Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [subord] the [noun sg] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was very different here when the family had it . |
| 2 | We felt that it could have been better still if the weather had been kinder to us . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |