Example sentences of "[adv] had [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Urban calls for a tax on farm income were ignored , although Aziz did announce the taxation under certain conditions of military and police welfare foundations ( which hitherto had run a wide variety of tax-exempt businesses ) . |
| 2 | There was one member whose sight was so bad that when she read she not only had to prop a second pair of spectacles on top of the pair already resting on her nose , but also had to stand under the standard lamp almost pressed against the light bulb . |
| 3 | They only had to drop a wizened bean over their shoulders for a plant to spurt from the ground and rain pods at them . |
| 4 | Certainly there was every need for a road-widening scheme : four years earlier , in the October of 1793 , poor old Parson Woodforde had nearly come a nasty cropper on Frome Hill , when the chaise he was in had had an unfortunate encounter with a large ‘ heavily loaden ’ London waggon , complete with eight horses : |
| 5 | This was why they had n't caught on to the idea of the ground being curved , not flat — and so had to invent an imaginary force to explain what was going on . |
| 6 | The well bubbled into a tributary of the Moy , but unfortunately it had been hemmed in by modern concrete and so had lost a great deal of its charm . |
| 7 | The corridor they had travelled along had turned an abrupt corner and then ended at a blank , curved wall . |
| 8 | If you were asked which club it was , you just had to have a good reason for choosing it . |
| 9 | It was agreed at an early stage ( principally at Citrine 's insistence ) that sales in urban and rural areas should be at common prices , so that many rural dwellers already having a supply had prices reduced , though new consumers distant from the mains still had to pay a one-off contribution or line rental ( which varied according to the Board ) to meet part of the cost of connection . |
| 10 | But when morning came she still had to keep a firm hold on her feelings , especially when Joanna pressed her to describe her evening with Giles . |
| 11 | James Sandoe , a fine American critic of crime fiction , once said of the typical private-eye that , although there was no specific reason for it , somehow he always had to have a shabby office with " shabby restaurant nearby serving leaden eggs and greasy bacon " . |
| 12 | Now the man who once had to supplement a lean living as an artist with part-time work is being paid to draw life on and around the River Tees . |
| 13 | We also had to do a written test . |
| 14 | We also had to learn a great deal of poetry by heart — poetry which I can still recall all these years later . |
| 15 | ‘ The treatment was two doses of a very potent drug with rather nasty side effects ; I also had to swallow a small container on the end of a string and sleep with the string taped to my cheek all night ; in the morning it was drawn out with a sample of stomach contents . |
| 16 | The fourth John Booth founded another major firm in partnership with John Hartop and George Binks , whose own families also had had a long involvement in the local metal trades . |
| 17 | It would n't do just to have straight furrows : a good ploughman also had to have a good top to the stetch — the furrows lying all flat and even . |
| 18 | ‘ It does n't matter , ’ said Loretta , grateful that her unpremeditated action the day before had made a good impression on Veronica . |
| 19 | If I really had to spend a long time hurting someone slowly , I 'd have to use a blindfold : them or me , one of us would have to have their eyes hidden . |
| 20 | All the talk after the game is about Gascoigne , but he really had had a marvellous match had n't he ? |
| 21 | Denied the comfortable illusion that the League could restrain aggression without killing people , pacifists now had to face a harsh choice . |
| 22 | The nationalist leader often had to invent a unifying culture as well as lead . |
| 23 | To her mind , Travis McKenna was definitely Mr Wrong … and yet today had brought a shivering awareness of him as a man — and herself as a woman . |
| 24 | The choice of Blondel , who here had to sing a full octave higher than he normally did , was undoubtedly intended to make the poor village Hymen sound utterly ridiculous as soon as he opened his mouth . |
| 25 | Growers here had expected a bumper season . |
| 26 | Both he and Amiss had spent a considerable time comforting Sunil , who had been throwing up on and off for over an hour . |
| 27 | Since one of them was the old gourmet Mauleverer , Amiss had to endure a lengthy disquisition on how the toast should be ( very hot and dark brown ) , on how much butter ( lots ) , and why the club should provide hedgerow jam ( blackberry , elderberry and rosehip ) and a great deal more . |
| 28 | The idea of Tyneside is at least as old as the middle of the nineteenth century when modern industrial interests combined with local radical politicians to wrest control of the river from the city of Newcastle which until then had exercised a medieval monopoly . |
| 29 | With the help of his father , John built the Nautilus , 38ft long and one of the earliest boats to be driven by a screw propeller , and it outpaced all the steamers which followed the University Boat Race between Putney and Mortlake , which by then had become an annual event in the spring of each year . |
| 30 | The client then had to ring a different number . |