Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] had [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I used mainly my green Ibanez that I had on the last tour , but for a Be-Bop solo on Giant Steps I used an Ibanez George Benson . |
| 2 | His interest and concern calmed me and sitting in his study at the back of the church I felt more at peace than I had in a long time . |
| 3 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |
| 4 | Oddly , she felt less happy , less content , less well able to go about her daily business than she had in the three painful months of her sexual abstinence . |
| 5 | I think it 's the reconciliation based on perhaps some of the problems that we had at the lost last stock take which are accelerated You know probably the odd miscount here and there this time . |
| 6 | That was the doctoring that we had for a broken collar bone you see ? |
| 7 | The only way to reverse what the hon. Gentleman alleges would be to go back to the sort of tax rates that we had under the last Labour Government — 83 and 98 per cent . |
| 8 | But it was the precipitation running off the wings through a gap in the frieze ailerons that we had on the Wapiti aircraft at that time , that had soaked me . |
| 9 | I 'm sure that if I was still living in England we would n't have got the push that we had on the last album and we would n't have got nominated for a Grammy . |
| 10 | that we had in a six month period . |
| 11 | ‘ We would not , I believe , if we had had that situation , have had the strength to deal with the Falklands , with Iraq and with the economic difficulties that we had in the early 1980s , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Certainly of of the size of of the desn deafness claims that we had in the nineteen eighties and will continue to have for the rest of this er of this century . |
| 13 | It 's the fact that we are so close to America , that we 've got this highly dynamic American sound that we had in the sixties in this country with the kind of dynamism in the sixties and the desire to sort of break through all kinds of formal barriers — I mean the mini skirt period , you know what I mean and in certain cities , like Liverpool , where this feeling of it is necessary to break through barriers to create this kind of dynamic sort of extremely vital sound . |
| 14 | That 's a great philosophy and fortunately we 've got the luxury of having a little more time now than we had in the early days . |
| 15 | Rod Bristow saw universities changing more over the next five years than they had in the previous half century . |
| 16 | Er , consumer confidence fell away and U K consumers kept more of their cash in their pockets er , in fact , erm , they saved over two and a half billion pounds more in the first quarter of ninety one than they had in the same er , quarter of last year . |
| 17 | Portsmouth could not have had an easier preparation than they had against a flimsy Grimsby side . |
| 18 | Now many more MPs expressed alarm about the actual impact of the tax on their constituents and , consequently , on their chances of re-election as they discovered to their dismay that most households would be paying far more in poll tax that they had under the old rating system . |
| 19 | Even if the units of government are not based upon the counties , people still hark back to the links that they had with the traditional counties . |
| 20 | W that bit we gave up after the First World War but we made er we did make some of these er patented things that they had in the Second World War . |
| 21 | Colonel with a K the this band , they used to , that they had from the tenth replacement depot used to come down and play at the Town Hall , and they they like I said before they were fellas on the way to join Glen the absolute ultimate musicians of America and it was why I 'm still today erm I 've got a big collection of jazz records and have always been interested in the big band sound . |
| 22 | The Concentrated Reinforcement Programme was discontinued since it was considered that the very marginal improvement that it had over the Standard programme was not worth the relatively more substantial increase in running costs . |
| 23 | Coun George Robinson claimed that if the council had received the same level of Government support grant that it had in the 1970s , the poll tax would have been about £100 . |
| 24 | She watched him walk away along the corridor heading back towards the club , her heart feeling lighter than it had for the past week . |
| 25 | Presumably , therefore , internal migration exerted no more impact , and probably less , on the British population structure than it had in the nineteenth century . |
| 26 | Making fathers pay the poll tax for their under-age children , he said , hindered the growth of population , which had advanced less in the twenty years since the mid-1830s than it had in the twenty years before that . |
| 27 | He felt happier than he had for a long time . |
| 28 | He was bearing the cold and damp better than he had in the previous year , but these winter months were a time when proper life had to give way to the struggle merely to exist . |
| 29 | Professor Pearn and I had for the last ten years been interchangeably secretary and editor of the Burma Research Society , and when we discovered that the Society 's bank had been able to get our balance safely into India before the break-up , we conceived the plan of a series of Burma Pamphlets , describing various aspects of the national life . |
| 30 | Well I by good luck have had some copies of the petition sent down to me , so I started it , it immediately and I had in the first they made over one thousand one hundred and twenty five signatures . |