Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He said the young people obviously thought they had some measure of adult approval . |
| 2 | Ma was always at her most unreasonable on do-days , and I must have known it was a do-day because not only did we have extra help in the house , but Nanny had been co-opted into the kitchen to make pastry . |
| 3 | Their resources were considerable ; not only did they have vast incomes from taxation and from their own estates , but also they could expect considerable quantities of tribute from the subject peoples east of the Rhine and elsewhere . |
| 4 | Not only did she have that reporter to cope with in the morning , but if those rumours about the Russians planning to dump some of their copper stocks on the London market were true … ? |
| 5 | Erm , so did you have any friends when on the estate at first ? |
| 6 | Not only had I had three months reprieve , but there had been no confrontation over any further treatment . |
| 7 | He just knew he had cheap labour . |
| 8 | Sky TV yesterday announced they have exclusive rights to show his championship challenge and , if successful , his first defence . |
| 9 | I remember terrible arguments when shopping for shoes — I wanted to have fashion shoes ( high heels , pointed toes ) like my friends , but Mum always made me have sensible shoes . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 13 | They said , well did you have any warning about it ? |
| 14 | Perhaps he even considered himself to have some kind of claim to the place ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Earlier another Bond director Mr Tony Oates said the corporation vigorously denied it had any knowledge of the alleged phone-bugging operation . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I never felt I had enough food when I was pregnant . |
| 19 | I never knew we had any baronets attending St Matthew 's . ’ |