Example sentences of "[adv] had a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Hungarian living in Edinburgh taped the pronunciation of difficult place names and luckily one of our team had lived in Hungary , so had a wealth of background information . |
| 2 | Edinburgh has long had a tradition of study of South Asia and also possesses comparatively rich library and archive resources in the University Library ( including New College Library ) , the School of Scottish Studies , the National Library of Scotland and the National Record Office . |
| 3 | Almost adjacent to the vineyards of Aÿ , these vines have long had a reputation for producing wines of similar quality and character to the famous grand cru . |
| 4 | Stories can teach , entertain , and entrance , and women have long had a reputation for creating an atmosphere which keeps the listener spellbound . |
| 5 | Due to its flat landscape , Norfolk has long had a reputation for its fantastic light quality , a phenomenon that has been captured to great effect by many painters . |
| 6 | Newcastle 's Labour council has long had a policy of supporting its community — a policy that has informed many aspects of city life . |
| 7 | Left : Collectair has long had a fascination with the magazine Tee Emm . |
| 8 | Cripps , at that time President of the Board of Trade , had long had a penchant for machinery-of-government matters and had been active as a minister in the wartime Coalition on reconstruction committees established to consider the issue . |
| 9 | In 1979 a homebuyer would have only had a choice of repayment or the newly-popular endowment mortgages . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've only had a couple of abusive ones , and a couple of nasty telephone calls . ’ |
| 11 | It 's so hard to work on full glow when you 've only had a couple of hours kip . |
| 12 | He 's sound as a pound is n't he like , he 's only had a couple of pints . |
| 13 | He could n't understand this exuberant friendliness in a boy he 'd only had a glimpse of twice . |
| 14 | erm Lewes has only had a mayoralty for a hundred years , and so its ceremonial is somewhat new , but one was able to draw on the traditions in places like Rye where it goes back to the thirteenth , fourteenth centuries and erm I used some of the phraseologies out of sixteenth century Rye documents and so on in my Lewes mayoralty on these sorts of ceremonial occasions , and introduced some of the ceremonial which I knew was authentic to mayoralties elsewhere in Sussex . |
| 15 | Clients who have only had a mortgage for a year or two , may find they have to pay three months ' penalty interest in any event . |
| 16 | This was n't strictly true as they 'd all had a go on the board . |
| 17 | which you you 've obviously had a mind to because you 've done the breakdown about the various other regions , |
| 18 | Had he not had a bowl of water in his cell , he too , would have succumbed before his rescuers found him . |
| 19 | I see , well I would of expected those premises not to be selling intoxicating liquor sir , they 've obviously not had a license for a month ! |
| 20 | Miss Karen Gilroy , organiser of the Northallerton CT Scanner Appeal launched in October 1990 , said she was ‘ disappointed ’ the Friarage Hospital had not had a share of the health department package . |
| 21 | The reason for the apparent lack of confidence was clearly the fact that Elsworth had suspended operations for some while because of coughing in his yard and had not had a winner for almost six weeks . |
| 22 | But I had not had a winner since December 27 when Mr Entertainer won at Kempton Park , and many of my horses had been sick . ’ |
| 23 | It dawned on him that he had not had a date for weeks , and his first one would be with her at the Edwardian Ball . |
| 24 | Many of the carers complained that they had no social life ; for example a 90-year old widow 's daughter , who had her mother living with her , said she was hardly ever able to get out , and had not had a holiday for eight years . |
| 25 | Already evidence exists of underprovision of respite care : one recent study reported that a quarter of carers had not had a holiday for more than five years , and another found that 40% of carers could not take a break when they wanted . |
| 26 | Are you 've not had a look at my list here ? |
| 27 | and it 's everything just to stop you getting at what , well get it then yeah , I 've , I do n't mind some of it , I 've not had a bit of marzipan for I do n't mind these erm almond slices , I quite like them , but I think it must be the texture of the marzipan |
| 28 | Tell her I 'll starve to death , cos I 've not had a bit of cake ! |
| 29 | We 've not had a chance for a word with Mrs Fitton yet . |
| 30 | But back at WHS headquarters , Sir Malcolm seemed unperturbed by the commentaries , pointing out that the group had not had a reduction in profits for ‘ many , many years ’ . |