Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Platform weapons were set to allow nothing to rise more than a thousand kilometres from the surface of the world below — or in other words they had a killing range of about thirty-five thousand kilometres . |
| 2 | His name was Dr Georges Flandrin and for five years he had been treating the Shah for cancer . |
| 3 | Their emergency rations ran out and for three days they had just water . |
| 4 | Theodora had followed her brief and for three months she had watched and listened . |
| 5 | After school my father used to accompany him on his rounds in the car , and during these journeys they had ample time to exchange ideas without being overheard . |
| 6 | A month later I saw something bright green there , and after six months I had a very small field of corn . |
| 7 | ‘ In the end , they told me to give him a bottle because he was too hungry to feed properly , but looking back I 'm sure it was because they did n't have time to help me ; and after two days I had to go home because they needed the bed . |
| 8 | I advised going on to Lachesis LM2 and after 3 weeks she had a return of flushes . |
| 9 | A year later he switched to Labour , and within six years he had won a seat on Hounslow borough council . |
| 10 | The farm stands on a spur of moorland on the northern edge of the forest , and within 10 minutes I had turned my back on the corduroy battalions of trees and was striding under a still , cloudy sky over tussocks of rush and coarse grass , with my face to the long , bare shoulders of open hillside that flank the winding shallows of the East Kielder Burn . |
| 11 | By the next day the yellow colour was fading and within two days it had gone . |
| 12 | Fly half Jon Bland kept City going forward after the break with some long wind-assisted touch kicks and within 12 minutes he had landed two penalties to put City 10–6 ahead . |
| 13 | From then on his rise was rapid and within three years he had become the supreme influence at Edward 's court . |
| 14 | In all cases English kings had to come to terms with the conditions which they found in these three different countries ; and in all cases they had to show an ability to adapt themselves and their armies to new conditions , military , social and economic , as well as to new thinking in the ways that armies were formed and war was fought . |
| 15 | In 1850 therefore the deer were officially banished , and in five years they had all been killed off . |
| 16 | As Cynthia says : ‘ We found Dave entertaining children at Chessington World of Adventures , and in 25 years I had never met anyone who got on more naturally with children . ’ |
| 17 | In all the time she was there she asked for only two things , and in both cases I had to disappoint her . |
| 18 | He preached , visited Cluny , went to Vienne , and in both places he had talks with the abbot or archbishop , of which records have survived . |
| 19 | He was a superb horseman and in those days we had many more horses here , bloodstock that was famous as even now these horses are . |
| 20 | And in those days you had to have fifteen years ' training before anyone would really look at you . |
| 21 | In the Sixth form , we put on a number of plays ourselves , and in earlier forms we had plays produced by mistresses . |
| 22 | In primary school the qualifying exam had been talked of for at least two years before the time came , yet I have no memory of when it did , only that our last term was punctuated with little exams and on two occasions we had something quite new to do : intelligence tests . |
| 23 | David used to get drunk and on many occasions I had to pick him up and carry him home from London , absolutely pissed out of his brain . |
| 24 | We had many chats and on several occasions I had him join me for a sandwich and coffee at the Georgia Grill . |
| 25 | The late Derek Cross had been through the tunnel on the footplate of an A3 Pacific and a Class 40 diesel and on both occasions he had been very pleased to see the other end of the tunnel , such is its evil , brooding , emotive reputation . |
| 26 | Knots of spectators were there to cheer me on aggressively , and by 10 miles I had caught Peter . |
| 27 | But for both men it had been a spectacular and formative trip . |
| 28 | But in other respects she had had her own way . |
| 29 | There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice . |