Example sentences of "had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These huts had dry stone walls , perhaps three or four feet thick , with thatched heather roofs . |
| 2 | As this village was inaccessible , the enemy patrols were unlikely to reach it undetected , but if they did the platoon headquarters was sufficiently mobile for the captain , sergeant , and their two runners/signalmen to withdraw quickly over the hill , taking their radio with them — a different proposition to moving a 109-set , for now the guerrillas had dry battery radios ( see Appendix No. 5 ) designed by Lieutenant Barcham , a New Zealander , for use by the Independent Companies . |
| 3 | Had profitable South African firms not been constrained by sanctions and exchange controls , they would have taken the profits they made from gold , platinum and diamonds and invested them overseas . |
| 4 | The army , where profiteering and corruption was endemic , had profitable interests to protect , especially its involvement in drug trafficking . |
| 5 | If you had fifty pence and |
| 6 | Bernard declared ‘ No Smoking ’ throughout ; but Laura , pragmatic as ever , rather than countermanding him , simply had fifty ashtrays placed strategically around the château . |
| 7 | But I remember one time one week , I had fifty cases of oranges in . |
| 8 | So they brought them down here and they had fifty cases of oranges in here . |
| 9 | Well Steve 's mum had fifty pounds worth off of Steve' aunty look , so erm I did about hundred and twenty five and I had twenty five pound back . |
| 10 | When Ted took me out into the sea , we had fifty fish |
| 11 | So the first opportunity I had I left Bradley 's and went back to the Lock so it 'd been war direction , war service we asked and it counted as me service with the Lock , that I had n't interrupted me service being as I was directed so that 's how I say I had fifty years at the Lock . |
| 12 | Must of seen them putting it in , they had fifty quid away , she had fifty quid on her |
| 13 | Must of seen them putting it in , they had fifty quid away , she had fifty quid on her |
| 14 | I had fifty quid ! |
| 15 | believe it or not we even had fifty pound towards that which is a bloody miracle . |
| 16 | We had fifty percent off the price you see ! total . |
| 17 | The LAPD had 7,000 officers , albeit better trained , with an air fleet of eighteen helicopters , a budget of over $400 million and an arsenal the teenagers in the gangs could never match . |
| 18 | Ferranti had strong warning on takeover |
| 19 | Although Robert Blair was born at Bullwood , Dunoon , on 3rd May 1837 , he had strong Islay connections . |
| 20 | The civic grandeur of Liverpool , which in the middle of the nineteenth century was ever expanding on the most monumental scale , must have influenced Mr Bushnell 's taste , for he had strong views on what he wanted . |
| 21 | Most women had strong views on EC membership , with 45 per cent saying it cut the chance of war . |
| 22 | Hayling in turn was delighted to meet a man whose friends described him as a ‘ non-conformist ’ compared with most City types , and one who had strong views about the way City investment was dominated by political advantage . |
| 23 | It also took her a step nearer to Douglas Fairbanks , a former student of a mining school who had strong views of his own on how the movies should depict American society . |
| 24 | King George V always had strong views as to who was suitable for which office , and did not hesitate to express them to his Prime Ministers . |
| 25 | Marenches had strong views on the reasons for the Shah 's fall . |
| 26 | But the points he made were chiefly concerned with moral questions affecting the status of divorce , on which he had strong views : whereas I had been occupied more with the Baldwin government and its apparent wish to stifle certain political views , especially concerning unemployment , to which the King had given expression . |
| 27 | He also had strong views on the way in which the army was organized . |
| 28 | Still a beautiful woman at turned fifty , Maureen was a spinster from choice , and had strong views on the subject of relationships . |
| 29 | He said that some witnesses in the action had strong views about the rights of the public over the beach and quarrying which has been carried on there . |
| 30 | On February 21 , 1991 a hearing took place before the justices , in camera , at which it was submitted on the defendant 's behalf that the publication of the prosecution would be a penalty highly prejudicial to the defendant 's business , that the publicity would bring about closure , that the restaurant had strong defences to each summons and that there had been serious breaches of PACE by the investigating officer . |