Example sentences of "had [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sorry erm as far as the schools are concerned you had presumably a lot of contact I mean as part of the national curriculum is if if you like is to build contact with the community and the schools . |
| 2 | Getting to the Health Centre was a tedious business involving a bus and a clanking ride for a few stops on the underground and Erika was glad to find her way to it , jammed among the usual blocks of flats , although at that time of night they had rather a festive air with every window lighted . |
| 3 | The doctor who appeared was R. E. Havard , and after five minutes of talk about influenza ( Lewis had rather a fondness for discussing symptoms man to man ) , they fell to some ethical or philosophical talk . |
| 4 | I remember November 5 , 1953 , when a tendency to clear up had rather a disastrous consequence . |
| 5 | The phrase had rather a stylish ring to it he 'd decided . |
| 6 | We had rather a lot to drink , and before I knew where I was I found myself being hustled into a broom closet by three men . |
| 7 | Call Me Old Fashioned , I thought was a good title , and A Licence to Print Money would have been another good title for a bestseller , but it had rather a rapacious sound do n't you think ? |
| 8 | The initial shock must have been terrible , but in fact she had rather a good war . |
| 9 | Actually Oi ! was a mock-working class derivation of punk rock invented by a pig-faced scab which , thanks to the cowardice and stupidity of its main advocates , had rather a lot of Nazi scum amongst its rather dim cockernee fan base . |
| 10 | I had rather a dread of this post 's conveyance for it was only a spring cart , and I thought I felt myself being bumped , but as it was I enjoyed this nine miles in the post gig better than all the drives I had had . |
| 11 | Yesterday 's Times had rather a worried headline . " |
| 12 | ‘ I had rather a rough passage with Canon Wheeler over the sermon , ’ she said , and explained . |
| 13 | The Kalkadoon had rather a different perspective . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't know how much you know about Hugh 's private life , but the fact is he had rather a crush on me . |
| 15 | Erm towards the end of the year and the erm and Spear erm Spear had rather a good year , so that 's our capital insurance company in Bermuda erm no claims . |
| 16 | Willi , surprisingly , had rather a pleasant tenor voice . |
| 17 | She had rather an athletic body . |
| 18 | She had perhaps a few spoonfuls of oil ; she was told to pour those minute contents of her jar into jars that might have held a hundred times as much as she had . |
| 19 | Senior civil servants just could not be caught burgling cottages ; Army officers had perhaps a more flexible public image . |
| 20 | As they had daily a more intimate acquaintance with , so they had a more endeared affection for , each other . |
| 21 | For example , landscape painting had only a gradual success as a theme in European painting . |
| 22 | It proved immensely effective at communicating party campaign themes to the electorate , but in the short span of an election campaign it had only a small influence on the public 's issue-agenda . |
| 23 | Equally , Enoch Powell 's speeches in the 1960s which might have been designed to stir up racial animosity between the various Commonwealth communities , had only a limited impact , with Powell himself becoming politically marginalized . |
| 24 | Even in the good years Israel had only a share . |
| 25 | Gwili tried to interpret for him the power of Welsh literature and especially the ‘ renaissance ’ of modern Welsh poetry of which he was himself a part , but Edward had only a smattering of Welsh and , judging from rough translations of folksongs and simple lyrics , he was disinclined to carry his studies further . |
| 26 | In the realm of secret diplomacy it would appear that public opinion had only a very minor role to play . |
| 27 | Once she began , it was not as difficult as she 'd imagined , mainly because it was so plain her father had only a scientific interest in what she was saying . |
| 28 | Yasmin 's brother brought her to London from their home in Bradford for the day , but meeting at the tube station proved nearly impossible , as we each had only a telephone description of the other and had unfortunately arranged to meet the same Saturday as a huge poll tax march . |
| 29 | We all knew he had only a few weeks left to live . |
| 30 | 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 . |