Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [adv] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | I always preferred bank fishing Toftingall and invariably had better results than from fishing from the boat . |
| 2 | She is married to former Radio One DJ Peter Powell and only had one previous boyfriend . |
| 3 | He graduated from Valdese High School , studied chemistry at Wake-Forest University in North Carolina and then had to face a hard choice between his parents ' wishes that he return to work in the family businesses and his own strong interest in chemistry . |
| 4 | About ten members toured the reed bed scheme at Billingham and later had discussions about local environmental improvement programmes . |
| 5 | John nipped the problem in the bud in one lesson ; he got on Skipper and soon had him doing walk to canter and canter to walk . |
| 6 | Up to now she had typed only audio tapes for Canon Wheeler and so had no experience of his handwriting . |
| 7 | You seem to specialise in these narrow victories ; you went away in the last round , up to Greenwich and also had a narrow one there . |
| 8 | They were as relaxed as you 'd expect a couple of dogs to be in the midday sun in the West Indies and clearly had life exactly as they wanted it . |
| 9 | Sir Francis Child was the banker to William and Mary and even had to arrange to provide jewellery , some of it his own and his wife 's , for the great double Coronation . |
| 10 | Joan accordingly took up the post of companion to the lady Anne and thereafter had no great difficulty in adjusting to a new and privileged life-style . |
| 11 | He was in France for six weeks in August and September and then had another two or three weeks staying with friends in the North of England and Scotland . |
| 12 | She 'd have been stuck in some noisy complex in Pollensa and then had to drive back to Palma to do his share of the work . |
| 13 | She mentions that there was another girl in her class at high school who was also called Denice Lewis and also had blonde hair . |
| 14 | In late October Vice-Premier Pham Van Kai visited Belgium and France and also had talks with European Community officials . |
| 15 | By now , many hundreds of man-hours had been put into the Packard Merlin and much had still to be done . |
| 16 | This operation ( 1960 ) seriously delayed him , for it left one eye permanently damaged , and he was in the Purey-Cust nursing home by the minster in York and then had a convalescence of several weeks . |
| 17 | Then we spent five minutes blowing cigar smoke at each other , until Stok said , ‘ Lenin did n't smoke , hated flowers , never had a soft chair in his office , had only the simplest food , liked reading Turgenev and always had his watch fifteen minutes slow . |
| 18 | She liked to take walks alone , and occasionally pretended she completely belonged in St James 's Park or Kensington and always had . |
| 19 | Instead he opened the bowling with Garner and soon had a wicket . |
| 20 | Now she knew that Fernando was in contact with Maria Luisa and probably had been right from the off . |
| 21 | This burnt down in 1791 but had a dramatic effect on milling in London and clearly had an influence on the Gloucester Docks scheme . |
| 22 | The site was about three hours ' drive away from London and also had good communications with the north of the country . |
| 23 | He had lost his watch back in Victorian London and so had no clear idea of time ; it may have taken minutes or hours to get back to the hole in time . |
| 24 | The negatives had originated in Dublin and then had been stored in Bond Street . |
| 25 | He returned to England in the latter half of June and hardly had time to catch up with outstanding work before going into hospital in July to undergo the postponed operation upon his hernia . |