Example sentences of "had [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | driver of vehicle involved in collison with another vehicle exonerated for responsibility for subsequent events which occur because another driver has driven recklessly and which would not have occurred had that driver been driving merely negligently . |
| 2 | One of his strange exploits among other frolics , was having a coffin made of copper ( which one of his mines had that year produced ) , and placed in the great hall , and instead of his making use of it as a monitor that might have made him ashamed and terrified at his past life , and induce him to make amends in future , it was filled with punch , and he and his comrades soon made themselves incapable of any sort of reflection ; this was often repeated , and hurried him on to that awful moment he had so much reason to dread . |
| 3 | Nigel Newton explains this figure as a reflection of the ‘ very strong final quarter which Bloomsbury had that year , and in particular the strong December ’ ; and it is indeed true that trade publishers , whose sales are usually loaded towards the last quarter , generally have high debtors at year end . |
| 4 | Well , we had that incident did n't we , several weeks ago in the tunnel , which the authorities er tried their best to play down ? |
| 5 | And that was n't the only eye-opener which Jane had that day . |
| 6 | But then he saw a servant he had that day badly mutilated , also pointing . |
| 7 | He clambered up and intercepted her at the kitchen door , enfolding her and drawing her in to his body so that his warmth flowed through to her , just as he had that day when he 'd found her on the beach , lost and afraid ; like him , a victim of the past . |
| 8 | He felt he had said them before , and thought he could sense death sniffing at his shoulder , as he had that day on the Red Mountain . |
| 9 | Her hair , for all she was eight months and one week pregnant , had that day been coiffeured , lacquered and backcombed until it stuck out all around her head . |
| 10 | The UN Secretary-General , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , was notified that military action had begun under the terms of UN Security Council Resolution 678 of Nov. 29 , 1990 , which authorized UN member states to use " all necessary means to uphold and implement Security Council Resolution 660 [ of Aug. 2 , 1990 , demanding an immediate and unconditional withdrawal of Iraqi forces which had that day invaded Kuwait ] and all subsequent relevant resolutions " . |
| 11 | The Washington Post of June 4 reported that beer bottles had that day been smashed at Beijing University , a gesture aimed at the country 's " elder statesman " leader , Deng Xiaoping , whose last name was a homonym for the words " little bottle " . |
| 12 | On the evening of Jan. 12 it was announced that the existing six-member High Security Council had that day , by virtue of a mandate to preserve continuity given it by the Constitutional Council , resolved " that it is impossible to continue the election process until the necessary conditions are fulfilled for the normal functioning of institutions " . |
| 13 | The pro-Hezbollah Voice of the Oppressed radio reported on May 31 that the " Islamic Resistance " had that day shot down an Israeli aircraft over Janta in the Bekaa Valley . |
| 14 | The Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran reported on Sept. 19 that Hekmatyar and President Burhanuddin Rabbani had that day signed a peace pact . |
| 15 | He 'd destroy her if it was love , tear the heart from her and feast on it as the lion had that day in Auckland . |
| 16 | Bet she had that Benny Hill song . . |
| 17 | I 'm glad we had that conversation . |
| 18 | But the chapter , having no protector after God unless it be the Roman pontiff , asserted that for a certainty unless he had that church demolished the metropolitical dignity would , for the most part , be transferred to it . |
| 19 | The then of course when the wartime came along , the last war , I did n't , I did n't used to rush away , I , I had that sense to not just , to rush on to the with the rest of them , so I joined the fire brigade , the regular fire brigade . |
| 20 | He had that sense of fact which he considered to be more useful ‘ than nine-tenths of the most pretentious critical journalism ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ I had that determination to do it . |
| 22 | Oh we had that till |
| 23 | You only had that sample of five , Sin Iguales . |
| 24 | This time , Sapper Andrew Wright , a nineteen-year-old trainee accountant from Brighton , had that privilege . |
| 25 | Whether the accused had that intent had to be left to the jury . |
| 26 | He had Peter , he had that Peter who 's |
| 27 | By the way , when we had that pair , that were driving me mad , and then that one died , when we were in bungalow . |
| 28 | She had that stone chess table made too and put inside . |
| 29 | I had that meat that you |
| 30 | Crikey , cos the last time you were down you had that stinker did n't you ? |