Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said the young people obviously thought they had some measure of adult approval . |
| 2 | He just knew he had cheap labour . |
| 3 | You remember you always thought he had some secret . ’ |
| 4 | Another grandfather , a retired Manchester newsagent , would light the fires , mend shoes , and peel the potatoes , while in a south London stableman 's home the grandfather would clean the shoes and cook too — ‘ We always said we had two mothers and two fathers , always . ’ |
| 5 | As the denomination most solidly based in the countryside , they also realized they had little choice in the thousands of new streets with their red and yellow brick terraces that were covering England 's acres . |
| 6 | Left to her own devices , Lucy wondered what she should do next , then realised she had little option but to wait until she ran into Silas . |
| 7 | Earlier another Bond director Mr Tony Oates said the corporation vigorously denied it had any knowledge of the alleged phone-bugging operation . |
| 8 | However , the tale seems to have followed him , because I gather some of his parishioners certainly thought he had deviant tendencies in spite of his having a wife and son . |
| 9 | I never felt I had enough food when I was pregnant . |
| 10 | I never knew we had any baronets attending St Matthew 's . ’ |