Example sentences of "had [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1,574 kg of gold , found in southern German caves at the end of the war , had since that time been administered by a tripartite commission of France , the UK and the USA . |
| 2 | In contrast to certain other African countries , Zambia had remarkably few periodicals published by churches or religious organizations ; the few that were published all had small circulations . |
| 3 | But , if anything , they had rather fewer night calls . |
| 4 | The feminists had rather more success . |
| 5 | But the Soviet leader had rather more success in prising discussions out of the West in that a foreign ministers ' conference was held about Germany in mid-1959 in Geneva . |
| 6 | Coy about his age , but we reckon it 's 63 , he had rather more success at the veteran 's Wimbledon last year , winning a first round match in two hours 38 minutes . |
| 7 | Shortly before the second anniversary of her wedding Mrs Tristan Gage suffered a miscarriage which kept her in bed for several cosseted days surrounded by every possible luxury and attention , including the embarrassed affection of her husband who had rather more idea how mares and hound bitches might feel at such moments than women , and the deep concern of her mother who , throughout her own twenty-six years of marriage had herself miscarried eight times . |
| 8 | I open another book , this time William Camden 's Remaines of a Greater Worke , concerning Britaine … ( 1605 ) , where the printer had rather more trouble at the outset . |
| 9 | Er it 's mainly er the change in , in foreign currency debt erm and erm the year end debt er er erm the point is we had rather more dollars at the beginning of the year than at the end of the year erm and erm which , which complicates matters , but if you look at our year end debt in dollar terms th erm there was a thirty nine million pound erm adverse movement year on year as a result of that . |
| 10 | Financially , the slave traders had rather more reason to take care of the people they were carrying than the transporters of convicts or of indentured labourers did ; all of these groups were being taken over as a speculative venture on which the shipper got no return unless he delivered live bodies , but the slave traders had already paid out cash to purchase their slaves . |
| 11 | They had big half circles of pure white skin below . |
| 12 | Indeed , the next months were taxing in a different way , culminating in my appointment to a post in Bahrein for which I had little enough relish . |
| 13 | More senior men had perhaps less freedom to diversify , although in the south they all kept gardens and sometimes worked them themselves . |
| 14 | The circumstances in which freedom might be won were clearly defined , and Alexei knew that he had sometimes thought that the lowest class in the Empire — the proles , who worked for pay — were no less enslaved and had perhaps fewer rights . |
| 15 | Setting Hamlet in the cavernous St George 's Hall proved the Everyman Theatre had perhaps more resolve than the diffident Hamlet and they , and last night 's audience , were rewarded with a memorable occasion , if not the greatest ever Hamlet on stage . |
| 16 | Wrexham Hospital had only that month installed one , after years of jumble sales and coffee mornings on its behalf , and Nigel was among the first patients to ( I nearly wrote ‘ benefit ’ ) be diagnosed by it . |
| 17 | Set up in 1920 by actor Leslie Howard and director Adrian Brunel among others , with the hope that they could do something about ‘ raising the standards of British films ’ , the company had only enough capital to produce six short comedies . |
| 18 | Panyi island , where Sapan and Strawberry lived , had only enough room on it for the mosque . |
| 19 | We started to receive telephone calls telling us we only had so many hours to live . |
| 20 | She takes a sip of mineral water before launching into James Woods and his girlfriend , Sarah Owen : ‘ I 've a theory that James and his girlfriend had so many problems they had to turn it all on me . ’ |
| 21 | We had so many articles that a decision had to be taken . |
| 22 | When I first set up home on my own I had so many bits of ill-assorted furniture that various friends and relatives had given me , that it was difficult to ever imagine having a beautiful home . |
| 23 | She who had so many reasons to be content was now besieged by envies , regrets , shameful , all of them , and she burned , on that hot July day , to admit to such inflammatory meanness . |
| 24 | She did not pause to marvel that she had so many reasons for anger — as if the anger grew first , and grew tall , before any reason came along to prop it up . |
| 25 | I had so many clothes but my mother never said no to more . |
| 26 | She had , she had so many warnings |
| 27 | At dinner we all talked about our trip and had so many laughs and fond memories . |
| 28 | Never in the history of racing has a new stables had so many horses … and so many winners … the assistant trainer we know all about … |
| 29 | Oliver wondered why the old man lived in such an old , dirty place , when he had so many watches , but then he thought that it must cost Fagin a lot of money to look after the Dodger and the other boys . |
| 30 | It is of great comfort to know that John had so many friends and that our family has been in the thoughts and prayers of so many people . |