Example sentences of "had [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a series of meetings between July 15 and Aug. 14 in New York UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali had discussions separately with the President of Cyprus , Georgios Vassiliou , and the president of the self-proclaimed Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus , Rauf Denktash . |
| 2 | ‘ We had builders here for six months before we moved in , and then lived with them for another year , ’ says Sally , who was not only busy with their two young daughters , but was also running a full-time interior decoration business in Cirencester . |
| 3 | I had money only for something just short of a slum . |
| 4 | Like some of its west-European counterparts it had responsibility also for a number of domestic or quasi-domestic concerns such as relations with the Don Cossacks and with foreign merchants in Russia . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the lad had reasons enough for his departure : by the late 1790s his mother was dead , his father solvent but none too rich , and his aunts , uncles and cousins all paupers or on the verge of becoming such . |
| 6 | I had , as it happens , had experience just before Westland of another very well-known public company — John Brown — which had encountered difficulties . |
| 7 | Eight per cent — more than a third of all shareowners — had investments only in privatised companies . |
| 8 | More than a third of all shareholders had investments solely in privatised companies . |
| 9 | And most people had lifts yesterday to the French on the way up |
| 10 | I had blood all over me . |
| 11 | The US administration on Sept. 19 announced a ban on the import of fish caught by means of " drift nets " ; the ban had effect immediately for South Pacific catches , and for all catches from July 1 , 1992 . |
| 12 | We had tea afterwards in a hotel in Berthing , but we failed to come to an agreement . |
| 13 | Then we had tea together with me sitting up in bed in my dressing-gown . |
| 14 | Two children had contractions only after feeding . |
| 15 | But the girls had eyes only for Dana 's beauty and sexy demeanour , which that night was particularly James Deanish . |
| 16 | I had eyes only for my beautiful Flavia . |
| 17 | She had eyes only for him ; as they twirled around , they were joking together , and were clearly very much in love . |
| 18 | I had eyes only for her but Benjamin was all agog with interest in the room and kept looking around , murmuring his admiration . |
| 19 | They had eyes only for the journey downwards , now , and battle-fervour , love and pride had long since been sucked from them , leaving them soulless husks : in bronze , or leather , fur-cloaked or bright trousered . |
| 20 | It was as if they were the only two people on earth ; oblivious to the crowds who poured from the factory entrances as the day shift ended and who milled around them , they had eyes only for each other . |
| 21 | I imagined he could just sit down , perhaps at the typewriter to which he had recourse even for poetry , and produce the requisite text . |
| 22 | She had hold still of her wicker basket . |
| 23 | Well , I had lunch today with Diana Cooper — do you know Diana Cooper ? ’ |
| 24 | Unless either of us was out on a noon-time assignment Fred Workman and I usually had lunch together at Mrs Pete Stewart 's Bakery & Lunch-Room on Main Street , just down the back lane from the Times ' Building . |
| 25 | Brinson could cope with the work only because he was at the Foundation , where people could see him , which had concerns close to those of the CNAA , and which allowed him time to take part . |
| 26 | and that , well th well that was cos there used to be all hot cinders you know like coke , red hot coke and they always had clogs then with leather tops . |
| 27 | Going on to the last lap Dunlop had matters well in hand but further down the field behind McCallen there was drama when Alan Patterson , who had been in third place and going well , suddenly shot through the final bend and took the wrong road for the second time today losing his chance of a place . |
| 28 | Dunlop appeared to be catching Moodie and he had already put in that record lap of 115.62mph on lap three , but Moodie always had matters well in hand . |
| 29 | All ex-L.C.C. depôts had traversers instead of track fans ( except Brixton Hill ) . |
| 30 | The long-standing idea that the Earth started out as a molten mass , gradually cooled and shrank to its present size ( a theory that still had adherents well into the 1950s ) , had to be abandoned . |