Example sentences of "[adv] had [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Urban calls for a tax on farm income were ignored , although Aziz did announce the taxation under certain conditions of military and police welfare foundations ( which hitherto had run a wide variety of tax-exempt businesses ) . |
| 2 | Broadly speaking , Swann provided a liberal , semi-official legitimation for tackling issues of racism ( or , more accurately , prejudice ) and what it coyly referred to as ‘ cultural pluralism ’ in all schools , including the so-called all-white schools which hitherto had maintained the stance of ‘ No problem ( i.e. blacks ) here ’ . |
| 3 | Throughout the morning on which Morse was addressing his audience in Bath , and stripping away the deceptions and the half-truths which hitherto had veiled the naked truth of the case , there was much activity at the Trout Inn , a fine riverside hostelry set between the weir and the Godstow Lock in the village of Wolvercote , only a couple of miles out on the western side of North Oxford . |
| 4 | At the beginning of the final session , 14 September 1965 , Pope Paul entered the basilica with little of the pomp that hitherto had surrounded the papacy . |
| 5 | There was a further element to Mr McLean 's rapidly boiling anger : the sudden arrival of Mr Uppal , who hitherto had taken no interest in the case . |
| 6 | For just as he had begun to survey the picture from a wholly different angle , just as he thought he espied a gap in the clouds that hitherto had masked the shafts of sunlight the switchboard-operator dashed any hope of such a breakthrough with the simple statement that she 'd known Theodore Kemp very well indeed . |
| 7 | together had broken the pair of them . |
| 8 | The subsequent lengthy coalition negotiations had revealed the preference of some ÖVP members for a coalition with the right-wing Liberal Party ( FPÖ ) , which together had formed the government in 1983-87 . |
| 9 | Even before Hello , Dolly ! went into production , Richard Zanuck had agreed with Gene Kelly and producer Frank McCarthy , who together had made A Guide for the Married Man , to team them up again for a screen version of the fantasy Tom Swift and His Wizard Airship . |
| 10 | All seven of them at table together had shrunk the kitchen , and they were in noisy , exuberant enjoyment of boiled beef and carrots . |
| 11 | Our first Members ' Evening was held at the Community College on Friday 1st March 1991 and its success can be judged by the fact that it went on until the Social Secretary literally had to call a halt at 11.15 p.m. ! |
| 12 | Jay at three in the morning — hello , young lovers , wherever you are ! — drunk , suddenly had to see a picture of Lucy . |
| 13 | Saffroned mussels with pasta came to me when moules marinières , intended as a first course , suddenly had to feed a houseful . |
| 14 | But the time came when Graham Thomas , who was then the Trust 's Gardens Adviser , suddenly had to produce a report and I began to see that it was n't quite like the old days . |
| 15 | BRAC 's trial of the rice-salt solution ( described in Chapter 7 ) naturally had to include a ‘ control ’ union , in which the standard teaching of the lobon-gur solution took place . |
| 16 | The King 's company apparently had lost the original licensed manuscript but the Master of the Revels was prepared to accept the word of the company manager John Heminge ( one of the First Folio 's editors ) that ‘ there was nothing profane added or reformed ’ . |
| 17 | They had to find those to visit by answering a cryptic clue and once inside had to answer a question . |
| 18 | He had painted a greeting on the front and inside had drawn a picture of an animal and signed his name . |
| 19 | One US daily had found the previous year that claims about Iran 's original Fao offensive were contradictory and that ‘ neither assertion can be confirmed ’ . |
| 20 | A red lens in ormolu casing was clamped over his left eye , and perhaps had replaced the original jelly organ . |
| 21 | I took a last look round , then only had to kick the top edge of the kite up a little for it to take the wind and lift . |
| 22 | I only had to hold the end of the string , while my friend went round the circle , so I thought I 'd have a rest , and so … |
| 23 | The Variety Club 's Chief Barker , Marsha Ratcliff , said : ‘ You only had to see the expressions on the competitors ’ faces to see how much they were enjoying themselves . ’ |
| 24 | And he only had to wait a couple of erm points left on his licence so if I 'd taken the dangerous thriving or something he could have lost his licence but erm that 's besides the point . |
| 25 | Then she had to imagine switching on the light in that cupboard under the stairs and taking a couple of steps forward so that she was just inside — but with the door open to the hall and with the knowledge that she only had to take a single large step back to be out there again . |
| 26 | He was unrecognizable at this distance , but the woman who followed him a moment later only had to take a couple of steps for Pascoe to know that this was Gwen Evans again . |
| 27 | Jesus only had to say the word and he knew that the servant would be healed ( Luke 7:7 ) . |
| 28 | We only had to watch the ladies final at Telford at the end of last year to see how bad our tennis has become . |
| 29 | The men only had to scrape the ship and careen her , recaulk her seams and overhaul her rigging in readiness for the voyage home to market . |
| 30 | The tone controls really are sensitive and , being used to the somewhat reluctant EQ on my own amplifier , I found that I only had to move the X-Amp 's a few degrees before the sound began to change radically . |