Example sentences of "[conj] had [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The gunsmith would have murdered him or had a heart attack . |
2 | No farm worker welcomes the prospect of having to uproot his family should he , because he is ill , injured at work , made redundant , has achieved retirement or had a row with his boss , cease to be employed on the farm . |
3 | None was taking chronic medication or had a history of gastrointestinal disease , surgery , or diabetes mellitus . |
4 | Westminster Abbey owned , or had a part interest in , twenty-three of the houses involved , in Crown Street , Crown Court and King Street , and by the time of the second schedule they had sold five of these to a private owner . |
5 | Patients were considered malnourished if they ( a ) had lost more than 10% usual body weight or had a serum albumin of <30 g/l ; and ( b ) also had a triceps skinfold thickness ( TSF ) of <90% adult reference range or a mid arm muscle circumference ( MAMC ) <90% reference range . |
6 | Patients were excluded from the study if they had received mithramycin , calcitonin , steroids , or any other antihypercalcaemic agent within 14 days ; received chemotherapy within 14 days , or had a change or introduction of hormone treatment within 6 weeks ; a serum creatinine 200 mol/L after hydration ; or were pregnant . |
7 | Was she imagining it , or had a look of caution entered his eyes ? |
8 | Or had a child who acquired a severe stomach upset after eating berries form the garden , which you did n't realise were dangerous ? |
9 | I thought she might have been taken ill or had a fall or something . ’ |
10 | But he thought that this interest was underexploited , even though not all authors were interested in , or had a talent for , publicity . |
11 | Some of these electronics companies still had a family firm element , or had a shotgun marriage background , or were in some other way eccentric enterprises . |
12 | We also know that people who have lost a limb , or had a stroke or heart disease can get back their mobility and their health in a way that would have seemed quite impossible only twenty years ago . |
13 | Well at the moment with the the mining industry as it is , unless you 've got had you 've got or had a relative working at the pit , the local , you have n't got the s chance of in . |
14 | Normally amongst these is included any matter where the complainant has or had a right of appeal or right to go to the courts but has not used it . |
15 | Or if a wife was earning , working or had a pension and did use her allowances , but the husband was paying forty percent , the same switch of investments , transferring income to the wife , even though it was chargeable at twenty percent or twenty five , was relieving the husband 's forty percent . |
16 | Eighteen patients had a skin biopsy or had a lesion removed , but no tests other than the usual histological examination were necessary . |
17 | Cos you did n't know whether they 'd had er you know had a lot to drink or had a load of drugs and start going on the rampage or something . |
18 | It is hard to think of any comparable figure in medieval English history who lived so long , travelled so widely , or had a career so diverse and adventurous . |
19 | Christopher Robin was never this female , never this pregnant , and Pooh never wore such a sappy grin or had a blood red lipstick welt on his right cheek . |
20 | Or had a tourist picked up one of the cards she had lavishly distributed around the village shops and arrived to buy a souvenir ? |
21 | Some obvious and important matters were left to one side for years because I could n't see a way forward , or had no time to do the experiments — or could n't find the funds to buy the equipment or chemicals needed . |
22 | To discover what difference the action project made ( that is , whether it delayed or prevented admission to an institution ; whether it delayed deterioration in or improved the physical , emotional or mental well-being of dementia sufferers or their carers ; whether it delayed deterioration in or improved family relationships ; whether it increased , decreased or had no effect on people 's receipt of statutory or other voluntary services ) . |
23 | Members of both groups either behaved badly at conferences or had no interest in improving race relations . |
24 | In many countries , prisoners were killed quickly if they refused to give information , or had no information to give … the screams of victims was unimaginable — a howl which sounded inhuman . |
25 | In many countries , prisoners were killed quickly if they refused to give information , or had no information , or had already revealed all . |
26 | Or had the truants simply outgrown school , but were ready for the world of work ? |
27 | Had there been some awful dispute between London and Tehran or had the Americans done something unforgivable ? |
28 | ‘ Had it hit the concrete or had the ground been less soft , it would have carried on after the collision and headed straight into our warehouse , ’ said Mr Bagni . |
29 | Stendhal , on his return to his adopted city after an absence of two years , claimed La Scala to be the most important opera in the world , since which time no one has felt the need , or had the temerity , to fault his judgement . |
30 | Was it her imagination or had the crowd surrounding her gone unusually quiet as Rune lifted the instrument to his lips ? |