Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [pers pn] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A local craft shop took them and after that she had regular orders for them from outlets further afield . |
| 2 | AFTER THIS SHE HAD ODD FLASHES OF ‘ CLAIRVOYANCE ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ I think that certainly helped in preparing me for the jump — after all I had three years to think about it , ’ said Nigel . |
| 4 | He had been writing on average a poem a week , and by the end of 1941 he had enough poems to form a first volume , The Iron Laurel , but he withheld publication until 1942 in order to include ‘ The Foreign Gate ’ , a long poem in which , for the first time in his work , Death appears as a real presence . |
| 5 | He was sitting down then all of sudden he had this bottle of scotch and he told bring some whisky down . |
| 6 | By the end of 1981 we had 310 collections and reckoned to have covered about three-quarters of the region . |
| 7 | By the end of 1988 it had foreign debts of $100.4 billion , of which $70.6 billion came from 600 commercial banks . |
| 8 | In 1838 they had 38 hand looms in use , as well as two power versions . |
| 9 | In fact Mr Hingston found a slightly unusual account in that it had instant access so long as withdrawals were made by post . |
| 10 | That illustrates graphically the fact that in 1980 we had fewer pedestrian deaths than West Germany and now we have more . |
| 11 | In this it had little success , though it did cause some alarm to the authorities and to shipowners , some of whom recognised that accumulated benefits could be an effective way of retaining membership . |
| 12 | British exporters achieved all-time record exports partly because in 1991 we had all-time record low numbers of strikes and days lost through industrial action . |
| 13 | Sir Robert Morier , perhaps the most successful British diplomat of the later nineteenth century , was partly French : in 1870 he had six cousins fighting in the French army . |
| 14 | In all we had twelve chases . |
| 15 | In 1981 we had one challenge after another . |
| 16 | There was then an open toughness about party tactics ; before the Buckingham Palace Conference in 1914 he had Central Office work out the electoral effects of excluding nine , six or four counties of Ulster from an independent Ireland the concern of a calculating pragmatist not of a bigot . |
| 17 | In 1987 it had 16 sites and 15,000 workers ; now it has 11 sites and 11,000 workers . |
| 18 | In 1721 she had 124 ships of the line and 105 smaller vessels , of which roughly a quarter had been built since 1714 . |
| 19 | ‘ During our Everest expedition in 1953 we had vast quantities of firewood at base camp and never thought about the problems , but environmental consciousness has grown enormously over the last 30 years or so . ’ |
| 20 | During our Everest expedition in 1953 we had vast quantities of firewood at base camp and never once thought about the environmental problems |
| 21 | In 1773 she had 66 ships of the line : by 1780 , when she had 81 , she was stronger at sea than ever before in her history . |
| 22 | Prior to that he had many years ' experience in the trade , as group sales director of Associated Book Publishers and as group marketing director until 1989 of Random House UK . |
| 23 | At last I had five pounds — but when my father and I went to buy them we were told that they cost fifteen pounds , a considerable sum of money to an eight-year-old , and way beyond my means . |
| 24 | By 1774 she had 58 ships of the line : she is said to have possessed 72 in 1789 . |
| 25 | By 1864 it had 600 employees . |