Example sentences of "[adv] and had [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I spoke to Victor twice only and had no quarrel with him .
2 The defender said : ‘ When we lost 5-0 at Liverpool a couple of weeks ago we all got together and had a heart-to-heart .
3 Fourth cousins by marriage , the girls had been aware of each other for much longer and had a number of friends in common .
4 The knowledge that her mother loved her was not sufficient to quench her rage , for she felt that she had been made to grow up too soon and had no idea that her mother regretted her own inability to speak openly and lose her temper .
5 ‘ I was letting Woosie down badly and had no feeling at all , ’ said Mouland , who came into the tournament after finishing only 84th in this season 's European money list .
6 I slept badly and had a dream that was to confirm my fears about the ghost .
7 Patients aged between 18 and 75 years presenting to the Royal Hallamshire Hospital , Sheffield with duodenal ulceration were treated medically and had an endoscopy to confirm ulcer healing .
8 ‘ John saw Ivor Horfitz 's son Jason hanging around outside the weighing-room at Newmarket yesterday and had a word with him . ’
9 ‘ I phoned him from the training ground yesterday and had a row with him because it was embarrassing for Barnet .
10 The shy , quiet ones withdrew even more and had no wish to prolong their contracts .
11 Farmers were free to use their own initiative more and had an incentive to increase crop-yields , i.e. profits .
12 ‘ After the police had come and talked to us I just went home and had a cup of tea and a glass of brandy with water and went to bed . ’
13 ‘ I got home and had the sensation of pins and needles up my left side which affected my face , tongue , leg and arm .
14 Again I had time to find a garage that had opened early and had a welder .
15 Only one unit of all the British farms in this study was selling dairy products directly and had a demand it could not fulfil .
16 It was interesting in the situation that he and Sam Torrance found themselves , as after Sam had hit his chip past and had the honour Gordon could have putted first .
17 Sylvester was into darts now and had a school darts team .
18 ‘ Well , I thought if I do n't get these exams , I wo n't get a job , because that 's what people rubbed into us , and then I thought , well , Christ , if I went down town now and had a look , I bet there 's a dozen jobs that 'd suit me .
19 The Germans could probably see us now and had the jeep as a target .
20 If the shop manager knew that the accused was acting dishonestly and had no authority from the bank , he would not have completed the transaction .
21 He said Strega ran good , handled well and had a lot more power left .
22 So we sat there in the silence as if we knew each other well and had no need merely to talk ; and as a matter of fact it seemed in a way to suit the stillness of the day .
23 He dressed well and had the voice and manners to match , so that accountants , bank managers and lawyers tended to forget that he was a policeman and sometimes let down their guard .
24 ‘ I had heard about Smailovic and his Sarajevan Opera String Quartet some time ago and had the idea of offering him support by writing a piece and joining him in one of his concerts at the front line . ’
25 You should have left it there Dominic would eat it , he 'll find it , he 'll say who 's been down here and had a sandwich you have n't had one
26 Unlike most of his earlier groups , they recorded and rehearsed regularly and had an identity , albeit one that was somewhat confused .
27 Cos we 'd had a recce by then and had a look round and you see .
28 I suppose you whizzed straight down there and had a look at your property ? ’
29 Has anyone ever actually gone over there and had a look at them ?
30 Erm and so I wandered up there and had a look at it and photographed .
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