Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] had [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Fr300,000,000 grant had covered almost a quarter of the venture 's costs . |
| 2 | I 'd er at been at Newark till then for about four years or so and the er slump had come about and they were sacked by the hundreds , including myself . |
| 3 | And of course Mr our salesman er he took it up to that big estate and er Mr had got too old to go up to the shooting on the horse you know . |
| 4 | Yeah I like to , I like to have a go at different things I mean the the the other the other lunchtime we had you know he came in at lunchtime and er Shirley had gone somewhere Ann and er I 'll have the chicken kiev for me please so so I went and did it did you cook that for him ? |
| 5 | His CD4 count had dropped further to 83/L ( 6.4% ) , CD8 count was 589/L , p24 antigen was 1010 pg/mL , and HIV-1 antibodies were still undetectable . |
| 6 | I heard what er John had to say yesterday about the Apex membership must accept the conditions of the merger . |
| 7 | Lowell 's bit-on-the-side had walked out of the studio and left the canvas holdall containing her dress and beads behind . |
| 8 | The cat 's cradle had elongated so that it looked like a cone . |
| 9 | The local priest Father John Gallagher said Saturday 's slaughter had united rather than divided the community as the killers had intended . |
| 10 | By this time in his life and career Lancaster 's temperament had cooled considerably while Douglas 's was hotter than ever . |
| 11 | The prosecution 's case had turned primarily on the allegation that he was drunk when his ship ran aground . |
| 12 | By the end of the 1730s Truman 's Brewery had getting on for 300 publicans on the books , though less than a tenth were tied houses actually owned by the brewery . |
| 13 | While he was on the phone Lyn 's sister had come in , big-boned , yellow-haired Joanne , only nineteen and married six months . |
| 14 | Lisa 's story had conjured up an arresting image . |
| 15 | The incendiary charges Manolo 's experts had set up earlier in the day went up on schedule . |
| 16 | But they had always kept in touch , by letter and occasionally by telephone , though recently Caro 's calls had come either from work or from a public kiosk . |
| 17 | Her throat was still painful where the other woman 's fingers had dug in to her . |
| 18 | Her mother 's excuse had come readily . |
| 19 | I remembered reading the old nursery classic , Herbert Wells 's The Time Machine , but Wells 's time-traveller had gone ahead in time . |
| 20 | Ronni 's heart had grown still . |
| 21 | So you could n't tell whether their , whether a student 's cheque had gone out or not |
| 22 | And Julius 's breathing had altered radically almost before she had finished speaking . |
| 23 | The Sexton 's pig had wandered in while the lock-up was not in use , and given birth to a litter of six piglets . |
| 24 | Perhaps the train in Aunt Louise 's mind had jumped back on to the rail for a while because it was then , in quite a conversational voice , that she began to speak of her daughter . |
| 25 | Every thought and feeling that had entered Ace 's mind had appeared simultaneously on her face . |
| 26 | The Collector 's mind had wandered yet again , though he nodded intelligently from time to time , hoping thus to soothe the Padre . |
| 27 | By 1819 , if Shelley is to be taken as a reliable guide , Wordsworth 's stock had gone down and down : ‘ He was at first sublime , pathetic , impressive , profound ; then dull ; then prosy and dull ; and now dull — oh so very dull ! it is an ultra-legitimate dulness ’ ( Dedication to Peter Bell the Third ) . |
| 28 | Ahead , her father 's horse had pecked slightly on landing , throwing his rider up his neck . |
| 29 | None the less the chief engineer 's department had expanded considerably since CEB days ( when they numbered 65 ) : the technical and engineering staff at headquarters grew from 173 in 1948 to 330 by 1952 . |
| 30 | This particular trucker 's agent had gone out of business late on New Year 's Eve , one of a number of last-minute bankruptcies and mergers and a new agent would somehow have to be found to stamp his papers if Customs were to let him depart on the 20.15 sailing . |