Example sentences of "of [noun] [pron] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course they had some value , in an informal way , as precedents , but the precedent here might easily be not that non dubito is now admissible , but that some relaxation of wording is allowed where family property expectations are involved . |
| 2 | Well when we came here of course we had certain furniture and we just sort of er , er and we , I do n't know what other people did , we just erm furnished a room at a time until we got |
| 3 | Of course I had this spell er er do n't forget I was five years as a prisoner of war , and a lot of interest because I was a union member pra b previous to that you see ? |
| 4 | BROUGH JUSTICE : When Jack Charlton was boss of Middlesbrough he had star players of the quality of Graeme Souness , left , and David Mills , right . |
| 5 | Funny little things like the way he could find a mental case to confess to every gangland killing , and the number of prisoners who had sudden heart attacks while he was questioning them . |
| 6 | A couple of times we had big branch and stuff . |
| 7 | In fact their performance was slightly better than a control group of subjects who had one night 's sleep deprivation with no prior selective deprivation . |
| 8 | As a man of honour he had little alternative but to accompany his friend to America . |
| 9 | Japan ( not the United States , as suggested last week ) still boasts the world 's biggest official foreign reserves : at the end of January it had some $79 billion-worth ( including foreign currency , SDRs and its reserve position at the IMF , but excluding gold ) . |
| 10 | ‘ I say , ’ ’ he said , imagining tree-conversation , ‘ that was a nice drop of rain we had last night . ’ ’ |
| 11 | People living in the houses were also less likely to be in the company of individuals who had competing needs to their own ; clients living in staffed houses were likely to be the only service user in the room for 63 per cent of the time ( and mostly with just one other for the remainder ) , compared with 42 per cent in the three ‘ campus ’ houses , 33 per cent in ordinary hospital wards and 27 per cent in special units . |
| 12 | Quite predictably , the revolutionary government refused to pay any outstanding bills for their former masters ' frivolous luxuries , a state of affairs which had disastrous consequences for champagne houses , like Roederer , whose main market was Russian . |
| 13 | What I should have said was that there was no serious dispute among professionals of quality who had any discernment in such matters . |
| 14 | In one respect the Free Presbyterian Church was a valuable resource of the DUP in that it provided a cadre of people who had considerable training and experience in organization and oratory : the ministers and elders . |
| 15 | Almost the only thing he could think of coherently as he peered at the Dutch tiles and crazy paving was that according to his last statement of account he had 67 12s. 9d. in the bank . |
| 16 | The psychologists attempted to polarise various issues such as massed versus spaced learning , whole versus part learning and transfer of training which had some face validity in appearing to identify general principles , but in practice it always seemed that the generalities vanished into the enormous variety of specific issues . |
| 17 | They did not all put it quite as bluntly as William 11 , but there existed a European society of kings which had real importance for its members . |
| 18 | The proportions of women who had artificial rupture of the membranes before labour , episiotomy , stitches , shaves , and enemas decreased . |