Example sentences of "[adv] had [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our local PFA Inspector Pat Barker kept a keen eye on our progress , monitoring our workmanship at all the recognised stages throughout the build , and on 8 March this year , Midge 's propeller turned for the first time under her own engine power , being a Monday , I naturally had the day as holiday ! |
| 2 | She knew there was something untoward afoot , so she apparently had the presence of mind to count the doors that opened , the strides she took and the stairs she mounted . |
| 3 | The evidence of history , not to mention the physical evidence of those land deeds , suggested a subject of legitimate journalistic inquiry : who legally as well as morally had the right to ownership of the property ? |
| 4 | That hateful man obviously had no intention of helping . |
| 5 | Because there 's only a couple , they only had a couple of security guards did n't they ? |
| 6 | Now I can only remember one thing about it : a passage which refers to the death by starvation of a girl in Paris because she only had a pint of milk and a loaf of bread a day . |
| 7 | The exit-entrance distinction was found to be more specific for depression , and people who attempted suicide not only had an excess of exit events , but also an excess of entrance events . |
| 8 | Those days had passed , and she only had the Chapel for consolation ; even they , alas , got her name wrong — were the three sisters so alike that no-one could decide who was who ? — and when sickness payments to her started in November , 1857 , she was erroneously entered as ‘ Mary ’ . |
| 9 | All patrial CUKCs were renamed as British citizens while all non-patrials became British Dependent Territory Citizens ( BDTCs ) who only had the right of abode in their territories of residence . |
| 10 | ‘ When it was time for me to fire the very pistol , I had to get up from the wireless operator 's seat and had to move my parachute — which was always as close to my feet as possible and instead of lifting it up by the canvas carrying handle , I lifted it up by the metal handle ( the rip cord ) and so had a bundle of silk to get out of the way . |
| 11 | By this time the Hintons more or less had a monopoly on sugar processing , and more and more land was being turned over to sugarcane production . |
| 12 | There was much swearing , but the big man finally had a leaf of flame springing up to lick around the dried heather curls from the tinder sack . |
| 13 | Even Ipuky could not arrange for him to see this body , and he no longer had the cachet of officialdom with which to browbeat the embalmer . |
| 14 | ‘ We just had a discussion about aesthetics . ’ |
| 15 | When Cooper lobbied government to get rid of him it persuaded M.P.s that Cooper just had a bee in bonnet and was not to be taken seriously . |
| 16 | ‘ Just had a load of muck delivered , ’ she announced with a complacent nod in the direction of a sinister-looking mound at the bottom of her vegetable patch . |
| 17 | By the eighteen forties , you just had the beginning of home dressmaking . |
| 18 | So I went in , I just had an egg on toast really nice . |
| 19 | Kassin , Ellsworth and Smith ( 1989 ) found that 70% of a sample of 63 experts felt that this phenomenon is reliable enough for psychologists to present in court-room testimony — the experts in this study generally had a PhD in psychology and over half of them reported having actually testified about eyewitness testimony . |
| 20 | These founding companies , the names of which are listed opposite , already had a reputation for quality products and quality customer service and , as such , recognise the benefits of a quality culture . |
| 21 | The Poles , however , already had a guarantee of access from the League of Nations , and felt that as the city depended to an enormous extent upon trade with Poland there was no advantage in surrendering the Jewel of the Baltic to Germany . |
| 22 | Modigliani was blamed later for encouraging Soutine to drink , but Soutine already had a taste for drink when he came to Paris . |
| 23 | ‘ He already had a background in TV when he started in Butterflies , while for me it was my first acting job . |
| 24 | The draught oxen breeds already had the advantage of size but it was weight that counted and in particular the volume of meat in proportion to bone . |
| 25 | Malekith and his followers already had the Shrine of Asuryan in their possession , and Malekith possessed the crown that he had taken from the dead Phoenix King . |
| 26 | No sooner had the Minister of Education , Lionel Jospin , stated that the scarves could not be a motive for excluding the girls from school than the teachers ' union , traditionally close to the Socialist Party , called him a traitor and 50 of his deputies signed a petition publicly disaffiliating themselves from his line and asking for his resignation . |
| 27 | Thanks to the automobile the Americans soon had a freedom of movement previously unknown . |
| 28 | Mr Wilson soon had the situation under control , however , and managed to get the whole school lining up in one of the four corridor approaches to the sports hall . |
| 29 | Britta still had no image of Pool . |
| 30 | Fallon still had a bit of work to do , even then , but he had already bumped off Perrins and Hannaford with one uncompromising run and this time his strength buried the rest of the Gloucester defence and took him over for a try in the corner . |