Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] had [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morris clipped the papers together and tossed them across onto Dyson 's desk Dyson had for some reason assumed that Morris would bring them over and stand beside him while he went through them . |
| 2 | They had had high priority since the fuel crisis of February 1947 , but boilers and site work had in many cases been delayed ( mainly because of steel shortages ) so that 300–400MW of plant completed by the turbo-alternator manufacturers had had to be put in store for a year or more . |
| 3 | When he got a passport of his own , if they still had the sort Jarvis had by that time , he was going to write ‘ lion tattoo on back ’ under ‘ distinguishing marks ’ . |
| 4 | Again , the welfare state had in many respects advanced equality of opportunity , but not equality of outcome . |
| 5 | Eric commented that trade at JHL was steady and that two JP s had for some time been seen as a luxury , so they were pleased to release G-JETP . |
| 6 | The shady ground under the coppice of trees was a blue and white carpet of anemones — what trouble Claire had with that word when she was little , at times it still defeated her . |
| 7 | Resolving the question of whether palaeocurrent flow in Torridonian Scotland was predominantly westerly or northerly is important to those interested in Scotland 's geological history , but has less external interest than the solution of the genetic code problem had for all biologists . |
| 8 | Trade unions had for some time been supporting candidates for the House of Commons and spending union funds for this purpose . |
| 9 | By the mid eighteenth century the rise of tin and copper mining had in any event produced a precarious balance between local grain supplies and a growing population . |
| 10 | Owing to the increased employment on war work , trade union membership had in any case been on the increase . |
| 11 | Unfortunately the bed manufacturer had during that time increased the price to £120 each and this was their only source of supply . |
| 12 | Ah , it 's a thing Jake had from that woman he married , she says — like she did n't care for it . |
| 13 | During wartime and the postwar era of government price control , electricity undertakings had in many cases been prevented from raising domestic tariffs to meet increased costs , and had drawn instead on their reserves and on the automatic increases paid by larger ( mainly industrial ) consumers under the coal-cost increase clause of their special tariffs . |
| 14 | While the Bakufu administration had for several decades been subject to criticisms from within its own ranks , a more serious threat to its supremacy emerged from within domains traditionally hostile to it . |
| 15 | More than half of this came from city organisations , largely due to the good connections which members of the appeal committee had with such institutions . |