Example sentences of "[adv] had [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If two together had happened upon a dead man , they could have spoken for each other . ’ |
| 2 | UK deregulation meant that the smaller , traditional banks suddenly had to compete on a global scale , and very few had the financial power necessary . |
| 3 | But within a few days , all her mother 's youth and vigour were gone and the energetic , independent woman whose health and dependability she had taken for granted for so long had turned into a helpless invalid , unable to hold down the thinnest gruel , unable to sleep more than a few minutes at a time , unable even to answer the calls of nature on her own , so that she had to be lifted like a child onto the pot and lifted back into the jumble of stinking bedclothes . |
| 4 | Well this frocks never arrived and she just had to put on an ordinary er white blouse you see and a skirt and the frocks arrived the next day and she put them back . |
| 5 | The end-of-year panic on discovering that other teachers had covered more had led to a general feeling that the quicker topics were completed the better . |
| 6 | RPR leader Chirac also had to contend with an unprecedented growth of new " currents " within the Gaullist movement and on July 11 , 1991 , was forced to lay down a code of good conduct to guide them . |
| 7 | He now had to think of a decisive way of finishing what he had tentatively started or he too ran the risk of losing face . |
| 8 | The Lancashire skipper then had to wait for a tense two minute trial by television to decide whether he could continue his burgeoning innings . |
| 9 | Having driven past in the usual manner , the driver then had to go through a second time in reverse so that the mourners on the other side could also take a look . |
| 10 | Susan , a part-time school cook , then had to put on a brave face for a holiday in Spain with her children Emma , 10 and Jonathon , 13 . |
| 11 | Then had entered upon a wise and just rule , marked by church endowments and by pilgrimage . |
| 12 | Faced with this inexorable decline , the Labour Party from 1984 onwards had embarked upon a massive programme of deregulation which included ( i ) scrapping import licensing ; ( ii ) reducing or abolishing tariffs or export subsidies ; ( iii ) floating the currency ; ( iv ) deregulating the banking sector ; ( v ) reforming the tax system ; ( vi ) establishing an independent central bank ; and ( vii ) privatizing large state-owned companies including Air New Zealand , NZ Telecom , NZ Steel , the government-owned energy group , Petrocorp , and two banks . |
| 13 | By then , Marchbank too had resigned in an acrimonious row over money . |