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

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1 This was just the sort of thing — a secret service playing God — that usually had George registering y on the Richter Scale .
2 BBC commentator Harry Carpenter was under fire last night after he said Fidel Castro Smith had in fact beaten victor Henry Wharton in their Commonwealth super-middleweight showdown — a decision that also had Bruno up in arms .
3 In the event , it all happened so fast that even had Doyle slipped into the garage after Weaver , he would have been too late to prevent tragedy .
4 The move to the country outside had begun , and so had Aarau 's export trade , at that time mostly textiles .
5 Yet they had both seen the horror , and so had Tina .
6 Miriam had offered to do it for him , and so had Eliza and Margaret , and he could , of course , easily have given it to the dhobi in spite of his inflated prices .
7 He retired over there : his marriage had gone and so had his daughter 's ’ — and so had Magill 's first marriage she knew : marriages in the secret world had a high casuality rate — ‘ and she went over to keep house for him . ’
8 But Alix and Brian had found one another , and so had Otto and Caroline Werner : Esther was caught between lofty Edgar and little Pete Petrie , herself the smallest of all .
9 She had settled in Thrush Green as snugly as a bird in its nest , and so had Jeremy .
10 The left-arm Ilott has a smooth , accelerating run-up and delivery and soon had Graham Thorpe caught behind , forced to play at a rising ball .
11 The final stages of this long and deliberate government breeding programme occurred when the Red Polled Østland , which was related to the Swedish Red Polled and also had Ayrshire blood , was amalgamated ( along with its colour-sided variety , the Jarlsberg of Vestfold ) in 1961 with the horned Norwegian Red-and-White ( NRF ) of the southeast lowlands to form the Norwegian Red .
12 ‘ Last I heard , the Eiffel Tower had n't collapsed and neither had Rome been sacked by pagans because of money perhaps changing hands in return for playing rugby ’ , he says .
13 I had never had to do love scenes and neither had Kylie .
14 At half-time the driving rain temporarily disappeared but so had Newcastle 's chances .
15 By the following day Kathleen 's temper had cooled slightly , but so had Jack 's attitude .
16 Lily had been to dancing class — but so had Daisy and Ethel , just as all three at Dad 's especial wish had spent many hours learning the piano .
17 But so had Danny Maher , who now had the ride on Bachelor 's Button , and who was of the opinion that Pretty Polly did not have sufficient reserves to last home in the Gold Cup .
18 But hardly had General von Gallwitz arrived at Verdun before he was forcibly impressed by the potency of the French artillery ; it had just blown to pieces one of his divisional commanders in his car .
19 But hardly had Harry finished imparting this encouraging news when Miriam returned , her face showing deep concern .
20 Rangers had lost some of the invention they displayed in the first half , but still had Ferdinand eagerly searching for a goal .
21 He captured three quick wickets before Richards and Lloyd ( who passed 7,000 Test runs ) steadied the ship , but then had Richards lbw , although umpire Meyer later admitted that he may have made a mistake and had considered recalling the batsman .
22 City equalised through Peter Costello after 49 minutes but then had Graham Bressington dismissed for a scything tackle on Tony Griffiths .
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