Example sentences of "[verb] it had [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expect it had some help , then , ’ said Dorcas . |
| 2 | THE US Secretary of State , James Baker , hinted yesterday that the US withheld military support for Tuesday 's failed coup in Panama because it believed it had little chance of success . |
| 3 | By 1911 , when Italy 's newly launched first Dreadnought battleship was significantly named the Dante Alighieri , it claimed 50,000 members ; but although it enjoyed considerable official support it had little influence on government policy . |
| 4 | It was bloated and heavy , and the men gathered on the deck of the boat to receive it had great difficulty lifting it out of the water . |
| 5 | Perhaps the court would have accepted it had that stipulation been explicit . |
| 6 | Montague managed to convince Mortimer of his innocence , but his narrow escape did not discourage the king , and when the coup came it had all the appearance of being carefully planned . |
| 7 | But John McQueen learnt it had more serious effects . |
| 8 | At 770p , Sherwood is now valued at £158.8 million compared with the £10.8 million launch price tag it had six years ago . |
| 9 | The last great campaign to revise social style — the so-called anti-spiritual pollution drive six years ago - petered out after only a few months when even the party leadership acknowledged it had more important things to worry about than enforcing short hair and dreary clothes . |
| 10 | Speaking in a Belfast safe house a hooded IRA member claimed it had enough explosives and terrorists in place for a major offensive . |
| 11 | The magazine , Politis , claimed it had more evidence after the French Environment Ministry dismissed the report but adding that it was dangerous to dig in the recently closed dump because it ‘ would be like opening a tomb ’ . |
| 12 | And you know it had little blobs , alright , leading up to the big long shit ! |
| 13 | In 1982 West Germany discovered it had serious problems with its forests — results of research indicated that half showed signs of ill health . |
| 14 | In his conference speech Mr Fowler attacked Labour 's reviewed industrial relations policy , saying it had one aim : to make strikes easier . |
| 15 | I 'm not saying it had such a positive effect on his career but it caused a lot of attention which he did n't buckle under , and I do feel a lot of people could n't have lived through that experience , but he did . |
| 16 | HDS declined to specify its installed X-terminal base , saying it had 200,000 units in the field , most of them serial terminals . |
| 17 | And three great big bins from from the they called them and I had three bins in my shed that I stored the barley in and I put the moisture extractor into them and it blew It had wee in it and it blew all the moisture out . |
| 18 | Since there were few Third World states in the 1960s willing to offer the USSR the military facilities it desired it had little to lose from supporting the principled opposition of the non-aligned group to foreign military bases . |
| 19 | And if they knew it had all been |
| 20 | One day he wrote ‘ battting ’ , and when I queried this , he said , ‘ Well , I knew it had two t's , so I put three to make sure ! ’ |
| 21 | It was not that she was parsimonious or disapproving of alcohol , simply that she knew it had adverse side-effects on Liza and , not being much of a drinker herself , she only kept a small supply in the house . |
| 22 | At the thought that I could ever have imagined it had any value . |
| 23 | I mean it had that sort of look to it . |
| 24 | I mean it had all , it had gone ! |
| 25 | I like the , there was , there was a , er big bill board in town , I du n no if you saw it and it says , I think it had Labour right , in really big letters , and they said who 's really behind me , it was a Conservative one , they said who 's really behind them and in it every one there 's like a T U C leader one of the union leaders |
| 26 | Earlier another Bond director Mr Tony Oates said the corporation vigorously denied it had any knowledge of the alleged phone-bugging operation . |
| 27 | Heather Allinson , 26 , of Barnard Castle , who glimpsed it by the roadside near Gainford , said it had enormous teeth . |
| 28 | Facilities manager and financial bureau services operator Fiserv Inc , Milwaukee said it had definitive agreement to acquire Datatronix Financial Services Inc , San Diego for $31.75 a share , but did not say how many shares the cheque and financial item processor for financial institutions had out . |
| 29 | THE Indian government defeated an opposition censure motion in parliament yesterday and said it had vital evidence to identify those responsible for a series of bomb explosions in Bombay . |
| 30 | McKinsey said it had several programmes in place to build the information technology capability of its consulting staff , and Information Consulting could accelerate the process . |