Example sentences of "had were " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the things I had were dated and not worth very much , so I found myself selling off my past as jumble and bric-a-brac . |
| 2 | In my day the only coaches we had were called charabancs and had four wheels and a man in a peaked hat . ’ |
| 3 | The first pair of real hiking boots I ever had were Daisy Roots and I 've always been impressed by their comfort . |
| 4 | As late as 1970 members of A $ L , to my knowledge , had never heard of Debord , and if they had were not the least bit interested . |
| 5 | Whatever personal problems she and Charles had were put to one side and they gave the people of Wales a visit to remember . |
| 6 | The only keepsakes Gloria had were her best peep-toe shoes and her little black hat with the veil . |
| 7 | As a result , by the time war was declared in 1939 MI6 had failed to establish any worthwhile network of agents in Europe and those it had were of very dubious quality , some even dishonest and fraudulent . |
| 8 | Maybe she needed a pair in a hurry because the ones she had were worn out . |
| 9 | Clearly Looe schoolboys were expected to have a nautical bent and those who had were promised they would ‘ … be shown to take Observations of the Sun , Moon and Stars so expeditiously and accurately as if actually at sea , Looe having the advantage of the Horizon thereat upwards of 110 degrees ’ . |
| 10 | The only great successes Victor had were spoken records , including training courses for advertising and sales people , and innumerable Health Talks by a Dr Copeland . |
| 11 | All I had were some trout in the freezer by courtesy of the millpond . |
| 12 | I 'd not been in London long and those lesbian and gay friends I had were involved in squatting more than gay liberation . |
| 13 | By the time the gay movement started in 1970 the gay friends I had were people I had picked up or met through a pick-up ; I probably knew about half a dozen gay people intimately . |
| 14 | Another thing they all had were mussels , everywhere you looked on a breaker there were clusters of mussels . |
| 15 | The kind of friends she had were loyal by definition , and they liked her , in their eyes she was a woman who could do no wrong ( she was only separated , mind , not divorced ) , they were ready to do any thing for her and when she would not let them they did it for the girl . |
| 16 | All I had were a few personal belongings and a little money , and these I gave to Jean-Claude with all my heart . |
| 17 | I had n't planned that and what funds I had were coming here to the States . |
| 18 | Such assets as Virgin had were almost meaningless : not the bricks and mortar so reassuring on the balance sheet , but the more nebulous assets of music and publishing copyrights tangible enough , perhaps , to people who understood the music business , and knew that at any given moment Virgin could raise millions if they so chose ; less comprehensible to a bank where customers were still greeted by frock-coated doormen . |
| 19 | And any servants they had were low low were very lowly paid . |
| 20 | And when she come back , her had were covered in splinters with er bits of stuff of the machine . |
| 21 | My God , if all they had were Haggisburgers , I 'd eat those . |
| 22 | The only other things she had were guesses and suppositions . |
| 23 | All she had were some notes she made in the car , witnessed by Dexter . |
| 24 | Now whether it made a lot of difference or no , I could n't tell you , but they believed it er the set of tools they had were the best in the yard , you know , so obviously they took a wee bit of pride in them and looked after them . |
| 25 | The feelings she had were nothing to do with love , only a combination of … |
| 26 | She had just begun to settle into her neat flat , and although it was n't furnished expensively the few pieces she had were chosen with loving care . |
| 27 | I think the first ones we had were about nineteen thirty six I believe . |
| 28 | In turn he came quickly to the point : his venture needed capital and what monies he had were tied up in his house . |
| 29 | What documents he had were handed over to Peckle . ’ |
| 30 | Those who had were then asked for details of their involvement in the review and the preparation of the report and about the outcomes of the whole procedure . |