Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The speed gained by operating her rotors from a paltry 45 kW source was the equivalent to that obtained had another Diesel of 370 kW been coupled in series to the existing two . |
| 2 | I thought of Angela Brickell 's death and of the attacks on Harry and me and it seemed that all three had had one purpose , which was to keep things as they were . |
| 3 | And in spite of , or perhaps because of , this framework , they all seemed to have such fun , such carefree , girlish fun . |
| 4 | They all seemed to have more luggage than when they had started . |
| 5 | Before primary gall stone dissolution , 16 patients had had solitary stones : the remaining 77 had had multiple stones . |
| 6 | All patients were volunteers and all had had previous vagotomy for benign duodenal ulcer disease . |
| 7 | Although just over half of a sample of teenage mothers in 1979 — 80 had had some kind of family planning lesson at school , only a quarter had attempted to use contraception around the time they conceived . |
| 8 | Within the year before the interview 27 patients had had pulmonary arterial pressures measured directly and 23 had had total lung capacity ( helium dilution ) and gas transfer measured . |
| 9 | Pearn and I were very concerned to ensure that the troops who would liberate Burma should know something of the country and its people , for the army that fought the retreat in 1942 had had little time to learn any of the background . |
| 10 | peasant and that that had had adverse consequences in terms of maybe economic output , certainly in terms of mobilization , certainly in terms of , of political effect on , on the middle peasant and therefore there had to be the , the correcting bit to this and that correction comes either very late forty seven but particularly early nineteen forty eight when the excesses of the , the campaigns and excesses against the middle peasants have to be , be corrected and there are very clear statements from Mao that the middle peasant must not be encroached upon . |
| 11 | A salt watchman was paid a salary of £15 per annum , while a tidesman was paid £20 , so on the face of it Main seemed to have little cause for complaint . |
| 12 | In the early Spring of 19231 began having Greek lessons from a charming elderly lady — Miss Rose Montague — who was a friend of my housemistress at St. Leonards . |
| 13 | The bill also dissolved , from December 1992 , the High Commission for the Fight against the Mafia ( which since the early 1980s had had little success ) in order to make way for the new Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate ( DIA ) . |
| 14 | Previously performed colonoscopy and/or barium enema had shown that seven had had total colitis , one patient had disease affecting the transverse colon , and three patients distal colitis — that is , the most proximal extension was below the splenic flexure . |