Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] had [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as he saw their mood he made no attempt to join or follow ; and the people , seeing he had not the cut of a government man , passed him by . |
| 2 | I have received thy kind letter of February the 19th 1755 , which gave me much satisfaction : and some uneasiness , that so many years have elapsed wherein we might have reciprocally communicated our observations to each other ; and although thee had incomparably the advantage over me , yet , notwithstanding , I love to peep into the abstruse operations of nature . |
| 3 | I nodded , although I had absolutely no idea what he was talking about . |
| 4 | Harry Martin was behind all this , and , although she had n't a hope of proving it , she knew it for a fact . |
| 5 | She left without a murmur although she had only a year and a half to go to complete her secondary education . |
| 6 | And she had never needed Josey 's encouragement more than she had just a matter of a few short weeks ago . |
| 7 | They took the little house two doors away from Ken and Rhoda ; her own to play with , to sweep and dust and arrange as she liked , and meals for two to cook at her discretion , and her father and grandmother just down the road so she had both a respite from them and could keep an eye on them , not too close but not too far . |
| 8 | Camille walked down a sleazy stretch of road , where half the shops were closing as the developers quadrupled the rents , and bought herself an ice-cream to take away the taste of margaritas : it was already midday , so she had only an hour or two before she could go home , claiming that her games lesson had been cancelled because someone had felled the netball posts . |
| 9 | Although he had neither the time nor the opportunity to continue with his verse drama , the subject was never far from his mind . |
| 10 | Although he had not a prayer against Desert Orchid in the Gold Cup , Norton 's Coin came to Cheltenham with the reputation of being a useful enough horse despite lowly origins . |
| 11 | Though that was easier said than done she would do her best , and try instead to enjoy what she could of the coming seven days , and treat each day as a holiday and as if she had n't a care in the world . |
| 12 | And , and to be able to if you like , bring it as a dowry , but it would n't have mattered if she had n't a penny . |
| 13 | In this case , it was held that a woman lacked capacity to consent if she had neither the knowledge nor understanding to comprehend that ( a ) what was proposed to be done was the physical fact of penetration of her body by the male organ or if that were not proved , ( b ) that the act of penetration proposed was one of sexual connection as distinct from an act of a totally different character . |
| 14 | If we had not a right to the kingdom , we were mere mercenary soldiers . |
| 15 | But I 'd be surprised if they had n't a front-runner in mind , because there will be a lot of hard work to be done getting a replacement this summer . |
| 16 | The Frenchman sat opposite me at the large farmhouse table chatting away for all he was worth and after the meal he puffed away at his pipe as if he had n't a care in the world . |
| 17 | Not just on board , but stretched out along the wooden bench , for heaven 's sake , as if he had n't a care in the world , as if he owned the place . |
| 18 | She watched him stroll away down the corridor as if he had n't a care in the world , knowing full well he was putting the act on for her benefit , and that he must be worrying about the star performer who was also his best friend . |
| 19 | Fernando sat at one of those tables , reading the Diario de Mallorca newspaper as if he had n't a care in the world , which he had n't , Ruth supposed , other than considering new ways to torment her and Steve . |
| 20 | They left the bar , Bodo exchanging farewells as if he had not a care in the world . |
| 21 | There 's always a bad moment , Howard knows , after the porter 's unlocked your room , switched everything on , drawn the curtains , and gone away again with a huge tip because you had only a folder of fresh banknotes in your pocket , when you sit down helplessly and think , well , here we are , this is it , I 've arrived . |
| 22 | My daughter and her boyfriend were recently refused a joint account by Barclays Bank because she had neither a driving licence nor a passport , although her boyfriend did . |
| 23 | I was in Cook 's getting our letters because we had n't an address at the time . |
| 24 | It 's , I , I mean these , these , the work with , with the original action network seems to , seems to come and go , you 've got a very large amount at one point and then nothing for sometime , it just depends er , I think which country they 're targeting and how much there is , because we had quite a lot on Malawi did n't we during the early part on last year not much on South Africa recently , as if they do n't quite know what to do , you know with the situation there it 's not quite er clarified . |
| 25 | But in the end it was n't enough because they had n't the courage to confront and defy the handful of men who control the trade union bureaucracy . |
| 26 | Probably because they had quite a lot left over and did n't |
| 27 | For though Henry I had left England in a very confused state because he had only a daughter to inherit his title , Henry II 's problem was quite the reverse . |
| 28 | To be as fair to her as is possible , it can at least be said that the work which she had plagiarized on her behalf ( since she had neither the time nor the inclination to copy it herself ) was generally of good standard . |
| 29 | She was quite capable of going to the police and making accusations which , since she had n't a shred of evidence , could only lead to trouble . |
| 30 | Conservatives taunted them that they might find themselves , fugitives in Africa , ‘ drawing from under their arm a very fine plan of a constitution while they had not a foot of land to stand upon ’ , after having opened the doors to ‘ the revolutionary spirit which had destroyed France ’ . |