Example sentences of "in [noun] [pron] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The two men were at the top of the stairs and almost within grabbing distance , but if either had tried it he would have left his fingers in the frame as the bang echoed through the house and Carson thumbed the deadlock button , just in case they had any ideas about picking their way in .
2 Which it saves just in case we had any accidents , and lost any of our files anywhere .
3 ‘ Rock'n'roll ’ , in case you had any doubts , is not Jay 's bag .
4 In fact he was so attracted to the canal with its brightly painted barges pulled by strong horses that his parents finally had to forbid him to go there in case he had another accident .
5 In addition they had two camel guns , small cannons which could be mounted on saddles and fired from the backs of camels ; for the circumstances these had been mounted on the back of a plush sofa which had been recovered from the rampart where it had served during the rains .
6 In Canada we had such writers to look up to as Hector Charlesworth in Toronto , Grattan O'Leary in Ottawa and John W. Dafoe in Winnipeg .
7 In biology he had much observation to support him but in ‘ physics ’ he had no experimental evidence worth mentioning .
8 Though in truth they had little need ; the last time we fought , they vanquished us easily … ’
9 The poor relationships between siblings was more common in families which had little organization , poor discipline , and monitoring of the children by the parents .
10 We are not aware of any extensive cancer arising in patients who had regular surveillance colonoscopy .
11 But in Durham we had three rooms and a toilet outside and a little garden where you could sit in the summer .
12 His defence said in mitigation he had sexual problems at home .
13 In children who had faecal retention of mostly soft formed stools , usually 1 ml milk of magnesia/kg body weight daily was adequate .
14 Told ya , I know when I were in hospital I had that stuff on me you know it were terrible even though it was
15 In 1975 , one-third of the total number of members covered by occupational pension schemes were in schemes which had equal pension ages and they hoped that even without legislation this number would be increased by negotiation and voluntary agreement .
16 In fact they had unpaid bills amounting to £256,000 on which they were only able to pay 2s 9d in the pound ; their London agents , Hurst & Robinson , only managed 1s 3d on a debt of £300,000 .
17 They were n't all scientists , in fact we had little use for most of them .
18 In fact he had few qualifications for great office .
19 In politics he had three positions of influence and one achievement .
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