Example sentences of "[adv] had [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If members opposite had their way it would be very difficult to do business here . |
| 2 | The place suddenly had its history of bloodletting to be sniffed , and yet even that was not exciting , maybe because the Nîmois did not roar for blood as the Romans had , but sunned themselves and discussed finer points of capework . |
| 3 | For a second he looked as if he was about to grab her and shake her to pieces , but her wild looks and her uncontrolled temper suddenly had his lips quirking . |
| 4 | Things took a sudden twist at 88open last week when 19 of the consortium 's 23 full-time staffers apparently had their contracts terminated . |
| 5 | The ill feeling between him and the Woodvilles apparently had its roots in the previous reign and it is significant that even those chroniclers who emphasize the Gloucester/Woodville animosity , consider that it was the Hastings/Woodville feud which was worrying Edward IV on his death bed . |
| 6 | The ill feeling between him and the Woodvilles apparently had its roots in the previous reign and it is significant that even those chroniclers who emphasize the Gloucester/Woodville animosity , consider that it was the Hastings/Woodville feud which was worrying Edward IV on his death bed . |
| 7 | Sending Ælfgifu and Swegen to Norway perhaps had its advantages here , and maybe Harold Harefoot was not allowed to live at court , which might partly explain alleged doubts about his identity . |
| 8 | Took a walk in the fields saw an old wood stile taken away from a favourite spot which it had occupied all my life the posts were overgrown with Ivy & it seemed so akin to nature & the spot where it stood as tho it had taken it on lease for an undisturbed existance it hurt me to see it was gone for my affections claims a friendship with such things but nothing is lasting in this world last year Langley Bush was destroyd an old white thorn that had stood for more than a century full of fame the gipsies shepherds & herdmen all had their tales of its history & it will be long ere its memory is forgotten . |
| 9 | ‘ When I first left the Close people were convinced that I was actually still in the series and that obviously had its drawbacks . |
| 10 | A large , ungainly and abrasive man , he was not the sort of material to make the grade in the SAS in the normal way , but Stirling obviously had his reasons for taking him on . |
| 11 | He obviously had his reasons . |
| 12 | I mean they only had their door there and letting in draughts and them running in and out you see we put that there look . |
| 13 | Not only had its hold been too strong for that among considerable sections of the population , but the conditions of the immediate post-war era were miserable enough for many to compare them unfavourably with the peacetime era under Nazism . |
| 14 | And one pub landlord who only had his pub refurbished six months ago , will now have to redecorate again . |
| 15 | He had reached for the Ruger as soon as he had seen the taxi pull up , and he had had the Ruger in his grip when the front door opposite had opened , and he had loosened the grip when he had seen that the target carried no cases , only had his daughters ’ hands in his . |
| 16 | He saw his reflection in the mirror as he was adjusting his collar ; not only had his side-whiskers grown while he had been ill , there was also a growth of beard on his chin . |
| 17 | Not only had his troops let him down , but he was expecting Austria and probably the entire German Confederation to enter the war on the allied side . |
| 18 | erm , I had , he only had his wellies on and his leggings |
| 19 | In the Ethiopian revolution no one for a long time knew the fate of Haile Fida , leader of the left-wing Meison group : I only had his death confirmed when the Ethiopian lift-operator in a DC hotel told me he had been in the same cell when Haile was taken out to be shot . |
| 20 | This time we only had our rifles to stop them , and that was not sufficient . ’ |
| 21 | Gentlemen , not only had our trade been inundated with boys , but fortunately or unfortunately , we have had another element introduced , and you know that I have never been a person who ignored the company of the opposite sex . |
| 22 | I 'm , got you only had your birthday three month ago . |
| 23 | Mr , hello I 've had a quick word with Mike and he seems to think there 's some correspondence on the file , I 'll have to go and find the file and get back to you , so , er you , I have n't got your , your phone number there I do n't think , er I only had your fax number right , I 'll get back as soon as I can , thank you bye bye . |
| 24 | Actually I 've rather hurried through that objective part of our I only had my time to bring before you one other very important issue and two other pieces of information . |
| 25 | BIS had its beginnings as the ACRL Bibliographic Instruction Task Force and one of its products was the Bibliographic instruction handbook , a practical guide to the establishment and design of library instruction programmes for academic libraries . |
| 26 | So had its occupant . |
| 27 | Melanie had joined us , having put Antiope to bed somewhere among the tents , and so had her minder Tricia , though she was n't slamming with us , rather contenting herself with a small carton of yoghurt drink and a straw . |
| 28 | So had her shout , caught in her throat by the stranger 's hands . |
| 29 | So had his father . |
| 30 | Someone a few doors away had their house gutted by fire last week . |