Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [pron] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only was he enjoying trying to blame the fire on Lisa , when surely he must know she had enough problems already , but that reference to ‘ poor , downtrodden Nigel ’ was almost shocking in its coldness . |
| 2 | Our explanation for this was that unions might feel they had less control over the conditions of indirectly employed temporary workers than over the conditions of those who are directly employed . |
| 3 | You 'd think they had another road block down here . |
| 4 | you could see he had two pairs of socks on , the Dayglo green ones with holes in and underneath some grey woolly ones , the kind that earnest ramblers wear . |
| 5 | I felt a burning , splitting sensation , and Dick told me to look as the head had crowned , and I could see she had dark hair . |
| 6 | You would think he had better things to do with his time . |
| 7 | Every time we arranged to come to London he would decide he had other things to do . |
| 8 | Erm so two pounds of that went with sale with the sale of the journal and so we can say we had twelve pounds unsolicited donations , erm as Peggy would back me up if she was here , saying that any time you ask someone to sign the flood gates open with what they thought about the position of pensioners , in fact we 've probably got a lot more signatures if they had n't , but erm , we did pick up , we , I picked up the news about Welwyn Garden City 's cost of and things like that not going through and erm , erm , now , our month our monthly , our monthly stall will not be on the third third Thursday this year , it will be on the fourth to co-inside with the week were celebrating pensioner 's week , which is a week behind National . |