Example sentences of "[adv] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lorraine Allard had only had four days ' warning before leaving from Berlin : |
| 2 | June Bascombe , who is co-ordinating the displays has only had four items offered so far . |
| 3 | We 've only had one night when she cried a lot — luckily it was n't the night before a game . ’ |
| 4 | In the two years they 've been married they have only had one day together . |
| 5 | We 've only had one bit of trouble once , and that was when we first moved on . |
| 6 | Yes , I 've always , I 've always understood , understood more recently the reason why that there would always seemed to be enough prisoners , when we know there really must be enough prisoners throughout the world is that the betting procedure and they 're making quite sure they 're the right people takes time and money and effort , erm , that 's part and also there are some areas of the world now , where , where there are n't as many prisoners as there were , there are very few , there are very few prisoners of conscience in Latin America because they do n't put them in prison they just get rid of them , they just disappear and there are practically , practically none from Latin America countries , cos of these , these disappearances rather than being put in prison , erm , but it 's a sort of combination of reasons I think but er quite a long time now , ten , fifteen years I think groups have only had one prisoner , whereas when I first joined and Ann 's there , we had three did n't we at one time ? |
| 7 | We could n't get it forward properly , we could n't pass to each other and they had I think they still only had one chance second half and managed to squeeze it in to get a point . |
| 8 | ‘ Jason 's only had one game , but it was a good one . |
| 9 | Men who 've only had one partner almost never fantasize at work , whereas those who have had 10 or more partners have a strong tendency in the office to let their thoughts wander to sex . |
| 10 | Dave Bassett 's side have only had one penalty in 90 games in the last two seasons . |
| 11 | I have only had one passion in my life : truth . |
| 12 | Oh er I I 've only been erm I 've only had one job . |
| 13 | Employment I 've only had one job , that 's sad . |
| 14 | It makes people wonder why he 's only had one season at top level , never been bought by a successful club , and why Kevin Keegan is letting him move on to Coventry now . |
| 15 | ‘ Easier said than done , Sir John , and you have only had one cup of refreshment ! ’ |
| 16 | but we 'd have to add another if we only had one penny we 'd have to add another nine to get ten P . |
| 17 | I 've only had one cigarette . |
| 18 | At the end of the third day their water was running short , as each man had only had two pints in his water bottle . |
| 19 | We 've only had two reports but we do have another unconfirmed report of a third siting of this man wihtin the last week . |
| 20 | He says that he 's only had two letters of objection and adds that he wonders how long he has to carry on to prove to some people that the crematorium is not an environmental hazard . |
| 21 | She felt he was looking at her professionally now : a woman who had only had two cups of coffee for breakfast , who had not gone shopping or taken herself out to lunch as she had planned , who , in the old days , never seemed to waste a minute , who never laid down in the middle of the day and yet was now stretched out on the bed , inert , apathetic , openly admitting that she had n't realised the time . |
| 22 | One would expect there to be at least some degree of microadenoma formation but so far she has only had two areas biopsied . |
| 23 | ‘ By the time the squad returned from Norway I had only had two days training all pre-season . |
| 24 | Well , you 've only had two practices . |
| 25 | It has meant that she has only had two training sessions in the last month , which is scarcely the preparation necessary to face her hardest opponent in the world . |
| 26 | ‘ He has only had nine hurdles races and to win five in a row is obviously something special . ’ |
| 27 | Of the protocol violators , those seven patients who missed out a cystoscopy and then had recurrences , six have only had occasional recurrences during the remainder of their follow up , and one required chemotherapy four years from diagnosis , when he developed multiple superficial recurrences . |
| 28 | No , I should think so , I should think it 's just , that there probably sold those ones , they 've only had certain colours of the range in . |
| 29 | And just to correct Lindi 's manager who intervened there , Paul Weir HAS only had six pro-fights , not eight . |
| 30 | Despite having been in touch with many agencies , they 'd only had five applicants so far — four of whom had been absolutely hopeless . |