Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] had [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily they hit on a nice policewoman who more or less had to throw the teacher out , she was so insistent and heavy . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But the Hilder revealed itself , running down like a tinsel thread , crossed at one point by stepping stones , at another by the massive stone pillars that once had supported an aqueduct bringing water to the buildings of the Goughdale Mine . |
| 5 | I kept them in the shed and eventually had to put the bikes outside under a tarpaulin when the collection got too large . |
| 6 | He was also jaundiced and so had to wear a hood to protect his eyes and lie naked under a constant bright light . |
| 7 | This was why they had n't caught on to the idea of the ground being curved , not flat — and so had to invent an imaginary force to explain what was going on . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The extension of the franchise to all adults created a situation in which political parties had to compete for the mass vote and so had to organise the electorate to support their candidates at the polls . |
| 12 | A red lens in ormolu casing was clamped over his left eye , and perhaps had replaced the original jelly organ . |
| 13 | He had painted a greeting on the front and inside had drawn a picture of an animal and signed his name . |
| 14 | He shook his head , but she found the delicious-looking cakes too irresistible , and just had to sample the gooiest-looking one of all . |
| 15 | BNFL press officer who was at Dover for the arrival of a NTL flask of spent fuel on its way to Sellafield , said : ‘ Greenpeace were at Dover for two days and finally had to admit the sand was harmless . |
| 16 | Endearingly , Francesca herself was not good at drafting that sort of answer and usually had to enlist a more senior colleague to achieve the correct polished hand-off . |
| 17 | ‘ By then , all my romantic ideas about marriage being special and forever had bitten the dust . ’ |
| 18 | The sun had shone so that , after their lemon meringue pie , they had come out here , where the long-haired cat danced about the lawn , and Gaily had noticed the back-gate swinging off its hinges . |
| 19 | They had done nothing to diminish Britain 's isolationist attitude , and simultaneously had confirmed the widespread belief that any British proposal was a wolf in sheep 's clothing . |
| 20 | Both he and Amiss had spent a considerable time comforting Sunil , who had been throwing up on and off for over an hour . |
| 21 | Paul ended up being selected as one of the 36 contestants for the autumn series — and immediately had to start a rigorous six week training programme to make sure he could tackle the assault course part of the programme . |
| 22 | Filming stopped the entire unit decamped for lunch , and then had to abandon the scene as the tide had gone out and the puffer dropped from its previous position at the pier . |
| 23 | He dismissively described how this man had ‘ come in , taken the material provided , and then had written a childish and critical book on the police , out of which he got a Ph.D . ’ |
| 24 | Indeed , it was something of a typically topsy-turvy but none the less gritty performance from Durie , who missed a match point at 5-3 and then had to wait an hour to complete the encounter after rain fell at the end of the ninth game . |
| 25 | Men who were drunk at market were put in these cells till sober , and then had to pay a penny to get out . |
| 26 | I think she undoubtedly added to the intrigue erm and difficulties of her court , erm one example , she was always getting people that she approved of , getting them plum jobs , and one example was one of the governors of Oxford , the most unpopular , one Sir Arthur Aston , who was so unpopular that he got attacked on the street , and then had to have a body guard paid for the city council , and then was curvetting on his horse in front of some ladies , and fell off and broke his leg so badly that he had to have it amputated , so from then on he had a wooden leg , erm that meant he had to stop being governor , and later on in the war , a countryman was coming into Oxford , and asked the sentinel ‘ who was governor still ’ , and by that time a friend of prince Rupert 's Sir William Leg was governor , and the answer was ‘ one Leg ’ , and the countryman 's reply was ‘ pox on him , is he governor still ? ’ . |
| 27 | He graduated from Valdese High School , studied chemistry at Wake-Forest University in North Carolina and then had to face a hard choice between his parents ' wishes that he return to work in the family businesses and his own strong interest in chemistry . |
| 28 | And then had come the awful perception that Helen too was vulnerable ; he had seen her exposed , humiliated , disappointed . |
| 29 | The more resentful and unforgiving Willie Morgan , was taken to court and then had to terminate a lucrative six year contract after only nine months . |
| 30 | Chesarynth washed , stuffed her torn and dirty hospital gown into the recycling chute and stole another , even brushed her hair ( she checked again ; no tower growing through her skull yet ) and then had to find a place to hide the dead leaves and twigs that had cascaded from the tangles . |