Example sentences of "[adv] had [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Suppose you suddenly had that feeling — tawdry — while you were walking up the aisle with George Beador . |
| 2 | In his whimsical way the British prime Minister observed , ‘ This argument naturally had some appeal to me on general grounds ’ : but he did not respond . |
| 3 | This apparently had little impact on the extent of these intra- and extra-mural zones , though it may have encouraged the enhanced development of the central area in the third and fourth centuries . |
| 4 | He then ran back to his position , foolishly had another go at the midfielder with his elbow and was given the first dip in the Chester bath . |
| 5 | The regime perhaps had little choice but to win support by making grants of land which might otherwise have gone to augment royal resources , and Mortimer and Isabella rapidly ran through the very substantial treasure inherited from Edward II . |
| 6 | ‘ T was regrettable , of course , though you obviously had little choice but to abandon modesty when the need was so imperative . |
| 7 | You only had that sample of five , Sin Iguales . |
| 8 | We only had such wood as we could scrounge , and to light a fire with the bare minimum of paper and wood , plus uncooperative coke is difficult to say the least . |
| 9 | After my father left we only had each other and — and we moved a lot . ’ |
| 10 | Interest rate was never judged the most important factor ( nor was total cost of credit ) with things costing up to £100 , and with these even adding in people 's second and third choice factors showed that interest rates only had some importance for about 12 per cent of shoppers . |
| 11 | Hoskyns , who only had another year to live , was angry at his university . |
| 12 | what would you like from the catalogue sort of thing and I only had this catalogue to Cos I pa you know I paid for it what di did they have ? |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps the murderer only had enough evidence now to decide on revenge ? ’ |
| 14 | So before you 're about to criticise the Spectrum , ask yourself this question : if I did n't have a computer and I was trying to look for one and I only had enough money for the Spectrum , what would I do ? |
| 15 | ‘ On the sleeve of the first record it was meant to say just Therapy , but I started the logo too far over to the left — and we only had enough money for one sheet of Letraset — I could n't start again , so I just added a question mark to make it fit . |
| 16 | All that mattered to these people was to kill ; how they did so had little significance . |
| 17 | How highly had this machine been rated in reviews ? |
| 18 | The poorer women especially had little choice but to follow their husbands and sweethearts into battle . |
| 19 | The council thus had little choice but to accept Gloucester 's claim to be protector . |
| 20 | The council thus had little choice but to accept Gloucester 's claim to be protector . |
| 21 | She thus had little use for cinema which gave great weight to symbolism , and unfavourably contrasted symbolist poetry to the work of poets like Ezra Pound whose world operated , not through meaning , but through the ‘ direct impact of words ’ . |
| 22 | The traditional Conservative cry against the nationalised industries thus had some plausibility for anyone concerned with a correct allocation of investment resources in the economy : though it should be remembered that the electricity boards were ( unlike private industry ) not in general free to invest as much as they wished at low rates of return , but were subject to annual quantitative limits agreed with the Minister . |
| 23 | Declarations of this kind , however , no longer had much effect . |
| 24 | It had all put her in Glyn 's power somehow and she no longer had that feeling of independence she had fought so hard to gain . |
| 25 | Pale , Bosnia : BOSNIAN Serbs called for a new peace plan for Bosnia after declaring the current one dead yesterday but Muslim-led government leaders said this meant the West no longer had any excuse to avoid decisive action . |
| 26 | Money , said Constance , no longer had any relevance to the value of half a dozen eggs or a side of mutton , but had become a separate commodity for rich men to play with . |
| 27 | That smile and that gesture had charm and elegance , while the face and the body no longer had any charm . |
| 28 | Sixty per cent of the single women and 47 per cent of the ex-married women no longer had any contact with their former partner . |
| 29 | She no longer had any idea what it was she wanted to say to him . |
| 30 | Except that Trent no longer had any hope . |