Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] had [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd applied for Mastermind in three previous years but was unsuccessful and even had an audition in 1989 . ’
2 ‘ At Cadwell I was flying past the other 600s and even had the legs on some of the 750s .
3 Cook was appointed agent for Nile passenger traffic by the Khedive of Egypt in 1870 and eventually had a fleet of seventeen large vessels and about thirty-three smaller dahabeeyahs and pinnaces .
4 Although neither very efficient nor popular with the other staff , Cabon made herself useful and soon had the run of the office and was able to look at all the files , amongst which she found one relating to the proposed voyage of the Rainbow Warrior into the nuclear test area .
5 Such thoughts soothed me , and then the reality of what had happened would come shooting through my consciousness like a speedboat churning up a calm sea : how dare he decree that I must wear a badge indicating , for men 's convenience , whether I was available or already had an owner ?
6 Endill was sure she made tools because they never bought any but always had the ones they needed for digging and planting .
7 His most important contact was Hayling , who had left Ford in 1983 and now had a job monitoring multinational companies in the GLC 's Industry and Employment Branch .
8 Right , what made we want to be , I wanted to be a policeman when I was very young but never had the courage to do it .
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