Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] had [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I had some guys come up , and they were , they were really pissed off with me because , my mum sort of like , this guy just done this with th th the stall next door , but he left some stuff that he obviously already had things of , which he did n't think it was worth him buying , and this guy came round , and they were obviously from one of these , you know how you get erm , secondhand erm record stores
2 She was carrying a small spear and only just had time to raise it and thrust it at the Scarag .
3 The delay in publication of the original book would probably have been much longer had Medvedev not given the manuscript to Andrei Sakharov to read in October 1988 .
4 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 .
5 The news went unreported in the Press , so quickly had Chapman become football 's forgotten man .
6 We only ever had cream of mushroom .
7 ‘ 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 .
8 So far had music come in the sixteen years since Palestrina 's death .
9 It is worth recalling that on the eve of the French Revolution the French peasant 's expectancy is thought to have been rather below that of the Indian in 1881 ; so far had Europe already come in the ninety years before 1880 .
10 For how long now had Sartre , Hesse and others travelled with me .
11 In a recent article in the California Management Review , Mr Reich points out that , as a bailiwick of the Ministry of Health and Welfare , the industry was out of bounds to the Ministry of International Trade and Industry ( MITI ) and so never had bureaucrats helping or prodding it to export .
12 So too had parents who disagreed with a judge 's decision on any matter , however minor , concerning a child 's education or welfare .
13 Since then the district rate had risen steadily ; so too had rents , responsibility for which was laid firmly at the door of landlords and hence the Alliance : –Tote Labour and keep out Alliance landlords ' , concluded E Reed after a brief analysis of increases in rents ( Election leaflet 1920 ) .
14 So too had Jaq now sworn to become .
15 Clearly the brute of a man had forgotten all about the interview — so too had Milada Pankracova , or she would have reminded him .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 Not only had £250,000 worth of equipment fallen off the back of a submarine , but the torpedo firing system and the periscope were out of commission as well !
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 But , on getting her act together later the next day , Laura had been appalled to discover that not only had Ross already left for Australia — but she 'd been given a small attic room next to the children 's nursery .
22 Not only had Khrushchev denounced Stalin 's crimes ; the new warriors of perestroika , including Mikhail Gorbachev himself , were for the most part the Khrushchev generation , whose youthful idealism had coincided with that small post-Stalin thaw .
23 Worst of all , some sadist of a landscape designer had slapped down Dancer 's stick-and-ball field right next to her house , so she not only had fairies at the bottom of her garden , but also a microcosm of Rutshire Polo Club .
24 Not only had Count Raymond V supported the Young King in 1183 , but early in the next year his son Raymond VI had let some routiers into the Limousin .
25 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 .
26 Moreover not only had Iraq , eager for an end to the war for some time , agreed to the principle of a cease-fire but Iran , initially sceptical and despite Ayatollah Khomeini 's strong misgivings , accepted the resolution , and also the proposal that the UN secretary-general visit Iran forthwith to study the practicalities of the cease-fire .
27 Not only had travel been impossible , it felt like ages since she had seen any beautiful clothes or touched any rich materials .
28 Not only had SAAB innovated with their use of the line-out system , they had also , as previously mentioned , used group working to operate the welding machinery , and they had also taken care , in the light of union concern about the matter , to minimise the extent of machine-paced short job cycle time working .
29 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 .
30 Not only had Ryan ruined her love and her trust , but he had also made her a coward .
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