Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] [noun prp] had [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boys were not strong enough to handle the heavy boat at flood tides so Mabel had to cope then . |
| 2 | I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever . |
| 3 | It was nearly two and a half years since Hamish had walked out on Daisy and she could no longer claim to be madly in love with him , but she missed the presence of a man in her life , and her self-confidence was in tatters . |
| 4 | Only a couple of days before Maggie had pointed out how the great cathedral dominated the city , like the spines along a dragon 's back , while the other buildings lay in a rough sprawl . |
| 5 | In it were copies of the records Karr had brought back with him from Mars : Berdichev 's personal files , taken from the corpse of his private secretary three days before Karr had caught up with Berdichev himself . |
| 6 | They had met a few days after Mina had stood up at the end of a recital in the Usher Hall at Edinburgh to announce that she would very much like to stay here in England ( a tiny mistake the Scots reporters had kindly ignored ) rather than return to East Germany . |
| 7 | British filmmakers could come up with films that would overcome the resistance of American exhibitors to non-Hollywood products , as the $5 million grossed by The Red Shoes suggests , but they would n't do so in sufficient quantities until Rank had developed more sophisticated ideas about how to cajole the right sort of product from his writers , directors and producers . |
| 8 | No German would kill his dad , of that he felt certain , though lately he had begun to feel guilty about his own war efforts since Grace had signed up for a spell in the hospital tents , a mere half-mile behind the front line . |
| 9 | British vital interests might not necessarily coincide with those of the Americans as Suez had shown all too clearly . |
| 10 | Steele was continually involved , beginning with a penalty goal in the opening seconds after Leicester had pulled down a driving maul . |
| 11 | Seconds after Andrews had dragged away the pilot , the plane exploded , and was reduced to a smouldering wreck . |
| 12 | The locks did n't come off the animal-house doors until Jenner had cleared out . ’ |