Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By tactfully praising and criticizing at the same time , he had pupils flocking into the school , eager to train , rightly believing he had special abilities in this sphere . |
| 2 | The one , that , even while giving her a verbal warning about her work , he had handed her a very important file to work on — albeit only to ensure she had little time for anything else — must mean that he had received good reports on her ability . |
| 3 | He said the young people obviously thought they had some measure of adult approval . |
| 4 | Many of the latecomers , especially as the afternoon wore on , were furious to find the doors locked , not having heard of the noon closure and so thinking they had all day . |
| 5 | I only wish I had that opportunity when I was his age . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I only wish I had some anecdotes of my own to compete with yours . ’ |
| 7 | I woke up and opened my eyes and there were fuzzy patches , just like I had eight years ago … ’ |
| 8 | He just knew he had cheap labour . |
| 9 | ‘ Tom McKeith and David Laing are good additions to the team and we 've always felt we had great strength in depth . |
| 10 | You remember you always thought he had some secret . ’ |
| 11 | Another grandfather , a retired Manchester newsagent , would light the fires , mend shoes , and peel the potatoes , while in a south London stableman 's home the grandfather would clean the shoes and cook too — ‘ We always said we had two mothers and two fathers , always . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Did n't you once say she had multiple sclerosis ? ’ |
| 13 | I asked , rather wishing I had more clothes on . |
| 14 | As the denomination most solidly based in the countryside , they also realized they had little choice in the thousands of new streets with their red and yellow brick terraces that were covering England 's acres . |
| 15 | I did n't even know I had any kind of title until I went to prep school when I started to get these letters saying : ‘ The Honourable Charles ’ . |
| 16 | But the fact is , at that point , I did n't even know I had any information to feed anybody . |
| 17 | I did n't even know you had any dogs . ’ |
| 18 | But he came here thinking I had that jewellery , and then it fell right out of my closet . |
| 19 | Left to her own devices , Lucy wondered what she should do next , then realised she had little option but to wait until she ran into Silas . |
| 20 | Earlier another Bond director Mr Tony Oates said the corporation vigorously denied it had any knowledge of the alleged phone-bugging operation . |
| 21 | But , although the headmaster turned to frown at Mahmud , Robert did n't yet feel he had any justification for leaving the neat line of boys and tracking down Maisie . |
| 22 | Li Yuan , watching her , found himself spellbound by the song , transfixed by the pain in her face as she sang , and astonished that he had never heard her sing before — that he had never guessed she had these talents . |
| 23 | However , the tale seems to have followed him , because I gather some of his parishioners certainly thought he had deviant tendencies in spite of his having a wife and son . |
| 24 | I never felt I had enough food when I was pregnant . |
| 25 | I never knew we had any baronets attending St Matthew 's . ’ |
| 26 | On a trip to the Dolomites a few years ago , four of us brought three different stoves between us rashly thinking we had all angles covered . |