Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] had [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was carrying a small spear and only just had time to raise it and thrust it at the Scarag . |
| 2 | Yet for the growth of the later strident and vigorous anticlericalism , the self-consciousness of the laity was a prerequisite , and on a national scale it is by no means certain that this lay identity would have come about so forcefully or so quickly had parliament not been ready to hand as a vehicle in which to rally hostility and an instrument by which to further it . |
| 3 | We only ever had cream of mushroom . |
| 4 | ‘ So many people have said to me over the years that it is very sad I never bore Norman a child , that I only ever had stepchildren to love . |
| 5 | So far had music come in the sixteen years since Palestrina 's death . |
| 6 | Although the ‘ swingingness ’ of the 1960s had been absent in the 1970s and 1980s , drug-taking had increased among young and old alike ( 'coke' if you were middle-class , glue-sniffing if you were poor ) , and so too had alcoholism . |
| 7 | Now , for the first time , I was surrounded by people who not only had cancer , but unlike those in hospital , knew that they had it . |
| 8 | By the 1930s not only had admission to a profession become the goal of every middle-class family in the land , but they had come to seem bulwarks of society . |
| 9 | Not only had Yolland been deceived about the BCR 's intentions at Stretford Bridge ; he had also failed to realise that the need to reverse trains at Lydham Heath made tender first running on some part of the line inevitable , whether or not there was a turntable at the lower end of the railway . |
| 10 | Not only had Margrida assumed that Simon was her boyfriend , but Celeste had clearly thought the same yesterday — and just now a hearty , middle-aged Dalgety executive had stopped her to say how fortunate their new driver was to have such a pretty and successful young lady as his amor . |
| 11 | Not only had travel been impossible , it felt like ages since she had seen any beautiful clothes or touched any rich materials . |
| 12 | Not only had Lothar consolidated his position west of the Meuse ; he had heavily defeated Louis the German 's forces in the Rhineland and driven Louis back to Bavaria . |
| 13 | Not only had dialogue with the French communist party on this highly sensitive issue rapidly degenerated into counter-productive name calling , but also Sartre himself had been gradually moving progressively closer during the late 1940s and early 1950s to the politics of the PCF . |
| 14 | In the late nineteenth century , the pastime of rambling through open countryside had been restricted to those who not only had time at their disposal but also the financial capability to travel into rural areas . |
| 15 | Bell , the Company 's Managing Director , explained why it was in the interests of the Company 's policyholders that levels of reversionary bonuses not only had regard to the investment outlook but also preserved the Company 's ability to invest freely so that its total performance would not be adversely affected . |
| 16 | She still only had Fen 's word for that . |
| 17 | I did n't think too much about this at the time , although I knew they usually only had money for their ‘ little pleasures ’ after they 'd done the washing and pawned it . |
| 18 | Locally , it is estimated that more than half the 200 Health Authorities in England and Wales designated a responsible officer , and that there was a greater volume and variety of activity than ever before : traditional courses were supplemented by a new range of imaginative options , to which more managers than ever before had access . |
| 19 | We nearly always had milk pudding , rice pudding , semolina or some other stodge . |
| 20 | This seemed a great victory for the undefeated Britons and since those living within the Province also now had cause to hate Rome , this gave them a real hope of a military success . |
| 21 | Many older patients who probably neither had asthma nor died of asthma may be being entered into the statistics for asthma mortality because of inappropriate use of the word asthma on death certificates , diagnostic transfer , or coding changes . |
| 22 | If Anwar now perhaps had reason for entertaining minor reservations about Changez ( though Changez seemed delighted by Anwar , and laughed at everything he said even when it was serious ) , this could be nothing compared to Jamila 's antipathy . |
| 23 | There was not a needy person among them , for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them , and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles ’ feet ; and distribution was made to each as any had need' ( Acts 4:32 , 34–5 ) . |
| 24 | Thus lower costs and prices arising from R&D or physical investment are beneficial : the loss is that prices might have been even lower had entry not been deterred . |
| 25 | And just how long had Janine been beating the child ? |
| 26 | How long had Eddy been dead before they noticed him ? |
| 27 | How often had Wycliffe told himself that the only obvious beneficiary from Francis 's death was his daughter ? |
| 28 | He informed a white-faced Hugo that the boy almost certainly had meningitis . |
| 29 | You only have to look and see what happened in Germany when Beckenbauer retired , in Brazil when they lost Pele and Holland when they no longer had Cruyff . |
| 30 | Representation of shires and boroughs had also been determined : the King no longer had discretion to decide which communities might send up M.P.s , although it was of course open to him to make new enfranchisements by royal charter . |