Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [conj] the [noun sg] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The virginia creeper was a little more luxuriant perhaps and the wood-work had been newly painted and was whiter than she remembered . |
| 2 | ‘ It was very different here when the family had it . |
| 3 | His expression was that familiar give-nothing-away blank now that the smile had mysteriously vanished . |
| 4 | Feeling more than a little self conscious now that the adrenalin had ebbed away , I addressed the single , lit eye : ‘ OK , love ? ’ |
| 5 | We felt that it could have been better still if the weather had been kinder to us . |
| 6 | In a recent well-publicised controversy a group of scientists claimed to have obtained results whereby water that once had a certain substance in it continued to behave as if the substance was present even after the substance had been removed ; as if the water retained a ‘ memory ’ of the substance . |
| 7 | So powerful indeed that the emperor had him killed . |
| 8 | Her nipples were stiff now and the colour had not left her neck . |
| 9 | When the previous one departed , there was no other available locally and the job had to be advertised . |
| 10 | Jenny said erm , this time it said I could n't stand , when we all come out at twelve o'clock and the shock had hit us and we sort of said oh well we 're better off out of it , I 'll , I 've survived twenty five years without , I shall survive again , and when Jan , and Janet was so sick and then I turn round and Janet says I 'm with you girl , I said where you going ? |
| 11 | A plaintiff could proceed by means of the actio iudicati if he wished , although this was available only where the judgment had been given in a sum of money . |
| 12 | Athelstan was pleased then that the coroner had accompanied them . |
| 13 | Perhaps this was in the Collector 's mind as he lay there , silent and motionless now that the fever had left him and he was beginning to recover . |
| 14 | It so happened that two different remedies were sought in this case , but the decision on the issue of standing would have been the same even if the applicant had sought two declarations in different terms . |
| 15 | A stodgy mix of colonial history , racial paranoia , wet hankie sentiment and rough-hewn myth-making , it laid the ground-work for the Western even before the frontier had advanced much beyond the west of New York State . |
| 16 | They were both very angry , but they were silent now because the shouting had stopped , leaving a sharpness , an uncertainty in the atmosphere that Frankie could almost taste on the tip of his tongue . |
| 17 | He went back to his hotel for lunch and was surprised now that the conference had ended to find a good crowd in the dining-room , which was open to non-residents . |