Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [pers pn] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment . |
| 2 | If only if I had that ability ! |
| 3 | All experience showed that an attack had some prospect of success only if it had numerical superiority in a ratio of at least 3 : 1 . |
| 4 | Erm so if we had one penny shared out between two of us we get a half a penny each a half penny which they do n't have any more they used to but they have them any more . |
| 5 | So if we had two N A two S O four , that would be two times N A two you 've got four N As and two times the S O four . |
| 6 | Okay , it 's on the bottom , so if we had ten times , we made it ten times as big then we do n't get ten times the current we get one tenth . |
| 7 | You see in British Steel we we have seventy thousand deferred pensioners and er it is a group of people that I feel extremely sorry for , because er in nineteen eighty-six British Steel introduced into their pension scheme while it was still in the public sector , retirement at sixty where with a pension credit spaced on length of service , so if you had thirty-five years service in , you could retire at sixty as if you were sixty-five and there was nothing done at all for deferred pensioners and in certainly our submission to British Steel for seeking improvements , we we asked that they er they look at deferred pensioner with a view to paying their pensions at sixty , recognising that it was a very high-class plane that might have to be er achieved in stages . |
| 8 | Okay so I , what I 'd like you to do now is both write down if you had three pound sixty a week , how much would you spend on sweets , on presents , on stationery and how much would save |
| 9 | And that 's only because I had good teachers — I do n't think that I have any special superhuman gift for it . ’ |
| 10 | The detention of COWAN 's president serves as a lesson especially because we had similar experiences with Brooklyn Village in Acornhoek , between 1989 and 1990 . |
| 11 | ‘ I made up my mind about that long before we had five goals stuck past us at Oldham on Saturday . |
| 12 | Only when we had that row did I realize how much the wish to please her had come into it . |
| 13 | Only when she had this data could she say with any confidence whether people who were converted into the Unification Church ( the dependent variable ) were different in any systematic ways from the rest of the population . |
| 14 | Then you 'd quarter it , quarter it off , you see , then carry it down to the shop so as you had some beef in the shop on show in four quarters . |
| 15 | ‘ When we had n't seen her at the grave for a while we thought she must have gone away and so when we had any flowers left over we put them on Brian 's grave , ’ said Mary . |
| 16 | I lived there the longest so I had more friends there , ’ he says . |
| 17 | Those of us who campaigned against the Gulf War did so not because we had any liking for Saddam Hussein . |
| 18 | This deficiency he shared with a whole crew of leaders of third-world or so-called ‘ non-aligned ’ countries , who like him had gained power because they were against foreign rulers , not because they had any idea of what to put in place of foreign rule . |
| 19 | Others had undergone a test because they ‘ needed to know ’ , not because they had any intention of terminating . |
| 20 | These comforted her , not because she had any faith in their message , but because they were phrased with some beauty ; they were made up of words that seemed to apply to some large and other world of other realities , and they bore witness , also , to the fact that somebody had thought it worth his while to put them up . |
| 21 | It 's not because I had Christian parents , it 's not because I 'd some advantage over you , or you had some advantage over me , it is all of God 's graciousness , it is all of God 's giving ! |
| 22 | This was not because he had any interest in values realized in animal life , but because he believed that some degree of goodness pertained to things or states of affairs which do not involve consciousness of any kind . |
| 23 | He clambered up and intercepted her at the kitchen door , enfolding her and drawing her in to his body so that his warmth flowed through to her , just as he had that day when he 'd found her on the beach , lost and afraid ; like him , a victim of the past . |
| 24 | Just as he had last year in the pub in Kent when he 'd glassed the landlord — when the landlord had chatted to Jo while Jack was in the bog . |
| 25 | He performed best when he had well-written lines and was acting with someone he respected . |
| 26 | The basis for that submission was that the officers ought to have arrested offenders as soon as they had sufficient evidence . |
| 27 | She told him that as soon as she had some money she wanted to buy some decent clothes , the kind that she could wear to her work in the evenings . |
| 28 | As soon as he had any money he spent it on going to Central America or Thailand by the cheapest possible means to look at some new underground . |
| 29 | The French Agriculture Minister , Henri Nallet , said that the ban , which his United Kingdom counterpart John Gummer described as " unwarranted , unjustified and contrary to EC law " , would be lifted as soon as he had satisfactory guarantees that BSE ( not hitherto officially confirmed in French cattle ) posed no threat to human health . |
| 30 | No , I was , I was , came over all , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , I 'll try and park outside Westgate , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , Kelly get round , yes I can go and oh find Robert erm , yeah I did n't feel right in the morning , but as soon as the day went on as soon as I had this salmon salad , sandwich , and Rob said to me well you sure it was n't that , cos he said sometimes that salmon could make people feel a bit , nothing wrong with that , it 's just a tin of salmon , you know . |