Example sentences of "had [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the girls had been looking forward to this as to the highlight of the trip , but Clara had been dreading it , and for a classic reason , which was that she had nothing nice to wear . |
| 2 | The mere fact that it was convenient to do so through a story of a murder and the murderer 's subsequent feelings and actions had nothing essential to contribute . |
| 3 | Time and again he fell in love with young men who had nothing effeminate about them and who , though temporarily involved in a bisexual life , did not share Minton 's inversion and could not on any long-term basis return his love . |
| 4 | I really had nothing useful to say , so I responded with a sympathetic noise that only made Robin-Anne shake her head impatiently . |
| 5 | Perhaps they decided he had nothing useful to say — ; which is n't far from the truth . |
| 6 | The need was to reconcile the ‘ ecclesiastical ’ and the ‘ congregational ’ elements , and while he insisted that ‘ Nonconformist churches must , beyond all question , be built to see and hear in ’ he had nothing good to say about the vast preaching halls , such as the Metropolitan Tabernacle , with a bit of tracery and the proportions of a barn . |
| 7 | When I calmed down I realized I was defending an organization I refused to be in , though I had nothing good to say for the one I 'd left it for . |
| 8 | Havelock Wilson who had , of course , been among those leaders to whom Larkin 's vituperation had been particularly directed , reserved his regrets for the oppressed people of Ireland whose cause had been so ill served by the " blunders and follies " of Larkin who " had such a splendid case , but made such a sorry mess of it , doing everything he ought not to have done and nothing that he ought to " and bringing , by his defeat , comfort to the Irish employers who had nothing good to be said for them at all . |
| 9 | Later the same day , a London correspondent could write to William Stonor that he had nothing new to report . |
| 10 | Later the same day , a London correspondent could write to William Stonor that he had nothing new to report . |
| 11 | But Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown said Mr Clarke had nothing new to offer to confront the problems faced by the country . |
| 12 | He should not have been ashamed of his grandfather , of course , but his upbringing had been pitiful , constantly on the march from one to another of a whole series of ‘ uncles ’ — there were several between his father and the solicitor — so that he had nothing stable in his life at all . |
| 13 | Irena produced a suit from somewhere — I had nothing appropriate to wear and the Czechs dress up to go out — and on a cold wet evening Miroslav , who once behind his bassoon could n't stop smiling , dragged me in off Red Army Square where I 'd been waiting under an umbrella watching a group of Czech soldiers trying to stand up , and escorted me up to the balcony of the Fucik Hall to watch the performance . |
| 14 | The latter category includes patients with cystitis , the urethral syndrome , vaginal discharge , sexual and contraceptive problems , and a sizeable minority who had nothing wrong with them at all . |
| 15 | In fact , because most older people had nothing significant to leave , only a minority wrote wills . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's disgusting , ’ contributed Mrs Harper from time to time , presenting her flat , mean , worthless little counter simply because she could not bear to remain silent , to sit back where others played , although she recognized herself temporarily outnumbered , ‘ disgusting , I call it , ’ and Shirley , hearing this phrase for the millionth time , had a vision of households all over Britain in which censorious , ignorant old bags like her mother-in-law , who had never done anything for the public good , who had nothing positive ever to contribute to any argument , passed judgement on others while stuffing themselves with goose and roast potatoes and sprouts and apple sauce . |
| 17 | The completion of the canon of Scripture by the early Church does not signify that they thought the Lord had stopped speaking or that he had nothing fresh to say . |
| 18 | Beneath this programme , moreover , there beats the double anxiety about which the Queen had nothing important to say . |
| 19 | Ted mistook the move completely and his other arm came round with an enthusiasm which had nothing paternal in it . |
| 20 | I had nothing particular planned , merely an idea that it might be interesting to thrash our way out into the open ocean , though , mindful of the danger of tropical storms , I had no intention of going too far from the safe shelter of a Bahamian hurricane hole . |
| 21 | During the summer of 1975 I visited the station one day when we had nothing particular to do , with two friends . |
| 22 | They were no threat to him ; they were far away , and he was in tree-shade , and had nothing bright about him to catch the light . |
| 23 | Thornton , 32 , was constantly frustrated by Eubank 's weird and unorthodox antics but he had nothing exceptional to throw into the pot . |
| 24 | mother-in-law always had them flat beds you know and |
| 25 | Huh , I think I had such a good night , you know what you 've bloody well done he said you 've got up he said before you was ready he said , you knew you wanted to get on he said , and you 've got up he said with the intentions he said , you had them bloody cakes he said before you had breakfast , well I had to with her coming |
| 26 | Some did , some had them full and some did n't and er there was a toilet and a a toilet and a coal house across the yard and then we used to go in the back door and there was a tiny little kitchen . |
| 27 | ‘ When you had them fresh you had a concrete floor . |
| 28 | Obviously most of them had them marked or had their name on them , so that they would have the same er the same set of tools every day . |
| 29 | Last year , remember , she did up some of the bedrooms and had them decorated , her brother decorated them and also she did the erm the tables , remember , she stripped back some tables and varnished them and she made a lovely job . |
| 30 | ‘ We had them cold . |