Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] had [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm sorry I had to throw old Rex to the wolves back there , ’ he said , without a trace of conviction . |
| 2 | Foreign investment in India remained at a low level during the 1980s when compared with similar international investment elsewhere in south and south-east Asia , despite the introduction of liberalization measures in 1985-86 which had boosted industrial investment and output . |
| 3 | The announcement that the society lacked the cash to fund its operating costs surprised few who had followed that institution 's relatively quiet descent into insolvency . |
| 4 | Before their initial gall stone dissolution treatment , 15 of 82 patients followed up for more than six months had had solitary stones , compared with 67 who had had multiple stones . |
| 5 | Two groups of patients were studied : one who had had coronary angiography because they had been given thrombolytic therapy for coronary disease , and another who had had coronary angiography due to chronic stable angina ( Figure 3 ) . |
| 6 | The downside is a familiar one : notchy and sticky gearchange , mushy brake pedal , rough and vocal engine ( this one had done 4000 miles yet would still not rev to the red line ) , wind noise at speed and , of course , the seats . |
| 7 | To do this he had bought some loudspeakers from the government and the sparks had damaged them . |
| 8 | At 30 he had amassed enough knowledge of transcendental experience systems to make him a contender for the job of running what was regarded by many as one of Europe 's best Transcendental Operations Modules . |
| 9 | In 1905 , at age 48 , he walked 200 yards , ran 200 yards , cycled 200 yards , rowed 200 yards and swam 200 yards , all in under a total of eight minutes , and in 1903 he had swum five miles in the Thames ( two of them against the tide ) . |
| 10 | This was a distinct motivation from that which had offered free places in the old endowed grammar schools and which had allowed a small measure of upward mobility for the bright working-class child . |
| 11 | The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order . |
| 12 | It was intended that there should be assessment of the mother , but by August 1991 she had missed three assessment appointments . |
| 13 | On taking her history , it was discovered that when she was twelve or thirteen she had had frequent nose bleeds and had lost a great deal of blood . |
| 14 | At the age of twenty-eight she had awakened one morning to the realisation , clear as dawn , that to hope for things did not necessarily bring them about , that there was no earthly reason why she should be happy , healthy and husbanded . |
| 15 | During 1991 they had recruited 109 graduates and were expecting to recruit a similar number in 1992 . |
| 16 | By 1660 he had completed rabbinical studies and by his own account sought the ‘ wisdom of medicine ’ at the University of Leiden . |
| 17 | Out of that she had to pay all expenses , including animal feed and coal , which left around five pounds a month for food . |
| 18 | I was surprised to seen that in April 's Hands On that you had awarded Zwi Rotem of Israel the winner 's prize for his tip on extracting nails with screwdrivers and a washer . |
| 19 | Strange , Gina thought , how much their two countries had in common and how little she had realised that element of kinship before . |
| 20 | But this made it so obvious who had sent this copy that he was astonished that it had been sent at all . |
| 21 | This was a man of forty-six who had had multiple sclerosis for six years . |
| 22 | The bed was comfortable and so large you had to shout sweet nothings . |
| 23 | She told herself to calm down : at the worst they had lost each other and would have to go home separately . |
| 24 | In 1932 it had captured international headlines when the church was attacked by a mob of evangelical bigots who went to work with sledgehammers , wrecking altars and destroying ornaments of which they disapproved ; perhaps the last violent twitch of the Puritan tail on English soil . |
| 25 | There were never enough hooks so each one had to take several coats . |
| 26 | And each one had got different letters of the alphabet ion it and that 's how we learnt the alphabet . |
| 27 | By the end of 1980 we had made 160 collections and , despite problems with the budding technique , nearly 130 of these were safely growing in the nursery . |
| 28 | A few had been to other universities , to Sandhurst , Dartmouth or an agricultural college , making 190 in all who had had some form of higher education . |
| 29 | All she had done this morning was suggest that she bathe his wound again before they started out , and he had refused with a complete lack of gratitude or even common courtesy . |
| 30 | and then if you 'd been off sick at all you had to make that time up as well so it was about four years and six months I did there altogether . |