Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] had [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story goes that an angry auto body painter noticed his masking tape only had adhesive along its edges and told the salesman : ‘ Take this tape back to your stingy Scotch bosses and tell them to put more adhesive on it . ’ |
| 2 | Although the DIA clearly had plans for him , it was evidently in no hurry to send him back to the Middle East . |
| 3 | Mr Peter Shuker , the principal , said the college now had links with France , Germany , Italy , Greece , Spain , Portugal , Denmark , Czechoslovakia and Hungary . |
| 4 | Dyson scarcely had time to stride up and down the office that morning , lecturing Bob on the importance of television , but he was in great form all the same . |
| 5 | The only councillor to speak — and vote — against the extension of licensing rules , Gary Coutts , said the board already had powers to restrict the operation of licensed premises where there was trouble . |
| 6 | ‘ In the overall programme , the Regional Council alone had responsibility for around 40 separate events including concerts , conferences , exhibitions , seminars , lectures and sport . |
| 7 | The most common forms of sickle cell disease are sickle cell trait where the abnormal gene is inherited from one parent only had sickle cell anaemia where two copies of the abnormal gene are inherited , one from each parent . |
| 8 | On Wednesday , which is a day of rest in Brobdingnag , like our Sunday , the King and Queen always had dinner together , with their children , in the King 's rooms . |
| 9 | While the central problem here was the unrestrained inner-city office and commercial development , the concern about this issue also had implications for owner-occupied housing . |
| 10 | Dorset 's Colette Hall also had chances in her encounter with Shannan McCarthy , 21 , who is attending the University of Georgia and is currently No. 2 in the American Collegiate rankings . |
| 11 | Cale also had misgivings about setting Thomas 's poems to music , ‘ because they sound really beautiful and I did n't know whether I could take something with so much noise in them , so much built-in jazz , and maintain it . ’ |
| 12 | Casabona denied the offences and said the girl willingly had sex with him and had several chances to leave the car . |
| 13 | It transpired rather late in the planning of Overlord that what had been thought to be beaches of hard sand actually had bands of exposed clay . |
| 14 | Held , allowing the appeal , that the absence from the Children Act 1989 of any express provision that applications be made either inter partes or ex parte connoted the availability of either course in appropriate circumstances ; that on a true construction the court 's powers conferred by the Act of 1989 had not been abrogated by the Family Proceedings Rules 1991 so that rule 4.4(4) did not preclude the making of an ex parte application for a residence order , although normally applications should be made inter partes ; that the judge therefore had jurisdiction to make such an order and , under section 11(7) of the Act , to attach such directions as might be appropriate ; and that , accordingly , in the exceptional circumstances , the court would make an interim residence order to which directions would be attached for the return of the child to the former matrimonial home and for all the children to remain in the father 's care until the inter partes hearing of the father 's applications ( post , pp. 116B , D–E , F , G–H , 117A–E , F–H ) . |
| 15 | The building once had gables , destroyed in the 19C . |
| 16 | In my desperation I had been making plans to try and sneak the putter from Harley 's bag to have a surreptitious look at it — a truly dicey plan because Harley rarely let the putter out of his sight and , when he did , his caddie obviously had instructions to guard it with his life . |
| 17 | It is well known that this canal always had water shortages , even before modern water extraction diverted part of its natural supply at Greywell , and thousands of thirsty trees grew up on its banks on what had been open country in 1790 . |
| 18 | In this anaemic echo of her own box on the Moon , her body still had substance . |
| 19 | The initiative also had support from the United States and the Soviet Union . |
| 20 | Swegen also had dealings with the Swedes , and involved himself with Normandy and in the Irish Sea , perhaps selling his ill-gotten gains and fraternising not only with Duke Richard II in Rouen , but also the rulers of Norse settlements in Ireland such as Dublin , Wexford , Waterford , Cork and Limerick . |
| 21 | Fright fully had show , waking you up like this … but I 've got something damn peculiar here . " |
| 22 | The Co Antrim team certainly had cause to celebrate after storming to the title after five years in the doldrums … and now they aim to go from strength to strength . |
| 23 | A highlight of the evening was the presentation of a cheque for £25,000 from the Master of the Merchant Venturers to support the Campaign for Resource , although those in the know nearly had heart failure when the Master could not be found in the crowded room as the time for the presentation approached . |
| 24 | so I 've shared a room with erm this chap Tom who was er he had been in the First World War and er though he seemed old to me at the time , I suppose he was probably in his thirties and erm he joined the Home Guard and erm lived , because he was bombed out where he lived in he moved out to Coptock had accommodation out there and er he was in the unit at Coptock and so that used to take up quite a bit of his time and other erm members of staff were , of course also had fire watching and erm various civil defence activities , quite apart from the work on the A R P shifts . |
| 25 | And probably you 're in hock to the Service 's being friends ( the Service always had banking friends ) for this boatyard , too . |
| 26 | The king also had power when he died and therefore the Ba became connected with death in a somewhat different form and was linked with private individuals form the end of the Old Kingdom . |
| 27 | The conflict also had repercussions in reduced revenues from tourism , transport services and the oil pipeline from Iraq [ see pp. 37641 ; 38301 ] . |
| 28 | That China also had dragons is interesting . |
| 29 | Staff in Virgin 's international department grew to accept the fact of opening Music Week to read that Virgin now had offices in fifteen countries ( a slight exaggeration ) , and would shortly open in a further five ( It 's the first we 've heard of it , Richard has to be kidding ! ) . |
| 30 | I think Buckingham Palace is lovely compared to Westminster Palace , beautiful old stone and the , and the shape of it and it 's windows , it 's beautiful huge of course , there again the court then had loads and loads of er , there were ten . |