Example sentences of "[pron] had [adj -er] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had grander plans for my future than that . |
| 2 | The Mainbocher triumphs were spiced with occasional purchases in Paris , but on the whole she found French clothes too imposing : ‘ I had better things to do in Paris than go for endless fittings anyway . |
| 3 | I had better things to do than just sit in an office talking . |
| 4 | All you have to do is answer three simple questions , complete the following sentence , ‘ If I had bigger breasts , the first thing I 'd do would be … , ’ and send your answers in on a fax with coupons from any three GenTech products . |
| 5 | Still , I had happier memories of Enniskillen : of the Horseshoe Lounge in the Railway Hotel ( now an hotel without a railway ) and a group named ‘ Country Comrades ’ , who played Irish , Scottish and hillbilly tunes fast and slow , while the crowd whooped and danced merrily ; of hillside fields and haycocks ; of the Bronze Age burial chamber said to be a giant 's grave ; and of tales of the local footpack 's exploits among the Ulster foxes . |
| 6 | Databases which had higher percentages of these citations were considered to have more extensive coverage . |
| 7 | Databases which had higher percentages of these citations were considered to have more extensive coverage . |
| 8 | MBFR ( Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction ) talks began at Vienna in 1973 but became deadlocked around questions such as the way in which the forces deployed on both sides should be counted and whether absolute or relative reductions should be made : the first of these suited the East , which had larger totals , but the second was pressed by Western negotiators . |
| 9 | 'Appen she had better things to do , eh , George ? ’ |
| 10 | If his parents bought her a present he was always comparing and felt that she had better things and more things than he did . |
| 11 | She had better things to do , a world to conquer and so forth , who did he think he was ? — Foreigners can be dogged . |
| 12 | But , she decided , when she got up on Saturday morning , she had better things to do than to let such matters worry her . |
| 13 | With a stuffed-to-capacity briefcase , she had better things to do with her time too , anyway . |
| 14 | She had better legs than Gabriel , and knew it . |
| 15 | It is arguable that the performance measures based on portfolio performance , to which fund managers are currently held , do not provide an environment in which there would be any significant advantage for fund managers who had closer relations with auditors . |
| 16 | For it became increasingly obvious that it did not , as had been intended , miraculously detect native intelligence in children however uneducated , but , on the contrary , was strongly biased in favour of middle-class children who had larger vocabularies than their working-class contemporaries , and who were in any case accustomed to tests and examinations . |
| 17 | erm I think it made things a lot cheaper , because you had larger firms able , able to buy in bulk , and also the beginnings of the ready-made market . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , we had better pitches , sure , but we were correspondingly better players . |
| 19 | The differences suggest that those in the non-manual occupational groups were more likely to choose early retirement than skilled manual workers , presumably because they had greater resources and hence more freedom of choice . |
| 20 | On the whole , however , they had greater hopes of Russia than of Austria . |
| 21 | It therefore seems directly consistent with the theory that candidates were forbidden to try to persuade the voters that they had better policies or attitudes than other candidates : a directive which had distinctive consequences for the pattern of the contest . |
| 22 | Cartwright 's study in the early 1960s showed that doctors practising in middle-class areas not only had smaller lists of patients than their colleagues in working-class areas but they were also better trained and they had better contacts with hospitals . |
| 23 | They were helped by their post-war cost advantages — rapid reconstruction at home meant they had newer facilities than many of their competitors — but they were also pre-disposed towards exporting by the Allies ' confiscation of their pre-war overseas assets . |
| 24 | The back bends could be more versatile if they had flatter carvers , with more radius in the stem . |
| 25 | Country weavers and knitters were to become better remembered for the long sad days of their early nineteenth-century decline , but they had happier days when they consumed the products made by their fellow artisans in Burslem , Sheffield and Birmingham . |
| 26 | They had livelier personalities and danced roles such as Diana , goddess of the hunt , or Mercury , messenger of the gods . |
| 27 | The early bipedal hominids were smaller than us so it is not surprising that they had smaller skulls , but there are no good grounds for supposing that men have gradually been evolving into creatures of greater and greater intelligence . |
| 28 | Despite some significant developments by BBC and Marconi engineers , the system still did not give better quality than 78rpm discs ; it only succeeded because it gave longer running-time , and it had lower running-costs because the tape could be magnetically erased and reused . |
| 29 | The dog decides it had better police this family itself , and , next thing you know , it is fastening its jaws on disobedient members of the family , its family . |
| 30 | He had better things to do than argue the toss . |