Example sentences of "[adv] had [verb] a " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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. ! |
| 4 | Jay at three in the morning — hello , young lovers , wherever you are ! — drunk , suddenly had to see a picture of Lucy . |
| 5 | Saffroned mussels with pasta came to me when moules marinières , intended as a first course , suddenly had to feed a houseful . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They had to find those to visit by answering a cryptic clue and once inside had to answer a question . |
| 9 | He had painted a greeting on the front and inside had drawn a picture of an animal and signed his name . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There was one member whose sight was so bad that when she read she not only had to prop a second pair of spectacles on top of the pair already resting on her nose , but also had to stand under the standard lamp almost pressed against the light bulb . |
| 14 | She only had to shake a hand to increase the revenue and bring more publicity to the organization than any amount of money could buy . |
| 15 | I trained every one of those dancers at LCDT — hand picked them — I only had to begin a movement and they would finish it . |
| 16 | They only had to drop a wizened bean over their shoulders for a plant to spurt from the ground and rain pods at them . |
| 17 | You see , so these people were going to move in at the weekend so had to put a stop to that cos they had no authority to move in there until the solicitors try and get this thing sorted out . |
| 18 | The well bubbled into a tributary of the Moy , but unfortunately it had been hemmed in by modern concrete and so had lost a great deal of its charm . |
| 19 | In its heyday , the company had filled its own site with slag and so had built a bridge over the road and railway so it could shunt more slag into the neighbouring field . |
| 20 | He was also jaundiced and so had to wear a hood to protect his eyes and lie naked under a constant bright light . |
| 21 | They correctly assumed that the viral DNA had been inserted into the DNA of a normal gene involved in limb development and so had caused a mutation . |
| 22 | Her last comment had sounded flippant , a little bitter , as if she begrudged the fact that he could afford all this , when in reality she had just said the first thing that had come into her head because he was close and because she had felt his love of the land and in doing so had glimpsed a part of him that was unknown , disturbing to her . |
| 23 | Robert merely had to drop a few bon mots from Marwan Ibrahim Al-Kaysi 's handbook into the conversation and Maisie 's eyes widened the way they did when you offered to take her out for a meal or when she was telling you how someone had told someone that she had a beautiful mouth . |
| 24 | I told you Connelly had bought a warehouse . |
| 25 | The idea of going to France and turning into reality something which for so long had seemed a dream was now a concrete possibility . |
| 26 | To the commuter , the new red , white and blue house colours just had to represent a commitment to strive for quality . |
| 27 | And er one day I was bathing Judy in the hut and the bell went and I just had to wrap a towel round her , you know , and run down to the sandy wadders And things got so bad , we went back to Khartoum |
| 28 | If you were asked which club it was , you just had to have a good reason for choosing it . |
| 29 | Bruce meanwhile had launched a lightning raid into north-west England , and after burning Lancaster he crossed into the North Riding of Yorkshire and almost succeeded in capturing Edward himself near Byland Abbey , This humiliation of the king proved too much for Andrew Harclay , whose support had been of crucial importance at Boroughbridge and who had been raised to the earldom of Carlisle a few days after the battle . |
| 30 | General Thurman still had to receive a final green light from the president once he had worked out a plan . |