Example sentences of "[n mass] [conj] had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The land for the strip had not even become available , Keker reminded him , until January 1986 , and the only aircraft that had ever landed there had stuck in the mud ; but North could not be persuaded that his memo was ‘ incompatible with the realities of things ’ . |
| 2 | RUSTLERS will get the trots if they eat two stolen sheep that had just been given de-worming chemicals , Northumberland police warned . |
| 3 | And he ran full speed down the hill , by-passing the bodies of Rebel and the lamb and scattering the sheep that had almost settled again . |
| 4 | This battalion wore darker blue coats than most French infantry and had very dark blue trousers . |
| 5 | The surprise is that it is much more common and affecting more people than had ever been suspected . |
| 6 | Many had been the voyages of discovery she had made in this — the most powerful spacecraft that had never been built , and never will be . |
| 7 | People that had once been poor , often virtually on the breadline , were now much more elegantly dressed and had achieved a far higher standard of living . |
| 8 | And by ‘ them ’ he meant the English who identified with a country and a people that had never accepted them . |
| 9 | The movies succeeded because they had gone to the people and had seemingly bypassed every obstacle . |
| 10 | The staffed housing projects each served many fewer people and had much higher staffing ratios than the other kinds of service . |
| 11 | This was cheaper per MW and had more advanced steam conditions and higher thermal efficiency . |
| 12 | In the 1950s , the flourishing Society decided to add the acquisition of art and antiquities to its activities , and began an omnivorous phase , accepting and pursuing works that had virtually no connection with its founders ' goals . |
| 13 | The man was around 5ft 4in and had fair coloured hair . |
| 14 | She stood up , holding aloft the red geranium that had somehow slipped from Ronni 's hand . |
| 15 | The building materials used on the three houses referred to in ( b ) above had cost £18,000 and had all been paid for by December 1990 . |