Example sentences of "[conj] in [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Platform weapons were set to allow nothing to rise more than a thousand kilometres from the surface of the world below — or in other words they had a killing range of about thirty-five thousand kilometres . |
| 2 | He had carried the day , of course , for although in fourteen years he had made himself supreme King in Alba , he was born to the north , and from Moray to the northernmost island of Orkney he was the leader men trusted and knew . |
| 3 | So in fact the crinoline , although in some ways it had its disadvantages , I think it was a good deal more comfortable than , than wearing a lot of petticoats and being very restricted like that . |
| 4 | He also concluded that in most cases they had simply been wrong . |
| 5 | There were rumours that in some cases he had . |
| 6 | In April 1983 , teachers reported that in some areas they had not been paid for four months and 828 schools had been closed down . |
| 7 | Nevertheless on such occasions he gave the impression to friends and acquaintances that in some ways he had mellowed . |
| 8 | In all cases English kings had to come to terms with the conditions which they found in these three different countries ; and in all cases they had to show an ability to adapt themselves and their armies to new conditions , military , social and economic , as well as to new thinking in the ways that armies were formed and war was fought . |
| 9 | In 1850 therefore the deer were officially banished , and in five years they had all been killed off . |
| 10 | As Cynthia says : ‘ We found Dave entertaining children at Chessington World of Adventures , and in 25 years I had never met anyone who got on more naturally with children . ’ |
| 11 | In all the time she was there she asked for only two things , and in both cases I had to disappoint her . |
| 12 | He preached , visited Cluny , went to Vienne , and in both places he had talks with the abbot or archbishop , of which records have survived . |
| 13 | He was a superb horseman and in those days we had many more horses here , bloodstock that was famous as even now these horses are . |
| 14 | And in those days you had to have fifteen years ' training before anyone would really look at you . |
| 15 | In the Sixth form , we put on a number of plays ourselves , and in earlier forms we had plays produced by mistresses . |
| 16 | But in other respects she had had her own way . |
| 17 | There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice . |
| 18 | On the last day Seve birdied the first hole and Hale took a six on the second , I can remember the scoring because in those days I had to mark all the cards , and I remember putting Irwin down for a six — and then the card blew in to the bunker on the second and I had to go chasing after it . |
| 19 | This in itself is odd because in previous terms I had often ( though not regularly ) described meals in detail . |
| 20 | For one thing , she said , they could hardly scrape up enough money for one deck passage , let alone two , for in two years he had sold only three paintings for a few pounds . |
| 21 | And Anglican laymen in America may have felt that a bishop from across the ocean would be harder to influence than the local clergy , many of whom were American by origin , though in several cases they had gone to Britain to complete their education . |