Example sentences of "[adv] had a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They put me in the bin because I suddenly had a talking jag , ’ Edward said . |
| 2 | The tightening net of repression and the increased care taken to avoid ‘ risky ’ remarks naturally had a direct effect on expressions of opinion about Hitler himself . |
| 3 | No they get nothing , they 'd get , all they went on the dole , well they used to get , they used to get erm , say yeah well you would get welfare benefit what we call the club , you go on the club and you see used t I , my , apparently had a private club , you could have both you see you had the private club and you got so much from the government , the National Health . |
| 4 | A lot of the stone went to build houses for the local peasants , who apparently had a tough time . |
| 5 | Whether or not the Association regarded the method of debt collection adopted by London Manhattan 's Smelly Tramps Ltd as conforming to the highest ethical standards , it apparently had a high success rate . |
| 6 | When I first moved from India ( where I was born ) to England , I obviously had a great tan , and I got called ‘ Indibum ’ and all.that . |
| 7 | Good public relations were made a priority , so that the atmosphere surrounding the team was always cordial , which obviously had a beneficial effect on the players . |
| 8 | He obviously had a detailed account of the origins of Rome . |
| 9 | Binnerton manor obviously had a large number of freeholders , including some members of the nobility and gentry who probably never set foot in the place let alone attended the manorial court . |
| 10 | She only had a bare glimpse of the softly lit room , her struggling figure still clasped firmly in his arms , as he continued through to the en suite bathroom . |
| 11 | It was as though previously we only had a limited knowledge of what children were capable of thinking , feeling and making , until encouraged to respond in a personal way to the real world around them . |
| 12 | He was the most recent recruit into H3 , and only had a Lower Second from Aston . |
| 13 | but they can come and go , I mean the year four they lost two teachers in the last two weeks cos their husbands got other jobs and the contracts were just terminated and , so it 's quite a , a moveable circle of people , er , but just , they have actually sacked one of the lads that came out with us , they wo n't be renewing his contract next year , he only had a two year contract |
| 14 | ‘ I only had a tiny part in Coriolanus , ’ he said a few years later , ‘ but it was the most exciting experience I 've ever had in the theatre . ’ |
| 15 | You only had a tiny taste of one . |
| 16 | well we were considered to be fortunate that we did n't , we only had a small percentage that we had a problem with |
| 17 | ‘ In places like Tynedale they only had a small stock of housing anyway and that 's been reduced . |
| 18 | Well she only had a small party did n't she ? |
| 19 | But if you only had a small place it 'd be more economical to have labour than it would to buy paying out thousands of pounds for machines and |
| 20 | The second , however , seemed ideal , and was cheaper , though unfortunately it only had a small section of moat left , which had been suburbanised into a rock garden . |
| 21 | He declared contemptuously that their only well-developed mental quality was their memory , that they only had a small amount of intelligence , and that they were ‘ incapable of affection for man. , |
| 22 | And , since the banks were now firmly closed until the end of the holiday , and she only had a small amount of currency in her purse , she had no way of being able to buy any new , cooler dresses . |
| 23 | In Leeds , Newton Park Union Church not only had a seventy-foot tower but a clock which Leeds Corporation agreed to illuminate at night . |
| 24 | You only had a boiled egg and flakes . |
| 25 | It 's sort of grid iron pattern streets on the south side of the High Street ; on the north side that 's all disrupted by the castle and , as far as one can tell , when the town and the area around it , the Rape of Lewes , was ceded to William De Warren , most of the local powers of the Town Council such as it was were taken away and subverted and the town became a minorial borough and although it sent Members of Parliament to Westminster from the end of the thirteenth century , it only had a very sort of ramshackle corporation , because the lords of the manor of Lewes kept control fairly tightly on what the town was actually allowed to do and on its internal freedoms . |
| 26 | It only had a very sort of ramshackle corporation because the lords of the manor of Lewes kept control fairly tightly on what the town was actually allowed to do and on its internal freedoms . |
| 27 | The old pre-war autobahn to Stuttgart only had a double carriageway and after fifty years of use was often under repair . |
| 28 | We only had a few paving slabs but a large area to cover , so decided to lay the slabs in islands . |
| 29 | Apparently the mill only had a short working life as a corn mill , having been turned over to saw milling by the 1920s . |
| 30 | At the time I had no other reason to come home , but when I heard my mother only had a short time left it was the only place I wanted to be . ’ |