ) were more likely to have diverse tribal allegiances in the larger settlements nearer the cities or in strategically more significant places . |
| 6 | For the appropriate timing for such an application , see Ginera Ltd. v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1982 S.L.T. 136 , in which the Second Division considered it would be " odd " if an applicant who had only a provisional grant of a licence , could have permission for Sunday opening before the licence for the premises was in force . |
| 7 | Colonel Durand , in command of the defences , who had only a few militia and the usual garrison ‘ invalids ’ under him , sent a desperate appeal for assistance to Field Marshal Wade , while the sudden departure of people returning to the surrounding countryside — Saturday 9 November 1745 was a market day in Carlisle — added to his difficulties , as an eye-witness recorded : |
| 8 | I went over there and I stepped into this guy 's shoes who had really a difficult fourth year class . |