Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pron] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | David was so upset about the prospect of going to a day centre that when the ambulance arrived he had uncharacteristic temper tantrums on the doorstep . |
2 | I suppose the defendant thought he had some benefit ; at any rate , there is a detriment to the plaintiff from his parting with the possession for even so short a time . |
3 | Harbury 's loose talk suggested he had few facts . |
4 | They were helped by their post-war cost advantages — rapid reconstruction at home meant they had newer facilities than many of their competitors — but they were also pre-disposed towards exporting by the Allies ' confiscation of their pre-war overseas assets . |
5 | The majority of women workers were between 20 and 25 as the management felt they had fewer problems with young women . |
6 | In Street a man named he had two sons and he had , he had to quote , give a contract for it , but he always used to do what they 'd call a workhouse feed , and it was a four pound loaf , when my father died mother did n't get a widow 's pension , what , what she got was two shillings for each lad , there 's four of us , that 's eight shillings and a four pound loaf for each lad |
7 | Out of approximately one hundred prospective overseas students I spoke with , the majority said they had little intention of returning to China unless conditions improved in all aspects of life in the near future , but they were vague about what they would do overseas once their initial period of advanced education was complete . |
8 | ‘ Then a stewardess said they had another passenger with stomach pains . |
9 | Speaking in a Belfast safe house a hooded IRA member claimed it had enough explosives and terrorists in place for a major offensive . |
10 | This account of the treaty may , as Florence claims , have been a lie , but it , or something like it , could well have been what Cnut preferred people to believe , for he may have been aware that it had not been unusual within the West Saxon dynasty for brother to follow brother : it was the succession of King Æthelwulf 's sons in turn which brought Alfred to the throne in 871 , despite the fact that his brother Æthelred I had male issue . |