Example sentences of "[adv] had a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They put me in the bin because I suddenly had a talking jag , ’ Edward said . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I do n't understand it , but I suddenly had a strange , cold feeling . |
| 3 | I suddenly had a clear mental picture of Danzig — a hairy-chested man with a gold medallion and tight , white trousers . |
| 4 | The longer you throw , the more , good boy , it 's so well hidden in the leaves , it 's exactly the same colour that 's the trouble this time of year , but no , life is a funny thing , and I find it personally very hard to believe that only two months ago , I mean what is it nine weeks ago , and I suddenly had an enormous view |
| 5 | The tightening net of repression and the increased care taken to avoid ‘ risky ’ remarks naturally had a direct effect on expressions of opinion about Hitler himself . |
| 6 | No they get nothing , they 'd get , all they went on the dole , well they used to get , they used to get erm , say yeah well you would get welfare benefit what we call the club , you go on the club and you see used t I , my , apparently had a private club , you could have both you see you had the private club and you got so much from the government , the National Health . |
| 7 | A lot of the stone went to build houses for the local peasants , who apparently had a tough time . |
| 8 | Whether or not the Association regarded the method of debt collection adopted by London Manhattan 's Smelly Tramps Ltd as conforming to the highest ethical standards , it apparently had a high success rate . |
| 9 | When Gundovald first arrived in Gaul he apparently had an considerable quantity of treasure with him , which must suggest that he initially had the backing of the Byzantine emperor , whose concerns about the Lombards in Italy may well have stretched to a desire to see a close ally established in Francia . |
| 10 | Those animals put down had a merciful release . |
| 11 | Now going back into the Hebrew scriptures , you 'll find there that this sort of staying awake counsel , an idea was there long before the days of Jesus and the Apostles and people 's lives were involved in its state , even in those days , let's just let us have a look at one , Isaiah forty two eighteen to twenty now this terms it slightly different , but when you look at it and analyze it , you realize he 's talking about exactly the same thing , it 's regarding the nation of Israel who turned away from Jehovah , they were n't doing what they should be doing , or should 've been doing as he 's pleading with them look there , that look here , here you deaf ones , well we know the nation of Israel were n't all physically deaf , they were like we are , perhaps had a few deaf individuals amongst them , but |
| 12 | When I first moved from India ( where I was born ) to England , I obviously had a great tan , and I got called ‘ Indibum ’ and all.that . |
| 13 | Good public relations were made a priority , so that the atmosphere surrounding the team was always cordial , which obviously had a beneficial effect on the players . |
| 14 | He obviously had a detailed account of the origins of Rome . |
| 15 | Binnerton manor obviously had a large number of freeholders , including some members of the nobility and gentry who probably never set foot in the place let alone attended the manorial court . |
| 16 | Silvio Bedini has commented that ‘ although the invention of the candle timepiece has been traditionally ascribed to Alfred the Great of England , it obviously had an earlier history in the Orient ’ . |
| 17 | She only had a bare glimpse of the softly lit room , her struggling figure still clasped firmly in his arms , as he continued through to the en suite bathroom . |
| 18 | It was as though previously we only had a limited knowledge of what children were capable of thinking , feeling and making , until encouraged to respond in a personal way to the real world around them . |
| 19 | He was the most recent recruit into H3 , and only had a Lower Second from Aston . |
| 20 | but they can come and go , I mean the year four they lost two teachers in the last two weeks cos their husbands got other jobs and the contracts were just terminated and , so it 's quite a , a moveable circle of people , er , but just , they have actually sacked one of the lads that came out with us , they wo n't be renewing his contract next year , he only had a two year contract |
| 21 | ‘ I only had a tiny part in Coriolanus , ’ he said a few years later , ‘ but it was the most exciting experience I 've ever had in the theatre . ’ |
| 22 | You only had a tiny taste of one . |
| 23 | The second , however , seemed ideal , and was cheaper , though unfortunately it only had a small section of moat left , which had been suburbanised into a rock garden . |
| 24 | He declared contemptuously that their only well-developed mental quality was their memory , that they only had a small amount of intelligence , and that they were ‘ incapable of affection for man. , |
| 25 | And , since the banks were now firmly closed until the end of the holiday , and she only had a small amount of currency in her purse , she had no way of being able to buy any new , cooler dresses . |
| 26 | ‘ In places like Tynedale they only had a small stock of housing anyway and that 's been reduced . |
| 27 | So I thought perhaps matey only had a small and large . |
| 28 | Well she only had a small party did n't she ? |
| 29 | But if you only had a small place it 'd be more economical to have labour than it would to buy paying out thousands of pounds for machines and |
| 30 | well we were considered to be fortunate that we did n't , we only had a small percentage that we had a problem with |