Example sentences of "and had [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But now I 've been drug-free for over a year erm but I 'd been trying for a few year before that and had nay managed to succeed .
2 The doctor was very tall and had hair nearly the same colour as Corrie 's .
3 If the plaintiff/creditor was unable to prove his case and had judgement given against him , he also lost his deposit to his debtor .
4 ( He was already 81 and had cancer . )
5 We studied only children who were born and had cancer diagnosed in the study area .
6 Second , his wife , Susanna Highmore , was also an intimate of Richardson 's and had correspondence with him about Leapor ( see below ) .
7 Is he aware that Father Reilley , the chairman of the governors , has already been disposed of , that the new chairman had a brawl with the head teacher , to which the police had to be called , that the chairman has purported to sack the head teacher and that the Department has intervened and had correspondence and has appointed new governors ?
8 There were so many little jobs to do , and trips into Lulling for shopping when she met friends and had company .
9 I was 11 years old and had money to burn .
10 Colonel Astor had bought The Times in 1922 specifically to keep it out of the clutches of Lloyd George , who was seeking a personal political base and had money to spend from his earlier sale of honours when Prime Minister .
11 These people , they had nothing to tell us except that we were white and had money .
12 There 's not the mystery around it really and I 've sort of made that into one of my points about =bout my work and also erm I always thought perhaps once I became wealthy and had money I would do real paintings in oil and canvass .
13 The craftsmen were not always recognizable as a separate group within the parish , for they were often younger sons of farmers and had land of their own .
14 On the other hand , I have discoed the night away in Marina di Massa and had payment waived in Copenhagen when I was visibly kroner-less .
15 They were frequently on paper of a quality — and had typesetting of an eccentricity — that suggested they had actually been printed in Romania itself .
16 ‘ I was tied to the bed with rope and had Sellotape over my mouth , ’ she said .
17 Some of the young were moved by Nicholson ; he was human and had pathos and they needed dogma .
18 The other islands followed and had slave majorities by the 1670s , and once they had done so the process was irreversible ; white men could not be persuaded to come to an area where wages were set by the cost of slave labour .
19 The boys stripped naked and showed their rustic posteriors at every opportunity , threw food around in restaurants and had water pistol fights .
20 She admired them , and they inspired , encouraged , and had affection for her .
21 Many of your listeners will know the Malvern Hills , and had resort to them And the fact that they can come and enjoy them today is through the dedication of board members over a hundred and ten years . ’
22 Paul , her husband , generally left before seven and had lunch out with one of his friends , while she used her free day to take care of a thousand chores more annoying than the duties of her job : she had to go to the post office and fret for half an hour in a queue , go shopping in the supermarket , where she quarrelled with the saleswoman and wasted time waiting at the check-out , telephone the plumber and plead with him to be precisely on time so that she would n't have to wait the whole day for him .
23 We marched back to the farmhouse and had lunch .
24 We gossiped for half an hour in the office and then walked up to the United Universities Club and had lunch .
25 We went and had lunch with him at the India Club on Wall Street .
26 In Inverness , Johnson held forth on the benefits Scotland had derived from the Union , and after church they saw the Quay and Macbeth 's Castle , and had lunch with Mr Keith , the excise collector , whose wife quizzed Johnson about his ‘ drinking water ’ .
27 12.55 : I sat down and had lunch with the kids .
28 I went over and had lunch with him .
29 Then there was the one where it was a frozen joint of meat , and the constable sat down and had lunch with the family .
30 President Kurt Waldheim paid an unofficial visit to Munich , Germany , on March 27 , and had lunch with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Bavarian Minister President Max Streibl .
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