Example sentences of "[conj] had [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the Victoria was not an especially large establishment , it backed onto an old warehouse that had at one time been split down the middle and then divided up into a series of small rooms that all opened onto a single long corridor . |
| 2 | Goldin was a senior vice-president of TRW , a major US defence concern , and had since 1987 been general manager of its space and technology division . |
| 3 | He had understudied Hayden Coffin for three months and had on two consecutive nights gone on for him . |
| 4 | She was a nurse , and had at one time been a nun . |
| 5 | Still , she liked one or two of the collective , Xanthe had put some money in ( actually five hundred pounds , a fair whack ) when Miranda had asked her to , so she felt bound to give the paper some support in kind , and the office was fun — she liked pitching in with headings , sidebars , suggested stories , and pasting up till the small hours , with the help of ciggies and carafe wine ; the sex gossip was the best in town , which made up for the coffee ( though they could afford dope , they could n't rise to real coffee , and had at one time even resorted to the bitter brown syrup Camp , with the turbaned lascar on the label ) . |
| 6 | She was jumpy and had at one point been startled by her own shadow . |
| 7 | Tietmeyer was on the board of the Bundesbank and had until 1988 been an economic adviser to Chancellor Helmut Kohl [ see also p. 36497 ] . |