Example sentences of "[adv] had a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1982 they could desert Mr Schmidt for Mr Kohl because they and the Christian Democrats together had a majority in the Bundestag , the lower house . |
| 2 | The race was really on now , and as the quartet came away from the third last and turned into the straight Desert Orchid suddenly had a fight on his hands — not from Ten of Spades , who had exhausted himself in drawing the grey 's sting and now fell heavily at the second last , but from Toby Tobias and Norton 's Coin . |
| 3 | That two hit men had waylaid you and that we were making our escape when you suddenly had a brainstorm and accused me of being in league with them ? |
| 4 | He suddenly had a vision of Lee tearing up his note-book and wearing his helmet . |
| 5 | A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . |
| 6 | David Mellor naturally had a soundbite up his sleeve . |
| 7 | Then , when the fever reached it crises , Muhammad Reza apparently had a dream in which he saw Ali , the son-in-law of the prophet Muhammad and , to Shiites , the second most holy of men , hand him a bowl of liquid . |
| 8 | The myth was probably sparked off by the existence of a St. Thomas ' Lane and Well in the town ( locations now unknown ) , the St. Thomas ' chapel in All Saints ' church , and the Hospital of St. Thomas and St. John ( now Lord Burghley 's Almshouses ) , which apparently had a chapel over the bridge . |
| 9 | FORMER THROBBING Gristle members Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti apparently had a hand in remixing ‘ SOS ’ from Erasure 's ‘ Abbaesque ’ project . |
| 10 | By a notice of appeal dated 22 July 1991 the administrators appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law in holding that the court had no jurisdiction to make any order under section 238 of the Act of 1986 against the bank ; ( 2 ) the judge should have held that the words ‘ any person ’ in section 238 meant ( in the case of a company ) any company , whether or not registered in England and Wales , or having a place of business in England and Wales , or carrying on business in England and Wales at the time of the transaction complained of ; alternatively , that those words ( in the case of a company ) meant any company with a sufficient connection with England and Wales : and that , on the facts of the case , there was a sufficient connection ; and in either case the court accordingly had jurisdiction to entertain the originating application against the bank , and to grant leave under rule 12.12 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 to serve the bank in Jersey ; and ( 3 ) in construing section 238 of the Act of 1986 the judge had erred in failing ( i ) to hold that the bank , even though a Jersey company , was within the class of persons with respect to whom Parliament was to be presumed to be legislating in section 238 ; ( ii ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the mischief which the section was intended to remedy , and/or to the disastrous practical consequences for all insolvencies with any international element if the operation of the section were limited to those within England and Wales at the time of the transaction complained of ; ( iii ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the legislative context of the section and related sections ; and ( iv ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the fact that the transactions dealt with by the sections necessarily had a connection with England and Wales in that they involved a disposition of the property of a person or company the subject of insolvency proceedings before the courts of England and Wales . |
| 11 | Thus , the UK was still a European leader in innovation in the 1950s and 1960s , but perhaps had a bias towards pure science rather than towards the commercial development of technological ideas that will form the next generation of industries . |
| 12 | And , and if you complained about anything , er like we found , perhaps had a banana that 's not been quite ripe , he 'll give you two or three the next time you go in if you say anything about it |
| 13 | So so so I say that first because we have in the past had people who felt worried by this attitude , they felt you know that they really they were people who perhaps had a background in the National Trust and who really felt that it was their job to say , oh no do n't touch that . |
| 14 | Manager Frank Gray perhaps had a point after the game when he said that luck did n't smile kindly on his side , but it must also be said that Quakers did not utilise the strong wind in the same forthright manner as the home side in the first half . |
| 15 | She obviously had a flair for putting people in what suited them , not always true of designers . |
| 16 | The ceiling obviously had a word with Mr X , who was note perfect the next day . |
| 17 | I think they were all going to market because obviously had a farm . |
| 18 | Miles obviously had a command override . |
| 19 | A certain firm famous for their ‘ bags ’ trouser suits , used to do an extensive line of grey anoraks , but they obviously had a visit from the style police and were made to put bits of navy blue and red in them or face a lengthy jail sentence . |
| 20 | Hrawi not only had a portion of the regular Army at his disposal ( under the command of Gen. Emile Lahoud ) but also had the added option of Syrian support in the event of a military expedition across the " green line " which separated East Beirut from West Beirut . |
| 21 | Once you 've created the jobs for people it has given the economies an upturn and I feel it 's rather a shame that the erm the great problems of the of the Germans particularly have put that pressure for high interest rates through the er E R M , through those currencies and one , I think , good thing of Britain 's disaster last year , with with their position in the E R M , is that by lowering interest rates , if we only had a government who wanted to use that opportunity probably , we could train people for for work . |
| 22 | ‘ We only had a bottle . ’ |
| 23 | I only had a trim , but the blow dry made it sort of Do you remember when I got that , my hair cut really short ? |
| 24 | But Bond only had a license to kill — arms dealers have something much more lucrative , as Janice Turner discovered . |
| 25 | She prayed that the landlord of the Swan was right and that she only had a mile or two to cover . |
| 26 | Wandsworth where they only had a majority of one , they they they they destroyed the Labour Party . |
| 27 | ‘ I only had a couple of hours with him , but it made a tremendous difference . |
| 28 | I only had a couple of hours sleep last night . ’ |
| 29 | I only had a couple . |
| 30 | Newry only had a couple of first half chances , with big Barry Hunter cancelling out the first when he intercepted a Gary Hughes shot . |