Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [pron] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each had its own project to attend to … checking on nesting boxes they had some months earlier put among the trees … on the stream … recording the height of various trees planted the autumn before … and there was also some weeding to be done , as always , among the ranks of young trees . |
| 2 | The one member of the CPNI who was centrally involved in NICRA was Betty Sinclair ; as secretary of the Belfast trades council she had more time to devote to it than trade-union officials like Banks and Harris . |
| 3 | For meeting places they had private houses such as that of Richard Key at Eastden ; pride and strength in their chapels came later . |
| 4 | But in my case an exception was made , and girls from the year below mine were moved above me in House Order , as well as being made monitors who had special privileges . |
| 5 | We studied patients who had coronary arteriography and then later an infarct . |
| 6 | One was in a 59-year-old woman with relapsing uveitis who had retinal necrosis with CMV inclusions in the enucleated eye . |
| 7 | He told police he had drunk miniatures of brandy on a flight back from Dubai that day , followed by a pint of beer and a whisky . |
| 8 | Mr Major signalled it was business as usual when he welcomed new Welsh Secretary John Redwood at the morning 's Cabinet and told ministers they had important issues to deal with . |
| 9 | ‘ When we played Everton I had four people working with me , ’ recalls Biggins , ‘ but now I 'm working on my own for the VAT man . |
| 10 | We 've had people we had one chap an old mate of mine he give us fifty P well he 's on the dole there . |
| 11 | Of 65 right handed patients who had post-operative aphasia , 54 had shown some effect of stimulation on their speech and a further 10 out of 15 right handed patients showed aphasic arrest during cortical stimulation but had no post operative aphasia . |
| 12 | Indeed , in his immediate aim of regaining Normandy in order to retain England he had little choice : his survival depended on it . |
| 13 | I I must confess Mr I had some difficulty with the wording of P P G there when it says , unacceptable coalescence , er and trying to balance that against the expressed aim that this should be freestanding . |
| 14 | The military reshuffle carried out in October and November was largely aimed at removing officers who had close links with the Yangs . |
| 15 | Shooter , of Southbrae Drive , Jordanhill , Glasgow , claimed to represent an organisation called Midas which had political objectives and was in desperate need of funds . |
| 16 | In order to avoid any bias resulting from the selection process ( originating from measurement errors which may tend to put shares which had positive discrepancies into the high beta portfolios and vice versa ) the return was calculated using the data from the sixth year following the beginning of the period in which the betas had been estimated and chosen . |
| 17 | The oil facility , set up in 1974 to assist countries which had current account difficulties because of higher oil prices , ceased to be available after 1983 . |
| 18 | He was a senior , dedicated member , and it did n't at first appear that he had committed any atrocities , but we later found out that he was responsible for denouncing people who had anti-Fascist sympathies , and that it was because of him that we had been taken to Tabiano . |
| 19 | ‘ Thank God I had that five-shot lead , ’ gasped Faldo after receiving the £348,763 winner 's cheque . |
| 20 | Mum always stood up for Liza , her longtime favourite , telling Dad she had enough sense to know what was right and wrong , but I doubted she did . |