Example sentences of "[verb] had [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But they still managed to put up a brave show and could have won had Crusaders goalkeeper Kevin McKeown not stopped a John Drake thunderbolt in 74 minutes .
2 Eckstein found that the best educated had access to the most rewarding jobs , ‘ but because such jobs are not expanding as rapidly as schooling , education in itself provides no guaranteed job ’ .
3 The chair of the town 's Copnservative Association says had Mr Taylor applied to become a candidate again , another rebel group might have formed .
4 Like the style of coverage or not , we undoubtedly saw far more cricket than we ever would have done had BBC had the contract , and for that I for one am profoundly grateful and not ashamed to admit that I purchased my Sky system purely because it was producing coverage of cricket that otherwise would not be available on TV .
5 Lili looked calm and showed no sign of the guilt she must surely have felt had Robert meant his words as an accusation against her .
6 But all the patients studied had asthma written in the first part of the death certificate and had been entered into the local statistics as asthma deaths .
7 It would , however , have been interesting to see what relationships might have been revealed had WIRS picked up information on casual workers , since casual working ( albeit involving direct employment ) is also a considerably less regulated form of temporary working and gives an employer considerable disposition over his labour inputs .
8 We felt this was a particularly provocative stance considering much of the cost could have been saved had action been taken earlier .
9 But United had reason to congratulate goalkeeper Tommy Wright for a spectacular save in the 33rd minute that stopped Brentford going level .
10 Then the people moved aside and we passed through the smiling , cheering crowd , some of whom I noticed had tears in their eyes .
11 Its low-arched entrance off one of the narrow lanes linking High Street and Broad Street could easily have been overlooked had Harry not been intent on locating it .
12 Not once since she and Durkin arrived had Alec had a chance to talk to her alone .
13 The computer unit that is being closed had sales of just $169m last year , down from about $1,200m at its peak , shortly before Prime completed a hostile takeover of the original Computervision company back in early 1988 .
14 Leading the protest was mini-skip operator Bob Morris who said much of the damage caused in Marl Drive and other streets could have been avoided had warnings about the nearby River Wyddan been heeded .
15 Far too many by any stretch of the imagination ; fatalities which could have been avoided had care and attention to personal safety been exercised .
16 All the towers we climbed had abseil rings .
17 Against the bombs they wore steel helmets for protection which Tom recalls had holes drilled round the rim .
18 Another inspector I know had problems with an innocuous piece written in a mildly conversational style .
19 No I like had leggings on and everyone was like in the shack oh spot the legs and really like I du n no
20 Some good words to use are CAB JIG FED HAD JADE JAB BEACH BAG BADE CHEF FADE
21 The two patients in whom the lesion was not reached had ulcers located in the inferior and posterior wall of duodenal bulb .
22 The police said that five of those arrested had explosives .
23 The prospect of the political chaos which would have followed had Mr Amato lost was certain to have been uppermost in MPs ' minds .
24 The question of whether those taking part actually had sufficient command of BSL to make a conscious decision to withhold that form of signing is rather debatable , since virtually all those involved had difficulty with the deaf people 's signing which they had to translate .
25 The fact that many of the young people involved had convictions meant their evidence was not being taken seriously , which raised a serious issue about the treatment of young offenders who have been in care .
26 Even the back pass could have been salvaged had Beeney realised how crap it was a second earlier , and even then , he could have tried to kick it to either side on Gray , as opposed to trying to kick it as hard as possible … straight at gray .
27 A lot of the models I saw had snags you had n't really got ironed out .
28 In those days sales of all ICI products were regionalised , a system he felt had shortcomings .
29 Videos seized had titles such as Blood Sucking Freaks , New York Ripper and Faces of Death IV .
30 Several families they knew had sons or fathers missing or drowned at sea , and men were being sent to France with the British Expeditionary Force .
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